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Paragraph spacing:Determinesthespacingbetweenparagraphs.Thedefaultvalueis1.5,
meaningthespacebetweenparagraphsmustbeequaltoatleast1.5timestheaveragechar-
acterheighttostartanewparagraph.
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Magic number:Determinesthetolerancefactorforalloftheabovevalues.Thetoleranceis
meanttoavoidroundingerrors.Iftwovaluesaremorethan70%awayfromeachother,theyare
considereddistinct;otherwisetheyarethesame.Forexample,iftwocharactershaveaspaceof
exactlythewidthoftheaveragecharacter,anyspaceofbetween0.7and1.43ofthisaverage
widthisconsideredonespace.Aspaceof1.44isconsideredtobe2spaces.
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PDF file color space:DeterminesifthePDFifdisplayedinColororMonochromeintheData
Viewer.MonochromedisplayisfasterintheDataViewer.Thishasnoinfluenceontheactual
dataextractionorthedatamappingperformance.
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Processing method:ThisoptiondetermineswhichsearchmethodisusedbytheGotostep's
Next Occurrence ofoption.Themostrecentmethodsearchesfortextwithinthespecifiedcon-
straints.ItismorepreciseandmorereliablethantheOriginalmethodwhichsearchesforthetar-
gettextintheentirepageandthendeterminesifthetextappearswithinthespecifiedconstraints.
Bothmethodsmaysometimesreturnslightlydifferentvalues.Datamappingconfigurationsmade
withpreviousversionofthesoftwarearethereforesettousetheoriginalmethodbydefault.Itis
howeverrecommendedtomodifythemtousethenewermethod.
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Auto-Rotation(PSfilesonly):IfintheoriginalPostScriptfiletheorientationofapageanditstext
don'tmatch,thisoptionsetsthepage'sorientationtomatchtheorientationofthetext.
Database Input Data settings
Databasesallreturnthesametypeofinformation.ThereforetheInputDataoptionsforadatabase
refertothedatabaseitselfinsteadoftothedata.
ThefollowingsettingsapplytoanydatabaseorODBCDataSample.
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Connection String:DisplaystheconnectionstringusedtoaccesstheDataSource.
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Browsebutton :OpenstheEdit Database configurationdialog,whichcanreplacetheexist-
ingdatabasedatasourcewithanewone.ThisisthesameasusingtheReplacefeatureinthe
DataSampleswindow.
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Table:Displaysthetablesandstoredproceduresavailableinthedatabase.Theselectedtableis
theonethedataisextractedfrom.Clickingonanyofthetablesshowsthefirstlineofthedatain
thattable.
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Custom SQLbutton :ClicktoopentheSQLQueryDesigner(see"SQLQueryDesigner"on
page320)andtypeinacustomSQLquery.Ifthedatabasesupportsstoredprocedures,
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