By using the "settings option" NotesToPaper Setup can be configured in a number of ways. When calling this option, the following dialogue will appear:

 

 

This dialogue consists of the tabs "general" and "default values". The "general" tab is used to configure the following options:

 

Confirm exit

 

If this option is activated, a confirmation dialogue appears before the program is closed.

 

 

Ask before converting reports

 

If a report is being edited which was created using a previous version of NotesToPaper, this report will be converted to the new report format. As this conversion may not be undone and a converted report cannot be executed with any previous NotesToPaper versions, the program will warn before any report conversion takes place. This warning may be deactivated using this option.

 

 

Categorized list of reports

 

Reports are sorted by name in the report selection window. If this option is activated, reports will be sorted by categories and in their groups by name respectively report description.

 

 

Show hint

 

This option will enable hint messages for buttons and input fields.

 

 

Show bitmaps on buttons in layout designer

 

This option enables both the button text as well as the button graphics in the layout designer.

 

 

Color depth for report preview

 

This option allows the definition, which color depth is to be used for the report preview.

 

Show only scalable fonts in layout designer

 

This option will only show true type fonts in the report designers font selection. This prevents the selection of fonts in the designer which may not be properly scalable during the report execution.

 

Delete printer settings for report after editing layout

 

When a report is being edited, the current printer settings are saved with the report. Activate this option in order to prevent just that. This option may be used e.g. if a report is being edited in an environment which provides printers different from those available in the environment in which the report is later to be used. In this case, it would make more sense to set the printer via script programming and not to save a printer with the report layout.

 

 

Show prepared databases in the database open dialogue

 

If this option is active, then the databases that are already prepared (add database) for the use with NotesToPaper will be marked accordingly. The number next to the marker shows the number of reports this database contains.

 

 

Include font descenders for line height calculation

 

If this option is active, then special descenders, that may be part of certain fonts will be included when calculating the line height.

 

Note: This means, that existing objects may change size an position.

 

 

The "default values" tab shows the default values for the different field types of NotesToPaper.

In order to be able to see what a report will look like during the design phase, the different field types of NotesToPaper are filled with "dummy" values. It is possible to define individual values for the field types RTF, drawing and HTML and these will lead to a different "look" of the report preview. Default values for fields and variables may be defined separately. If the default values for a field type have been defined and a field of that type is placed in the layout designer, then the preview will show the dummy values defined.