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Harmony Scan User Guide
4. Close the scanner cover, making sure the paper is laying flat against the glass, free of wrinkles and folds. You are
now ready to scan the drawing.
Never scan a drawing while the scanner cover is open. If you do, large black areas can appear around the edges
(similar to a photocopier with the lid open). The scanner interprets this extra black area as part of the drawing, which
drastically slows the vectorization process. If by mistake you do scan a drawing with the cover open, you can go to
the vectorize queue and delete the entry before it starts processing. Refer to the Toon Boom Server Guide to learn
more about this.
5. Click Scan.
 If you set the scan mode to Pegged, the scanner scans the drawing, then stops and waits for you to change
the drawing and click the Scan button again.
 If you set the scan mode to Pegged (Many), the scanner continues to capture a drawing every five to ten
seconds (depending on how long it takes to process each drawing).
While the scanner captures the drawing, the Scan button becomes inactive.
 You can use the Stop button to interrupt scanning at any time. For more information on interrupting the
scanning process, see Stopping the Scanning Process.
When the scan is complete, the captured image appears in the Scan module. The Drawing List marks the
drawing as Scanned and the next drawing to scan appears highlighted.
6. If you set the scan mode to Pegged (Many), you must wait for the scanner to stop after each drawing and place
the next one before it starts again.
Pegging and Scanning a Pan Cel
Pan cels are drawings that contain more than one set of registration holes. Because pan cels are large, you cannot
scan the entire image with one pass on the scanner.
Therefore, you must scan pan cels one section at a time (one set of registration holes at a time). After you scan each
section of the pan cel, the application splices the sections together to create the original pan cel image.
There must be exactly eight inches between the centre peg holes (the round holes) for each pan cel and the peg holes
must all align exactly. This is important if the Scan module must make slight seaming adjustments to compensate for
angle differences when it joins all the pan cels to form one drawing.
To scan a pan:
1. Launch the Scan module and load your drawing. Refer to the Launching the Harmony Scan Module and Loading
Drawings topic to learn how.
2. Select the Pan Cel mode from the Control Panel:
The Peg Hole panel appears below the Image panel.
 By default, two pegs appear in the Peg Hole panel. If your pan cel has more than two peg holes, you can
use the New button to add more of them.
 If you added too many peg holes, simply select a different format from the Mode button and reselect
Pan Cel again. The two peg holes reappear by default.
3. Determine where peg hole A appears on your pan cel.