HELIOS EtherShare OPI 2.1 User manual


Contents
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Welcome to EtherShare OPI 2.1
1 About the chapters of this manual
2 Using the manual
3 An introduction to OPI
3.1 General explanations
3.2 Special features of EtherShare OPI 2.1
4 Installation
4.1 System requirements
4.2 General remarks
4.3 Installing EtherShare OPI 2.1
4.3.1 Preparing the installation
4.3.2 The installation procedure
4.4 Uninstalling EtherShare OPI 2.1
4.5 Verifying the installation
5 Before getting started...
5.1 Backward compatibility
5.2 About images, color modes, file formats, and compression
5.2.1 General remarks
5.2.2 Supported file formats
5.2.3 File format characteristics
5.2.4 Supported modes of compression
5.2.5 File formats of OPI-generated layout files
5.3 About applications, OPI comments, and modifications
5.3.1 OPI-compatible applications
5.3.2 Supported image modifications - and supported OPI comments
5.3.3 Clipping paths
5.4 About output devices
5.5 About how OPI 2.1 modifies color modes
5.6 About how OPI 2.1 applies color matching
5.7 About how OPI 2.1 finds and replaces image files
6 Setting up OPI with the EtherShare Admin program
6.1 General remarks
6.2 Starting the Admin
6.3 OPI server settings
6.4 Volume settings
6.5 Printer queue settings
6.6 Using the Admin printer log file to check OPI activities
7 Using EtherShare OPI 2.1
7.1 General remarks
7.2 Notes about layout generation
7.3 Defining folder specific OPI settings
7.4 Tagging images with ICC profiles
7.5 Refreshing layouts using the "touch" program
7.6 Brief notes about printer drivers
7.7 OPI print options - include or omit images
7.8 Using QuarkXPress with EtherShare OPI 2.1
7.9 Using PageMaker (6.0) with EtherShare OPI 2.1
7.10 Using FreeHand (5.0) with EtherShare OPI 2.1
7.11 Automatic PDF generation from OPI print jobs
8 Reference guide
8.1 General remarks
8.2 Differences between program versions 1.x and 2.1
8.3 The "layout" program
8.3.1 Syntax conventions
8.3.2 List of parameters
8.3.3 Examples
8.4 The "opitouch" program
8.5 The "psresolve" program
8.5.1 Syntax conventions
8.5.2 List of parameters
8.5.3 Example
8.6 The "hirespath" program
8.6.1 Possible commands and return codes
8.6.2 Example
8.7 The "oiinfo" and "oiimginfo" programs
8.7.1 The "oiinfo" program
8.7.2 The "oiimginfo" program
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 Using EtherShare OPI 2.1 with ColorSync 2 XT 2.0
A 4 Notes for PCShare users
A 5 Known restrictions
A 6 Glossary

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