Linking Documents and Settings
Kurzweil 1000 allows you to save almost all of the various user settings in named settings files. But it can be pretty annoying when you realize that you have forgotten to save those settings, or when you have forgotten the name of the settings file that you used. People work hard to come up with optimal scanner settings for a particular document, for example, but may not be able to complete the scanning of that document in one session. If they forget to save their settings, it can be difficult to remember them or recreate them at a later time.
There is a new setting in the configuration settings dialog called "Link Documents and Settings". Its mnemonic is "I". It has three possible values: Disabled, Scanning Settings Only, and Most Settings. Its default value is disabled. When disabled, settings behave pretty much as they have in previous releases, except that special settings files, whose names are based on the names of your documents, are created whenever you close a document, and even when you change the currently active document if you changed a setting in that document.
If you change the configuration setting such that scanning settings are linked to documents, then scanning, recognition, and scanner margin settings are loaded whenever you open an existing document and scan a new page into it. This can be quite useful, in that you no longer have to remember to save or load those settings yourself. It can, however, be confusing. If you open an existing document, and then change some scanning, recognition, or scanner margin settings, and then scan a page, you'll lose those settings, as your older settings will be automatically, and silently, loaded.
It gets even more powerful, and potentially more confusing, if you link most settings to documents. In this case, voice, reading, general, display, and verbosity settings, along with scanning, recognition, and scanner margin settings, will all be automatically loaded whenever you open an existing document, and whenever you switch from one open document to another. You can have one document, for example, read with NeoSpeech Kate at 180 words per minute, while another uses Reed at 240 words per minute. All sorts of things start happening automatically. It can be fun. If you change a setting while one of those documents is open, the linked settings file will be automatically saved when you close it, or when you switch focus to another document.
Suppose, though, that you eventually find a voice that you like better than any other, and you want to update all of your settings files. If you did so without document linkage, you could just use the "Save Partial Settings" feature, indicate that you want to just save voice settings, select all of your settings files, and update them in one simple operation. If that didn't effect linked settings files, you would find, though, that your old voice settings keep coming back whenever you open an existing document. To prevent that, you'll find that the Save Partial Settings operation can also let you change all of your linked settings files.
There is a new setting in the configuration settings dialog called "Link Documents and Settings". Its mnemonic is "I". It has three possible values: Disabled, Scanning Settings Only, and Most Settings. Its default value is disabled. When disabled, settings behave pretty much as they have in previous releases, except that special settings files, whose names are based on the names of your documents, are created whenever you close a document, and even when you change the currently active document if you changed a setting in that document.
If you change the configuration setting such that scanning settings are linked to documents, then scanning, recognition, and scanner margin settings are loaded whenever you open an existing document and scan a new page into it. This can be quite useful, in that you no longer have to remember to save or load those settings yourself. It can, however, be confusing. If you open an existing document, and then change some scanning, recognition, or scanner margin settings, and then scan a page, you'll lose those settings, as your older settings will be automatically, and silently, loaded.
It gets even more powerful, and potentially more confusing, if you link most settings to documents. In this case, voice, reading, general, display, and verbosity settings, along with scanning, recognition, and scanner margin settings, will all be automatically loaded whenever you open an existing document, and whenever you switch from one open document to another. You can have one document, for example, read with NeoSpeech Kate at 180 words per minute, while another uses Reed at 240 words per minute. All sorts of things start happening automatically. It can be fun. If you change a setting while one of those documents is open, the linked settings file will be automatically saved when you close it, or when you switch focus to another document.
Suppose, though, that you eventually find a voice that you like better than any other, and you want to update all of your settings files. If you did so without document linkage, you could just use the "Save Partial Settings" feature, indicate that you want to just save voice settings, select all of your settings files, and update them in one simple operation. If that didn't effect linked settings files, you would find, though, that your old voice settings keep coming back whenever you open an existing document. To prevent that, you'll find that the Save Partial Settings operation can also let you change all of your linked settings files.
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