The 'General' page of the Configuration dialog defines the options which apply to documents whatever their format. Format-specific options pages may be accessed by clicking the button alongside the 'Format' box on the General page, or from the Export dialog; see Exporting files manually.
| 1. | Choose Configuration... from the 'Options' menu (or press f8) to open the General page of the 'Configuration options' dialog. |
| 2. | In the 'INI file' section:
Select RT.INI to use the default configuration
or
Select *.INI to use a per-file one with the same name as the data file but with extension .INI. |
| 3. | Under 'Source Type', specify the origin of the PCL file. If you used the Windows Driver, the RedTitan Dynamic Document Formatter (the PrePrinter) or the DataStream Converter to create it, EscapeE can optimize other configuration settings, e.g. symbolset. |
| 4. | Rarely, you may wish EscapeE to convert the character set in the fonts (see Handling fonts). Scroll the Symbol set list to select a suitable option. See also Symbol set notes, below. |
| 5. | In the 'Ignore' section: |
| o | Select Images to process files faster and, if images are overlaid on the text, easier to read. |
| o | Select Shading if you want smaller file sizes and you can tolerate the absence of shading (shading does not compress well). |
| o | Select White areas to eliminate hidden characters/lines. These are typically white marks on white backgrounds used in the construction of the original document. They may interfere with the rendering of the document. Selecting this option usually reduces the size of the output file. |
| o | Select Download fonts to get better results when converting to PDFs (the symbol set needs to set correctly, see About symbol sets). |
| • | You may choose to ignore All downloaded fonts or |
| • | If substituted: just those for which substitutes have been given. (Ignored fonts are not stored.)
See also Optimizing the output. |
| o | If the font characteristics specified by the printer driver are inappropriate, tick the Calculate download font characteristics box and let EscapeE provide more fitting values for point size, weight etc.. |
| o | To use the fonts in the named 'Font substitutes' file, check Enable. |
| o | To change the substitute font file, click View... to access the 'Fonts' dialog. |
| 7. | The location of the EE file containing the field definitions is specified in the 'Field defaults' panel. If you need to change this, click Edit...: the 'Field Definitions' dialog will be displayed, see Reusing data fields. |
| 8. | Select the output Format.
Further options may be configured for AFP, DICOM, FDL, HTML, IMG, IPDS, PCL, PDF, TIFF, XPS, PostScript and Plain TeXT formats: click Options....
In the case of TIFF images, a checkbox allows you to specify whether a Multi-page TIFF file or individual single image files are to be output. |
| 9. | Click the Save button to retain these settings after you close the program. Alternatively, click OK to use them for the current session. |
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There is a shorthand for use on the command line for using the configuration 'filename.ini' (if it exists) and data file 'filename.pcl':
^^* filename.pcl
To ask for a specific INI file on the command line, use a command such as:
escapee ^^c:\temp\newdefs.ini
It is essential that the correct symbol set is specified. EscapeE translates characters from the specified symbol set into the standard Windows® set 19U. See About symbol sets.
Changing the symbolset, either directly or by changing the "source" set up, may affect any data-fields and tags set up previously. See Field Problems.
If the symbolset is negative and "Calculate font characteristics" is selected then the widths are calculated from the bounding box of the characters. Professional users may obtain this effect on the command line; for example:
ESCAPEE /SYMSET -29 /CALC Y
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Links
About exporting pages
Exporting files manually
Setting configuration options
