Default settings, and other misc stuff
Greg,
version 5.03 has helped with some prior issues I wrote about (default saving of font size, and the "auto" view mode)
this weekend, I scanned in about 1500 pages (multi-feed HP scanner) of B/W 200 dpi JPG files (old insurance policies), and used Hypersnap as front end.
I used auto-capture/save
My Wife also used the machine in between my uses, to do genealogy, 300 DPI, color, BMP
Now, the problems/comments/suggestions
1. WHERE are the defaults of Hypersnap stored- registry, or internal to program? If in registry, I would like to, upon exiting, SAVE my default working stuff (directory of saves, Quick-save counters, fonts, etc) to a .REG file, and then re-click on this .REG file before I started to re-work with Imaging; the same scenario would be used by my wife, so she did not have to reset all her controls.
If the values are stored inside a program, then which one is it, because I could make two versions of it (Hsnap.wife, and Hsnap.me), and then before starting, copy the appropriate one to the default program name (copy hsnap.me -> hsnap.exe)
2. Default values not saving - if I was scanning in about 20 pages of documents, and the scanner would crash at about the 10th page, and screwedup the machine, and I had to restart the computer, then Hypersnap defaults did not save at this crash point; the counters and directories would revert back to that they were BEFORE the start of the 20-page scanning. Is there a way to SAVE the point-in-time settings, short of exiting out of the program and then coming back in? Also, if I exit, but keep the icon on the task bar, this does not seem to qualify as an EXIT, for purposes of saving the defaults, so I've unchecked the taskbar-visible, so the program actually exits if we 'x' out of it
3. re: the quick-save counter -
I set the counter for 001, and scan in 20 documents; counter is now at 020.
I THEN manually create a file (xxx_021.jpg), which is a title page upon which I enter, with a font, what the next 30 pages are going to be; this serves as a graphics index page.
NOW, I insert the next 30 pages, BUT if I forget to reset the counter, the counter will start at 021, and overwrite my index page; I must reset the counter for 022, so it starts at the next page. Is there a way to have the quick-save notify me if it is going to overwrite a file? You have actually done excellent file protection throughout the rest of the program, with using only a "save-as" method, and always asking if I want to overwrite, but in the quick-save it is the one place where overwrites are still possible-and-invisible, without notification.
(I do NOT want to turn on the auto-prompt for every auto-saved file; I just want to be notified if I'm going to overwrite something. I messed up one other time, reset the counter wrong, and overwrote 20 pages before I knew what happened)
Item #3 - on printing - I think it would be worthwile, on printing, to have the PAGE SETUP, and PRINT screen, be combined. Your program design is good in that you retain the most-recently-used parameters for most things, but I don't always remember what I used prior, and then absent-mindedly go to print something, and forget that I've selected "fill the page", or "not-fill-the-page", or what the margins are, etc., especially when we're doing genealogy work. this way, I'd be forced to view the current selections (margins, auto-sizing, etc) before I start a time-consuming graphics page print, only to realize I messed up.
OR, from the PRINT menu, have a selection that allows "always show PAGE SETUP box before printing...."
Overall this program is excellent. I realize you can't include all enhancements, suggestions, etc. But I'm passing these on because I feel that you take all them into consideration, and that you do use worthwhile ones.
Also, I'm willing to beta-test any of the enhancements
Again, thanks
Nick