Configuration - Document preview
The following settings are located in the Document preview area of the Configuration.
General
Maximum document size of the preview in MB: Determine the maximum megabyte (MB) size a document may have to be displayed in the preview. If a document exceeds the defined size, a notification will be displayed instead of the preview. The value 0 deactivates the preview completely.
Preview, document sizeConfiguration, document size for previewShow terms from the OCR (text recognition) in the document: Select this option to highlight the words in the document recognized by the OCR. As soon as you point to a word, the word is highlighted. When the keywording is open, you can click a word to add it to the keywording.
Preview, OCROCRConfiguration, OCR previewEnter OCR term to an open form with a mouse click: Transfer words recognized by the OCR to the currently open form with a click of the mouse.
OCRForm, OCRConfiguration, OCRPage through and between documents: Selecting the Page through and between documents option allows you to jump to the next document when you reach the end of the original document in the viewer pane.
Page, through and between documentsViewer pane, pageConfiguration, pageFile type for preview documents: This setting refers to the Create document preview function. Define whether preview documents will be displayed in TIFF or PDF format.
Preview documents, file typeFile type, preview documentsConfiguration, preview documentsELO printerPlease note: Depending on the selected format, the correct ELO printer (ELO TIFF printer or ELO PDF printer) must be installed.
TIFF, printerPDF, printerPrinter, TIFFPrinter, PDFSuppress images from the Internet in the e-mail preview: If this option is selected, images in e-mails that are downloaded from the Internet will not be downloaded. The images cannot be displayed in this case. However, embedded images in e-mails will be displayed.
E-mail, show imagesConfiguration, images in e-mailsDouble-click to open files in an e-mail attachment in read-only mode: In this field, you can enter the file extensions that you want to open by double-clicking. A dialog box for saving the e-mail attachment appears for all other file extensions.
E-mail attachment, openExtension, e-mail attachmentConfiguration, e-mail attachmentInformation: You can enter multiple file extensions. You need to separate the entries from each other with periods.
Certificates for decrypting e-mails: This option allows you to set where ELO should import the certificates for decrypting e-mails from.
E-mails, decryptionDecryption, e-mailsCertificates, e-mail- Use Windows certificate store: If you are using ELO on a Microsoft Windows system, you can use the certificates supplied by Microsoft Windows.
- Use certificate store from specified path: If you are not using ELO on a Microsoft Windows system, or if you do not want to use the certificates supplied by Microsoft Windows for other reasons, you need to select this option. In addition, you must enter a location for the desired certificates in the Path field.
Preview configuration for various file types
In this area, you define which type of preview is used for which file extension. If no preview class is defined for a file extension, the browser will be used for the preview.
Preview configurationPreview, configurationConfiguration, previewConfiguration, viewerUse default: Click the Use default button to restore the original settings in this area.
New: Clicking the New button adds a new row for linking the file type and preview method. Enter a file extension and select a preview method.
Confirm: When displaying this file type, ELO will ask every time whether you want to open the file with the default viewer.
X: Click on one of the buttons with an x icon to delete the corresponding row.
Choose from the following options for configuring the preview:
- ActiveX plugin preview: This preview type now supports viewer plug-ins from the ELO Windows Client.
- Apple OS X preview: Viewer for displaying files on the Mac OS X operating system.
- Quick picture preview (Windows): Viewer based on Windows via ELO Windows Client add-ins; suitable for image files that other viewers cannot open.
- Image preview: Viewer for JPG, BMP, and TIFF that can be used to place annotations on documents
- Browser preview: Preview in the standard browser
- DXL preview: Viewer for documents from IBM Notes in .dxl format
- EML e-mail preview: Viewer for e-mails from IBM Notes in .eml format
- Windows Media Player preview: Preview for audio and video files based on JavaFX
- Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (Windows XP): Alternative viewer for Windows XP
- MSG e-mail preview: Viewer for Microsoft Outlook e-mails in .msg format
- Windows Media Player preview (Windows): Viewer in Windows for audio and video files
- MS Office 2003 preview (Windows): Recommended viewer for Microsoft Office 2003 documents
- lMS Office preview (Windows): Recommended viewer for Microsoft Office documents newer than 2003. Also suitable for Apache OpenOffice documents (ODT).
- OpenOffice preview: Viewer for Apache OpenOffice documents. Requires Apache OpenOffice and additional module to be installed.
- PDF preview: Viewer for PDF documents with which annotations can be placed on documents. As an alternative, use Internet Explorer with the Acrobat Reader plug-in (the annotations on the document are not shown)
- Text preview: Viewer for text files; allows two font types, adjustable font size, and automatic line breaks.
- Show preview document: With this setting, preview documents created previously are shown instead of the original documents.
- ZIP preview: Viewer for ZIP archives, shows file content as a tree; files can be shown or filed via the context menu
Preview plugins
You can link file extensions with preview plugins in this area.
New: Clicking the New button adds a new row for linking the file type and preview plugin. Enter a file extension and the corresponding OLE object ID.
X: Click on one of the buttons with an x icon to delete the corresponding row.
General buttons
The following buttons are always located in the bottom area of the dialog box.
Apply: Save the settings made.
OK: Click OK to close the dialog box and save the configuration.
Cancel: Discard the currently made settings. The changes are not saved.