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3.3 QuiteInsanes main window
If nothing went wrong, QuiteInsanes main window will show up. You will
notice a scrollview in the middle of the window, which displays the
available options. The scrollview is used to make sure that the mainwindows
height doesn't grow bigger than your desktop size.You can change the
appearance in the options window.
At the top of the main window you can see (from left to right):

- A label that displays the size in pixel and the bytesize of the image
you are going to scan or the text "Imagesize: not available", if the
information is not available.
- The obligatory "About..." button.
- The (also) obligatory "Help..." button.
- The (well, obligatory...) "What's this" button.
Beyond the first button row, you can see:

The drag label
This small label with a pixmap (on the right side) allows you to simply drag the last scan to other applications.
The "Mode" combobox
The available modes are:
- Temporary/Internal viewer
If you do a scan using this mode, the scanned image is displayed with the
internal viewer. From there you can save it, print it, drag it to another application or start optical
character recognition.
- Single file
This means, that a save file dialog will pop up after the scan, which
(as an option) displays a small preview of the image. Use this mode if
you just want to scan and save the image.
- OCR
This means, that optical character recognition is started on the scanned
image. The recognized text is displayed with the editor.
- Copy/Print
If you scan using this mode, a print dialog will be shown after the
scan. Here you can setup your printer, set the marginsizes or scale the image.
- Drag and drop
This mode is useful if you want to transfer the scanned image to another
application, like the Gimp. The image will not be displayed, but you can drag it to other applications
using the drag label.
- Multi scan
If you choose this mode, the multi scan window will be shown.
It allows you to
- scan and/or
- do optical character recognition (OCR) and/or
- print
You can also choose the number of scans, which is especially useful if your scanner supports an automatic
document feeder (ADF). The filenames for the images and the textfiles created by OCR are automatically generated.
You just have to set a filename template, an image/text format and, if supported by the
image format, the compression or quality.
Use this mode if you want to scan many images without the need to type a filename for every image.
WARNING:
This mode might cause trouble if you are using a parallel port scanner, which shares the port with a printer.
If you are using such a scanner, either don't print the images or scan and print only one image and wait until
printing has finished before you scan the next image.
If you are scanning in Save mode, the following elements become visible:

The elements and their meaning:
- Save as: You can type in a filename directly, or you can click on the open directory button on
the right side, which opens a file dialog.
- Automatic filename generation: The filename given under Save as is used as a template and
an increasing number is appended for every scan.
Example: The filename test.png will result in test1.png, test2.png and so on.
- Image type: Use it to choose the image format, e.g. PNG or JPEG. If you have chosen
by extension, you must append a valid extension to the filename, e.g. .png or .jpg .
- Setup button: Use it to adjust the image compression/quality.
And finally, you can see the following buttons at the bottom of the
main window:
Options...
Almost all settings are made in the options window, like layout, style,
documentation path and others. Your settings are saved automatically.
Viewer...
Show the internal viewer; QuiteInsane will try to load the last scanned image.
Preview...
Opens another window that allows you to do a preview scan and select the
scan area by moving and scaling a selection rectangle. You can also choose
between several predefined scan sizes. This button is (at least at the
moment) only enabled if the device allows to set the scan area options.
Multi scan...
See the above desription of the scan modes; this button is only enabled when
the scan mode "Multi scan" is chosen.
History/Browser...
Opens the history/image browser window.
Device settings...
Opens the device settings dialog. You can use it to load, save or create new settings. You can also delete
entries, of course.
Scan
Well, I'm still trying to remember what this button actually does :-)
Quit
See above...
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