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Annotation preferences are in the Annotations tab. These parameters are described below.
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| Default Icon Annotation Size | When a font icon is dragged and dropped on the display canvas, this size is set as the default size of the icon. Default value is set as 128 pixels. |
| Disable Open Canvas | GetPixit |
| supports image canvas and virtual or open canvas. By default annotations can be placed anywhere. When images are exported or shared, only annotations on the image are flattened for creating the final image for sharing. By disabling this, annotations are restricted only to the image area. (By default, this attribute is not selected/checked.) | |
| Default Auto Canvas Expansion | When annotations are flattened, some of the annotations may be on the canvas outside the image canvas. When those annotations are flattened, image canvas needs to be extended to incorporate those annotations. This will auto expand the canvas. This parameter value is used for padding the canvas to encompass annotations |
outside image area. | |
| Shape Color Settings | Shapes have outline, fill and in some cases have text colors. Preset colors can be set for all shapes, when selected from this drop down and click on Apply button (Apply button is clicked). Default width and |
height remain name. Only colors change. See the settings with two different presets:
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| Default Timestamp | Default timestamp content can be specified in this field along with the date time format. Datatime formats follow C# date time formatting options. By changing this value, timestamp display format will change. In addition to time format, there is a general timestamp template. This template contains parameters which will be substituted with actual value at run time when the timestamp annotation is drawn. Variables that can be used in the template: %Username% - User name specified in the general tab. %ImageDisplayname% - Image display name %Category%-%Subcategory% - Image category and subcategory %ImageSize% - Image size %ImageDimensions% - Image dimensions %CreatedBy% - Created By %CreatedOn% - Created On %TimeStamp% - Datetime stamp of the current date and time. |
| Default Rubberstamp | Default |
Rubberstamp content can be specified in this field along with the date time format. Datatime formats follow C# date time formatting options. By changing this value, timestamp display format will change. In addition to time format, there is a general timestamp template. This template contains parameters which will be substituted with actual value at run time when the timestamp annotation is drawn. Variables that can be used in the template: %Username% - User name specified in the general tab. %ImageDisplayname% - Image display name %Category%-%Subcategory% - Image category and subcategory %ImageSize% - Image size %ImageDimensions% - Image dimensions %CreatedBy% - Created By %CreatedOn% - Created On %TimeStamp% - Datetime stamp of the current date and time. |
Clip Art
GetPixit provides an easier approach to add Clip Art to the images or new screens. Web provides a large number of Clip Art and image sources which can be used to get Clip Art into images. Note that some of the Clip Art is free and some are copyrighted. Make sure to follow appropriate licensing before using some of the protected (copyrighted) Clip Art.
This tab facilitates registering Clip Art/Image sources so that they can be accessed from Draw Toolbox. A set of web resources are included in the product as shown below:
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New resources can be added. A maximum of 20 resources are allowed. All these resources show up by clicking on the ClipArt annotation in Draw Toolbox. When editing an image, a Clip Art web page can be opened from the list and see the list of images in web browser which can be dragged and dropped on to the canvas as shown below: (When editing an image, any of the listed Clip Art web pages can be opened in web browser, and the images can be dragged and dropped onto the canvas, as shown below:)
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Shortcuts
Shortcuts help to perform capture operations without opening the application. At the installation time, application tries to register different shortcuts for various operations. If there are any conflicts with existing applications, it may try to register alternate shortcuts. If none of that is possible, it leaves that operation without any shortcut. Shortcut preferences tab can be used to register shortcuts that are required. Note that application and system may need to be restarted to make the new shortcuts effective. See the shortcut tab below:
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Integrations
GetPixit provides a variety of integrations to external cloud and non-cloud applications and systems. Most of the configuration parameters are associated with the respective integration user interface. However, some integrations require global preferences. One of the integration (One of them) is email integration which requires configuring default subject and message templates. In this tab, default mail template is provided which can be configured as shown below:
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DocumentList tag gets replaced with a list of documents. |
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In the above, %DocumentList%, lists all the selected documents in the email as shown above on the right side.
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Advanced user preferences are grouped in this tab. The following covers the advanced parameters in the Advanced Tab.
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| Start Pixit on Startup | By default, this flag is enabled. When Windows restarts, Application automatically starts in the background. |
| Auto Update | This is set by default. Application checks for any updates online. If this is disabled, no update check is done. This may be required if there are any external network access restrictions. |
| Interaction Settings | When interacting with annotation on the image, different handlers show up when annotation is edited. |
| Minimize After DragMe | When an image is dragged and dropped on an external application or folder using DragMe, by default GetPixit will be kept minimized for allowing the user to work on the newly dropped image in the external application. However, that behavior can be changed by unsetting this flag. |
| Enable Slide Numbering | When a set of images are played with Slideshow, it can show slide number along with the slide title. By default, it is set. This can be changed to remove slide numbering, |
| Enable Console | Disabled parameter. |
| Default Backup Folder | Default backup folder location is set here. Click on the folder icon to select the folder. Backup files are stored in the |
| Image Settings | Default additional image settings include: Png Settings: Select the option for improving Png file processing performance. By default Normal is selected.
Jpeg Quality: Helps to set the quality of Jpeg image output. If it is set to 100%, image gets highest quality and also takes up more space. If it is set too low, say 70%, quality degrades and reduces the image size. Best option is to set to 90%. (Recommended value is 90%. |
) Tiff Quality: Helps to set the quality of tiff image output. If it is set to 100%, image gets highest quality and also takes up more space. If it is set too low, say 70%, quality degrades and reduces the image size. | |
| Network Settings | When proxy servers are used for external connectivity, these settings are helpful. User Proxy for Internet: if enabled, application tries to use Proxy server for internet connectivity. Auto Detect Proxy: if enabled, application automatically detects proxy server for internet connectivity. IP Address and Port number: Used for connecting to proxy server if auto detection is disabled. |