Example: Setting up a raster-only scanning environment

You can create complex work environments using custom CFG files. For instance, you can integrate Imagenation as a component of a scanning environment.

In this example, all documents must end up as raster images, yet users must still be able to add markups to documents, without being aware of the edit layers required to do this.

To create a raster-only scanning environment:

1. Open the SRC file in a text editor.

2. Remove the Layer menu (LAYER). For details, see Defining menu bars.

3. Remove the Preference, Layers command (OPTIONS_LAYERSWIN). For details, see Setting commands that appear in a menu.

4. In the [System] section, add the following keynames:

automatically create edit layer on all pages=1

active edit layer in window title=0

replace current doc when merging=1

rasterize on crop=1

rasterize on deskew=1

rasterize on despeckle=1

rasterize on raster=1

rasterize on save=1

use standard dialog for save=1

5. Save the SRC file and compile it. (For details, see Compiling a CFG file.)

Now an edit layer is always present on the page, but its presence is transparent to the user because it does not appear in the title bar of the document window. If the user does any document clean-up with the Raster commands (except Stamp and Banner), the edit layer and raster image are rasterized first to preserve markups. As well, the new, cleaned up image always overwrites the old one. When the document is saved, the layers are rasterized, and the user sees a standard Save dialog box in which to save the raster image.