2.0
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Installation and Setup
- Tutorials
- Views and Form Usage
- OmniForm Procedures
- Designing a Form
- The Design Process
- The Design View Toolbars
- Creating Objects
- General Creation Guidelines
- Creating a Text Object
- Creating a Line Object
- Creating an Oval Object
- Creating a Rectangle Object
- Creating a Graphic Object
- Creating a Fill Text Object
- Creating a Comb Object
- Creating a Check Box Object
- Creating a Circle Text Object
- Creating a Table Object
- Creating a Fill Graphic Object
- Defining Objects
- Changing Object Appearance
- Redesigning Your Form
- Using the Scrapbook
- Inserting OLE Objects in a Form
- Filling a Form
- Managing an OmniForm Database
- Using Calculations
- Calculation Overview
- Operators
- Functions
- Abs (Absolute Value)
- Avg (Average)
- Date (Current Date)
- DayName
- DayOfMonth
- DayOfWeek
- DayOfYear
- Exp (Exponentiation)
- FV (Future Value)
- Hour
- If
- Int (Integer)
- Left
- Length
- Ln (Natural Logarithm)
- Log (Base 10 Logarithm)
- Lower
- Max (Maximum)
- Middle
- Min (Minimum)
- Minute
- Mod (Modulus (Remainder))
- Month
- MonthName
- Pi
- PMT (Payment)
- Position
- Proper
- PV (Present Value)
- RecordCount
- Replace
- Replicate
- Right
- Round
- Second
- Sign
- Sqrt (Square Root)
- Sum
- Time
- Trim
- Trunc (Truncate)
- Upper
- Year
- Functions — Quick Reference
- Functions Sorted by Type
- Technical Information
- Glossary
Tutorial 2 — Edit and Design a Form
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Tutorial 2 — Edit and Design a Form
You will scan or import the Sample form into OmniForm again in this
exercise. This time, you will bypass the Form Assistant dialog box so
that you can see which buttons and menu commands to use. You will
verify and correct OCR, and practice redesigning the form. See Chapter
6, Designing a Form, for detailed information on form design.
Launch OmniForm
If OmniForm is already open, proceed to the next section.
1 Click
Start
in the taskbar and choose
Programs
OmniForm
to
launch OmniForm if it is not open already.
Windows NT and 3.1 users: double-click the OmniForm icon in
the Caere Applications folder.
2 Click
Cancel
in the Form Assistant dialog box when it appears.
Scan or Import the Sample Form
See below for instructions on scanning the sample form. See page 29
instructions on importing the sample.tif image file.
To scan the form:
1 Click the Scan Form button in the standard toolbar or choose
Scan Form...
in the File menu.
The Scan Form dialog box appears.
2 Select an option in the
Source
drop-down list.
•Select
HP Scanner
in the
Source
drop-down list if you have an
HP scanner. Proceed to step 3.
•Select
TWAIN
in the
Source
drop-down list if you have a
TWAIN-compatible scanner.