User`s guide

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Microtek ScanWizard 5 User's Guide (Macintosh version)
The View Menu
The View Menu lets you do the following:
• Select an overview or prescan view of an
image
• Resize the preview window to fit current
preview window
• Bring the Settings window to the front
• Show or hide the Information and Scan Job
• Show the ScanWizard 5 splash screen
Overview Image and Prescan Image
These commands select the image obtained with
the Overview and Prescan buttons, respectively,
and allow you to switch between both viewing
modes.
The dimensions of the Overview image and
Prescan image are controlled by the Overview
Setup command and the Prescan Setup com-
mand, respectively. For more details, see these
commands under the Preferences menu.
To obtain the Overview image:
With the image(s) placed on your scanner, click
the Overview button.
To obtain the Prescan image:
1. Click the Scan Frame tool.
2. Select the area to be prescanned
by drawing a frame around the area in the
Overview image.
3. Click the Prescan button.
To obtain multiple Prescan images:
1. Define your scan jobs in the scan job
window (see the scan job window section for
more details).
2. To select multiple scan jobs, press the Shift
key and click on the jobs to be selected in
the Scan Job or Preview window.
3. Click the Prescan button in the Preview
window. Multiple prescans are created in the
process, corresponding to the number of
scan jobs defined, and you can then switch
among the various prescan images.
Overview viewing mode Prescan viewing mode