User manual NUANCE OMNIFORM 3

[. . . ] OmniForm User's Manual For Windows 95 and NT CAERE CORPORATION 100 Cooper Court Los Gatos, California 95032-3321 USA Caere GmbH Innere Wiener Strasse 5 81667 München, Germany Caere UK Information Centre Abbey House 4 Abbey Orchard Street Westminster, London SW1P 2JJ Centre d'informations Caere 50 rue des Archives 75004 Paris, France Please Note To use this program, you should know how to work in the Microsoft Windows environment. Please refer to Windows documentation if you have questions about how to use menu commands, dialog boxes, scroll bars, edit boxes, and so on. OmniForm User's Manual for Windows 95 and NT (Version 3. 0) 800-1281-030, A Copyright© 1998 Caere Corporation. CAERE®, Logical Form Recognition, and OmniForm are trademarks of Caere Corporation. Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Such designations appearing in this manual have been printed in initial caps. 2 Chapter 1 Introduction OmniForm is the easy way to convert your paper forms to electronic forms. [. . . ] · The source file is on a network or needs to be accessed by others. · The source file is very large and you do not want to increase your form's file size significantly. Object Embedding An embedded object becomes part of the OmniForm form. Use embedding when: · It is unlikely the object will need to be changed or updated. · You are not concerned about the file size of your OmniForm form. 48 Designing a Form Inserting OLE Objects in a Form How to Insert OLE Objects 1 Choose Insert New Object. . . The Insert Object dialog box appears. 2 3 Select an object type in the Object Type list box. · To create a new object of the type selected and embed it in your form, select Create New. · To import a file of the type selected and either embed it or link it to your form, select Create From File. Proceed to "Creating an OLE Object From a File" on page 5-51. 4 Select Display As Icon to display the object as an icon, rather than displaying its actual content. Click it to select a new icon for the object or to change the icon's name. By default, an object appears with the object type name if it is unlinked and the source file name if it is linked. See "Creating a New OLE Object" on page 5-50 for detailed information. 5 You cannot store an OLE object in the scrapbook. Designing a Form 49 Inserting OLE Objects in a Form Creating a New OLE Object See the previous section, "How to Insert OLE Objects" on page 5-49 if you need to insert an object. How your object appears depends on the options you selected in the Insert Object dialog box. If you selected Display As Icon in step 4 in the previous section, the source application launches. If you did not select Display As Icon, an OLE window appears (some applications do not support OLE windows and the object will launch in the application itself). The OmniForm window changes to reflect the application window for the selected object type: · The name in the title bar changes to that of the source application. · The embedded object appears as an empty OLE window within the application window. · All menus but the File and Windows menus change to those of the source application. If you selected Bitmap Image, for example, you can use the Microsoft Paint menu commands and tools and some OmniForm commands. Source application menus OmniForm form OLE window with newly created bitmap image to be embedded Paint tools used to create object Create your object in the available window. Click outside the window or press the Esc key to embed the object in your form when you are done. 50 Designing a Form Inserting OLE Objects in a Form Creating an OLE Object From a File See steps 1­3 in the section "How to Insert OLE Objects" on page 5-49 if you need to create an object. The Insert Object dialog box changes when you select Create from File. 1 Type a file name in the File text box. Select a file, and click OK to return to the Insert Object dialog box. [. . . ] The way an object is painted is determined by selecting background, border, and fill line colors for it and for any cells, elements, or objects within that object. parenthesis In OmniForm, an element used to enclose all elements of a function. Parentheses look like this: ( ) PCX A graphic file format produced by some scanners. point A typographic unit of measurement equal to 1/72 inch, measured vertically. [. . . ]