User Guide

User Guide Neat Image

35 20-Nov-03

9. Application options

Use the View | Options… menu item to open the Options dialog box.

Neat Image has several options that you can change to adjust the behavior of the application. Refer to

the descriptions below for details about each of these options.

9.1. General options

Show splash screen at startup

This option controls whether the splash screen (the yellow flower picture) is displayed at the application

startup.

Auto create new job at startup

When this option is checked, the Filtration Job Editor appears at startup (instead of the Filtration

Queue window), which can be useful if you want to only process a single image without going to the

queue window.

This option is checked by default to make initial work with the program easier.

We advise you to switch the option off if you need to work a lot with the Filtration Queue window.

Show hints over interface controls

This option allows switching on/off the hints. The hints are displayed when the mouse pointer is placed

over the application controls.

Double buffer image viewers

This option controls the image viewers buffering mechanism. Double-buffered image viewers provide

smoother display rendering at expense of rendering speed. Disable this option on slow machines for

better performance.

Allow overwriting existing image files

Select this option to allow Neat Image to overwrite existing image files when output images are auto

saved by the application (in queued processing).

Preserve EXIF data in output images

Check this option to make Neat Image preserving the EXIF data fields by copying these from the input

to output images. Note that copying the EXIF data fields to the output image is not always possible. This

depends on both input and output file types used. The EXIF is copied with the following combinations

of input and output file types: JPEG->JPEG, JPEG->TIFF, and TIFF->TIFF.

Enable multiprocessor support

Check this option to let Neat Image use all processors on a multiprocessor computer (or on a computer

with HyperThreading). When enabled, Neat Image will process two or more jobs in the filtration queue

simultaneously.

Some of the options are also available in the plug-in version of the filter. The options that are related only to the

standalone application are disabled in the plug-in.