User manual WEST-FOREST-SYSTEMS CDFINDER

[. . . ] 2. 5 Updating to a new version of CDFinder! 9 12 12 15 16 16 21 24 39 3. 3. 4 Automatically catalog volumes when they are ejected! 41 42 43 45 46 3. 5 Update existing catalogs !4. 6 Database Status ! 65 67 69 70 72 73 75 4. 7 Move your CDFinder to a new computer!4. 8 Customize your CDFinder Database with the Custom Fields ! 78 80 5. [. . . ] CDFinder Users Guide Revision: January 5, 2009 Page 106 But you can also simply double click a catalog, and CDFinder will open a new window, showing you the contents of that catalog, just as you would see it directly in the Finder if the volume would be online: The view here is the top level of the catalog, and it very much looks like list view in the Finder. CDFinder even shows the sizes of folders here! CDFinder Users Guide Revision: January 5, 2009 Page 107 Of course, CDFinder also offers you an icon view, which is very helpful when you are dealing with photo files. You can even freely change the size of the photos displayed here by using the little slider! The little red Geotag icon located in the bottom right corner of a thumbnail or icon indicates that a file contains embedded GPS data. CDFinder Users Guide Revision: January 5, 2009 Page 108 If you want to look inside the contents of any folder seen here, you can either open it by clicking in the little triangle in front of the folder icon, or double click on any folder. If you double click on a folder in a catalog, the window will display the contents of that folder, and the navigation menu in the top of the window will help you get back to a previous level: CDFinder Users Guide Revision: January 5, 2009 Page 109 You can always print the content of any of the windows just as you see it, both in list and icon mode. That will cause CDFinder to ask you to insert the original disk, and then copy the file or folder into the location of the Finder you have dropped the item into. Or, if the volume is online already, CDFinder will pass that information to the Mac OS, allowing you to drag photo files from CDFinder directly into other applications such as Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Quark XPress, Microsoft Office, and more. Please read the next chapter 7. 1 for more details. CDFinder Users Guide Revision: January 5, 2009 Page 110 7. CDFinder Workflow Integration CDFinder offers supreme integration into your workflow by many powerful features no other similar application offers. You can either import your already existing catalog files created by eight other application (please read chapter 3. 6), saving you countless hours already, or quickly let CDFinder catalog a whole stack of discs, using the Batch Cataloging feature of CDFinder (please read chapter 3. 2). CDFinder offers full AppleScript integration, allowing you to do things we could have never imagined, such as writing a whole application that will perform a search for duplicates!(More about CDFinder and AppleScript in chapter 9) And even that is not all that CDFinder has to offer! CDFinder Users Guide Revision: January 5, 2009 Page 111 7. 1 Drag & Drop CDFinder is very tightly integrated into Mac OS X using drag & drop. You can drop volumes or folders into CDFinder to Catalog them, or you can drop catalog files created with other applications into CDFinder to import them. You can also drop volumes, folders, and files on the CDFinder icon in the Dock of Mac OS X. To export a catalog from CDFinder into a specific location on your Desktop, simply drag it from the main CDFinder window into the location on the desktop you want the file to appear. To have the Finder copy a file or folder from a catalog to a specific location, simply drag the file or folder out of the Found Items or any catalog contents window into the Finder. CDFinder will then ask you to insert the source disk(s) of the items, and then ask the Finder to copy the files to the location you have indicated. If the source volume is online already, CDFinder will let the Mac OS X handle the whole process by itself, allowing you to drag images from CDFinder directly into applications such as Adobe InDesign, Quark XPress, Apple Pages!In this example, a photo file is being dragged directly out of a CDFinder catalog into an Apple Pages document: CDFinder Users Guide Revision: January 5, 2009 Page 112 CDFinder Users Guide Revision: January 5, 2009 Page 113 7. 2 CDFinder CMM (Contextual Menu Module) Another useful integration is the CDFinder CMM. It will add a few menu commands to the context menu of folders, files, and volumes in the Finder. For volumes, it offers to Catalog, or to Catalog and eject them (if they are ejectable). For folders, it offers to use the folder as the CDFinder catalog data folder, a fast way to switch to another catalog data folder. For files, it offers to start a Find operation in CDFinder to find similar items, based on the name, the Creator, or the Filetype of the file. Please find more information about the CDFinder CMM in the enclosed Read-Me file. CDFinder Users Guide Revision: January 5, 2009 Page 114 7. 3 Dock icon and menu in Mac OS X The Dock of Mac OS X offers a nice way of interacting with the user. [. . . ] If any of these values are already present in the IPTC tags of that photo, CDFinder will of course set these values in these fields for you. Please use commas to separate your keywords, and please make sure you enter a good caption and several keywords, to make it easier for others to find your photo!In the additional Status field, you can indicate wether the photo should be visible by the Public, or only by Friends, Family, or just yourself (Private). The Photo size menu allows you to tell CDFinder, how big the uploaded photo should be, currently, you can chose between Original, 1600, 1200, 800, and 640 pixels in size. [. . . ]