Setting general export options

To set general export options

1.	Choose Configuration... from the 'Options' menu, then select the General tab.

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 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 symbolset.

In the 'Ignore' section:
Select Images to process files faster and, if images are overlaid on the text, easier to read.
Select Shading if you want smaller file sizes and you can tolerate the absence of shading (shading does not compress well).
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.
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 just those for which substitutes have been given. (Ignored fonts are not stored.)
See also Optimizing the output.

6.	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 and size.

7.	To change the substitute font file, click View to access the 'Fonts' dialogue.

8.	To edit the EE file containing the field definitions, click Edit.... See Reusing data fields.

9.	Select the output Format. FDL, PDF, PostScript, AFP, IPDS and PCL formats have further options (click Advanced options...).

10.	Click the Save button to retain these settings after you close the program. Alternatively, click OK to use them for the current session.

11.	To create a Shortcut icon which uses all the options you have set, click Shortcut... - see Shortcuts - the easy way to construct a command line. Alternatively, expert users can click the Save as button to save these settings to a file.

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

Notes

It is essential that the correct symbol set is specified. EscapeE translates characters from the specified symbol set into the standard Windows set (19U).

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