Toolbar Options
Toolbar Options
Imaging offers four toolbars to simplify command selection. You can use the View menu's Toolbars command to tell the program which of these toolbars you want to see. Table 37-1 describes the
SEE ALSO
For information about the Annotation toolbar, see "Annotating Images."
TIP
You can dock any toolbar at either the top or bottom of your window. You can also float any toolbar. To relocate a toolbar, click a space that isn't occupied by a tool, and then drag.
Table 37-1. Imaging Toolbars
| Toolbar Icon | Description |
|---|---|
| Standard Toolbar | |
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Creates a new, blank document |
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Opens an existing document |
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Saves the current document to disk |
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Prints the current document |
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Cuts (deletes) the selection and places it on the Clipboard |
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Copies the selection to the Clipboard |
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Pastes (
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Undoes your most recent change |
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Redoes the last action
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Zooms in; doubles the current magnification level |
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Zooms out;
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Fits the selection in the window |
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Zooms to the best fit, fitting either the image height or width in the window |
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Fits the image width in the window width |
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Changes the magnification (zoom) level to a pre- defined percentage or any value you type from 2 percent through 6500 percent |
| Imaging Toolbar | |
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Allows you to drag the image within the window instead of using scroll bars |
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Allows you to select a rectangular area of the image |
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Allows you to select annotations |
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Hides or displays the Annotations toolbar |
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Rotates the page 90 degrees to the left (counterclockwise) |
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Rotates the page 90 degrees to the right (clockwise) |
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Displays the previous page, the next page, or the page corresponding to the number you type |
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Changes to one-page view |
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Changes to thumbnails view |
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Changes to page-and-thumbnails view |
| Scanning Toolbar | |
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Scans an image and creates a new document |
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Scans an image and inserts it before the current page |
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Scans an image and places it after the last page of the current document |
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Scans an image and
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Opening and Scanning Files
To open a document in Imaging, simply use the File menu's Open command. You can do this from either the preview program or the full program. The only point to note here is that the Files Of Type list, at the bottom of the File Open dialog box, always defaults to the last file type you used. If the file you opened or saved most recently used the .tif format, for example, the File
To acquire an image from your scanner, you must be in the full program, and you must have a TWAIN-compliant scanner installed. If you have more than one such scanner, use the File menu's Select Device command to choose the one you want to use. Then choose Acquire Image from the File menu. This command activates your scanner driver, which might ask you for further information—such as the nature of the source image and the resolution at which you want to scan. Once your scanner has finished its work, the image you scanned appears in Imaging's main window.
NOTE
The Acquire Image command creates a new document from the scanned image. You can also append or insert a scanned image as a new page in an existing document. See "Adding Pages to a Document."
Setting Compression Options
The Tools menu's Scan Options command, depicted in Figure 37-2, lets you specify the kind of compression that Imaging will apply to your scanned data. The default option, Best Display Quality, applies
loss-less compression
, which means that your scanned image retains as much
Figure 37-2. The Scan Options dialog box lets you change the mode of compression that Imaging applies to data supplied by your scanner.
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If you select Custom and click the Settings button, Imaging displays a second dialog box, shown in Figure 37-3. The various tabs in this dialog box show the method of compression that Imaging is currently set to apply to each of six document types—black and white, 16 shades of gray, 256 shades of gray, 16 colors, 256 colors, and true color. You can select alternative compression
Figure 37-3. In the Custom Scan Settings dialog box, you can change the default compression method used for any of six document types.
Transfer Mode Options
By clicking the Advanced button in the Scan Options dialog box (see Figure 37-2), you can specify the manner in which Imaging allocates memory to a scan operation. In the default mode, called Memory, Imaging allocates one block of memory at a time. In the alternative mode, called Native, Imaging