Settings->General



Hide status dialog
Display or hide the status dialog. The status dialog is a transparent dialog that displays the current status during printing including the output folder, file name, number of pages printed, DPI resolution, paper name, compression method, scaling, inverting, trimming, cropping, text extraction, and so on. By default, the status dialog is displayed at the top right corner of the screen. If you move the status dialog, Zan Image Printer will remember the status dialog position on the screen and display it in the same location the next time you print.

Opacity
Percentage setting: from 30 to 100. Sets the transparency of the status dialog. 30 is partially transparent and 100 is totally opaque (0 is fully transparent).

Generate a sentinel file after printing finishes
Specify whether to generate a sentinel file. The sentinel file is deleted at the start of each print job, and is recreated after printing is finished. The purpose of the sentinel file is to signal other applications or scripts that a print job has completed. The sentinel file can also be used to collect information about print jobs (for example, a list of image files generated) and pass that information to your application for processing.

Template
The sentinel file is generated according to the template. The sentinel file also uses the same encoding as the template file.
The template represents the static portion of the sentinel file as a template definition, which is stored and managed separately from the dynamic portion. The static portion can make references to template variables (the dynamic portion) to produce custom text. Zan Image Printer supports the following template variables (also called macros) and commands (you can also embed any of the save macro commands in the template). In the template, all lines beginning with two semi-colons ';' are considered comments and do not have any effect.
Name Description
fileblockbegin
fileblockend		 The fileblockbegin-fileblockend commands are used to block a set of commands within a block
[%allfilesindex] File name indexes (1 based)
[%allfiles] Fully qualified file names of all generated images
[%allfilenames] File parts of all generated images
[%allfilenamesnoext] File parts of all generated images without extension
[%file] Fully qualified file name of first image
[%filenoext] Fully qualified file name of first image without extension
[%page] Number of pages printed
[%folder] Current save folder without a trailing backslash

Template Usage Example #1
Template: 
[%allfiles]
Generated Sentinel File Contents: 
c:\image\1.bmp
c:\image\2.bmp
c:\image\3.bmp
c:\image\4.bmp
c:\image\5.bmp
Template Usage Example #2
Template: 
[%allfilenames]
Generated Sentinel File Contents: 
1.bmp
2.bmp
3.bmp
4.bmp
5.bmp
Template Usage Example #3
Template: 
;;this is a demo sentinel template
;;beginning of template
[summary]
time=[%Time]
date=[%Date]
printer=[%Printer]
dpi=[%DPI]
paper size=[%Paper]
user=[%UserName]
number of pages printed=[%page]
folder=[%folder]

fileblockbegin
[file_[%allfilesindex]]
name=[%allfilenames]
fullname=[%allfiles]
fileblockend
;;end of template
Generated Sentinel File Contents: 
[summary]
time=6-54-12
date=6-12-2011
printer=Virtual Image Printer (BW)
dpi=300 x 300
paper size=Letter
user=admin
number of pages printed=5
folder=c:\image

[file_1]
name=1.bmp
fullname=c:\image\1.bmp
[file_2]
name=2.bmp
fullname=c:\image\2.bmp
[file_3]
name=3.bmp
fullname=c:\image\3.bmp
[file_4]
name=4.bmp
fullname=c:\image\4.bmp
[file_5]
name=5.bmp
fullname=c:\image\5.bmp


Sentinel Filename
Specify the sentinel file name (e.g., sentinel.txt, sentinel.ini, sentinel.csv), you can also enter save macro commands to form a dynamic sentinel file name (for example, sentinel_[%Printer]_[04d%Jobid].txt).
The sentinel file is generated by using the template as shown above.
Use the [%file] macro (for example, [%file].txt) if you want the sentinel file to have the same name (except for the extension) as the image file. The [%file] macro is valid only for TIFF/PDF images specified with the "One multi-page" or "Append to existing file" file mode setting.

Package the generated files into a single ZIP archive
Select this option to package the generated files into a ZIP file.

Help
Loads the help file, and displays the Settings->General topic.