Specifications

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Read-only Fields
There may be some fields on your Production Form that contain
information you cannot change, such as a person’s birth date or the
number of times a card has been printed for that person. Those fields
are there for your information only. The pointer will not move to them
when you tab through the form and you cannot click in them to place
the pointer there. Read-only fields will, however, appear in Quick
Search windows if the ID Works project designer specified that they
should. See chapter 4, Searching the Database.
Previewing Cards
If your ID Works project includes a card design (and almost all of
them do) you can see how the card will look as you are entering
information in the Production window.
To see a preview of the card that will be printed, from the menu bar
select View and then Card preview – front or Card preview – back.
A Card Preview opens. (You can see previews of both sides of the
card by selecting each card preview menu command in turn.)
You can move the Card Preview to a different location by clicking on
its title bar and dragging it to the new location. You can change the
size of the Card Preview by moving the mouse to an edge of the Card
Preview until the pointer turns into a two-way arrow, then clicking and
dragging the edge of the Card Preview until it is the size you want.
The Card Preview will maintain the proper height-to-width ratio. The
computer “remembers” the size of the Card Preview you set from day
to day and from project to project. The next time you select Card
Preview, the Card Preview opens the size you last set.
If your card design includes a barcode and if you enter too much data,
the barcode in the Preview will change to diagonal lines. If you enter