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l Capture Field Type: Select which type of Capture Field you want to create from the following:
l User Area: An area to write or select using the Anoto Digital Pen.
l Pidget: Short for "pen widget", pidgets are capture fields that are used to change options on the document or
the pen by drawing a line on a special pattern with the pen. See "Pidgets" (page 168).
l Field Style: Select which type of User Area or Pidget to create on the page:
l Checkbox: Select to create simple checkbox.
l List: Currently not implemented, acts the same as a text field.
l Text field: Creates a single text field with no boundaries or divisions.
l Multi-Area field: The multi-area field is actually a single field, however it presents a visual separation
between rows and columns, like a table. This creates a grid of fields for data input. The multi-area field auto-
matically sizes each field so the height and width of the field is divided equally in all its areas.
l Rows: Specifies the number of horizontal separations.
l Columns: Specifies the number of vertical separations.
Field Styles are being offered as forward-compatibility with future versions of PlanetPress Suite, which
should include more advanced processing of these fields as well as ICR(Intelligent Character Rec-
ognition).
l Stylo settings (available with pidget fields only): Select if you want to create a pidget that defines settings in
the Anoto Digital Pen's ink.
l Stylo Type (available when Stylo settings is selected): Choose which pen setting to change, such as the width and
color of the ink. This changes the appearance of the ink when it gets added to the document after the pen is docked.
l Disable rewriting: Check to prevent a field that has already been written in to accept any further ink data. This is
useful only if forms are sometimes partially processed or are processed multiple times until all mandatory fields (or a
final field) are completed. The rewriting is only disabled after the pen has been docked (in a different session).
l Required field: Select whether the capture field is mandatory, optional or final:
l Optional: The field is optional, and the capture document can be closed even if no ink is present in this field.
l Mandatory: The field is mandatory and ink must be present in this field for the capture document to be closed,
unless it is grouped (see Group ID below)
l Final: Any ink present in this field will force the document to close, ignoring the presence of ink in any man-
datory or optional field in the rest of the capture document.
l Group ID: Enter a Group ID for the Mandatory field. When multiple Mandatory fields share the same Group ID, the
mandatory status becomes true for the group, instead of individual fields. The capture document can be closed if any of
the fields in the group has ink, instead of each individual field. Groups only work within the same page, even if they are
part of the same document.
Considerations
There are some important considerations when using the capture field object in a PlanetPress Design document:
l Capture Fields should always be set to print on top of any other object and should not be hidden. Placing another object
over a Capture Field may cause unexpected behaviors in reading pen data.
l Capture Fields are complex and ink-intensive. They consume a fair amount of ink and take a lot of time to process
when present. This means it is recommended only to use fields when necessary, and not to make it any larger than you
need it.
l When you add one or more Capture Fields to a page, a copyright notice automatically appears on the page indicating
that the Anoto technology is being used. This notice must remain visible at all times and hiding it constitutes a violation
of the PlanetPress Suite End User License Agreement (EULA). You can change the position of this notice in your doc-
ument's properties (see the Resources Options section in "Set Up a Document" (page 105)).
l If all of the fields in a Capture document are set to be Final, they will react the same as if they were all Optional.
l Capture Fields are not supported with the N-Up feature of PlanetPress.
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