The Document preview area of the Configuration dialog box contains the settings for the following topics:

• General
• E-mail
• Preview configuration for different file types
• Preview plug-ins

General

Maximum document size of the preview in MB: Specify the maximum number of megabytes (MB) a document can have in order to be displayed in the preview. If a document exceeds the specified size, a message will be displayed instead of the preview. The value 0 disables the preview.

Show OCR terms in the document: Select this option to highlight the words in the document recognized by OCR. As soon as you point to a word, the word is highlighted. If the Metadata dialog box is open, you can click a word to add it to the metadata.

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

Page between documents: Selecting the Page 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: A new version of the document is created during PDF conversion. If the option Increment version number during PDF conversion is enabled, the document version is incremented during PDF conversion. Otherwise, the previous version number is retained.

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.

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

Information: The internal browser is recommended for high resolution monitors.

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.

Information: The internal browser is recommended for high resolution monitors.

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 specify 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 specify where you want to store the certificates in the Path field.

Preview configuration for different file types

In this area, you specify which type of preview to use for different file extensions. If no preview method is defined for a file extension, the browser preview is used.

Use default: Click the Use default button to restore the original settings in this area.

New: Click the New button to add a new row for linking a file type to a 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 plug-in 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
• 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 IBM Notes e-mails 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 that enables users to place annotations 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 plug-ins

In this area, you can link file extensions to preview plug-ins.

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.

Please note: For the plug-ins to work, the ActiveX plug-in preview method must be set for the respective file extensions (Preview configuration for different file types area). If a preview method was not selected, the ActiveX plug-in preview method is set automatically.

X: Click one of the buttons with an X icon to delete the corresponding row.