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Click to expand/collapse this hidden textTo open a print or an image file
1.Choose Open... from the 'File' menu.
2.If necessary, change folder or drive. Scroll down to select which type of files to list:
Print Files with extension .PRN, .LSH, .PCL, .PS, .EPS, .HP etc..
TIFF images lists files with extension .TIF or extension .001, .002, etc, if a multi-page PCL job was converted by EscapeE.
Plotter files extension .PLT.
PDF files in Adobe® Portable Document Format.
DCX fax files.
Control files, such as .IDF, .CSV, .LOF.
All files lists files with non-standard extensions (or you can type in a file specification to find them, e.g. *.prt).
3.Click on a file name.
4.Click Open.
EscapeE opens the file at the first page in the print run.

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Select the file in Windows® Explorer, drag and drop it onto EscapeE: see Running EscapeE.
Click to expand/collapse this hidden textFile format auto-recognition

EscapeE recognizes the input file format firstly based on the file extension being one of the following: PCL, XL or PCL6, PS or EPS, PDF, ESCP, RTF, TIF or TIFF, DCX, BMP, PNG, GIF, JPG or JPEG, IMG, IDF and PCC.

If the extension is not recognized then auto-recognition is attempted, based on the first few bytes. These formats are recognized in this way: BMP, DICOM, HP-GL, PDF, PostScript, TIFF, Epson (EscP), PCL XL (PCL6), and PCX/DCX. Failing this, the file is assumed to be PCL5 unless the /INPUT option is given.

Tips

•EscapeE employs standard Windows features: for how to use these, consult your Microsoft® Windows User's guide. You can use the usual Windows mechanism for keystrokes: e.g. Alt FP chooses from the 'File' menu and brings up the 'Print' dialog.
•The file extensions .PRN, .PCL, .LSH and .PLT are set up in your Windows Registry when EscapeE is installed (if they are not already associated with another program). The associated program can be changed in Windows Explorer: if you would like to make EscapeE your preferred TIFF image viewer, use Windows Explorer's Folder options | File Types.
•If you have used a non-Windows proprietary program to create the PCL file you might need to set the printer defaults manually in order to display the file, see Setting the Configuration | Printer defaults.

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