The following settings are located in the Document preview area of the Configuration.

Select user: Select a user or option group via the Select user button to assign the user/option group specific settings in the configuration.

Transfer settings to other users (arrow icon): Transfer the settings you made to one or multiple users or an option group.

Save the settings of the configuration as a file (disk icon): This option saves the settings of the configuration as a file.

Load existing settings for the configuration (folder icon): Load the settings from a configuration file.

Delete settings (X icon): Click here to delete all settings you made for an option group or other users. This restores the settings to their default values.

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.

Show OCR terms 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.

Enter OCR term to a form with a mouse click: Transfer words recognized by the OCR to the currently open form with a click of the mouse.

Page 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.

Increment version number during PDF conversion: If this option is enabled, the document version is incremented during PDF conversion.

File 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.

Please note: Depending on the selected format, the correct ELO printer (ELO TIFF Printer or ELO PDF Printer) must be installed.

E-mail

Use internal browser preview for e-mails: If this option is enabled, e-mails are displayed with the internal browser instead of the embedded Internet Explorer.

Suppress images from the Internet within 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.

Double-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.

Information: You can enter multiple file extensions. You need to separate the entries with periods.

Certificates for decrypting e-mails: This option allows you to set where ELO should import the certificates for decrypting e-mails from.

• 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.

Use 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 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 plugins from the ELO Windows Client.
• Apple OS X preview: Viewer for displaying files on the Mac OS X operating system.
• 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
• 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 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 plugin (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 one of the buttons with an X icon to delete the corresponding row.

General buttons

The following buttons are always located in the lower part of the dialog box.

OK: Click OK to close the dialog box and save the configuration.

Cancel: Discard the current settings. Changes are not saved.