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melimat edited this page Sep 29, 2020 · 3 revisions

Simple user guide for the converter.

Main window

Visible elements of main window after startup of the app:

  • Open DOSBox - This is checkbox that enables immediate startup of DOSbox and opening of converted document in T602.

  • Input file - The main control element here is a button Choose file - it opens file explorer to choose the file which is meant to be converted, user can choose the file type. PDF and DOCX files are supported.

  • Output file - Once again the main control element here is a button Choose file - it does exactly the same procedure as previous, but this time user selects the name of output T602 document and directory where it is meant to be stored.

  • Adjust T602 parameters - This is checkbox which enables all parameters below to be edited. When it is checked the user can change their values, but when it was checked once and it is then unchecked, the values below will be set to default values.

  • T602 parameters

    All parameters have their default values set.

    • Tabulator length - Here the tabulator length (how many characters) can be specified.
    • Left margin - Left margin of page in T602 document.
    • Right margin - Right margin of page in T602 document.
    • Page length - How many lines should one page in T602 contain.
    • Top margin - Top margin of page in T602 document.
    • Bottom margin - Bottom margin of page in T602 document.
    • Print from column - Number of column from which should the printing utility integrated in T602 print the document.
    • Print from page - Number of page from which should the above mentioned printing utility print the document.

  • Settings - Button which opens the settings window.

  • Run conversion - Buttons which initializes the conversion process.

  • Storno - Button which exits the app.

Settings window

After opening up settings, there are these GUI elements:

  • Dosbox app - Using button Choose file, the path to dosbox.exe file is specified here. This option does not have to be specified when user does not want to open converted documents in T602 right after the conversion.
  • Root DOS directory - Using button Choose directory, the path to root directory which is mounted as virtual disk in DOSBox app (in autoexec part of dosbox.conf file). Again, this option does not have to be specified when user does not want to open converted documents right after conversion finishes.
  • Maximal number of characters for T602 file - Sometimes, when the text extracted from input document is so large (especially when converting some above 100 pages long PDF publications), that, T602 as old software won't be able to open the file if all that text was in there. In these situations the text is separated in several smaller T602 files. This number is limit for characters for one file. There is also Reset to default value button for this option.
  • Language - Drop-down menu specifying language of the app. English and Czech language are supported right now. All configuration data are stored in AppData in .ini file.
  • Apply settings - After pressing the button the settings are updated and the settings window is closed.
  • Storno - Button that closes the settings window.

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