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HELIOS ImageServer UB User manual


Contents
1 About the chapters of this manual
2 An introduction to HELIOS ImageServer
2.1 New ImageServer features
2.2 ImageServer functionality
2.2.1 Overview
2.2.2 OPI functionality (image replacement)
2.2.3 Server-based image conversion
2.2.4 Server-based color management
2.2.5 Script Server
2.2.6 HELIOS OPI TuneUp XT
2.2.7 InDesign and QuarkXPress document previews
2.3 Known limitations
3 Before getting started
3.1 Backward compatibility
3.2 About images, color modes, file formats, and compression
3.2.1 General remarks
3.2.2 64-bit file offset support
3.2.3 Supported file formats
3.2.4 File format characteristics
3.2.5 Supported modes of compression
3.2.6 File formats of OPI-generated layout files
3.3 About applications, OPI comments, and modifications
3.3.1 OPI-compatible applications
3.3.2 Supported image modifications and OPI comments
3.3.3 Image paths and clipping paths
3.3.4 Application clipping paths
3.3.5 Additional channels in bitmap images
3.4 About output devices
3.5 How ImageServer modifies color modes
3.6 How ImageServer applies color matching
3.7 How ImageServer finds and replaces image files
4 Setting up the OPI server with HELIOS Admin
4.1 General remarks
4.2 ImageServer settings
4.3 Volume settings
4.4 OPI printer queue settings
4.5 Using the HELIOS Admin printer log file to check OPI activities
5 Using ImageServer
5.1 General remarks
5.2 Notes about layout generation
5.2.1 Notes for Photoshop users
5.3 Defining folder specific OPI settings
5.4 Tagging images with ICC profiles
5.5 Exporting/Importing XMP etc. information
5.5.1 Export
5.5.2 Import
5.6 Refreshing layouts using the "touch" program
5.6.1 Using "Touch.exe" under Windows
5.7 OPI print options - include or omit images
5.7.1 QuarkXPress
5.7.2 InDesign
5.8 Using QuarkXPress with ImageServer
5.8.1 Print settings in QuarkXPress
5.8.2 Overcoming QuarkXPress limitations with ImageServer and PDF HandShake
5.8.3 The HELIOS Preview XT
5.9 Using InDesign with ImageServer
5.9.1 The HELIOS Preview plug-in
5.9.2 Native PDF OPI workflows
6 ImageServer utility programs
6.1 General remarks
6.2 layout
6.2.1 Syntax conventions
6.2.2 General "layout" options
6.2.3 Layout file generation
6.2.4 Options for layout file generation
6.2.5 Attributes for "layout" options
6.2.6 Example for layout generation
6.2.7 Image conversion
6.2.8 Options for image conversion
6.2.9 Examples for image conversion
6.2.10 Tagging ICC profiles, path information, and meta data to images
6.2.11 Options for tagging
6.3 opitouch
6.4 hirespath
6.4.1 Possible commands and return codes
6.4.2 Example
6.5 oiimginfo
6.5.1 Verbose/Filter levels
6.5.2 Export
6.5.3 Attributes for "oiimginfo"
6.6 psresolve/pdfresolve
7 Script Server
7.1 Introduction and example
7.2 Script Server log files
7.3 Script Server log file structure
7.4 Configuration
7.4.1 Starting, stopping and refreshing the Script Server process
7.4.2 The Script Server configuration file
7.4.3 Included sample scripts
7.4.4 HELIOS default scripts location
7.4.5 Script Server service port
7.5 Developing and debugging scripts
7.5.1 Script parameters
7.5.2 Status (shown on service port 2024)
7.5.3 Debugging scripts stand-alone (without Script Server)
7.5.4 Debugging scripts in the Script Server environment
7.6 Additional considerations
8 Preferences and notification features
8.1 ImageServer preference keys
8.1.1 OPI server preferences
8.1.2 Global OPI preferences
8.1.3 OPI-related volume preferences
8.1.4 Global printer preferences
8.1.5 OPI-related printer queue preferences
8.1.6 Script Server preferences
8.1.7 Spot color editor preferences
8.2 Notification features
8.2.1 Notification features (new protocol)
9 Troubleshooting
10 Technical support
A 1 About OPI settings, typical workflows, and conflicts
A 2 Colors, color matching, proof printing - basic concepts
A 3 ImageServer and color space
A 3.1 Preserving the original color space in composite printing
A 3.2 Profile conversion RGB to HexachromeŽ
A 3.3 The spot color editor
A 3.3.1 What is the spot color editor good for?
A 3.3.2 Setting up the spot color editor
A 3.3.3 Accurate spot colors with ColorSync/ICC
A 4 Notes for PCShare users
A 5 Glossary
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