Launchpad Build panel

The OmniPage Launchpad lets you quickly set up and run document conversion tasks. The Build panel on the left of the Launchpad window lets you compile a Go-flow. The panel offers three columns of tiles, with four tiles per column. These tiles can be customized using the More buttons at the base of each column (see later).

The panel asks ‘What would you like to do?’, and awaits three answers from you:

Convert (what), To (a file type), Save (to where).

Left Column ‘Convert’: Choose the layout type

Choose the tile that best describes the pages in your input document. These are the four delivery default tiles:

Magazine: allows for multiple columns, headings, pictures, tables etc.

Simple Document: for single-column texts with few other elements.

Book: pages scanned two facing pages at a time.

Spreadsheet: Excel sheets or pages with tables to be handled as spreadsheets.

The following tiles are available under More:

Form: fillable or static forms – filled or unfilled.

Legal: documents with pleading numbers and possibly legal stamps.

Column ‘To’: Choose an output file type

The four delivery tiles are:

PDF: Searchable and editable in a PDF editor such as Kofax Power PDF.

MS Word (docx):  Office 2007 and above

MS Excel (xlsx):  Office 2007 and above

ePub: the standard file type for electronic publications - with format retention.

The following tiles are available under More:

            

PDF Searchable image:  Retains document appearance but adds a text layer. It is searchable but hardly editable.               

                                      

Excel 2003 (xls), MS PowerPoint  (pptx), MS Word 2000, (suitable for Windows XP)

                                      

HTML 4.0            Text (Unicode-compliant) or
                           CSV  (Text with Comma Separated Values -- for tables and spreadsheet use)

              

WordPerfect       MP3 Audio

ePub simple: for electronic publications - with minimal format retention.

Column ‘Save’: Output target

The four delivery tiles are:

File system: (includes remote locations accessible from your computer)

Mail: (opens your default mailing system and attaches results to a new message)

Microsoft SharePoint:   (this is a Document Management System)

The following tiles are available under More:

Evernote  (cloud storage site)

                 

iManage      eDOCS  (These Document Management System icons appear only if they are installed on your computer.

 

When you send results to Mail, they are not saved to your local computer. If your mailing system is running, you are asked to add a message title and text. If your mailing system is not running, you are asked to choose a mailing profile; the message with the conversion results attached enters the Outbox, and is sent as soon as your mailing system is next started.

To change the order of the four tiles in a column

Use drag-and-drop.

To replace tiles shown in a column:

  1. Click More below the column to see your favorites (the current tiles) in the top row and other available tiles in lower rows.

  2. Click and drag a tile you want to place in the ‘Top 4’.

  3. Drop this tile onto the one in the top row you want to replace.

  4. Close the More panel.

 

To build a Go-flow

  1. Arrange your preferred tiles in each column.

  2. Select a slot on the right to accept the new Go-flow.

  3. Click one button from each column.

  4. Your Go-flow is now ready to use.

You can modify the Go-flow settings using the Settings bar.

See Launchpad Go-flow slots for more detail.