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the current task) to format the data. It displays the formatted data to let you make selections
easily using the mouse pointer.
Depending on the chosen emulation and data file, the options in the Data Selector, the Sample
data file section and the Data pane itself may change to accommodate your choice. The Line
Printer, Ascii, Channel Skip and User-Defined emulations will display the default options (see
"About data emulation" on page54) and a grid-like display of each character on each line. The
following emulations however, will be slightly different.
Database Emulation
The Database emulation exchanges the Browse button for the Database Emulation
Configuration button , which displays the Database Emulation Configuration (see "Database
emulation" on page68).
Once a database has been opened and query entered (see "Choosing a database sample file"
on page66), the Data pane displays the results of the SQL Query in a grid format, which each
line representing a single returned row from the database. Each column represents a field
returned by the query, with its field name as a row header.
PDF Emulation
l
If you use a PDF emulation, the Data pane displays the data as you would see it in any
PDF reader.
l A new zoom drop-down list is displayed to let you set the zoom in percentage or fit the
PDF to the window or the width of the window.
l A new status bar, displaying the (Left, Top) and (Right, Bottom) coordinate pairs, is shown
under the Data pane.
XML Emulation
l XML data is represented in a tree structure which corresponds to the data in the XML file.
Each node of the XML can be expanded to see the nodes under it. See "XML Emulation"
on page63.
Metadata tab
The Metadata tab allows to load a Metadata file and make a selection from it.
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