This chapter is meant to offer assistance in case your EtherShare OPI software does not work as expected. It summarizes important facts that have already been mentioned but are distributed among various chapters of this manual.
The OPI server does not generate a layout image when you save or copy a high-resolution original.
There may be different reasons for this problem.
First of all, the generation of layouts has to be activated for the network volume that contains your original image file (compare chapter
6.4 "Volume settings"). EtherShare OPI does not generate layouts on your local hard disk.
Finally, it might be possible that the file format you use for your high-resolution original is not supported by EtherShare OPI (see also chapter
5.2.2 "Supported file formats").
Please note that - as long as you do not change certain parameters with the "layout" program - resolution conflicts are impossible. The new EtherShare OPI 2.1 always generates layouts even if the resolution of the original file is smaller than the value specified with the
dpi parameter for layouts (or smaller than 72 dpi if the
dpi default setting has not been changed). In that case, the layout image inherits the resolution of the original.
If the generation of a layout image has failed you will obtain an image file that contains the error message shown in Fig.
46.
Fig. 46: Error message for failed layout generation
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Images are missing on the printouts.
If images are missing on your printouts, you should check whether you have placed any high-resolution images in your document and selected one of the
Omit ... options in the print dialog. This combination of settings may lead to missing images because, by default, high-resolution images are not replaced during printing (compare chapter
7.7 "OPI print options - include or omit images"). Images may also be missing if you have moved the image files to a location OPI cannot resolve, e.g. your local hard disk. In that case, however, you get an error message (compare chapter
5.7 "About how OPI 2.1 finds and replaces image files").
Images on your printouts do not show the resolution you expected.
This problem may occur if you have specified a certain value for downsampling on your printer queue (see chapter
6.5 "Printer queue settings"). In that case, some images will be re-calculated according to the value you entered for output resolution and others will not be changed at all. In fact, images with a resolution smaller than that specified for downsampling will not be re-calculated by the OPI server, because increasing the resolution automatically decreases the dimensions of an image. This would entail upward scaling and lead to a loss in quality. Furthermore, downsampling cannot be applied to object-based image files, as e.g. FreeHand illustrations.
Please note that if you switch off downsampling the output resolution depends on the individual image files. Even if you only print layouts, the resolution may be different for each image. This is due to the fact that you may re-define at any time the dpi value for layouts on your server and that existing layouts are not updated automatically (compare chapter
6.3 "OPI server settings").
Printing separations does not work as expected.
Select proper file names. Do not use the same name twice in one folder, even if the extension is different. This could damage the layouts because they may both have the same file format and thus the same extension. For example, if you save "flowers.psd" (Photoshop) and "flowers.tif" in the same folder, they both will produce a "flowers.tif" layout image. The contents of this layout is unpredictable.
You may not remove your ICC-Profiles repository from the server - even if you do not activate color matching. This would disable OPI altogether, because in specific situations OPI uses the standard profiles from the ICC-Profiles volume "behind the scenes" and must, therefore, be able to access this volume at any time (see also chapter
5.6 "About how OPI 2.1 applies color matching"). If you have already removed the ICC-Profiles volume you have to re-install EtherShare OPI. You can start the installation program from your server, but need the CD-ROM to re-install the profiles.
Layout files will be locked by default. In case you want to delete one of the layouts you have to press the
Option key when you empty the trash.
Note: If you have detected a problem that is not mentioned above, you may also refer to the explanations given in appendix A 5: "Known restrictions".
