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Reference Manual
Caldera software
Caldera V9
20/10/2011
 Caldera 2011
Caldera® and all Caldera products mentioned in this publication are trademarks of Caldera
CALDERA
Reference Manual
 Caldera 2011
Caldera® and all Caldera products mentioned in this publication are trademarks of Caldera
Table of contents
Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 1
Purpose of this manual .................................................................................................................................1
Conventions used in this manual..................................................................................................................2
License agreement........................................................................................................................................2
Acknowledgments ...........................................................................................................................2
The Caldera interface........................................................................................................................... 4
The working bars .........................................................................................................................................4
File...................................................................................................................................................5
Special .............................................................................................................................................6
About ...............................................................................................................................................6
Modules categorization ................................................................................................................................7
The two key menus: Applications menu and Images menu .........................................................................7
The Applications menu ....................................................................................................................7
The Images menu.............................................................................................................................9
Display ................................................................................................................................................. 11
Display tools ..............................................................................................................................................11
Edition menu..................................................................................................................................12
Zoom menu....................................................................................................................................14
Plane menu ....................................................................................................................................15
Configuration menu .......................................................................................................................15
Application menu...........................................................................................................................17
FileManager ........................................................................................................................................ 18
Loading and saving files ............................................................................................................................20
Images rasterization ...................................................................................................................................21
Setup window.............................................................................................................................................21
PS/EPS/PDF ..................................................................................................................................22
The Misc tab ..................................................................................................................................26
Error windows ...............................................................................................................................27
FileManager in Workflow mode....................................................................................................27
Info....................................................................................................................................................... 29
About applications .....................................................................................................................................29
About the images .......................................................................................................................................30
The Info window........................................................................................................................................31
The general tab ..............................................................................................................................32
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T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S
The ICC tab ...................................................................................................................................34

The Misc tab ..................................................................................................................................35
The Ticket tab ................................................................................................................................35
The Spot colors tab ........................................................................................................................35
The Contours tab............................................................................................................................36
The Comments tab .........................................................................................................................36
Info in Workflow mode..............................................................................................................................37
Trashcan.............................................................................................................................................. 38
Trashcan in Workflow mode......................................................................................................................38
WorkFlows .......................................................................................................................................... 39
Workflow Editor ........................................................................................................................................41
Create and edit a Workflow ...........................................................................................................41
Set up the applications ...................................................................................................................42
The Workflow window ..................................................................................................................44
Workflow report.........................................................................................................................................44
Print ..................................................................................................................................................... 47
Main window .............................................................................................................................................48
Icons...........................................................................................................................................................49
Setup window.............................................................................................................................................50
What are these buttons for?............................................................................................................51
Preview ..........................................................................................................................................51
Page ...............................................................................................................................................52
Template ........................................................................................................................................52
Image size and position..................................................................................................................53
Multi-copy .....................................................................................................................................53
Misc ...............................................................................................................................................54
Crop marks ....................................................................................................................................54
Cutting ...........................................................................................................................................56
Resizing problems? ....................................................................................................................................58
Parameters window ....................................................................................................................................58
HP DesignJet Z6100 ......................................................................................................................59
Epson StylusPro 9880....................................................................................................................61
Canon IPF9000S............................................................................................................................62
Seiko ColorPainter H104S-8C .......................................................................................................64
Durst Rho-1000 .............................................................................................................................65
Caldera Spooler window ............................................................................................................................65
Spot Colors ................................................................................................................................................66
The Visual tab................................................................................................................................68
Functions and list of spot colors ....................................................................................................68
Details............................................................................................................................................70
Lab options ....................................................................................................................................73
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Rules ..............................................................................................................................................74
Statistics.........................................................................................................................................77
Spot Colors in a Workflow ............................................................................................................77
Colors window ...........................................................................................................................................78
The Color Management tab ...........................................................................................................79
The Output tab ...............................................................................................................................81
The Miscellaneous tab ...................................................................................................................85
RIP While RIP ...............................................................................................................................86
Examples .......................................................................................................................................88
Print in Workflow mode.............................................................................................................................97
VisualCut............................................................................................................................................. 98
The VisualCut workflow............................................................................................................................98
The contours ..................................................................................................................................98
Preparing the cutting and printing..................................................................................................99
Cutting .........................................................................................................................................102
The Cut module........................................................................................................................................103
Cutting a job ................................................................................................................................104
Configure the cutter .....................................................................................................................105
Nest-O-Matik .................................................................................................................................... 110
Configuring Nest-O-Matik.......................................................................................................................110
How does it work? .......................................................................................................................110
Parameters ...................................................................................................................................111
Print conditions............................................................................................................................112
Spacing ........................................................................................................................................113
Using Nest-O-Matik.................................................................................................................................114
Compose ............................................................................................................................................ 116
General presentation of Compose ............................................................................................................117
Example: creating a composition.................................................................................................119
Working modes ........................................................................................................................................121
Data entry help tools ....................................................................................................................121
The Edition mode ........................................................................................................................121
The Creation mode.......................................................................................................................121
Templates.....................................................................................................................................122
What is a model? .........................................................................................................................124
Edition tools.................................................................................................................................126
Alignment tools ...........................................................................................................................126
Position ........................................................................................................................................127
Dimensions ..................................................................................................................................127
Page format..................................................................................................................................127
Nesting.........................................................................................................................................128
The Properties windows: images, texts and vector entities ......................................................................129
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Image properties ..........................................................................................................................129

Text properties .............................................................................................................................130
Text Editor window .....................................................................................................................131
Presentation of the vector entities window properties..................................................................131
The Compose Setup window....................................................................................................................135
Document tab...............................................................................................................................135
Entities tab ...................................................................................................................................136
Fonts tab ......................................................................................................................................136
Tiling > see addendum Tiling+ ........................................................................................................ 139
Visual User ........................................................................................................................................ 140
Downloading VNC Viewer installation files............................................................................................140
Visual User for Windows.........................................................................................................................141
Visual User for Linux...............................................................................................................................143
Web VNC (HTML version) .....................................................................................................................143
Visual User – Server ......................................................................................................................... 145
How does a Visual User server work? .....................................................................................................145
Installing a Visual User server .................................................................................................................145
Add/Remove a user ..................................................................................................................................146
Adding a user...............................................................................................................................146
Removing a user ..........................................................................................................................147
Administration tools......................................................................................................................... 149
What are the Administration tools?..........................................................................................................149
HotFolders ...............................................................................................................................................149
HotFolders Admin....................................................................................................................................150
Creating a HotFolder ...................................................................................................................150
Key Manager............................................................................................................................................154
Information to be processed.........................................................................................................155
Print Spooler ............................................................................................................................................158
Caldera Spooler window..............................................................................................................158
The Log file button ......................................................................................................................166
The Setup button..........................................................................................................................167
Super Spooler...............................................................................................................................169
The Quit button............................................................................................................................171
Servers admin...........................................................................................................................................172
Servers Administration window...................................................................................................172
Configuration window .................................................................................................................173
CalServer setup............................................................................................................................181
User Configuration...................................................................................................................................181
Main window ...............................................................................................................................183
Glossary............................................................................................................................................. 192
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I N T R O D U C T I O N
Introduction
C reated in 1991, Caldera is a software company for the Mac OS X, Unix and
Linux platforms specialized in color management, imaging and driving of large
format peripherals. Caldera is an editor of software solutions dedicated to visual
communication, GIS, CAD/CAM, modelization, or scientific imagery users.
With the knowledge of eighteen years of expertise in imaging technology development,

Caldera now designs large format scanning and printing solutions, image databases, PDF
engine...
The Caldera solutions run under Mac OS X /Leopard/Snow Leopard/Lion, Linux

Kubuntu 8.04 and Debian.
Caldera mainly focuses on three markets:
 Sign – Repro – Poster creation
 Graphic design – Digital photographers – Agencies
 GIS – CAD/CAM – Engineering
If you wish to learn more about us, please have a look at our web site at
http://www.caldera.com
Purpose of this manual

The present guide is a reference manual that aims at presenting the various buttons, menus,
functions and modules of the Caldera software in greater detail. It is not a user guide, and
is meant to be read by advanced users of our products.
However, if a series of tutorials is what interests you, we advise you to have a look at our
HowTo documents, each of them describing step by step a specific use of a module or
function.
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Conventions used in this manual

The following conventions are used in this Reference Manual:
Bold Bold characters in the middle of a text string refer to keys or to the
graphic interface. For instance:
“Press the Return key”.
“Click the OK button”.
Italic Italicized characters in the middle of a text string refer to screen labels.
For example:
“From the Package Group Selection window...”
Bold-Italic Bold and Italicized characters in the middle of a text string refer to
unique text entries. For example:
“Type the <machine name> in...”
NOTE A NOTE provides information for the preceding procedure.
License agreement
Copyright 1991 – 2011 Caldera.
All rights reserved.
Acknowledgments
This documentation, as well as the software described in it, are supplied under license and
may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of such license. The information
contained in this documentation is supplied for informational use only, and may be
modified without prior notice by Caldera. Caldera assumes no responsibility or liability
for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this documentation.
Except when it is permitted by such license, no part of this publication may be

reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means
(electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise) without having obtained prior written
permission from Caldera.
Please remember that existing artwork or images that you may wnt to scan as a template
for your new image may be protected under copyright law. The unauthorized inclusion of
such artwork or images into your new work could be a violation of the rights of the
author. Please be sure to obtain any permission required from the authors.
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CALDERA, Wide Format Software, VisualRIP+, GrandRIP+, CopySHOP, ReproSHOP,

are trademarks of CALDERA, which may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc. Unix is a registered

trademark of Unix Systems Laboratories, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Novell, Inc.
Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox Corporation. X Window System is a
trademark of the Massachussets Institute of Technology.. Motif is a trademark of the
Open Software Foundation. SUN, Solaris, Silicon, Irix, IBM, AIX, Hewlett-Packard, HP-
UX and DEC are trademarks or registered trademarks and the exclusive property of their
respective holders. Other names and trademarks are trademarks of their respective
holders.
For defense agencies: Restricted Rights Legend. Use, reproduction or disclosure is

subject to restrictions set forth in subparagraph (c) (1) (ii) of the Rights in Technical Data
and Computer Software clause at 252.227-7013.
For civilian agencies: Restricted Rights Legend. Use, reproduction or disclosure is subject
to restrictions set forth in subparagraph (a) through (d) of the commercial Computer
Software Restricted Rights clause at 52.227-19 and the limitations set forth in
CALDERA standard commercial agreement for this software.
Unpublished rights reserved under the copyright laws of France and all countries
throughout the world.
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T H E C A L D E R A I N T E R F A C E
The Caldera interface
T he Caldera software is designed to use a specific graphic interface; in this manual,

we will refer to it as the “Caldera interface”.
This interface has evolved a lot since the very first version of our technology, and
is characterized by several functions:
 The use of the “Drag&Drop” method
 The use of menus, triggered by a right-click of the mouse
 Images & Applications bars.
The working bars

When you launch the Caldera software, two windows are immediately opened; from
these windows, you will be able to use almost all the functions available in our products.
1) The first window is the Images bar (your working directory, so to say); its default
position is in the left part of your screen.
All the images you will work with are stored in this window. Even if you do not save
them, they will be kept in your images bar, until you decide to delete them by sending
them to the Trashcan module.
When you change the name of an image using the Info module, this change also applies
to the thumbnail used to display your image in this working bar.
NOTE: The default name of any newly created image (for instance, when taking a
snapshot) is “Untitled_[number]”.
2) The second window is the Applications bar, in which you will find most of the tools
and functions that are available in our products: it contains the icons of the installed
modules, as well as four menus (File, Edit, Special and About) that give you access to the
various configurations and functionalities of our products.
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To start a module, you can either double-click its icon or drag it (“Drag&Drop” interface)
on your desktop.
The icons of the active modules are always modified, in order to reflect their state: they
take on an orange highlight, and a small bullet is added in their left corner.
There is one “module” that is launched only when you drag & drop an image on your
desktop; this application, called the Display, allows you to directly work on an image. For
more details, please see the Display chapter, in the Modules section.
As for the different available menus, there are four of them; they will be presented
immediately hereafter.
NOTE: Most of the entries of these menus start a module or a configuration application.
For more details about the use of these configuration tools, please see the corresponding
chapters in the present manual.
File
In this menu, you will find all the functions needed to open, save, delete and print your
images.
New allows you to create a new image; at the same time, it launches the Geometry module.
Open opens an existing image; in order to do so, you need to select it in FileManager.
Import (Scan) allows you to choose a scanner connected to your workstation, and opens
the Scan module; you can thus scan an image, then work on it in our software.
Save As... is used to save the image on which you are currently working, once again
thanks to the FileManager.
Print: Choose here the peripheral on which the current image is to be printed. This
function launches the Print module, adapted to the chosen printer.
Printers Setup launches the Servers Admin application.
Delete deletes the current image; the file will however be kept in the Trash module until
you decide to delete it there as well.
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Display: If you open the File menu while an image is selected in your working bar, it
launches the Display tool.
Close display: If more than one image is open, this function closes the images on which
you are not working.
Quit closes all the applications and exits the software.
Special
The Special menu gives you access to different configuration applications.
User Configuration allows you to configure your Applications bar.
WorkFlow Edition opens the application managing the Workflows.
HotFolders opens the application managing the Hotfolders.
KeyManager is used to manage the keys server.
Print Spooler opens the module managing the printing queues.
Server Administration allows you to manage the servers (scanners and printers)
connected to your workstation.
About
This menu is used to display different kinds of information about our products.
About this software opens an information window (copyrights, conception and contacts)
about the product you are using at the moment.
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Documentations gives you access to the different documentations specifically written for
our software:
 User Documentation: This is the present manual, explaining how to use our
different products.
 Color Documentation: This is the documentation that explains the color

management process.
 Installation Documentation: Installation manual for our software.
 GrandWhite: A user guide that will explain you how to print with white inks
using the Caldera software.
 Nest-O-Ba: This document deals with the use of the Nest-O-Ba function, which
prints Fotoba cutting marks around nested images.
Modules categorization
The different modules available with our software are classified in three categories in the
Applications bar.
These three tabs (Main, ImageTools and Settings) can be edited and deleted; you may
even add new tabs to the list, thanks to User Configuration (see the User Configuration
chapter for more details). Their default organization is the following:
 Main gathers the “general” applications, the ones used to open, name, delete and
save images (FileManager, Info, Trash) and to process images (Compose, Tiling,
Workflow, CopyShop, Collection...), as well as all scanning and printing
peripherals.
 ImageTools gathers the applications related to the creation and retouching of

images: SnapShot, Pixtouch, Geometry, ColorEdit.
 Settings gathers the modules used to set the parameters of your software: Server
Admin, Key Manager, User Configuration...
The two key menus:Applications menu and Images menu

These menus, also used to launch most of the functions and applications of the Caldera
products, are displayed simply by clicking with the right button of the mouse.
 either in the Applications bar for the “Applications” menu
 or in the Images bar (or directly on the thumbnail of an image) for the “Images”
menu.
The Applications menu
It gives you access to a certain number of key functionalities of our products.
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About this software: See the About function detailed above.
Execute: This function launches and/or executes the last module used. For instance, if you have
just dropped an image into the trashcan, Execute will then open the Trash module.
Applications: This allows you to select a module or a peripheral from the drop-down list,
and to launch it as well.
Workflows: Allows you to select and display a running Workflow.
User Configuration: Launches the User Configuration module.
Help on line: Check this function to activate the Help function. This help takes the
appearance of yellow floating windows that are displayed when you hover the cursor of
the mouse above a button for a few seconds; explanations about the functions related to
the button are then given in these windows.
Menu: Check this function if you want the File, Edit, Special and About menus to be
displayed in your Applications bar.
Documentations: Select one of the documentations in this menu to read it. Four
documents are currently available: a video tutorial about the Scan-to-print technology, the
present manual, the Caldera software installation manual, and a document explaining the
color management process.
WorkFlow Editor: Opens the Workflows module.
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WorkFlow Reports: Opens the reports window about the running Workflows.
Print Spooler: Opens the print spooler.
Server Admin: Opens the module used to manage the servers.
Key Manager: Opens the keys server.
Hotfolders: Opens the reports window about the existing Hotfolders.
Kill EasyMedia: Kills the EasyMedia application.
Quit: Closes all applications and exits the software.
The Images menu
This menu gives you access to functions used to work directly on an image (a selected
image is shown by its orange color).
About Image: Opens the Info window about the selected image. This window thus
displays the image name, its dimensions, size and resolution, its type, and so on.
Execute: Launches and/or execute the last module that has been used. For instance, if you
have just opened an image in Info, Execute will then open the Info module, whether you
have selected another image or not.
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Applications: Allows you to directly select a module or a peripheral, and to open the
selected image within this module.
Workflows: Allows you to send the selected image in one of the running Workflows, so
that it can be processed there.
Display: Opens the selected image in a Display.
Copy: Creates a copy of the selected image, and sends it into your Images bar.
Unlock: If the selected image is locked, this option allows you to unlock it.
Menu: Check this function if you want the File, Edit, Special and About menus to be
displayed in the Image work directory.
ImageName: Opens the ImageName window, allowing you to set the global parameters
of the images when they are created and named. For instance, here you can change the
default name that is allocated to new images, changing it from “Untitled[number]” to
“img[number]”, or to any other “default name” you would like your images to have.
Work Directories: Allows you to send the selected image into another working directory,
different from ImgWorkDir—if you have created more than one working directory, of
course.
Sort: This option gives you the choice among three ways of classifying the images in your
images bar: By Name, By Size, or by creation date (By Date). Select None if you do not
want your images to be sorted (they will then be displayed according to the order in
which they were sent into the Images bar).
Select All: Selects all the images in your working bar.
Quit: Closes all applications, and quits the software.
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D I S P L A Y
Display
D isplay allows you to open views of your images.
To open this or these view(s), there are four possibilities:
– Drag&drop your image icon on an empty screen area.
– Double-click the image in the image bar.
– Select the image you wish to display, and use the Display entry in the Applications
menu (to see this menu, do a right click when the pointer of the mouse is placed in the
Applications window. A shortcut is also available: alt-d).
– Click the button placed under the image icon in the bar.
Display tools
You can either work on the whole image, or in parts of it.
General tools are available for dragging and zooming, measuring distances, changing the
origin point... You can also use the magic wand.
Define selections thanks to the vector tools placed on the left side of the Display window.
You can choose among three selection shapes (square, oval and custom).
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To make a selection, choose a shape, do a left-click in the display of your image, move
the mouse, and left-click again when you are pleased with the selection.
If you wish to obtain a square selection instead of a rectangle, or a circle instead of an

ellipse, type in “r” after the first click.
You can activate and shift this selection with the left or the right button of the mouse.
With the right button of the mouse, you can change the size of your selection. This size
modification is applied from the center of your selection (the same modification is applied
from the two sides). On the contrary, when using the left button of the mouse, the size
modification is applied from one side only.
Please notice that even if you can modify the size of a selection, you cannot rotate it.
Do you need to make several selections in a same image? Press on Shift while creating
the next selections. Here again, you can activate these selections by pressing on Tab and
Shift-Tab.
Do you want to remove your selection? Activate your selection and press on Backspace to
remove it, or on Shift + Backspace if there are several selections to delete.
You can also choose among several menus in the Display module:
1. Edition menu.
2. Zoom menu.
3. Plane menu.
4. Configuration menu.
5. Application menu.
Edition menu
The Copy entry of the menu copies the selection you have made into the image bar
(shortcut: alt-c).
The Copy Whole entry copies the selection into the image bar without clipping.
Use Undo to cancel the latest operation you have applied.
What if you wish to copy an image, yet one part of said image is unneeded? Make your
selection using the vector tools, click Invert selection, and use the Copy item.
This menu also allows you to manage masks and selections.
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D I S P L A Y
What is a mask?
A mask is a special plane associated to an image, specifying the area that is going to be
affected by the process, or that will be used to generate a transparency plane.
To edit the mask, you can use either the vector mode or the raster mode.
– In vector mode, you need to use the vector tools on the left side of the window to create
your selections.
– In raster mode, it is not only a part of an image you can select, but a specific color. In
this mode, a mask is calculated in a plane called selection plane. This plane is a black or
white one, and is placed in the image. The opacity and other parameters of this plane can
be set through the Wand&Mask entry of the Configuration Menu.
In raster mode, you can also use the vector tools, but the major interest lies in the fact that
you can use the Magic wand to select pixels in your image. This only works in raster
mode; if you try to use it in vector mode, the raster mode will automatically be activated.
The magic wand

The wand is a clipping tool based on colorimetric and topological criteria. The starting
point for the pixel selection is called the seed.
For the magic wand, two modes are available:
– In local mode, the selection is developed around the seed.
– In global mode, the selection is made on the whole image.
The Advanced magic wand allows you to refine your selection criteria and to set different
tolerances in the different image planes. Thanks to it, you can determine the position of
the seed, the basic color for the magic wand...
In addition to the magic wand, you may use the Raster Operators, in the last part of the
Edition Menu, which are actually made of filters (their power is controlled by the value of
the Adjustement Radius, in the mask toolbar).
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– Adjust +/- is an extension/erosion filter.
– Smooth is a regularization filter that also suppresses local irregularities.
– Grow relaunches a magic wand on each pixel placed on the border of the current selection.
– Fill completes the selection.
Zoom menu
Do you wish to zoom in on your image to see a detail of it more precisely? Use the Zoom
menu, where several predefined scales are proposed.
You can also zoom in on an image thanks to the left button of the mouse, zoom out of it
with the right button, and move it within the frame with the middle button.
Please notice that if you work with the selection tools, you can zoom with:
– Ctrl + left button: zoom in

– Ctrl + right button: zoom out
– Ctrl + middle button: move the image within the frame
Please also have a look at the navigator entry in the Configuration Menu.
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Plane menu
This menu allows you to choose not to apply ICC calibration on the displayed image. The source
profile is defined on the image (see Info); if it is not defined, the default input profile is used (see
Configure), and the target profile is defined as display profile in Configure.
You can display different planes of your image: Gray Levels, Red, Green and Blue Plane.
The image planes can be displayed in combination or separately.
You may also work with the alpha-channel of your image (if it contains one).
This menu can be very useful if you need to print or to see what level is the level of each
color in your image.
Configuration menu
This menu handles the image views and the different components of these views.
Reset View allows you to reset the view to its original state; for instance, if you have
modified the display size of your image by zooming on it, the image will come back to its
initial size (that is, the one that fits the Display window).
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High Quality changes the Display mode. This option is very useful for 1 bit images displayed
with a high resolution factor. It allows you to view all the pixels of your image.
Configure is the entry of the Configuration Menu which allows you to control the display
parameters.
Configuration
Several configuration parameters can be set. Click them to open their settings box.
– Refresh mode: to set up the display option and the refresh rate (zoom speed or sampling
step, for example).
– Units: to set up the display of the position and distance units (image mode unit and
paper mode unit).
– Rulers: to activate and deactivate the rulers.
– Grid: to activate and deactivate the grid.
– Window: to configure the window (hide/show your toolbox...)
– Misc: contains various options.
– Startup:to set up the starting options.
– Colors: to configure colors, depth quantization and background color.
You can set these as the default parameters, and apply them to one or to all of the views.
The Navigator entry (alt-n) allows you to move very rapidly from part of your image to
another. This item is very useful when you need to process large format images.
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D I S P L A Y
Select the part of the image you wish to see in details with a left-click of the mouse (the
same way you do with the vector tools). If you do a right-click, you will obtain a new
view of your image, showing the area you have selected with the Navigator.
Use the left button of the mouse within the Navigator window to shift in the image. For
more details, see also the Zoom Menu.
Here again, as in the Configure entry, you can choose to display the status bar, the toolbox...
You can also activate the wand and mask entries, which we have already talked about in
the Edition Menu.
Application menu
The Apply and Undo entries activate/deactivate the corresponding action in the linked
application.
Next/Previous activates the next/previous application.
Free Brush and Wire Brush are only activated when your image is linked with the
Pixtouch module.
Raise Appli: Places the window of the active application in the foreground.
Next Appli: Activates the next application among those that are connected.
Previous Appli: Activates the previous application among those that are connected.
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FileManager
F ileManager is the importing and exporting tool for image files. It also includes a
RIP (“Raster Image Processing”) function, which allows you to rasterize
PostScript, PDF or HPGL files.
With the FileManager module, most image formats (TIFF, JPEG, GIF...) can be imported
and/or converted.
Launch FileManager by double-clicking its icon, or drag&drop the module.
There are eight icons you can use to navigate through the folders where your images are
located:
Takes you to the Parent folder of the folder you are currently in.
Takes you to the Home folder.
Takes you to the Public folder.
Allows you to load images from a CD.
Allows you to load an image from a removable peripheral, such as an USB storage
device.
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Takes you to the Network folder.
Allows you to load images from the desktop.
Allows you to create a new directory.
Allows you to refresh the current directory.
A few more icons allow you to directly go to your favourite directories:
Allows you to set the current directory as a favourite.
Allows you to manage your favourite directories, by renaming or deleting them,

thanks to the following dialog box (use the Slot field to choose which directory to
rename/delete):
This directory is present by default in FileManager as a favourite; it leads to

/home/caldera.
Right-clicking the files area (left part of the window) displays the File Menu, which
allows you, among other things, to rename or delete the selected file(s), create a new
directory, or list hidden files.
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Loading and saving files

By clicking in the scrolling bar besides the Directory field, you can see the folders that
have been accessed last (so that you can quickly access your favorite folders). You can
also filter your images by extension (Filter field) or file format (Format field).
The left side of the window contains two parts that allow you to select the files to be
loaded. The first one is useful to browse the folders (double-click with the left button of
the mouse); the second one shows you the image files contained in said folders.
In this second part, when you click an image name, its thumbnail and characteristics
appear in the little window on the right.
NOTE: You will only see a thumbnail if the image is in TIFF, JPEG or Photoshop
format.
To load a raster image, click Open. You can also double-click its name: it will become
available for a display, and/or to be modified in another module.
If there’s a WorkFlow already set and running, you can directly send your image into it.
Preview parameters: When loading a PostScript or PDF file, you can specify whether to
preview it at a fixed resolution (for instance, 72 dpi) or specify the size of the preview image in
Mb. The latter is to be preferred (and is therefore selected by default), because with a fixed
resolution, the size of the preview depends a lot on the dimensions of the file (for instance, the
size of an A4 format at 72 dpi is less than 2 Mb, but a 4x3 poster might be 600 Mb or even
more).
In the characteristics window, you can access the image thumbnails, as well as some
information about the file:
 File: File name
 Size: File size in Mb
 Date: File creation date
 Format: Image format (JPEG, TIFF...)
 Dimensions: Image dimensions (in current unit)
 Image size: Image size in Mb, once loaded
 Profile: If a profile is incorporated, it will be indicated here, else this space will be
left blank
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It is especially interesting if you decide to save an image. To do so, drag and drop said
image in FileManager's icon or in FileManager's window, if it is already open.
Using the pull-down menus under the list of directories and files, you can set the different
parameters concerning the saving, which are specific to each format. Once this is done,
click Save.
NOTE: Do not forget to specify the directory in which the image has to be saved.
Images rasterization
One of FileManager's functions allows you to rasterize your PostScript, PDF or HPGL
files. To do so, proceed the same way you would do to load a raster image: simply choose
the PostScript or HPGL image's name, then click the Open button.
You can filter the files that have to be ripped by extension, as well as select them by
clicking them. You can also manually type the names of the folders and files in the
appropriate fields (Directory and File).
When you click the name of a PostScript image (PS, EPS, PDF...), a new bar is displayed
in the main window of FileManager:
In case your PostScript document contains several pages, you can either rasterize them all
(All pages), or rasterize part of the document only (to do so, select Pages <X> to <Y>,
indicating the page numbers manually or with the + and - buttons).
NOTE: Vector files do not appear as thumbnails in FileManager if they have not been
loaded first.
NOTE: A double-click on a vector image will automatically launch the RIP function for
this image: in this case, do not forget to set your parameters before.
The files selected and rasterized in FileManager will be considered as “flattened” files.
Their thumbnails will appear in the image working bar, just as for any other image loaded
through this module.
Setup window
Several parameters do modify the rasterization process, as well as the generated
characteristics of the image, such as screening angle, 1-bit images frequency, image type
and depth, page size, resolution and transparency plane. All these parameters can be set
by clicking the Setup button, which opens the window of the same name.
This window is composed of four parts, in which the user will find all the parameters
concerning the images to load or to save. The first three parts each correspond to a certain
kind of images: PS/EPS/PDF, HPGL/RTL, and RASTER. The fourth part allows you to
set General parameters.
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The first three parts are all divided in three tabs: Images, Vectors and Options.
 The Images and Vectors tabs allow you to choose which ICC profile to apply to
the image or to the vectors contained in it; depending on the image format, the
available profiles are different.
 The Options tab always contains the same parameters, no matter the selected
image format.
PS/EPS/PDF
The first part of the Setup is used to set the parameters for PostScript, EPS or PDF files.
Color management
Here you can choose what kind of profile you will use and what kind of rendering you
want for your raster and vector images. Click on Advanced to configure them more
precisely.
Advanced
These two tabs manage the color space of the selected image.
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The buttons in the lower part of this tab allow you to apply profile and rendering changes
for all color management options (this, of course, instead of having to change them one
by one); it also allows to reset them, or to save/load them.
Perceptual: Sets all renderings as Perceptual.

Colorimetric+BPC: This allows a better color saturation compared to the Perceptual
rendering. Compared to the simple Colorimetric rendering, it also enhances the rendering
of the dark areas by optimizing the gamut mapping in function of the respective black
points of the input and output profiles.
Load: Loads the previously saved settings (these are kept as .cmo files).
Save: Saves your settings.
Reset: Resets the tab to its default values.
Images
For each available type of profiles (Grey, RGB, CMYK), three drop-down menus are proposed:
 Color Man.: The type of color management you want to use. The most common
management is the one that uses ICC profiles. The other options are like RGB,
like CMYK, like Grey or None.
 Profile: The ICC profile that is to be applied to the image. Click More to locate a
profile.
 Rendering: These are the available rendering options (Perceptual, Colorimetric,

Saturation, Absolute...). You can directly apply the same rendering options on the
input and output, or apply a different one on each end of the process.
Special: This part is used to choose the nature of the white/black point: Pure (black color
will be printed in K black) or Composite (black color will be printed with CMY inks).
However, if you have selected an Absolute rendering, the White Point option will also be
available: you will be able to define whether the white in the input profile will be
simulated on the white of the output profile.
NOTE: For CMYK profiles, another option is available: Preserve. It allows you to select
one or several inks that, during the printing, will be processed as pure inks, and not by the
ICC engine. This option is of little impact on the images; most of the time, it is used while
printing vectors.
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Use EPS embedded profiles: This option allows you to incorporate the EPS profile(s)
embedded in an image. However, when very large files are processed, searching for the
embedded profile can be very long: for this reason, the option is by default deactivated.
When a file is opened while this option is activated, the list of profiles embedded in the
file will be displayed in the Info module, or in the Color Management options of the Print
module. Embedded profiles will of course be used when printing the file.
Vectors
These options are the same as in the Images tab, but concerning the vectors contained in a
PostScript image (texts...).
Preview
This part is used to select the rasterizing options:
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 Mode: the file color space (CMYK, RGB, Greyscale).
 Profile: the profile applied to the file.
 White is transparent: checking this option will apply an alpha plane to your
image; white will be considered as transparency.
APPE Options
Here you can configure the Abode Engine Options.
GhostScrpipt Options
Enable Overprints: This function processes all the overprints contained in the document,
if there are any. It also disables ICC calibration, both for previewing and for printing, on
all Overprint colors.
Extract Raster images: This extracts all raster elements embedded in the PS/PDF file, and
places them in the Images bar. However, the image itself will NOT be loaded.
Common Options
You will find others Common Options there.
Use PDF box: This option allows you to select as a page format one of the various boxes that
can be found in PDF files: Media, Crop, Trim, Bleed or Art. If the selected box does not exist
in the file, the Media box will be used instead.
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The Misc tab
In this tab, you can access the following options:
Keep image in image's bar when an error occurs: Sometimes, the end of a file (its last
byte) is corrupted. With this option, the image is RIPped all the same, and the generated
image is not deleted. Thanks to the preview, it will then allow you to find the exact
location of the corruption.
Automatically display image after loading/ripping: Launch a Display of the image as

soon as the RIP is finished.
Display all page sizes in: Allows you to choose whether the units should be expressed in
inches, millimeters or pixels.
The Save options. You can choose to add/change Extension of files and to Embed Profile
(TIFF/JPEG/PSD).
Copy Files: The options in this menu allows you to make a private copy of certain PS or
PDF files before the preview action; you may decide to Always make a copy or to Never
make any, or define if the copy must be done only when the images come from a
removable devices or a network. This is especially useful when loading files from a CD
or a USB drive.
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The Destination folder is where you want the copies to be saved.
On error: If an error occurs during the copy, the software will either Report the error and
stop loading the image alltogether, or go on loading the source file without copying
anything (Bypass copy silently).
Automatically delete locally copied files: If this box is checked, the copied file will be
deleted when it is not needed anymore (for instance, when you delete it from the Images
bar).
Error windows
The loading and saving of images are processed as background tasks (this is especially
useful when dealing with large images).
The Errors window allows you to see the last errors that have happened, and the exact
problems encountered when loading or rasterizing your images.
FileManager in Workflow mode
You can use the FileManager module to send images to a WorkFlow by using the
Workflow button, which allows you to select which WorkFlow you wish to send your
work to.
The RIP function being included in the FileManager module, you can send in a
WorkFlow the images needing to be RIPped.
FileManager can also be activated in a HotFolder (see HotFolder Admin).
This module is especially useful to save images at the end of the WorkFlow process.
When you install FileManager in WorkFlow mode, after having dragged & dropped it in
the WorkFlow Editor, all file formats are made available (since you do not know the
image’s type yet).
You must type absolute or relative names in the Directory and Name fields.
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An absolute directory always begins by the “/” character, such as /usr/demo/images; it is a

path that already exists on your disk. An absolute name is a usual file name, such as
sample.tif.
With these parameters, each image processed in the WorkFlow is saved under /usr/demo/
images/sample.tif. If you launch such a WorkFlow with more than one image, each new
image deletes the previous one.
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Info
I nfo has two functionalities: one is to give you information about an application, the
other is to give you information about the properties of an image.
About applications
Open this module by selecting an application.
You can either use the About Module entry in the menu of the Caldera window...
...or click the About tab, and select About Module (Alt+A).
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About the images

Let's suppose you want to know more details about an image. To do so, open this module
by drag & dropping the image onto Info's icon.
You can select an image and use the keyboard shortcut Alt-A. You can also use the
About entry of the image bar menu, although this way of proceeding is longer. This menu
appears when you right-click with the mouse pointer in the image bar.
NOTE: On every image compositions (vector images) that have been created with
Compose, a COMP mark is displayed; the mark for PostScript images is PS. When an
image contains a cut contour, it is also marked with a scissors icon.
Examples:
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Icon representing a document Icon representing a PS file. Icon representing a file with a cut
created with Compose. contour.
The Info window

When you open an image in the Info module, you will first see, in the upper part of the
window, the following information and functions:
 A thumbnail of the image sent into this module.
 Name: the name of this image.
 Type: the image type.
 Profile: the profile applied to the image.
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Convert to raster: This conversion operation only concerns vector files (PostScript, PDF,
TIFF/IT...). An image thus converted will use “raster” data in order to be previewed,
instead of vector data; this allows you to apply processes that normally are not supported
for vector images. If you wish to use this data again, you will need to reload the file
through the FileManager module.
Quit: Closes the application window. To definitively quit the Info module, press the Shift
key while clicking this button.
The general tab
All the available information regarding two distinct entities (the manipulated file and the
associated file) is gathered in this tab.
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Resolution: This is the image resolution. For vector images, this data corresponds to the
resolution of the preview (and will only be used if the image is converted thanks to the
Convert to raster option).
NOTE: The resolution of the image can be modified in this field.
Page Size: This is the size of the image’s page. The unit in which this size is listed is to be
chosen in the menu on the right: Inches, Millimetres (mm) or Picas.
Dimensions: The size of the image (in pixels).
Image Size: The space (in bytes) taken by the image when it is loaded in memory.
Type: Color mode and depth of the image’s colors (in bits).
Page: Which page of the document the image corresponds to (in rasterized PDF
documents, for instance, there can often be several pages).
Other information, related to the file associated to the image, is also available:
File path: This is the path to the file associated to the image. In the case of vector images,
since the file is read again to match the resolution of the current processing, this file may
not be where it is supposed to be anymore. The […] button allows you to choose a new
path.
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NOTE: If a vector image points to an invalid file, this file will be highlighted, as in the
opposite screenshot. For raster files, the preview data is used during the processing;
therefore, this field is only displayed in read-only mode.
File size: Size of the file.
Date: Date of creation of the file.
Origin: Displays the origin module(s) of the image.
Temp. file: This is the temporary file used by the Caldera software and its modules.
The ICC tab
When you throw an image in the Info module, this tab displays the list of color profiles
applied to the file, as they have been chosen when the image was loaded through
FileManager.
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The Misc tab
In the case of Compose files, Number of vectors and Number of images indicate how
many items of each type are contained in the image.
Embedded images gives more information about the embedded objects, notably their
type, dimensions in pixels, their resolution...
The Ticket tab
The Ticket tab is only available when an image is sent to a queue line (for instance, from
the caldera Hotfolder). The ticket is then generated. It contains some information: name
of the sender, name of the job....
The Spot colors tab
This tab displays the spot colors contained in the image.
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The Contours tab
When you load an image with contours in the Info module, this tab shows you the number
of contours contained in the image, as well as their color.
The Comments tab
In this tab, the Comments field allows you to edit the comment associated to an image.
When this comment is modified, the buttons located under its text become available.
Apply changes applies the changes brought to the comments.
Cancel changes cancels the changes made in the text.
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NOTE: The size of this field is limited; this limit can however be modified in the Images
window of the UserConfiguration module (please refer to the chapter describing this
module for more details about the procedure to follow).
Moreover, some files do not support the adding of comments; in this case, the Comments
field is not writeable.
Info in Workflow mode

Drag&drop the icon of Info in the Workflow Editor.
In WorkFlow mode, the Info module is used as a filter applied on the input images. It can
also be used to convert images into data meant to be previewed.
In this mode, only the significant fields of the regular interface are kept. The available
filtering options are the following ones:
 Type: The type of the image inserted into the WorkFlow. The options available in
this menu are All (any type), RGB, CMYK, Gray, ColorMap, Not RGB, Not
CMYK, Not Gray and Not ColorMap.
 Depth: The image depth. The available choices are All, 16 bits, 8 bits, 1 bit, Not
16 bits, Not 8 bits and Not 1 bit.
 Alpha: Lets you know if a transparency plane is contained in the image or not.
The available choices are All, Alpha and No Alpha.
Click Apply Filter for these filtering options to be taken into account in the WorkFlow.
Click Convert to preview in order to apply only this operation to the input images.
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Trashcan
I s your image bar full, or do you want to make room on your disk? It is time to use
the Trashcan module.
First, you can temporarily cancel the display of an image from the image bar. Drop the
image you do not need anymore on Trashcan's icon, or in Trashcan's window if the
module is already open. The image is transferred from the image bar to the trashcan. You
will obtain the same result by selecting the image in the bar and by pushing on
Backspace. You can also use Delete in the image bar menu.
In order to temporarily delete several images from the image bar, select them with Ctrl-
Shift and drop them altogether into Trashcan (do not click Delete or Delete all!).
You may also want to erase your images definitively.
Open the Trashcan module and click Delete. You can do the same operation by pressing
on Shift while dropping your image on the Trashcan icon. Even faster, select the image in
the image bar, and press Shift-Backspace simultaneously. Be careful: these operations
cannot be undone!
Three other items are available in this module:
 Next image displays the images contained in the trashcan one by one, so you can
check its content before emptying it.
 Delete all allows you to erase the images all at once.
 Restore recovers what you have accidentally dropped in the trashcan.
Trashcan in Workflow mode

At the end of a WorkFlow chain, Trashcan allows you to delete the images from the
image bar. Drag & drop the Trashcan icon in the WorkFlow Editor, double click on it,
and press Delete.
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WorkFlows
T he WorkFlows mode allows you to automate most of the basic functions of the
Caldera software.
A WorkFlow must have images as entries, and an objective as a destination. The images
will be processed between these operations. In order to create a WorkFlow, use the
WorkFlow Editor.
Entry:
The entry can be connected on a Hotfolder (see HotFolders). It can also be Snapshot,
FileManager, Scan...
These types of software generate images which can be sent to your WorkFlows immediately. If
you already have images in Caldera Graphic's image bar, you can also send a selection of them
into your WorkFlow (see the right button menu of the image bar).
Processing:
Between the moment the image starts to be processed in a WorkFlow and the moment it
reaches its destination, it can undergo a process, for example a contrast or luminosity
enhancement, adding a logo to the image...
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Destination:
The destination of a WorkFlow can be the writing into a database, a printer or a file
(TIFF, JPEG...). It can also be another Hotfolder on another workstation (sharing the jobs
among different nodes of the network). A WorkFlow is edited, created and processed for
one user who can look at and administrate those processes with WorkFlow Report (see
below).
These WorkFlows can be used in several ways.
Automation of a “standard” Caldera software:
This implies that images are sent into the WorkFlows from modules such as Scan and
Snapshot (see above for the complete list), and that repetitive tasks are automated.
Do you wish to archive a set of images you want to scan? Do you always print your
snapshots? You can imagine all sorts of combinations.
Automation of jobs for a network:
If your network is a heterogenous one (including Mac or Windows systems), you can use
these WorkFlows linked to HotFolders to make your workstation become a Server.
Fully automatic jobs (without graphic interface):
You can link icons in your desktop environment with WorkFlows.
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Workflow Editor
The WorkFlow Editor allows each user to create and edit his own WorkFlows.
Open the WorkFlow Editor using the menu of the Caldera window, with a right click of
the mouse. You can also use the WorkFlow icon, in the Applications bar.
The WorkFlow concept is based on the possibility of chaining the Caldera modules. You
may send image flows into these WorkFlows through different means (see Automation).
Create and edit a Workflow
A WorkFlow is made of several sequences of Caldera modules dropped in the WorkFlow

window from the software window. A WorkFlow only becomes operational once all the
modules composing it have been set up, and once it has been saved.
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Set up the applications
First, you have to know that the behaviour of the applications is a little different in
WorkFlow mode, because the characteristics of the images to be processed are not known
when the parameters are defined, but only at the time of the execution of the WorkFlow.
For some modules (PixTouch, ColorEdit...), you can set some adjustments with a
“reference image” (this image is not always the one on which the WorkFlow will run).
For other modules, this is not needed.
An application launched in WorkFlow mode must be considered as an adjustment box for

the corresponding process in the WorkFlow.
In the application bar, select and double click the Workflow icon, then type a name for
the workflow (for instance, Print_to_Printer).
Drag & drop the Print module in the workflow. Its icons will appear as grayed, because
the module has not been configured yet.
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Configure the Print module:
Double-click the first icon (Print)

to activate and configure the
module (for more details, see the
Print chapter).
Click the PRINT button to validate

the parameters.
Click Save to save the workflow.
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The Workflow window
Now that you have the name of the current WorkFlow and the list of available
WorkFlows, you can see the icons of the modules composing the WorkFlow (to delete a
module, click on its icon and press Backspace).
The Workflow will be applied to a copy of the original image if the option Copy and
apply to the copy is selected.
The New button allows you to create a new WorkFlow.
In addition to the usual buttons (Delete, Save and Quit), there is also a button called Batch
File (a Batch command is implicitly associated with any WorkFlow), which generates the
equivalent batch command in an ASCII file (may be saved as a template). These files can
be a good starting point for the use of the Caldera software in command line.
Once all the adjustments are set, validate them with the Apply button, or any equivalent
button. When the application quits, the module is then properly set up.
Each selected and saved WorkFlow is virtually a new Caldera application.
There are different mechanisms to activate a WorkFlow.
– By selecting one or several images in the image bar and activating a sub-menu entry of
the image bar (right button).
– By selecting a WorkFlow in the Load Into menu of the applications creating images
(FileManager...).
In any case, the images are physically sent to a “Job”. A “Job” is an association between a
WorkFlow and a group of images: the job coordinates the different processings of the
WorkFlow (see WorkFlow Reports).
Workflow report
Now that you have sent images into WorkFlows using different methods, you can now
check and manage how they are being processed.
Open the WorkFlow Reports window, in the Applications menu. This window allows you
to check the status of the running jobs, and even to stop them and to consult the error or
success messages of every finished job.
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If you have set Hotfolders, the Workflows can be launched by everyone in the network.
The reports are organized in a hierarchic way, from the most general on the top to the
most precise. You can fit the height of the different lists with the buttons appearing
between the lists on the right side.
The list of WorkFlows displays the list of waiting jobs on their way to be executed, or
already finished (Status field). The Pid field represents the ID Process of the job.
Two values are displayed under the name “Images”, respectively representing the number
of images processed successfully and the total number of processed images.
The list of Batches displays the modules composing the selected WorkFlows in the
WorkFlow list, as well as their status, their Pid, and the number of processed images (total
number under the Done field, error number under the Failed field). The Current field is a
progress indicator of the current processing.
The list of messages displays all the messages sent by the selected module into the Batch
list: errors, warnings, and progress of the current processing.
Clear erases all the reports of the finished Jobs.

Kill interrupts the execution of the selected Job.
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Print
T he Print module allows you to print your documents, whether they are raster or
vector.
You can find a list of all supported printers on our website, on the Support>Supported
peripherals >Supported printers page:
http://www.caldera.com/en/support.php?page=supported_printers
Most of the time, the user works with an autonomous workstation, but several people can
of course work with one single printer through a network.
The tasks that are put on hold or are printed can be displayed and managed by every user,
thanks to the Print Spooler function.
The server answers the queries of clients that work with the GUI, command lines,
WorkFlows or HotFolders.
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Main window
The main window allows you to define the following parameters:
1. Copies: the number of copies that are to be printed.
2. Pages: for multi-pages documents, these fields allow you to set a limit on the pages to
be printed.
3. Resolution: the printing resolution.
4. Loading: printer alimentation (roll or paper).
5. Format: for each printer, a certain amount of page formats is supported.
6. Media: in this menu, choose the type of paper on which you want to print. If the
selected paper does not appear in the list, choose the one that is the closest to it.
7. Mode: allows you to choose the printing mode (Gray, CMYK, CMYKcm...).
8. Quality: choose the printing quality (ex.: 360 dpi resolution + high = 4 pass, 360 dpi
resolution + standard = 1 pass).
9. Action: here you can choose among:
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 Print: directly prints your image.
 Print & Hold Job: prints your image and keep the job in the spooler.
 Send to spooler: sends your image in the spooler.
 Print to file: prints your image in a file.
 Compute Reprint: computes the file without printing it
 Print & Compute Reprint: keeps the computed and printed file.
 Compute Reprint then Print: computes the file, then starts the printing.
 Compute Reprint then Print & Delete: computes the file, then starts the printing.
When this is done, the Reprint file is deleted, which means the job cannot be
printed again.
 Nest: allows you to use the “Nest-O-Matik” function (see the Nest-O-Matik chapter).
 Send File: allows you to choose a file and send it to the printer, while Print prints
the selected image (the latter appears as a thumbnail, in the upper left part of the
window).
In Send File mode, none of the parameters in the main window (resolution,
quality...) is taken into account: indeed, the printing parameters already exist in
the file.
NOTE: Managing the print servers is done through ServerAdmin.
Icons
In this section, five icons are available.
This button opens the Setup window, which allows you to place an image on a
page or on a tile.
This button allows you to access the specific parameters of the printer
(Settings).
This button opens the Spooler window (queue lines manager) so that the
documents that are in the queue and not printed yet can be managed.
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This button opens the Spot Colors window, in which you can define, load and
modify spot colors.
The last button opens the Colors window. In this window, you will find all the
color parameters for your printer.
Setup window
Click this button to open the Page Setup window.
The Setup window contains eight areas:
 The Preview area
 The Page area
 The Template area
 The Image size and position area
 The Step and Repeat area
 The Misc area
 The Crop Marks tab
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 The Cutting tab.
At the bottom of the window, OK allows you to apply the new settings, and Reset
removes all the changes performed on the parameters.
On the left, a series of buttons allows you to set the parameters for your printing.
What are these buttons for?
Flipping: applies a horizontal symmetry to the image.
Clipping: allows you to place the image out of the printable area.
Warning: the image parts placed out of this zone will not be printed.
Real Size: allows you to print your image at its original size (scale 1:1).
Full page: this function allows you to increase the tile width at its maximum
(margin not included).
Keep ratio: when resizing, this option keeps the original proportions (ratio).
Center: centers the image in the middle of the page.
Orientation: allows image rotation on the tile or sheet.
Contrary to the other buttons, the latter allows you to select one out of several fairly
classic rotation options:
It is to be noted that the first of these options (the one marked with a star) is used in
certain nesting operations: it is very similar to Allow rotation in Compose, and will rotate
the images as needed for them to take as little place as possible on the paper
Under the Preview area, the display units are indicated. You can choose between several
units: pixels, inch, millimeters or picas.
Preview
In the Preview area, the image that appears mirrors what will be printed.
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Margins are represented in gray, while the printable area is represented in white. Also, if
you decide to print crop marks or a cartouche, these will be previewed in this area as well.
Page
In the Page field, you will find information concerning the used media and the printing
area.
Here you can define the format of the area to be printed: either by choosing a predefined
format (A4, A3...), or by manually choosing the wanted format (Width and Height).
When you select a format in the Format menu, the Print module will immediately list all the
page formats that can be put on the roll or sheet. The selection of one of these formats is then
similar to a sheet-to-sheet mode. This is what we call a printing template.
 Format: printing area format.
 Width and Height: printing area dimensions.
 M Top, M Bottom, M Left and M Right: physical margins dimensions.
 Homogeneous margins: this function allows applies the same margins dimensions
on each side of the page.
Template
This area allows you to define a printing template. A template is different from the Page
format, in that it does not represent the paper size itself, but an area defined within said
format.
 Format: Template format (A4, A3...). Here, you can also define its orientation:
Portrait, Landscape, or Automatic.
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 Width and Height: the template dimensions.
 M Top, M Bottom, M Left and M Right: the width of the template's margins.
 X Offset and Y Offset: these work in combination with the X and Y fields (see the
next section, Image size and position). They’re used to define the position of the
printing template on the paper strip.
 Homogeneous margins: this is to easily obtain the same margins on each side of
the template.
Image size and position
Here you can define the scale and position of your image.
 Width: sets the image width.
 Height: sets the image height.
 Scale W: sets the horizontal scale.
 Scale H: sets the vertical scale.
 X: places the template according to the horizontal axis.
 Y: places the template according to the vertical axis.
Multi-copy
This option is to be used when you print several copies of a document. Indeed, it allows
you to optimize the space taken by these copies on the paper. To do so, check one of the
boxes marked Step and Repeat.
 With None, no Step & Repeat will be applied.
 Full allows to print a high number of copies for a given job.
 Auto dispatches the images into different jobs to obtain complete lines only. For
instance, if you wish to print five instances of an image by placing two images on
each line, the end result will be 2 x 2 lines (the number 4 will appear in the Copies
field, along with the On 2 pages label), and not two lines of two images and one
isolated image.
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 Manual: In this mode, you can specify the number of copies and how many
images per line you wish to print.
The Margin field is used to define the space between each of the copies. Make separated
rows allows you to print the images in several rows on the paper.
Misc
 Print only if scale is 100%: Selecting this option will only allow the printing of an
image scaled at 100% of its size.
Crop marks
In this tab, you can set crop marks for your printing.
The Standard, Frame, Corner, Tombo and Targets options display five different marks
around the image.
Page Number: displays the page number centered on the bottom of the print.
File Name: displays the file name in the upper left part of the image.
Date: displays the printing date.
Margin: applies a margin between the images and the marks.
Bleed: the distance at which the image runs off the edges of the print.
Free Text: displays a text of your choice in the left bottom part.
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Nest-O-Ba
Check this box if you want to apply cut marks to your print, and optimize it before
sending it to a Fotoba cutter (Digitrim or X/Y). However, this option being quite complex
to explain, please look at the Nest-O-Ba addendum document for more details about its
use.
Cartouche info
Activating this option displays a cartouche on the bottom of your print.
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Full Cartouche: Displays all information available for this printing in the cartouche. It is
the same information as in the Job, Image and Settings tab of the Spooler (see Print
Spooler).
Remove Logo: Click this button to remove the logo in the cartouche.
To add a logo to the cartouche, just drag&drop it from the image bar to the square zone in
the tab:
Update Text: When you have typed your text, in the text area, click this button to update
the changes. This text will be printed under the cartouche.
Cartouche Height: Define here the height of the cartouche.
Text Height: Define here the size of the text in the cartouche.
Mark setup
This area lets you define the color that will be used to print all the finishing or additional
marks, such as crop marks, cut marks or Digitrim marks. You can choose Pure Black,
Composite Black, or Custom (the latter allows you to set the CMYK values of the color).
Cutting
The options listed in this tab are to be used to add cutting contours to your prints (these
will be generated as files). These contours will then be used as reference by a cutter, so
that the image can be cut properly.
This process is fully detailed in the VisualCut chapter.
Enable cutting contour

In this area, you must first select the cutting device that will be used to cut the print. Once
this is done, you will have to configure it by clicking the Settings button.
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In this window, you can see the available cutters for which you can configure a print.
To add a new cutter to the list, simply click the New button, then choose its model from
the drop-down list, type in a name for it, and select a queue into which the print will be
sent.
To delete a cutter from the list, select its name and click the Delete button.
To edit an existing cutter, just select its name, then click Edit, and replace the information
accordingly.
NOTE: The Instant cut just after print option, right under this area, allows you to have the
cutting itself start as soon as the printing is finished.
Print options
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Here are several options that you can apply.
 Print registration marks: Print the registration marks on the image (this depends
on the selected cutter).
 Print bar code: Prints the bar code that will be read by the cutter.
 Print identification number: Prints the identification number of the print.
Contours
Here you can choose whether to show the CutContour only, or All contours.
You can also see which contours currently exist in the image, with their Name, their
current State and their Offset (distance from the actual image).
Finally, you can choose whether to Add a frame contour around the document or to Add a
frame contour around each image.
Resizing problems?
If you are preparing an A4 page with the Compose module, for instance, you will see that
whatever the chosen A4 printer is, the image will be resized before the printing, even in
Full page mode. This can be a problem for two reasons: it first decreases the printing
capacity, and then damages the printing quality, especially in the case of 1-bit images.
This is due to the fact that printers always have physical margins that are not included in
the printable area: in A4 format, the result is always a little smaller.
There are two solutions:
– When you prepare your images, consider the physical margins (with Compose, you can
adapt the margins of your document)
– Activate the Clipping mode; it allows you to place your image outside the printable
zone. In this case, some parts of the image will not be printed.
To ensure that your image will not be resized, select the pixel unit and check that X-Scale
and Y-Scale are equal to 100%.
Parameters window
By clicking the second icon, you will display the Parameters window, in
which the parameters of your printer are specified.
These tabs will be different, depending on the selected printer's model. For instance, on a
ColorGrafx printer, you will find the Settings, Medias and Firmware tabs, whereas the
tabs will be called Settings and Advanced on a StylusPro10600 printer.
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On the following pages, we will describe the settings for five printers, coming from five
different manufacturers: a HP DesignJet Z6100, an Epson StylusPro 9880, a Canon
IPF9000S, a Seiko ColorPainter H104S-8C and a Durst Rho-800.
HP DesignJet Z6100
Printer
Cut media after print: If this option is activated, the paper is automatically cut once the
printing is finished.
Check media type before printing: If this option is activated, the type of the media will be
checked before the printing is processed.
Check media width before printing: If this option is activated, the width of the media will
be checked before the printing is processed.
Data compression: Check this box if you want to apply a compression.
RGB rendering: The rendering used for the printing (color, grayscale or true black).
Media
Black: The type of black cartridge (Matte or Photo) inserted in the printer.
Type: The type of the media (HP Premium ID Gloss, HP Coated Paper...). You can
choose it from the list of all medias configured on the printer.
Enhanced mode (Glossy papers and “Best” only): Activates the high resolution printing
mode (this is only available for certain media types).
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Status
This window displays the current status of your printer: remaining ink, media...
Click Refresh to update the printer’s status.
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Epson StylusPro 9880
Printer
Drying time (s): The amount of time (in seconds) during which the print will be left to dry.
Cut Media: If this option is activated, the paper will automatically be cut once the printing
is finished
Borderless print: If you want your job to be printed without print margins.
Page Limits: Prints a border around the image. This border corresponds to the edges of
the image, and can be printed vertically, horizontally, or both.
Limit head movement: Limits the head’s movement while printing. This enhances the
speed on narrow jobs, but may however reduce the print quality, depending on the media.
Dot Size: Allows you to set the size of the screening dots.
Variable dot: Sets the type of variation for the screening dots.
Cut method: The method used to cut the media after printing.
Media
Type: The type of the media (HP Premium ID Gloss, HP Coated Paper...).
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Feed adjustment: Set here the amount of paper feed for the printable area. If the paper
feed value is too large, white horizontal micro-banding may appear. If the paper feed
value is too small, dark horizontal micro-banding may appear.
Black cartridge: The type of black cartridge (Matte or Photo) inserted in the printer.
Canon IPF9000S
Printer
Save Paper: Allows you to save up some paper by suppressing the image’s up and bottom
margins.
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Media cutting: Choose here whether the paper must always (or never) be cut once the
printing is finished, or if a cutting mark is to be printed.
Borderless: Allows you to print without borders.
Bidirectional printing: Check this box to activate bidirectional printing.
RGB rendering: Type of rendering applied to the print.
Printer RGB calibration: Whether RGB calibration must be enabled on the printer or not.
Feeding: Type of feeding (automatic, roll or manual).
HDD action: What actions must be performed during and after the printing: print and
delete the file, print then save the file, save data before printing...
Mailbox number: The mailbox number from which to retrieve the file to print, if
applicable. On IPF printers, the mailbox corresponds to a specific location on the
machine, in which you can store files in order to send them directly from the printer,
without using the RIP software.
Media
Media type: The type of the media (glossy, coated...).
Black type: The type of black cartridge (Matte or Photo) inserted in the printer. The software
and hardware settings must be the same here, otherwise the printing will fail.
Dry time: The amount of time during which the paper will be dried.
Media list: Displays the list of medias configured on the printer.
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Seiko ColorPainter H104S-8C
Printer
Full scan: Checking this box ensures equal print quality on every part of the job, whatever
its width.
Check Media Width: When a roll is inserted, the printer checks its effective width. If you
choose an unsuited roll in the printing module, some overbordering may occur. If it is the
case, having this option checked will then allow the software to issue a warning.
Dot type: Here, you can select the dot size that will be used when printing (one drop, two
drops…).
Media
Heating system: Checking this box allows you to change the temperatures on the printer’s
heating system (front heater, print heater, and rear heater). You can do so by directly
using the red slider on the three thermometers (the temperature is indicated next to these,
and expressed in °C).
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Feed adjust: Here you can set the amount of paper feed for the printable area.
Durst Rho-1000
Printer
The options in this window allow you to activate the backlit mode (which automatically
applies the double amount of ink) for process inks, for white inks or for varnish. To do so,
simply check the appropriate box(es).
Media
Paper ID corresponds to the ID number of the media profile to be used on the printer (this
is both a machine setting and the RGB profile that is sent on it).
Caldera Spooler window

For more information about the Spooler window, see the Print Spooler module,
in the Administration section of this manual.
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Spot Colors
The Caldera software can process spot colors embedded in PostScript and EPS files. This
window allows you to work with these colors.
In the field of digital imagery, you can define a color by a name, instead of using its
CMYK or RGB values. The decision of using spot colors is usually taken when the
document is conceived; its goal is to indicate to the printer that the designed color needs
to be specifically processed.
In our software, these colors are automatically retrieved when the image is RIPped in the
FileManager module.
When a color cannot be represented in the gamut of the printer, it becomes essential to
use spot colors. It is also desirable to use this technique when colors in a document need
to be perfectly reproduced (logos...). At last, using spot colors is very convenient when
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the creator of the document does not know which color should be used, and this decision
has to be taken by the people who are to print said document.
The technique applied to the spot colors is equivalent to directly specifying their output
CMYK values, by ignoring the ICC engine.
Click Enable spot colors processing, and select Vectors if you wish to apply the spot
colors to the vectors of an image (PostScript...), Images to apply them to raster data only,
or Both to apply them to all the entities.
The Spot Colors window is divided in several parts, which will all be detailed in the next
pages:
The upper part is the one where the spot colors in the image will be displayed, as well as
the various functions related to them (edition, saving, loading...).
The Rules tab is to be used when you have set your colors, and want to print the
document using an automated process.
The Lab options tab is where you can define the input and output profiles to be used.
Details allows you, for each color selected in the list, to change the output color in order
to obtain the best reproduction possible.
Visual is the tab in which you can view the image and select, create and modify its spot
colors.
We will now explain the technique to use spot colors, and detail each of the tabs in this
window; we will follow a description schema that will allow you to better understand
how to process spot colors thanks to the Print module.
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The Visual tab
This tab displays the image on which you are currently working. It also contains four
icons that you can use to edit spot colors.
This tool allows you to zoom in (mouse left-click) or out (mouse right-click) on a
part of the image, and to select the spot colors you wish to work with.
With this tool, you can add a color in the image, then add it to the list of spot
colors, where you will be able to edit it. The default name of this new color is
composed with its CMYK values. Spot colors that are defined this way are called
“additional“.
Once you have selected a spot color in the list in the upper part, the Color picker
allows you to click a color in the image: the color in the list will then be updated
according to the one you have just chosen.
The Search function, is used to easily find a spot color in the list, if it is very long:
click the color in the image, and its name will immediately be highlighted.
The text at the bottom of the tab shows the currently selected spot color, its name, and the
amount of zones to which this color is attributed.
Functions and list of spot colors
In the upper part of the window, you will find the list of spot colors embedded in the
image, as well as several functions related to them.
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Name: Name of the color.

Type: Type of the color. It can be marked as Embedded (if it is embedded in the image
file) or Additional (if you have added it manually).
LAB: indicates where the LAB values come from: Lib, ICC or Custom.
CMYK: indicates where the CMYK values come from (output CMYK values).
Delta-E: Distance between the LAB input value and the LAB output value of the color. A
Delta-E inferior to 2 means that the reproduction of the color will be very good. A Delta-
E higher than 10 is very bad.
Image...: Clicking this button opens a small window, in which you can:
 Embed in Image: Click this button to embed the whole list in your image; if you
wish the list of colors to be automatically embedded, toggle the checkbox near
this button.
 Extract from Image: Click this button to reload the list of colors embedded in the
image. As for the function described above, toggle the case on the left of this
button in order to automatically extract the colors each time a new image is
loaded into the Print module.
It is easy to know which name is related to which element in the image: click a color in
the list, and it will automatically be highlighted on the image, in the Visual tab.
Load:
Load Spot File: loads a list of defined spot colors (*.spot file).
Load Spot Map: loads a list of defined spot colors, as well as their CMYK output values
(*.spotmap file).
You can add them to the already existing list (Append), or replace the current list
(Replace).
Save:
Save Spot File: saves the list of defined spot colors (*.spot file).
Save Spot Map: saves the list of defined spot colors, as well as their CMYK output values
(*.spotmap file).
Several functions are also available at the bottom of the list:
New allows you to add and define a new spot color. You then have to give it a name,
decide in which color space it will be defined (Grey levels, RGB, CMYK), and assignate
the values manually, or click Pick to take the color in the image itself.
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Click OK to accept, or Cancel to

cancel.
Edit is used to modify the

definition of the selected color.
Delete deletes the selected color.
Clear deletes all the spot colors

that are in the list.
Sort by allows you to sort the spot colors by their creation date (Creation), their Name,
their Delta-E (it is then easy to see if reproducing some colors will cause problems), or
the LAB or CMYK processing applied to them.
Details
In this tab, you will be able to set the parameters for each spot color, in order for their
reproduction on paper to be the most accurate possible.
During the regular printing process, ICC management is done in two steps:
CMJN LAB CMJN

(input color) (input profile) (output profile)
Here you can:
 directly define the CMYK output color
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 directly define the LAB values, which is the most normal and most recommended
technique. In this case, the output profile of the printer will be used to calculate
the CMYK color.
Lab
In this part of the tab, you will define the input color in the LAB color space.
Use Library: Click this option to find the color in one of the available files. If the color
exists under a different name, you can either edit its name (by selecting it in the list above,
then by clicking Edit to change it), or search for the color in the libraries. However, if the
color doesn't exist in them, processing this task will be useless.
Click this icon to select a spot color in the library:
A library is made of one or more color files.
When you select a file in the upper list, the colors contained in it are then displayed in the
lower list. Keep pressing the Ctrl key during the selection to choose several files at the
same time: their colors will all be placed in the list.
This icon is used to save the spot (for instance, if you have had to manually search the
wished LAB values):
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Use ICC: If the color cannot be retrieved in a library, its LAB value will then be
computed using the input CMYK values, as if it was a normal color. Moreover, you can
enter manually the LAB values (for instance, if using a spectrophotometer).
CMYK
These are the output values that will be effectively used to print the spot color.
Use Library: Click this option to find the color in one of the available libraries. If the color
exists, but under a different name, you can either edit its name (by selecting it in the list
above, then by clicking Edit to change it), or search for the color in the libraries. However, if
the color doesn't exist in them, processing this task will be useless.
Please note that the search by name of output colors directly defined in CMYK has the
priority over the LAB search.
Use ICC recomputes the color by referring to the LAB value defined hereabove.
“Soft proof”:
Input: This is the simulation, on the screen, of the selected color in LAB.
Output: The values of the output color, simulated on the screen, and also given in LAB.
Delta-E: Distance between Input and Output).
In Output mode, this icon is used to save the output color.
NOTE: If a “!” is displayed, it means that the color is out of the monitor's gamut. You
thus have to stay wary of the simulation on the screen: for it to be the most accurate
possible, your monitor must be perfectly calibrated, and an excellent profile must be
applied to it as well. Moreover, the output LAB values are only an estimation, depending
a lot on the quality of the output profile.
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Lab options
Input to LAB conversion

Profile: Choose here the input profile.
Rendering: Choose here the ICC rendering.
NOTE: If you keep the Auto option activated, the rendered profile will automatically be
forced according to the one defined in the Color Management tab of the Colors window.
If you force another rendering, Auto will then be deactivated.
LAB to CMYK conversion

Profile: Choose here the output profile (the default profile is the one of the current media).
This profile is used in the computing of output CMYK values and of the Delta-E.
Rendering: Choose here the ICC rendering.
Two new types of rendering are available here: Opt. colorimetric and Opt. absolute. If
you select one of these renderings, the best values matching the needed spot colors will be
automatically searched for in the whole gamut of the printer.
You can set the rendering in general in LAB options, or color by color in Details.
Opt. level: Choose Fast if you need to process a lot of spot colors (for instance, if printing a
color target). If there are only a few colors to compute, you can select Complete.
LAB distance computation

These options determine how the distance between the colors will be calculated.
Metric: Delta-E and Delta-E 94 are the techniques available here.
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White point compensation: Activates/Deactivates the compensation of the white of the

paper, in order to compute the DeltaE. In Auto mode, the compensation is activated in
relative rendering (Perceptual, Colorimetric and Saturation), and deactivated in absolute
rendering.
NOTE: Usually, in relative colorimetry (Perceptual/Saturation), the definition of white is

shifted, compared to the white of the papers. The white is thus left without any inking,
and does not depend on any color management.
On the contrary, in absolute colorimetry (i.e. with simulation of the white), the attempt is
made to print the white the way its values are given in the input profile. In this case, the
Delta-E can seem especially high for light colors.
Rules
This tab allows you to define rules (these actions are to be initiated by default) in the LAB
and CMYK color spaces. The final aim is that there is no need to manually define all the
spot colors in an image.
Configure LAb library/Configure CMYK library: These buttons (one in the LAB
Mapping part, the other in the CMYK Mapping part) will be used to configure the libray
of colors, for the search of spot colors.
Save all colors: This saves all colors in the list.
Your colors will be saved in *.lab format (ASCII files containing the definitions in LAB
or CMYK). Our software can also read the *.cfx format (industrial standard, in LAB or
CMYK), but not write it.
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NOTE: Contrary to LAB files, when you save an output file (CMYK definitions), it will
be specific to each media.
Enable V6/V7 rendering (color substitution): This option allows you to use the old
algorithm from versions 6 and 7 of the Caldera RIP, which works with color substitution.
However, it cannot process non solid spot colors, spot colors in gradients, or spot colors
behind transparencies.
LAB mapping
You can define here the rules that will be used to retrieve the LAB values of a spot color.
Disabled (compute LAB from input): The colors are processed through the ICC engine.
Search Color library for matching LAB colors: Choose this option to search the color in
the library.
If not found....: If no corresponding color is found in the library, you can choose:
Compute from Input: computes the color in ICC.
Disable color: prints the color as if it was a normal color.
Do not print: prevents the printing from being performed (this option is to be selected if
your image must absolutely be printed using the right spot colors: thus, any error will be
displayed, and you will know that you have to find the matching colors again).
Configure LAB library: Click this button to configure the library.
File: List of files. To add or remove the search in a file, click this library, then the Toggle
Auto-Search button.
Filter allows you to filter the libraries according to their type (for instance, *.cxf).
Update applies the search filter.
New creates a new file.
Delete deletes the selected file.
Import allows you to add a color file to the library. A dialog box then asks you if you
want to Copy this file, or create a link to it. Please note that if you choose to link, you will
directly work with the original file: all modifications will thus affect the file itself.
Rename opens a dialog box allowing you to rename the selected file.
Set as save file: Defines the file used when saving spot colors.
Auto search in: By default, the search will be done in the whole library (All files), but you
can also select several files (My custom selection).
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Save colors in: The colors will be saved in the default file (Default LAb file) or in a file
you have yourself chosen (My custom selection).
Match incomplete names: Select this option when you perform a search in various
Pantone libraries (C, CV, U, and so on...).
Save all modifications: Click this button to synchronize all the modifications on the hard
disk. It then becomes a definitive save, in case the system would suddenly stop: the
saving is anyway done when you close the Print module, but any interruption in the
meantime would cancel the modifications that have not been saved.
CMYK mapping
Define here the rules that will be used to find the CMYK values of a spot color.
Disabled (compute output from LAB): Choose this option to process the colors through
the ICC engine, from the LAB values of the spot color.
Search Color library for matching CMYK colors: Choose this option if you want to
search the color in a library.
If not found....: If no matching color is found in the library, you can:
 Compute from Input: computes the color in ICC.
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 Disable color: prints the color as if it was a normal color.
 Do not print: prevents the printing from being performed (this option is to
be selected if your image must absolutely be printed using the right spot
colors: thus, any error will be displayed, and you will know that you have to
attune the colors some more).
The other functions available in this part of the window are similar to the ones for the
LAB libraries.
Statistics
This little window displays a few statistics about the spot colors in the image.
Number of colors: The number of spot colors in the image.

Average Delta-E: Average Delta-E of these colors.
Best 90%: Average Delta-E on the 90% of colors corresponding the most to the wished
result.
Worst 10%: Average Delta-E on the 10% of colors corresponding the less to the wished
result.
Worst color: The color with the highest Delta-E.
Spot Colors in a Workflow
When you use a WorkFlow to print a series of images containing spot colors, the list of colors
will not be displayed, because the images that are to be processed are all different.
You will have to:
 use the Rules. In this case, the list of spot colors will be extracted for every
images, and processed according to the options defined in the Rules and Lab
options tabs.
 use a static*.spotmap file. In this case, the current mapping will be used, whatever
the image is.
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Colors window
The last icon opens the Colors window, that allows you to load specific defining files
(gamma, LUT, ICC profiles) in a printer, as well as to set various options regarding the
color mode applied to an image before it is printed.
For more details about the options in the following tabs, please see our Reference Guide:
Color Management.
Reset reinitializes all the parameters.
Close closes this window and takes you back to the main Print window.
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The Color Management tab
The profiles selected here are the same as the profiles you have chosen in FileManager
during the rasterization process. You can however still change them before the printing.
Click on the Advanced button to see the following window.
The five buttons at the bottom of the Setup window have the same functions as those in
the FileManager setup:
Perceptual: Sets all renderings as Perceptual.

Colorimetric: Sets all renderings as Colorimetric.
Load: Loads previously saved settings (these settings are kept as .cmo files).
Save: Saves your settings.
Reset: Resets the tab to its default values.
If the profiles and rendering modes options have already been defined by FileManager
during the rasterization, the Auto function will be automatically activated.
If you force a profile (for instance, by replacing the sRGB.icc profile, defined in
FileManager, by another profile), the Auto button corresponding to this profile will be
unchecked, showing that this profile has been forced.
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However, be aware that if you then throw another image in the Print module, this very
profile will remain as forced. You will have to click the Auto button to apply the profile
defined in FileManager to this image.
To reset all profiles in “Auto” mode, click Reset, at the bottom of the window.
Three other tabs are available in this tab, allowing you to adjust the color management in
a more accurate manner.
Image
For each available type of profiles (Grey, RGB, CMYK), three drop-down menus are
available:
 Color Man.: The kind of color management you want to use. The most common
management is the one that uses ICC profiles. The other options are like RGB,
like CMYK, or None.
 Profile: The ICC profile that is to be applied to the image. Click More to locate a
profile.
 Rendering: These are the available rendering options (Perceptual, Colorimetric,

Saturation, Absolute...).
Special: This part is used to choose the nature of the white/black point: Pure (use K black
only) or Composite (use CMYK black).
NOTE: If you choose an “Absolute” rendering, you will then be able to use the White
point option. This option allows you to define whether the white from the input profile
will be simulated on the white of the output profile.
Vectors
These options are the same as in the Images tab, but concerning the vectors contained in a
PostScript image (texts...).
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The Output tab
Here are all the parameters used to configure the image output on the selected printer.
Enable Color Management: Activate the ICC calibration, which is based on the printing
mode, the media, etc.
Output Profile:
 Automatic: to automatically use all the necessary parameters.
 Force to: to specify the ICC profile that is to be used. Do not forget to select
Automatic again, or else all the following printers will also use this ICC profile.
Simulation profile:
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You can simulate a media for another media, with one condition: the destination gamut
must be larger than the simulated one. Check Apply to apply a simulation profile to your
image, then select the profile by clicking the [...] button.
Enable curves
Linearization Curves:
Click this option to use linearization curves.
Caldera provides a set of ICC and linearization curves that have been specifically
developed for each type of media. Only experts in color management should modify these
parameters.
The main purpose of color curves is to control ink maximization. However, color curves
also perform post-linearization tasks. If you want to create your own curves, activate the
Custom option instead of the Automatic one, and click Edit.
Be aware that some media do not support 100 percent of each ink; therefore, the total
quantity of ink must be limited.
Use the Max Ink% option to set the total ink quantity that the media can support.
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NOTE: Do not modify these curves to compensate for bad scan cast problems. All prints
would be affected, even when working with PostScript files.
The Print module also allows you to use correction curves plus linearization curves.
Applying correction curves can be made:
 When you wish to make a re-linearization (for instance, if you use a dye-sub
printer): the curves allow to correct the differences of density implemented by the
transfer on the fabric.
 When you wish to make a calibration: the curves are then calculated with regards to
a reference measure, in order to put the printer back in a stable state.
Options:
Preserve 100% densities: Select this option if you wish to print using 100% of ink,
whatever the settings applied to the curves are.
Replace CMY Black by K Black: This option is interesting in the case of HPGL files. Those
files are actually described in RGB colors, and must be printed without using any ICC
calibration. In this case, black color is a CMY black. To turn it into a K black, use this
option. If some colors in the file contain CMY black, this option will solve the problem.
To use correction curves, check the Apply Correction curves option, and click Edit.
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The curves editor will then be displayed on the screen and will allow you to load the
curves, edit them manually, or create them from a value on the densitometer.
NOTE: Print supports the use of the Xrite DTP20, DTP32, DTP34 and DTP41
denstitometers. For more details about their use, please check the EasyMedia chapter.
Light/Dark Ink separations

When the printer uses 6 inks, you can access the parameters for each of the light inks.
Automatic: Automatically sets the parameters.
Custom: Allows you to choose the ink settings and define them manually. Click Edit.
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The Miscellaneous tab
Transfer: Indicates whether the files to be printed will be copied on the server before
being printed (Copy) or not (Bypass Copy).
Please note that in cases where the server is on another machine, the Bypass Copy option
will only work if the files can be accessed on both sides, in a shared directory.
Do not forget that if you print from:
 A CD: the CD must stay in the CD player until the printing is finished.
 The hard drive: the file must not be deleted until the printing is finished.
Interpolation: Caldera offers two kinds of interpolation:
 Bilinear: more adapted to photographs.
 Nearest neighbor: the printing will be more precise, especially for scan-to-print
maps or documents containing text.
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Print type: This deals with the printing of planes in an image:
 All planes: Document printed in normal quadrichromy.
 Separated planes: Document printed in separated planes (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow,

Black).
Screening: Three options are available:
 Stochastic: recommended for images containing gradients.
 Adaptive error diffusion: the borders are clearer. This is especially interesting for
printing texts, maps, lines, technical documents...
 Rosettes (see below).
Antialiasing: Enables the antialiasing on vectors (Vectors only), text (Text only), or both
(Text and Vectors). However, it slows down the RIP of the image. The Global entry also
enables a new algorithm that works better, although more slowly than the others.
Rip at: This option allows the PS/PDF engine to run at Full resolution, or at a reduced
resolution of 1/2, 1/3, or 1/4.
Reset number of copies for each image: If this option is activated, Print will reset the
number of copies to 1 every time an image is dropped in the module.
RIP While RIP
RIP While RIP is a function of the Caldera software thanks to which a job can already be prepared
while the previous one is still being printed—this with the aim of reducing the printer's inactivity
delays as much as possible. It can also RIP and directly print a file.
RIP While RIP allows to simultaneously process direct prints (Print) and computations
(Compute Reprint) by dividing them in two distinct waiting queues. Thus, when two jobs
are activated, they will be displayed in the same print server.
NOTE: RIP While RIP cannot be used for printers that always print to files (such as large
format printers driven by GrandRIP+, for instance).
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Direct printing jobs include the following options (available when you set the parameters
for your prints in the Print module):
 Print
 Print & Hold Job
 Print & Compute Reprint.
Computation jobs include:
 Print to File
 Compute Reprint
 Compute Reprint then Print
 Compute Reprint then Print and Delete.
The last two options of this list are a little particular: indeed, such jobs are put in another
queue while being processed. Here, the Reprint computation is done first; then only
comes the printing.
These two types of actions can of course be processed simultaneously. For instance, if
you start a “print” action, you can also start a “Print to File” action, that will be executed
at the same time as the first one.
NOTE: What we have described above corresponds to Level 1 of the RIP While RIP
functionality. Level 2 allows the print server to switch automatically from the Print action
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(RIP and print on the fly) to the Compute Reprint then Print action (RIP, then print), in
order to optimize the use of the printer. This Level 2 mode is more efficient than the first
one, especially with multi-core architectures.
RIP While RIP must be activated in the Misc tab of the Server Admin module, and this
independently for each installed server. By default, this function is always activated.
Examples
Here are three printing examples, made with three different printers: a Canon IPF9000S,
an HP DesignJet Z6100 and an Epson StylusPro9880.
Canon IPF9000s
In this window, you can see the parameters that have been defined for the printing:
Copies: Two copies of the image are to be printed.
Resolution: We want the print resolution to be High.
Loading: A 24” roll is loaded in the printer.
Media: We want to print this image on Satin photo paper.
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Mode: The printing color mode, CMJKcm, was selected by the user.
Quality: the printing quality (here, we want it to be of standard quality).
Action: the image is going to be printed immediately, but we also want a Reprint file to
be generated.
Printer settings
In the Printer settings window (obtained, as explained above, by clicking the second icon
in the main window), the parameters have been defined as follows:
Media cutting: We want all the prints on this printer to be automatically cut once they are
done, therefore we have selected the Always option.
Bidirectional printing: The user wants the printing head direction to be bidirectional.
RGB Rendering: We want the rendering here to be in Saturation mode.
Feeding: The image will be printed on a Roll.
HDD Action: The data will be saved before the printing starts.
Setup – Main settings
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The parameters in this window have automatically been defined when we have chosen
the parameters in the main window. Here, they have been left as default:
Page:
Format: Roll24, which is the roll type selected in the main window
Width and Height: The printing format.
M. Top , M. Bottom, M. Left and M. Right: The size of the margins around the image.
Image size and position:
Width and Height: Image dimensions.
Scale W and Scale H: Width and height scale.
X and Y: Image positioning, according to the vertical and horizontal axis.
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Setup – Crop Marks
This tab of the Setup allows you to choose if you want to apply crop marks to your
printing, and if yes, which kind of marks. For this specific printing, we have decided to
use Standard and Target crop marks.
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HP DesignJet Z6100
To print this image on a HP DJ Z6100 printer, we have set the parameters as follows:
Copies: 3 copies of the image.
Resolution: the printing resolution is set as Normal.
Loading: we want the image to be printed on a 44” roll.
Media: a premium instant-dry glossy photo paper.
Mode: we have chosen the CMYKcmk mode here.
Quality: Print will automatically determine the printing quality.
Action: direct printing.
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The parameters in the Setup window have been defined as shown on the screenshot below:
Page:
Format: Roll44 (chosen in the main window)
M. top, M. Bottom, M. Left and M. Right margin size. Here, we have activated the
Homogeneous Margins option.
Image size and position:
These fields have been filled to obtain the desired printing size for this image.
Step & Repeat:
We have activated the Full mode, so that our three copies of the image are printed one
after the other on the roll.
Crop Marks:
In order to better cut the image once it is printed, we have chosen to add marks. Here,
“Standard” marks have been selected.
By clicking the second icon in the main window, you can open this window specific to
the HP Deskjet Z6100 printer.
Cut media after print: We want the print to be cut by the printer once it has finished
printing the three pictures; therefore, we have activated this option. In the present case, we
do not need to activate the other two options in this part of the window.
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RGB Rendering: We want the rendering to be done in Color mode.
Stylus Pro 9880

Finally, here's an image that is to be printed on a StylusPro 9880 printer model.
The settings in the main window have been defined as follows:
Copies: we only want to print one copy of the image.
Resolution: the printing resolution here is 720.
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Loading: the type of media loaded in the printer is a 17” roll.
Media: a 250g Premium glossy photo paper.
Mode: we have chosen here to use the CMYKcmk printing mode.
Quality: Bidirectional, since we want the image to be printed in two passes.
Action: direct printing, with the job kept in the spooler afterwards.
The parameters of the Setup window have been determined as follows:
Page:
Format: Roll17 (chosen previously).
M. top, M. Bottom, M. Left and M. Right: the margin sizes we want to use here. The
Homogeneous Margins option is not activated here.
Image size and position
These fields have been filled as to obtain the wished printing size for the image.
For this print, we did not want to use any crop marks. Instead, we added annotations:
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Clicking the second icon in the main window opens this Settings window specific to the
Stylus Pro 9880 printer. It contains two tabs: Printer and Media.
Printer tab:
Drying time: This is the time (in seconds) during which we want the printing to be dryed.
We have chosen “5 seconds”.
Cut Media: This option is activated, which means that the paper will automatically be cut
once the printing is finished.
Borderless print: The margins have to be taken into account, therefore we do not want the
print to be borderless.
Page limits: This will print the page limits. Here, we want them to be printed on both
sides of the poster.
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Media tab:
Type: This is the type of media we have chosen in the main window.
Feed adjustment: We did not activate this option.
Black cartridge: We want to use a Photo type of black ink cartridge
Print in Workflow mode

In WorkFlow mode, you must always print your images with the same format, the same
resolution, and so on.
Drag & drop Print's icon in the WorkFlow Editor.
Double-click this icon to set the module's parameters.
Click on Print to finish configuring the workflow.
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VisualCut
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cutting.
isualCut is a cut workflow that can be activated in existing Caldera modules,
and adds a new application to the list, called Cut. This module, associated to a
cutter plotter, finalizes the VisualCut workflow by handling cutting paths,
managing the needed tools, and driving the device in order to perform the actual
When a document is processed through the VisualCut workflow, a cut job is generated at the
end of the print process and sent to a local cutter queue. Each installed cutter has its own cut
jobs queue, available in the corresponding Cut module.
NOTE: Files in which a cut contour is integrated are marked with a small scissors-shaped
icon in the Images bar.
The VisualCut workflow

The contours
Vector files with embedded contours

When loading a PS, EPS or PDF file,
FileManager also automatically loads all its
vector paths during the preview process. A
contour will be associated to a color; you cannot
associate more than one color to a given contour.
To see the list of contours of a file, drag and drop

the image into the Info module; in the Contour
tab, you can then see how many contours and
associated colors it contains.
NOTE: It is recommended that the cut contour's

name begins with the character string
“CutContour”; these contours will be
automatically selected for cutting in further steps.
Unnamed cut contours will be automatically
named with color values (for example,
C000M000Y000K100 for a 100% black cut
contour).
Please also note that at the moment of printing, you will still be able to assign a contour to
be cut.
Contours created in Compose

You can add these contours in the Properties window of Compose, as shown in the
screenshot below.
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Contours created in the Compose module can be defined as cutting paths. When different
images are placed in a composition, their edges can also become cutting paths.
NOTE: At the moment, cut contours cannot be created on fonts.
Non-embedded vector contours

When a contour is located in another file than the image itself, you can use Compose in
order to make the contour correspond to the image again.
Preparing the cutting and printing
Some cutting information can be prepared through the Print module.
NOTE: For more details about how to use this module, please refer to the Print chapter,
in the present manual.
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To do so, drag and drop the image to be cut on the chosen peripheral, then click the Setup
button and go to the Cutting tab.
Enable cutting contour

Click the Enable Cutting Contour box in order to be able to toggle the various options here.
In the Cutter drop-down menu, select the cutter to which the file is to be sent. This will
also display a list of options specific to each machine. Here, we have chosen the Graphtec
FC5100.
By clicking the Configure button, you can add, edit or delete the cutters in this list.
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To add a new cutter, simply click the New button. Choose its name in the Name field, its
model from the Model list, and the location where the files will be queued in the Queue
field.
If you wish to edit an existing cutter, select its name, click the Edit button, and modify the
properties of the fields listed above.
To delete a cutter, simply select it in the list and click Delete.
Click OK to close the window.
Print options
In the Print options section of the tab, you will find options geared to printing cut
information on the document.
Print registration marks: This option is required to cut a printed document. Specific marks
are added on the printed document to allow the positioning of the cutter device.
Print bar code: This option can be enabled if you own a barcode scanner. In this case, a
barcode will be printed on each edge of the document; it will allow you to feed the cutter
with your printed sheets regardless of the orientation, and then scan the barcode located in
front of you.
Print identification number: This option can be used if you want to use the orientation
feeding system described above, but without a barcode scanner. In this case, you will
have to type the identification number in the Cut application.
Contours
In the Contours section of the tab, you will be able to select and manage the contours of
the document.
Cut contours only: shows only the contours found in the document which names begin
with “CutContour”.
All contours: shows all the contours found in the document.
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For each contour, you can edit some settings. To do so, press the Edit button located at the
right of the list.
Cut: Enables the cutting path if the current contour must be cut.
Print: Enables the printing of the current contour. Usually, if a contour has to be cut, it
will not be printed.
Offset: This setting allows you to cut inside or outside the cutting path for adjustment purposes
(the values range from 10 mm inside to 10 mm outside the current cutting path).
The Cut All and Print All buttons are shortcuts to enable the cutting or printing on all the
contours.
NOTE: By default, if the name of a contour begins with CutContour, it will be enabled
for cutting and disabled for printing, and all the other contours will be disabled for cutting
and enabled for printing.
Checking the Add a frame contour around the image box adds a hidden contour named
CutContourFrame around the image.
Cutting
The Spooler
Once the cut file is generated (at the end of the print process), you can directly start the
Cut application associated to the right cutter. Another method to make sure you are
running the right Cut application is to use the Spooler.
When the file is printed, the cut file is simultaneously generated, and automatically sent
into the queue of the cutting driver. In the Spooler, when a job is linked to a cut file, the
Cut tab displays its associated properties.
Cutting: If the file contains a cut contour or not.

Target cutter: The cutter in which the cut file will be queued.
Barcode: The bar code that will be used by the Cut application to identify the job.
Cutting file: The name of the cutting file linked to the job.
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Clicking the Cut button allows you to directly start the Cut application associated to the
right cutter.
The Cut module

For each installed cutter device, a Cut module is available in the application bar. Launch
the one associated to the cutter you want to drive.
If you have several cutters, you can launch the appropriate Cut module from the Spooler
application. Simply select the printed job you want to cut and press the Cut button.
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Cutting a job
The main window of the Cut application shows you the cutting jobs queue. Once you
have selected a job, you can see the list of associated contours. You can individually
enable or disable the cutting of each contour with the Enable/Disable Contour button (or
double-click on a contour in the list). You can also check the contours in the Preview
window; moving the opacity slider allows you to see the contours more confortably. You
then have to choose the orientation of the sheet in the cutter, using the left arrow and right
arrow buttons.
Once you have inserted the media, selected a job, enabled one or more contours and
chosen an orientation, press the Cut button to send the job to the cutting device; if
necessary, follow the instructions.
If you have printed barcodes or identification numbers on your document, the process is
shorter. In the Direct Barcode Access field, simply scan the barcode in front of you (on
the front side of the cutter) or type in the identification number of the cut job. This will
automatically select the right job as well as the right orientation, and send the job to the
cutting device.
The behaviour of the cutting process depends on the Configuration settings; please refer
to this section before cutting.
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Configure the cutter
Clicking the Configure... button from the main window will show you the Configuration
window. It contains four sections.
Tools settings
This section allows you to create several tool profiles. Each tool profile will be associated to
a specific contour name, and will have its own cutting settings: tool type, tool force, tool
speed, tool acceleration, and tool blade offset. When using the application for the first time, a
default tool is present, and associated to all contour names.
The association between a contour name and a tool profile will allow you to include the
cutting when designing your document. Basically, when creating a document, you should
choose an appropriate name (a name beginning with “CutContour”) to each contour you
want to cut.
For example, if you have defined two different tool profiles (one associated to
“CutContourFast” with the maximum speed, and another associated to “CutContourFine”
with an appropriate speed and other settings for good quality cutting), you will want to
design your new document by naming all non-critical contours (frame around an image,
for example) with the name “CutContourFast” and all other contours with the name
“CutContourFine”.
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By clicking the New, Dup or Edit buttons, you will be able to respectively create a new tool
profile, create a new tool profile from an existing one, or edit an existing profile.
A new window will allow you to modify the following fields:
 Tool Name: name of the tool profile.
 Contour name: name of the contour you want to associate the current tool profile
to.
 Tool type: this type is device dependent; for most existing cutter devices, you will
be able to choose one of the following:
o Kiss cutting: this stands for a cutting blade able to cut only the first layer
of the media (for adhesive vinyle).
o Pen: please select this tool type when using a pen rather than a cutting
tool.
o Laser: a laser pointer shows you the cutting path. When available, this
tool is useful for demonstrations and tests.
o Condition1, Condition2...: these tool types are specific to Graphtec cutter

devices. They refer to internal device presets. When using a Graphtec
device, please first configure each Condition on the cutter.
 Line type: select here the type of the cutting line (solid…).
 Force: this defines the pressure applied to the tool when cutting. Please refer to
the cutter device’s manual for more information.
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 Speed: this defines the speed of the tool head of the cutter when cutting. This
could largely affect the cutting quality; thus, please refer to the cutter device
manual for more information.
 Acceleration: this defines the acceleration of the tool head when cutting. This
could largely affect the cutting quality; thus, please refer to the cutter device
manual for more information.
 Blade offset: this defines a little offset for each beginning and ending of a vector.
If you do not have this information, leave this parameter with its default value.
Please refer to the cutter device manual for more information.
 Last: when this option is activated for the tool, all the associated contours will be
cut last.
The Cut Test button allows you to check the current settings by sending a little sample
cutting path to the device. A media has to be loaded before performing this action.
Queue settings
This section contains information about the queuing of cut jobs.
You can enable or disable the queue with the Activate Cutting Queue toggle.
You can change the queue directory by pressing the Browse button and navigating
through your file system.
You can change the refresh timer. It is recommended not to use too short a period (<5
seconds). At the end of each period, the application will check for new jobs.
Communication settings
This section allows you to change the communication settings between your computer
and the cutting device.
First, choose the link type: USB or Serial. Then choose the right port number on which
the cutter device is connected.
If you are using a serial link type, you should choose a baud rate value, a parity mode and,
finally, a flow control mode.
The white status area shows you if you are connected or not to the cutting device. In case
you are not, you can choose a link type (USB or serial) and then press the Detect Cutter
button in order to search for a device.
Device specific settings

This last section allows you to configure certain critical settings.
Positioning mode
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Before cutting anything, you must choose the right positioning mode:
 Blind Cut: this mode defines the fastest cutting process.
o When pressing the Cut button in the main window, the cutter will begin
the positioning process on the device, and send the contours to the cutter
associated to the current cut job. You have to enable or disable the
contour before pressing the Cut button.
o When using a barcode scanner, scanning a barcode will automatically

select the right job, the right orientation, all the contours, and will send
them to the cutter after the registration of the positioning marks. This
mode is quite useful (and very fast) if you are sure you want to cut all the
contours.
NOTE: With some cutters (such as the Graphtec ones), this mode means that the cutting
head should have been moved above the first registration mark.
 Semi-Automatic: this positioning mode adds a confirmation step right before cutting.
o When pressing the Cut button in the main window after the selection of
the job from the queue, two new buttons will appear: Confirm Positioning
and Cancel. Before pressing the Confirm Positioning button, you can
choose the contours you want to enable, as well as change the orientation.
Basically, this mode is very useful with certain cutter devices like
Graphtec, for which the cutting head has to be positioned above the first
registration mark (the lower right on the document in front of you) before
sending the cut job. Pressing the Confirm Positioning button will begin
the positioning process on the device and send the enabled contours to the
cutter. Press the Cancel button in order to cancel the current cut job.
o When using a barcode scanner, this mode is quite useful: when scanning a
barcode on a document, the associated job will automatically be selected
in the queue and the orientation set, so you only have to choose the
contour you want to cut and press the Confirm Positioning button. This
will begin the positioning process on the device and send the enabled
contours to the cutter. Press the Cancel button in order to cancel the
current cut job.
 Full Automatic:
o When pressing the Cut button, the selected job is ignored and the cutter
will search for a cutter specific barcode (not the Caldera one). When the
cutter has read the barcode, information is transmitted to the Cut
application, and the job is automatically sent to the cutter. At the end of
the cut job, the cutter will look for the next job on the roll, and start the
same process again. This mode allows you to cut a whole printed roll in
one click.
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NOTE: This mode only works for some cutter devices (such as the Mutoh Ultima series).
 None:
o This mode defines a no positioning method. This can be useful for cutting
on colored vinyle, for example, without any cutter position. The process is
the same as the Blind Cut mode, except that there is no positionning
process.
Sheet off: If this option is activated, the media will be cut horizontally at the end of the
job.
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Nest-O-Matik
T he Nest-O-Matik function is to be used to automatically place the documents sent

to the printer, so that the less media possible is used. The printing jobs, that can
be sent from different clients, are grouped together by the printing server in a
specific job, called “Autonest”. This job is sent to the printer when the printing
conditions are fulfilled.
This function is included by default in our Print module.
Configuring Nest-O-Matik
Nest-O-Matik is configured independently for each printer server. The configuration is to
be done in the Servers Admin application, in the part that deals with the servers’ settings;
once the proper server is selected, you then need to click the Nest-O-Matik tab, and set the
various parameters there. Modifying any of these parameters requires you to quit, then
restart the corresponding printing server (in the following example, this server is a
StylusPro 7880 printer).
The configuration interface
How does it work?
Nest-O-Matik can be activated, deactivated, or forced.
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 Disable Nest-O-Matik: Deactivates the automatic nesting on this server.
 Enable Nest-O-Matik: Activates the automatic nesting. If they wish to do so, the
users can send jobs in auto-nesting, as well as regular print jobs. This function is
selected by default.
 Force Nest-O-Matik: This forces the use of the automatic nesting. All jobs
received by the server are then processed by Nest-O-Matik.
Parameters
The following settings are used to control the creation of the specific Autonest job.
 Enable automatic rotation: If activated, this option allows the Nest-O-Matik

function to rotate the images by 90°, provided this can contribute to optimizing
the placing on the media.
 Enable job reordering: If this option is activated, Nest-O-Matik can reorganize the
images every time a new one is added to the job, in order to optimize the placing
on the media. We really advise you to use this option, or else a large part of the
media may end up being wasted. If this option is deactivated, every image in the
Autonest job will keep its place until the job is printed.
 Create independent rows: If activated, this option places the images in independant rows
that can be cut straight (please see the following examples).
Complete nesting Nesting in independent rows
 Centered print: If activated, this option allows the Autonest jobs to be centred on
the page. You can activate it either here for the printer or in the Spooler for a
given Autonest job.
 Loading: Determines the size of the media that will be used to place the images.
There are two types of media: Rolls and Sheets. On a Roll, the Autonest job can
have a variable length, without any constraint. On the contrary, on a Sheet, the
maximal print length is limited by the media size, and cannot be longer (see Print
conditions).
 Action: This option allows you to define the action that will be performed on the
Autonest job once the print conditions are fulfilled. It looks like the Action field of
the print interface of the regular jobs. The available options are:
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o Print: The Autonest job is printed.
o Print & Hold: The Autonest job is printed, and can be printed as many
times as you want from the Spooler. Every time it is printed, all the
computations necessary to preparing the data are done again.
o Compute Reprint: The Autonest job is prepared for the printing (RIP,
computations, and so on), but nothing is printed yet. The action itself must
be run from the Spooler.
o Print & Compute Reprint: The Autonest job is printed once; after this, the
computed data is kept, so that it can be printed again quickly as many
times as needed.
o Compute Reprint then Print: The Autonest job is entirely prepared for the
printing, then printed. The computed data is kept for further reprints.
 Owner: This is the user name (login) that will own administration rights on the
Autonest jobs. This user will be able to delete and block them, as well as release
and force the printing. The users who send jobs to the server will keep
management rights on their own jobs: they can remove them from the Autonest
jobs by deleting or blocking them.
Print conditions
This group of settings allows you to define the moment when an Autonest job must be
printed. It is possible to launch the printing depending on the dimensions of the end
document, of the media overlapping level, and of the inactivity time. Each condition can
be activated or deactivated; to do so, you simply need to check the box in front of it.
The conditions are gathered in groups. For a print to be launched, all the conditions of one
group at least must be filled.
 Covering percentage: Determines the minimum percentage of the media that can
be overlapped by the images. For medias of the Roll type, this percentage is
calculated in regards to the length determined by the images in the Autonest job.
For the sheets, this percentage is calculated comparatively to the complete sheet
surface. This condition pertains to the Group 3. If the Minimal print length
condition is also activated, the printing will be done only if both these conditions
are fulfilled.
 No job received after (min): If no image is added to an Autonest job after the
period defined here, the printing of the Autonest job is then launched. This
condition pertains to Group 1.
 Minimal print length: Determines the desired minimal length of the Autonest job. This
condition pertains to Group 3, and may not be reached if another group of conditions
is verified first (in this case, the Group 1: Minimal activity time).
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 Maximal print length: Pertaining to Group 2, this condition launches the printing
of the Autonest job when it may be longer than this set length. This can happen
after a job has been added to the Autonest job and becomes longer than the
allowed length. The Autonest job will then be printed without the last added job,
and a new Autonest will be created, that will contain the last image.
 Print full rows separately: This condition can only be used if the Create
independent rows mode is activated. It allows you to individually print each row
completely. This condition excludes the use of the covering percentage and
minimal/maximal lengths. It pertains to Group 4.
Groupe Conditions
1 No job received after”
2 Maximal print length”
3 Minimal print length”
4 Print full rows separately”
The four conditions groups
Examples of combined settings for the print conditions:
Covering percentage + Minimal length:

The job is only printed when the given percentage is reached, AND when the length of
the job is at least equal to the one that has been specified.
Covering percentage + Maximal length:

The job is only printed when the given percentage is reached OR if the size might be
longer than the maximal length.
No job received + Maximal length:

The job is printed only if no activity is detected during the indicated timeframe OR if there is
a risk that the job may end up being longer than the specified maximal length.
Spacing
These settings allow you to define the page margins and the spacing of the images in the
Autonest job.
 Top/Bottom/Left/Right page margin: These are the margins placed, respectively,

on the top, bottom, left and right edges. These values can be affected by other
values imposed by the used printer.
 Space between nested jobs: This is the space that will be left between each job
placed in the Autonest.
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 Inch and cm: Choose here the unit in which the measures must be displayed.
Using Nest-O-Matik
The jobs can be directed in the automatic nesting by choosing the Nest action. If the
automatic nesting is forced on this printer server, Nest will be the only possible choice. If
the automatic nesting is not allowed, then this option will not be available.
In the Spooler interface, an Autonest job appears as a regular job. Its name is always
“Autonest”, followed by an automatically incremented number. There can be several
Autonest jobs in the queue line of a printer server, each of them grouping jobs with
various print settings. An Autonest job is always of the “Composite” type. In the Flush
column, it is possible to see the remaining time before the printing is launched, if no other
job is added in the meantime.
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Under the queue lines, you can see how the images are placed within the Autonest job, the
same way the job will be printed. Depending on how the automatic nesting has been set, this
placing can more or less change each time a job is added or deleted.
An Autonest job can be processed the same way a regular job is: it can be deleted (Kill),
blocked (Block), etc. Moreover, the printing of an Autonest job can be forced at any
moment through the use of the Flush button. All of these operations on the Autonest jobs
can only be performed by a user who has been given Administrator rights, in the
automatic nesting configuration tab.
If a regular job contained in an Autonest is deleted, it then disappears from the Autonest
as well. In the same way, when a job is blocked, it is also taken out of the Autonest; on
the other hand, when it is released, it is added to the Autonest again.
If an Autonest job is blocked (with Block), it remains active (for instance, various jobs
can be added to/deleted from it), but it will not be printed when it normally should. It will
however lose its Autonest status, and become a regular job of the “Compose” type. If you
release it, it can be printed later.
As long as an Autonest job remains active, all jobs included in it remain in the queue line.
If the Autonest job is deleted, the jobs that are part of it are deleted as well. When it is
printed, the jobs within it will then be transferred to the middle line, as if they were meant
to be printed too.
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Compose
C ompose is the module to use if you want to create documents from images, texts
or vectors. Thanks to the edition, creation and data entry tools, you can easily
create a composition and print it, or save it as a PDF file. You can also optimize
your print using the Nesting or Fit to page functionalities.
The interactive composition and the positioning of the objects allow to create documents
in a fast and powerful way. The result is a composite image or a standard (raster) image.
Example of composition created with Compose
Compose is very interesting if you want to optimize a print. In fact, it is easy to drop
images in the work space and, thanks to the Nesting function, to reorganize them in order
to use the minimum quantity of paper.
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Example:
Select images and drop them in the work space from Compose. Then, take a right click in
the work area and choose Nesting in the menu. With a second right click, choose Fit page
to selection.
Click Create and New composite document to save your composition.
You can now print your work.
Example of composition created with Compose and the “Nesting” function.
General presentation of Compose

Compose is the perfect tool to create printed documents, or for compositions.
You can choose different formats for your work space depending on the loaded printer
(menu Setup > Document), apply a margin, and so on.
Compose functions with three types of elements:
The vector elements (or creation mode). You can create shapes (circles, rectangles,
polylignes, polygons...), apply a prime coat, different shapes for the corners...
The image element, which you can use as a template, apply an opacity to, whose
proportions you can keep when it is cropped (thanks to the Keep Entity Ratio
function)...
The text option, which allows to define a text area with a choosen font, to define
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the size, to use a shadow function or an opacity, to make a rotation...
By simply using these three types of elements, you can make

all your compositions.
NOTE: A composite (vector) image is an image the size of

which on the disk is always light, whatever the size, resolution,
depth, and mode of the final image. It contains the description
of the current composition. A standard image (raster) is an
image the side of which on the disk depends on the
dimensions, mode and depth. It is described in pixel data.
The lists of the different functions of Compose—Objects,

Tools, Alignments...—can now be minimized; thus you can
very easily organize your workspace.
– To minimize a group of tools, you need to click once the

small black triangle on the left of this group
– To restore a group of tools, the procedure is the same: click

on the arrow again.
NOTE: If you keep the CTRL key pressed while dropping an

image in Compose’s main window, a dialog box will ask you
how many times you want this image to be duplicated.
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Example: creating a composition
Follow these steps to create this composition:
– Create a text area on the left border (over the entire length) with a width of 29mm (you
can do it either manually or in the Dimensions area of the main window). Choose the
background color (we have chosen CMYK: 0 of cyan, 38 of magenta, 93 of yellow and 0
of black).
– Place the image at the top right of the page and increase its size (either manually or in
the Position area in the main window) until 29mm (edge of the field text).
– The orange text <La solution professionnelle de reproduction couleur grand format>
has been created with a text area and a Kabel font.
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Chosen dimensions Text formats
– The left text column in the main area has been positioned at a distance of 34 mm from the left
edge and 152 mm from the top edge. The size of the framework is 78 * 106 mm.
– The right column of text in the main area has been positioned at a distance of 122 mm
from the left edge and 152 mm from the high edge. The size of the framework is of 78 *
106 mm.
Both texts areas have been created with the “Garamond” font.
The left text area has the following properties: width of 2.85, height of 3.45 Rat. of 0.83
(without activation), and an interline of -0.6. The right text area has the following
properties: width of 3.09, height of 3.56, Rat. of 0.87 (without activation), and an interline
of -0.6.
The Caldera logo is positioned at a distance of 10 mm and 275 mm in X1;Y1. The

dimensions of the logo are 17 * 14 mm.
The last step consists in placing the text on the orange border. To do so, create a text
framework the dimensions of which are 157 * 30 mm. The font is a Georgia. The CMYK
color has been chosen at 0 of cyan, 58 of magenta, 70 of yellow, and 0 of black.
In the text field, choose a left alignment. Carry out a rotation of 90° for the text thanks to the
Angle field. Finally, affix the text to the orange border in the top on the left.
NOTE: To get a clearer appearance (it is actually rounded) of the text in the composition,
use Alt-H.
Example:
Without ALT-H With Alt-H
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Working modes
Data entry help tools
The Settings area, from left to right, allows you to:
 display or hide the grid.
 snap the pointer to the grid (whether the grid is displayed or not).
 snap the pointer to the control points.
NOTE: The snap depends on the Magnetization distance option, in the Setup window.
The Edition mode
The Edition area, from left to right, contains:
 the edition mode for the entities control points.
 the cropping mode for the selected entities (it is interesting for cliparts loaded
from templates).
 the rotation mode for the selected entities (this is not available for the images).
The Creation mode
The Objects area switches the software to Creation mode (also known as 'vector mode')
for the respective entities (polylines, arrows, arcs, polygons, rectangles, circles, image
templates and text templates, gradients).
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The Image template icon allows to create templates in which you can drop an
image. It can be cropped or resized.
The Text template icon allows to insert a text. The Properties window of the text
allows you to choose the font, the size...
The Degrader function allows you to apply a gradient to a template, but only if the
image it contains has been created using the Degrader module.
Templates
These are areas defined in the document. They have several attributes. A template may be
empty or contain an image. Images are displayed in their respective templates.
Template creation
In order to create a template, you can use the selections of the display or drop an image in
Compose. A template is then implicitly and automatically created to receive the dropped
image.
How to select a template

There are several ways of selecting a template:
 For a single template, highlight the desired template with the left mouse button.
 For a set of templates, outline them with a rectangular area created with the
middle button. To perform multiple selections, use the Shift key.
 To select the templates cyclically, use Tab and Shift + Tab.
 For a hidden template, use Alt and the left mouse button to select it.
How to drop images in a template

The Blocks Wizard function allows you to create and automatically align a certain amount
of templates on the workspace. These templates will all have the same size.
Width and Height allow you to set the templates' size (the unit is the one chosen in the
Setup).
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X Spacing and Y Spacing define the space left between the templates.
Nbr. X corresponds to the number of templates placed horizontally, while Nbr. Y

corresponds to the number of templates placed vertically.
NOTE: If you set all these fields as Auto, you will obtain a single template, adapted to the
size of the document itself.
You can then drop images from the working bar into these templates, and not only one by
one: for instance, in the blocks template below, we want to drag and drop the same image
in the nine templates of one column.
Click the Setup button and, in the Document tab, type 9 in the Duplicate drop field. This
corresponds to the number of times you want to copy the image.
Click OK to come back to the document, then use the mouse to select a whole column;
once it is done, take the image in the working bar, and drop it on the first template in the
column. When you are asked if you want to duplicate the drop image 9 times, click Yes.
The copy will then be made in the 9 gabarits of the column, while the size of the images
will be automatically adapted.
This operation can be done with as many images as you wish: if you want to drop an
image in n gabarits, type n in Duplicate drop. The images will be copied in, first from left
to right (X data), then from up to bottom (Y data).
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How to move a template

To move a template:
 Select the template with the mouse.
 Using manually entered values, select the template and enter the new positions in
the template's X and Y fields.
How to resize a template

To resize a template:
 Select the template and work on it as you would do in the Display, using the
resizing handles.
 Select the template and enter the new sizes in the template's W and H fields.
How to remove a template

 Select a template or a set of templates and press Backspace.
 If the template contains an image, the image will be removed, and will need to
press Backspace a second time to remove the template.
 To remove all the templates, selected or not, click Shift + Backspace.
NOTE: When you have moved or resized a template, you can cancel this action by
pressing Esc.
What is a model?
A model is made of a blank page and of a set of empty templates. It can be defined, saved
or loaded in Compose.
For instance, as it shown in the images below, you can create several templates, each with
a different size, and then reorganize them thanks to the Nesting command, before
dragging and dropping images in them (the images will automatically be adapted to the
size of the templates).
Of course, you can also create them by using the Block Wizard tool, as explained above.
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Empty templates Templates containing images
Be careful: when saving a model, images contained in the templates are not saved in the
latter. The model is just a description of the positions and dimensions of the templates and
final image.
From the Clipart Browser, you can charge or save models (built-in models) or cliparts
(free images contained in a catalog).
When saving a document:
– Choose Save all as clipart to save the whole page as a clipart.

– Choose Save selected as clipart to save the selection as a clipart.
– Choose Save all as template to save the page as template.
– Choose Save as PDF to save the page in a PDF file.
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Edition tools
In the Tools area, from left to right:
– Displays the properties (shown hereunder) of the selected entity.
– Stretches the images and vector entities, so that they fill the whole surface of the
document (if Keep ratio is selected on certain entities, they will not be deformed).
– Apply a 90° rotation (clockwise or counter-clockwise) on your templates and images.
– Applies a “Nesting” on the selected entities.
– Adjusts the page size, depending on the surface filled by the selected elements (Fit to
page).
– Opens the Gabarit Wizard window.
– Copies the selected entity into the clipboard.
– Cuts the selected entity and copies into the clipboard.
– Pastes the cut or copied entity into the work area.
Alignment tools
The Alignments area offers the following tools (from left to right and top to bottom):
– Vertically aligns the selected entities on their left side.

– Vertically aligns the selected entities on their centers.
– Vertically aligns the selected entities on their right side.
– Horizontally aligns the selected entities on their upper side.
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– Horizontally aligns the selected entities on their centers.

– Horizontally aligns the selected entities on their bottom.
– Places the selected entities on the foreground.
– Moves the selected entities from one level toward the foreground or background,
depending on which arrow you click.
– Places the selected entities on the background.
Position
The Position area allows you to view and manually modify the position and dimensions
of the whole composition, or of one of its elements.
X0: When an element is selected, this field modifies the abscissa of its point of origin.
Y0: When an element is selected, this field modifies the ordonate of its point of origin.
X1: When an element is selected, this field modifies the abscissa of the point opposite to
the point of origin.
Y1: When an element is selected, this field modifies the ordonate of the point opposite to
the point of origin.
Dimensions
W: Width of the selected element.

H: Height of the selected element.
%W: Modifies the redimensioning factor for the element's width.
%H: Modifies the redimensioning factor for the element's height.
Page format
In this part of the window, you can directly select the page size.
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The first drop-down menu allows you to select the printer on which you plan on printing
your Compose document.
The second drop-down menu allows you to select a predefined format (A4, A3, A0…) or
to define a custom format. Moreover, the formats configured on the target printer are also
available in this list.
Click on this button to adjust the page dimensions to all the entities in the work
area (shortcut: Alt+E).
Click on this button to adjust the page height to all the entities, while preserving
the page width (shortcut: Alt+F).
NOTE: Right under this area, you can choose the measure unit that will be used for your
Compose document (inches or millimetres).
Nesting
The buttons in this part of the window allow you to manage the nesting functions
available in Compose (they can also be accessed from the Compose Menu).
Nests all the entities of the document (shortcut: Alt+K).
Nests all the entities of the document, then adjusts the page height (shortcut:
Alt+I).
Rotates the entities and groups, which allows you, in some cases, to save up on the
amount of paper used.
Enables the creation of independent rows, in order to make cutting easier.
Click this button to prevent the entities from being reordered when nested (this
option tries to preserve the position of the entities on the page).
This option prevents images from overlapping, and you cannot move them outside
of the page. It is only helpful for manual nesting.
As for the Margin field, il vous permet de définir l’espace à laisser entre les objets
imbriqués.
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The Properties windows: images, texts and vector entities

Image properties
The Contour area:

– Enabled: displays the border.
– Color: border color.
– Opacity: border opacity.
– Thickness: border thickness.
– Cut Contour: information about a real cut that will be added around the entities (the
margins of the crops are taken into account here).
The Image area:

– Image Name: selected image name.
– Id: template name.
– Keep Image Ratio: allows to maintain the proportions of the images dropped in the template.
– Opacity: opacity of the image.
The Crop Marks area:

– Standard, Frame, Corner, Tombo and Targets: displays six types of different marks.
– Margin: margin between entity and marks.
With Information, you can insert the following data in your document:
– Date: the date.
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– Page Number: the number of the page.

– File Name: the name of the file.
The Misc area:

– Keep Entity Ratio: keeps all the proportions of the entity.
– ICC Calibration: applies an ICC calibration on the entity).
Text properties
– The Border area here is identical to the one described previously.
The Text area:
– Text: opens the Text Editor window.

– Font: you can choose fonts, after having loaded them in the Setup.
– Width and Height: characters' height and width.
– Rat.: applies a ratio.
– Angle: the way the text is inclined.
– Spac.: applies a space between the characters.
– Inter Line: height of the interline.
– Bg: background color.
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– Fg: text color.

– Opacity: text opacity.
The Background Color window:
The Misc area:
– Keep Entity Ratio: keeps the proportions of the entity

– ICC Calibration: applies an ICC calibration to the entity
Text Editor window
– The Text Value area is the text edition area.
– Char Set opens the Char Set window, where you can choose different characters.
NOTE: Text Editor appears automatically when you create a text area, or click an existing
text area.
Presentation of the vector entities window properties
The vector entities share certain functions. They are explained below.
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The Contour area:

– Enabled: displays the border.
– Cut Contour: information about a real cut, that will be added around the entities (the
margins of the crops are here taken into account).
– Color: border color.
– Opacity: border opacity.
– Thickness: border thickness.
– Ext.: the control points of an entity can be placed on the outside, on the inside or on the
middle part of the border.
The Misc area:

– Keep Entity Ratio: keeps the proportions of the entity.
– ICC Calibration: applies an ICC calibration on the entity.
Example of control points positioning:
Middle Inside Outside
Example of joining:
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For the following entries, the Control Points area is identical:
Polylines
Arrows
Arcs
Polygons
– The Control Points area allows to choose the control point index from the entities
which coordinates you want to display.
The Filling area is identical for the following entries:
Polylines
Rectangles
Circles
The Filling area:
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– Enabled: enables items filling

– Color: filling color
– Opacity: filling opacity.
Properties of the polylines

The properties window contains three areas: Contour, Misc and Control Points. They
have all been described above.
Properties of the arrows

– The Arrow point field allows to choose the type of arrow you want to use, the size of
the arrow point, its thickness, and the angle of the arrow.
Example:
The following image represents the three types of arrows.
Properties of the arcs

The properties window contains three areas: Contour, Misc and Control Points.
Properties of the polygons

The properties window contains four areas: Contour, Misc, Control Points and Filling.
Properties of the circles and rectangles

The circle and rectangle properties windows are the same and contain three areas:
Contour, Filling and Misc.
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The Compose Setup window

The Compose parameters are set in the Compose Setup window.
The Setup window is composed of three tabs: Document, Entities, Fonts.
Document tab
The Image type area:
– Mode: the mode in which rasterized images are created, followed by their depth
(expressed in bits).
– Resolution: document resolution.
The Margins area:
– Left, Right, Top, Bottom: composition page margins. You can reset the margins
configuration with the Supress Margins button.
The Misc area:
– Horizontal grid step: horizontal step of the grid.

– Vertical grid step: vertical step of the grid.
– Magnetization distance: defines the distance of the magnetic step.
– Cross cursor: displays a cursor through all the work space, horizontally and vertically.
– Preserve entities size when resizing: if the format of the page is changed, the entity will
still retain its original dimensions.
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– Display rulers: displays the rulers.

– Background color: applies a background color.
The Duplicate Drop field allows to choose the number of times an image will be inserted,
when it is dropped in Compose.
Entities tab
In this tab, you can modify the default properties of the different entities (they are detailed in
the The window properties from the images, texts and vector entities chapter).
Fonts tab
The Fonts tab allows to load fonts, so that they will be available for text entities.
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– Preview area: displays the preview characters. You can choose them by
incrementing/decrementing the matching value, typing the characters in, or by selecting
them in the Char Set.
– Available Fonts: displays the available fonts list. To use them in Compose, click ADD
(the arrow pointing to the right) after having chosen the font.
– Selected Fonts: displays the installed fonts in Compose. To add a font, click ADD after
having selected them in Available Fonts. In order to delete a font, select it in Selected
Fonts, and click REMOVE (the arrow pointing to the left).
Functions available in the three tabs:
– Reset: all parameters will be set with their default values.
– Cancel: closes the window without applying the changes.
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– Load/Save: allows you to save the changes you have made in a configuration file
(Save), or to load a configuration file you have already saved (Load).
– OK: applies the changes and closes the window.
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Tiling > see addendum Tiling+
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Visual User
A lthough the server for this product can be installed on Linux and Macintosh
only, you can of course use a Visual User viewer from other platforms.
Thanks to our Caldera web server, you can download Visual User for Windows
or Macintosh.
Downloading VNC Viewer installation files

To access the Caldera web server, open a web browser. Then, in the URL field, type the
IP address of your Caldera workstation (for instance, http://192.168.1.10, if the
workstation IP address is 192.168.1.10).
Next, click the VNC Client for Windows and Mac Download link, and select the file you
want to download, depending on your environment. Choose in which directory you want
to save it.
There is no need to install it: to launch Visual User, simply click its icon, then type the
name or IP address of the workstation you want to connect to (see below).
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Visual User for Windows

If you are running your machine under a Windows environment, it is easy to connect to a
Linux-driven Caldera workstation.
There is no need to perform an installation: it is automatically done once the file is downloaded.
Start Visual User by double-clicking its icon in the directory where you have saved it.
You will be asked the hostname and display number, as in the following window:
Click OK. You will then have to type your password.
Once it is done, you can access the desktop of the host machine, where you have to select
the user account you want to log with.
In the Visual User previous versions, you normally had to log in using the Spooler
account. You can now add new users and log in with one of them, as is shown below. The
procedure allowing to create a new user is detailed in the Visual User – Server chapter.
In the following example, we have used the caldera account to log in:
NOTE: If the machine on which the server is installed does not have a DNS entry, you
will certainly not be able to use its name, and will then have to replace it by the station’s
address (for instance, <192.168.0.130:2>).
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In the configuration applied to our own VNC server, the Caldera software installed on the host
workstation is automatically launched when a new connection is initiated.
Once logged in, click with the right button of your mouse on the VNC User icon placed in
your taskbar. A menu will be displayed, giving you access to different options.
These options are the following ones:
Close: Closes the connection.
Connection options: These are the different options used to configure your connection.
 Preferred encoding: Choose your encoding and compression level here.
 Misc: Three options are available here:
o Request shared session: Sends a request to share the current session to the
host machine.
o Deiconify on Bell: Restores a VNC window when a sound is triggered by

a certain event.
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o Disable Clipboard transfer: Prevents the clipboard exportation between

the host and the client.
 Mouse: The first option allows you to emulate a three buttons mouse, even if
yours only has two. The second option is used to intervert the second and third
buttons of the mouse.
 Mouse cursor: These options are used to configure how the mouse cursor will be
managed (by the local station or by the remote server).
 Display: These options concern the session display:
o Restrict pixels to 8 bits: This option is mainly useful on slow networks; it

allows you to limit the depth to 8 bits only, even if the host can display
16.
o View only (input ignored): Only allows access to the host machine in
read-only mode. If this option is selected, you will of course not be able to
remotely modify anything on the server.
o Full-screen mode: Displays the remote desktop in full-screen mode
o Scale by 1/1 (experimental): Choose here the scale which you want the
remote desktop to be displayed with.
Request Screen refresh: Forces the screen to refresh.
Full Screen: To switch to full-screen mode.
Send Ctrl+Alt+Del: Sends the command to the host machine.
Ctrl Up, Ctrl Down, Alt Up, Alt Down: Sends these commands to the host machine.
New connexion: Initiates a new connection.
Save connexion info as...: Saves the information about the current connection in a .vnc
file.
Visual User for Linux

The VNC functions available on a Linux system are the same as the ones for a Visual
User on a Windows system.
To run a VNC client in Kubuntu, open the K menu, go to Internet, and click Krdc (Remote
Desktop Connection).
Web VNC (HTML version)

The Caldera server mentioned hereabove also gives you access to a version of Visual
User, called “Web VNC”, that can be directly used from a web browser.
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On the first page of the web server, click the Web VNC (HTML version) link. This will
launch Visual User in your web browser.
On the VNC Authentication page, click OK. The password needed to access this session is
caldera.
Log in with one of the available accounts.
Several options are also available:
Disconnect closes your Visual User session.

Options allows you to chose the display parameters of your Visual User session:
encoding, mouse buttons...
Clipboard opens a text editor.

Send Ctrl-Alt-Del allows to restart the remote workstation.
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Visual User – Server

How does a Visual User server work?
The VNC protocol gives the user access to the desktop of a machine on which a VNC
server has been installed—and this, by connecting from another workstation on which a
Visual User is installed. The server will then regularly update its display on the user's
screen. You can potentially use VNC with every operating system based on the 'windows'
graphic interface—this includes X/Unix/Linux, Windows 3.1/98/NT/XP and Macintosh.
To send data on a network, Visual User uses the TCP/IP protocol, which makes it easy to
install and to use, but does not exclude sending data on another kind of network.
Sending a request can simply be done when the user presses a key on his keyboard, or
clicks in a window with the mouse. If the client machine is slower, this process will be
slowed down too, and does not encumber the whole network.
Installing a Visual User server

The VNC server managed by your Caldera workstation is automatically installed when
you install the Update Tools.
Its configuration has already been optimized by the Caldera developers, so that it is the
most adapted possible to our softwares, and there is no need for you to modify anything
in it.
The VNC server is then automatically started when you connect your workstation.
In a Linux environment, the main interface of a station called for instance “caldera” will
normally be “caldera:0”.
You can run as many servers as you want; they will then appear as “caldera:1”,
“caldera:2”, etc...
You now just have to connect a Visual User to your workstation, either by installing the
VNC file downloadable on our web server, or by using our WebVNC interface, also
accessible from our web server.
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Add/Remove a user
Both actions are done from the machine on which the server is hosted.
Adding a user
Open the Menu.
Click Caldera>CalderaTools.
Type in <your root password> (it should normally be caldera).
In the address bar of the window that will appear, type file:/home/ calderatools/user.
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Click the AddNewUser icon.
In the User window, when you are asked <User Name?>, type the name you want to give
to the new user, then press ENTER.
The next time you connect to a Caldera session by using Visual User, the new user will
appear in the login window.
Removing a user
To remove an already existing user (here, caldera2), follow the same procedure as
previously described.
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Click Menu>Caldera>CalderaTools; type file:/home/calderatools/user in the address bar,

and click the RemoveUser icon.
In the User window, when you are asked <Delete User?>, type the user name you want
to remove, then press ENTER.
The next time you connect to a Caldera session by using Visual User, the removed user
will not appear in the login window anymore.
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A D M I N I S T R A T I O N T O O L S
Administration tools
M ost of the time, you will not need to use these tools. However, the Caldera
software is a sophisticated one, that can manage several users, several
peripherals, and on several kinds of workstations simultaneously. In this part
of our documentation, you will be shown how to use the administration tools
when it comes to automation concepts as well as to settings files.
What are theAdministration tools?

1 - Configuration
a) affecting all the users, i.e. Servers Admin.
b) affecting one user only, i.e User configuration, WorkFlow Editor and
Hotfolders Admin.
2 - Job execution: jobs can be sent by every user.
a) Print Spooler: if it is used by the “super user”, it can administrate all the jobs;
otherwise, the Unix rights (users, groups...) have priority.
b) Hotfolders Admin: these are the jobs concerning all the users who are able to
copy files in the HotFolders, even Mac and PC users.
c) WorkFlow Report: the user's own jobs are shown there.
3 - Keys, with the Key Manager.
When it comes to the keys, everybody is concerned; they are controlled by the administrator.
HotFolders
HotFolders are directories in which files are detected in order to be sent into a WorkFlow.
To create or edit a HotFolder, see HotFolders Admin.
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This component, which is essential to create a Server, can, on the one hand, manage the
access of the Caldera WorkFlows to a heterogeneous network (PC, Mac...). On the other
hand, it can also share the jobs among the different nodes of the network.
HotFoldersAdmin
A specific directory needs to be defined as a HotFolder. It will detect each file dropped
into it, and process it.
Hotfolders can be activated within specific hours; they can also detect files with certain
extensions and send them into a pre-defined WorkFlow or into the software's image bar.
Creating a HotFolder
In the application bar, select Special, then HotFolders.
When the list of HotFolders appears, you can see the default one, named caldera.
Click New to create a new HotFolder. The window called Edit HotFolder will then be displayed.
Configuring a HotFolder is done as shown in the example below:
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- Name: Print_to_X2
- Batch: fileman -load –prevallpages
- Workflow: Print_to_X2
- Directory: /tmp
- Filter: *.ps
- Start Hour: 0
- Stop Hour: forever
- TimeOut: 30
Activated: This box must be checked for the HotFolder to be able to process images.
Delete After WorkFlow: If you choose this option, the incoming files will be deleted after
processing.
Only If No Error: With this option activated, the incoming files are to be deleted after
processing only if no error has occurred.
WARNING: The associated workflow must be created beforehand.
Drag & drop FileManager into the Edit HotFolder window.
When FileManager is open, select the directory where all files will be transferred and printed.
Exemple: /home/public/Print_to_X2.
WARNING: The directory called Print_to_X2 must be created beforehand.
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Click OK, in the configuration window, to validate the settings.
Look at the HotFolders window after creation; it shows the available HotFolders, as well
as the associated files.
Several buttons are available in the bottom part of the window to allow you to work with
your HotFolders.
Delete File deletes the file you have selected in the file list.
Execute executes the HotFolder.
Delete deletes the HotFolder.
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In order to create a HotFolder, click New. This operation opens the HotFolder Editor.
Choose a name for your HotFolder.
Batch: Once a file is detected in this HotFolder, the command-line captured here will be
executed. Drop one of the concerned modules (FileManager...) into the Editor window,
in order to set the command-line. You will need to specify the directory in which the
HotFolder module is going to store the files.
In the WorkFlow field, you can set the WorkFlow which will process your image coming
from Batch.
Directory: Here, give the name of the directory in which your file will be saved. Usually,
this field is filled in by FileManager, but it is possible to edit it manually.
You can also choose a filter as well as the destination of your files: the image bar or a workflow.
In the field called Start Hour, you can set the hour during which you want your HotFolder
to begin to run. If you leave this number as 0, the files will be executed as soon as they are
detected by HotFolder.
Please remember that the module only begins or stops to run at straight hours (1 to 23).
In the field called Stop Hour, you can choose when your automation must stop. The
default setting is Forever. This means that the executed process will only stop when no
more files are detected.
Time Out: By default, the execution begins severals seconds after the detection of a file.
You can set this time from 1 to 1000 secondes. If your network is fast and your
workstation very powerful, you may reduce the delay set by default; if it is not the case,
increase the delay.
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With the option placed at the bottom of this window, you can also decide whether or not
your HotFolder is to be ‘Active’.
Delete after WorkFlow allows you to suppress your file after executing the HotFolder.
With the Only if no error option, your file will only be erased if the HotFolder and the
Workflow have been executed correctly.
Click OK. Your Hotfolder is now created, and appears in the list of HotFolders of the
main window.
Key Manager
In order to work with the Caldera products, you need to have licence keys.
Without these keys, you can only use our products in demo mode; you will have access to
all the functions of the Caldera software for your evaluation, but the Caldera logo will
always be present on your images.
When you purchase a Caldera product, you receive temporary keys, usable for a period of
sixty days, as well as an access number.
The access number is sent to you either by fax or by e-mail; as for the keys, they are
either in a file to download or on a floppy disk. To enter these keys into your software,
you need to use the Key Manager module.
When you receive your definitive keys from Caldera, follow the same procedure as the
one that is going to be described here, and replace the temporary keys with the new ones.
To access the Key Manager module, launch the Caldera software by clicking the Caldera
shortcut on your desktop.
In the Applications bar, select the Settings tab.
Execute Keymanager by double-clicking its icon.
The keyserver program is associated to a file called “caldera.licenses”. This file contains
coded keys. At the time when you are installing your Caldera software, choose localhost
as being the keyserver host, so that the key server is installed at the same moment.
When booting your workstation, this server automatically starts: this way, the keys of the
caldera.licenses file become available.
You do not need a keyserver for all the Caldera installation: the keys can be shared on the
network.
You can access KeyManager with the right button menu in the Caldera window.
KeyManager allows you to edit your coded keys and to check if these keys are valid.
Thanks to the Check command, you can also check these keys manually.
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Information to be processed
In this window, you will be able to import your licence keys.
If your licence is based on the use of a dongle, please check the Use Dongle option, and
specify its type (USB...).
The Hostid will be automatically determined.
In the Access number field, type the access number that has been sent to you when you
purchased your product. This number is very important, and you must always be able to
give it to us, especially when contacting Caldera support service. If you have properly
entered it, it will be retrievable in the About section of the right-click menu.
Finally, choose the source from which you want to import the key file that has been sent
to you (it is a tar.gz file): floppy disk (Floppy), /public directory (Public), /home directory
(Home), or any other directory in which you have saved this file after downloading it
(Other).
Check verifies the validity of your licence. If the latter has been properly saved, it will be
labelled as <OK>. Should the opposite occur, the word <Failed> will appear: it means
that you have made a mistake when typing the data, and that you have to do it again.
Edit allows you to edit the information about the license that is currently in use.
Usage: Shows every access to the keys since their installation.
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Info: Click this button to obtain information related to the Caldera products installed on
your workstation, to the available licenses, and to the modules to which you are allowed
access.
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Close closes the Key Settings window. If you have performed changes in this module, you
will then be asked whether you want to save them or not.
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Print Spooler
A spooler is a queue into which you can send your printing jobs; thus, they can be stored
(in memory or on the disk) before being processed by the printer.
This is especially useful
 if you need to print several different documents, and/or
 if one printer is used by several users.
Caldera Spooler window
The Spooler window contains three main parts:
- 1. The Status window, upper right part: status of the different printing jobs.
- 2. The Status window, bottom right part: information on the jobs ready to be printed.
- 3. The Left side window: the list of available servers.
The Preview window displays the image that is going to be printed. This image can be
viewed in local mode only; if you are working on a distant computer, you will not see the
image being displayed.
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The Job tab

This tab summarizes the parameters that have been set in the main window of the Print
interface (they are specific to each printer model).
1. Destination: the destination of the document (directly printed, printed in a file).
2. After Print: the action to be done once the job is printed (here: hold the job).
3. Copies: the number of copies that are to be printed. This function is especially useful if
an error occurs: in this case, Already done shows you the number of copies that have
actually been printed. Thus, you can easily resume the printing where it has stopped.
4. Type: the type of the document (Raster, PS, HPGL).
5. Orig. file: the name of the original file.
6. Input file: the spooler file.
7. Job size: if you work in local mode and the printer is connected to a server, this field
shows the room taken by the job on the hard drive of this server.
8. Printer: the name of the printer from which the job was sent.
9. Owner: the user who has sent the job to the spooler.
10. Sent from: the name of the server from which the job was sent.
Export to CostView: Click on this button to export the data of all the selected jobs to
CostView, Caldera’s costs management tool.
The Colors tab

This tab contains the following information:
Mode: The color mode (RVB, CMJN...) of the entities in the document
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Entity: The various entities composing the printable document (vectors, images...)
Profile: The profile applied to the image.
Rendering: The type of rendering applied to the image.
Black: The type of black used for the image.
Simulation profile: The simulation profile applied to the image, if there is any.
Output profile: The ICC profile that will be applied to the image when it is printed.
The Settings tab
1. Media: shows the media (paper) in use for the print.
2. Loading: the feeding type (paper roll or sheet).
3. Document size: the size of the document.
4. Printing size: the printing dimensions.
5. Media surface: the surface of the media that is used for printing.
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6. Scale: the scale at which the image is printed.
7. Media size: the size of the media used for printing.
8. Quality: the printing quality level.
9. Resolution: the printing resolution.
10. Mode: the color mode used for printing.
11. Options: the specific options (anti-aliasing…) activated for the job.
The Printer tab
This tab summarizes the printer settings that have been chosen in the Settings window
(see Print module): the ink type, the roll selection, etc.
NOTE: These settings are specific to each printer, hence why they are not described in
detail here.
The Media tab
This tab summarizes the media-related settings that have been defined in the Print
module.
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The History tab
Date: the date at which the printing job was created.
Action: action done on this date (creating the document, printing...).
Nb: the number of copies you want to print.
Status: the status of the printing (done, cancelled...).
Total nb of copies: the total amount of copies printed.
The CostProof tab

This tab details the cost of the ink and media that are going to be used to print the job.
The Cutting tab

The options in this tab are available when an image contains one or more contour(s).
For more details about cutting, please refer to the VisualCut chapter, in the Modules part
of this manual.
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Cutting: Shows whether the document must be cut or not.
Target cutter: The cutter to which the image will be sent.
Barcode: The barcode on the image to be cut.
Cut file: The cut file associated to the image, if there is one.
The Prior button

Clicking this button gives priority to the selected job over all the others.
The Kill button

Stops and deletes the selected job(s).
The Purge button

The job is kept in the spooler, but cannot be printed any more.
The Block button

You can block the jobs present in the queue. These jobs will not be printed, but will stay
in the spooler.
The Release button

This button allows you to launch the printing of the selected job again. The job is placed
in the queue, and is printed as soon as the server is ready.
The Flush button

This button is used to complete Nest-O-Matik jobs.
The Settings button

This window is only available when the job is not directly sent to the printer (for instance,
if you have chosen Compute & Reprint, or if an error has occurred...). It allows you to
redefine a certain number of settings.
The Main tab:
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Destination: Here, you can redefine whether the job is to be sent directly to the printer, to
a file, etc.
After Print...:
- Delete job: the job will be deleted after the printing.
- Hold job (printable): keeps the printed job in the spooler.
- Purge job: the job remains in the spooler, but is not printable any more.
Number of copies: shows the number of copies to be processed.
Already done: forces the number of copies already processed.
The second part of this window corresponds to the settings of the printer itself (here, it is a
StylusPro7800). These are the same options as the ones you can display by clicking the
Settings icon, in the window associated to the printer (see Print module).
Click OK to validate the changes, or Cancel to cancel them.
The Specific tab:
Here, you can redefine printer settings. These settings depending directly on the model of
the printer, they will be different depending on what printer you are sending the job to.
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The Media tab:
These parameters correspond to specific settings concerning the media defined in the
Print module, such as the Type of the media itself, or the quality type of the printed black
ink (Black cartridge).
The Nest-O-Matik tab:
This tab is only available when you are working with nested images.
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Media Loading: The type of media loaded.
Space between jobs: Space between the nested images.
Automatic rotation: When activated, this option enables the rotation of images, in order to
avoid wasting paper.
Job reordering: This allows the reordering of the images. If deactivated, the images are
inserted in the order they were submitted.
Independant rows: Enables the creation of independent rows (this makes the cutting easier).
The Log file button
Displays the history of all the jobs that have been printed since the installation of the
printer’s driver.
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The Setup button
The Setup window allows you to configure various options.
The Processing, Done and Error tabs

The Processing, Done and Errors tabs give access to the following data:
- Processing: jobs that are currently being processed.

- Done: finished jobs.
- Errors: jobs for which errors have been encountered.
- Job: name of the job,

- Id: the Id number given to the current job. When the server is first launched, the number
1 is given.
- Host: displays the name of the machine that has sent the printing.
- Server: name of the printer server.
- User: username of the person who has sent the job.
- Type: the job's format (HPGL, Post Script, Composite, Raster).
- Size: image size (in Mb).
- Destination: peripheral to which the job has been sent.
- Creation: date on which the job has been sent.
- Last Print: date of the last printing.
- Time: displays the required time for printing.
- Total: the total of jobs in the spooler.
- Mode: printing mode (color, white & black).
- Copies: how many copies will be printed.
- Done: how many printings have been done.
- Resolution: printing resolution.
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- Quality: printing quality (low, normal, high).

- Loading: chosen roll.
- Media: chosen media (paper).
- After Printing: what to do with the job after printing.
- State: job state.
- Flush: number of minutes remaining until the job is flushed (for Autonest jobs)
- Cutting: whether a cut file has been generated with the print or not
- Progress: job progression (in %).
- Message: displays error messages and warnings.
NOTE: In the Print module, you can choose between sending the job in the spooler or
directly to the printer.
(If you directly send the job to the printer, the DAP function will automatically be
activated. If there is no error, the job will directly be deleted from the spooler.)
The Misc tab

It is also located in the Setup window.
Spooler Mode: Here you can choose whether the Spooler will be in User or
Administrator mode.
 The Administrator mode allows you to spool all printers on the network.
 The User mode allows to spool only the printers that are used on the machine in local
mode; these machines can be connected to other machines on the network.
NOTE: Please refer to the Super Spooler part, right after this one, to get more details
about these modes and their functioning.
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Display running servers only: only displays the printers that are currently connected.
Show hostnames in server list: displays the hostname in the list of servers.
Warn if server is stopped: checking this box will warn you if the current server is stopped.
Length & Area Unit: the units that will be used to measure the dimensions and surface of
the printings.
Monetary unit: monetary unit in which the printing cost will be displayed.
Reset resets all settings.
Cancel cancels the modifications you have just made.
OK accepts the modifications that have been made.
Super Spooler
The Super Spooler allows you to monitor several print servers independently, whether
they are on the local machine or on a distant one.
Spooler modes
Two modes are available for the Super Spooler.
User: This is the default mode. It only allows the monitoring of the servers installed in the
Caldera applications bar, and this, independently from their location.
Administrator: This mode allows you to edit the list of servers that must be monitored.
You can activate this mode (and switch from one mode to the other) in the Misc tab we
have described hereabove.
The Administrator mode gives you access to the Host Manager button, in the main
window of the Spooler. This button opens a window in which you can add hosts by
typing in their IP address or their name (if domain name resolution is available).
The Host field indicates to which machine you are connected. If you want to add a
machine, type its name or IP address in the New host field, then click Add. To delete a
host, click its name in the list, then Suppress.
To add a new host, type its address or name in the New Host field, then click the Add
button. To delete a host, select it in the list and click Delete.
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The Search button, at the bottom of the window, allows you to search for the Caldera servers
on your network; click this button to obtain their list. You can either add them all or add some
of them only, thanks to the Add all and Add selected functions.
NOTE: Switching from one mode to the other, as well as adding and deleting hosts in
Administrator mode, can more or less slow down the refreshing rate of the Spooler
interface. This is a direct consequence of the high amount of connections to initiate or to
close, and is completely normal.
Transferring jobs
It is now possible to move or copy the jobs between two compatible printing servers (of
the same brand and same model).
The copy or transfer is done by right-clicking the selected tasks. In the menu that appears, you
will see two entries: Copy To and Move To. The first one allows you to duplicate the jobs sent
to a compatible printer; the second one moves the job to the other printer. Both contain the list
of compatible printers, among the ones monitored by the server.
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There is no need for the destination server to be already running: it will be started automatically.
If no compatible printer is detected, Copy To and Move To cannot be selected.
You can only move and copy inactive jobs (in other words, the ones that are waiting or
blocked). It is not possible to move jobs that are being printed or which files have been
deleted after printing.
The Quit button
Click this button to quit the Spooler window.
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Servers admin
Servers Admin is the tool that allows you to see and manage all the peripherals of a
network. These peripherals can be scanners, printers or digital cameras.
Servers Administration window
In the main window of Server Admin, you can find the following information:
- Server: The names of the servers connected to the host machine. By default, the local
host will be displayed. Each line is the equivalent of a server.
- Type: The type of peripheral device—printer, scanner or digital camera.
- State: The state of the peripheral. “Running” means that the peripheral is connected and
on. If this is not the case, the line remains blank.
NOTE: “Running” does not necessary mean that the server is completing a task at the
moment; it can simply be on, but idle.
- The Kill Server button allows you to stop and delete the activity of the selected server. If
you wish to remove a server, a confirmation and a login will be asked. Make sure there is
no printing task running when you stop it.
- Log File opens the Log window for the selected server (printers only), allowing you to
see the history of the printed jobs (Log file).
NOTE: This function is only available for the printers.
- Configure... opens the configuration window where you can set the connection and use
parameters, among other things.
NOTE: To update the configuration, you will need the root password.
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- Uninstall allows you to uninstall the selected printer driver.

- Duplicate: Clicking this button duplicates the selected printer driver, in order to drive
another printer of the same exact brand and model.
NOTE: This is not akin to duplicating a printer’s icon in the Applications bar (a
duplicated icon will only drive the same printer).
- Host will allow you to choose the host machine.

- Click on Reconnect to update the list of servers. By default, the update is made every 10
to 20 seconds.
- Clicking on Devices allows you to view information on the SCSI, Firewire and USB
devices on the machine.
- Finally, Calserver Setup opens the CalServer configuration window. This server allows
you to administrate all other servers.
Configuration window
This is the configuration window for your peripheral devices.
NOTE: Although Caldera is displayed in the list of the available servers, you cannot
configure it in this window.
For each index tab, Cancel will close the window without applying the modifications;
Proceed will apply the modifications, then close the window.
The Connection tab
Informations
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Server identifies the peripheral on the network.

Model shows its model.
Type shows its type (printer, scanner or digital camera).
Driver corresponds to the driver of the peripheral.
Connection
Connection is the type of peripheral connection: parallel, FTP, LP, Shell, SCSI, FireWire...
Max DMA (Kb) shows the maximum size (in Kb) of the blocks of data transferred
between the software and a data server. Do not modify this value before getting an
authorization from Caldera.
The fields available in this window depend on the type of connection.
Parallel-type connection:
Device: Name of the device on the parallel port.
FTP-type connection:
Host/IP address: Name/IP address of the host machine.

Time out(s): Period of time after each attempt at reconnecting.
User name: Name thanks to which the user gets the authorization to connect to the FTP.
Password: For the FTP connection.
Port: Number of the port to which the user wants to connect via FTP (default port is 21).
File or device: Name of the destination device.
LP-type connection:
Host/IP address: name/IP address of the host machine.

Time out(s): Time after each attempt at reconnecting.
File or device: Name of the destination device.
LP port number: The default port is 515
Max file size (Kb): Every file larger than that will not be printed.
Shell-type connection:
Command: Here, you can manually enter a shell command.
SCSI-type connection:
SCSI ID is the SCSI address of the peripheral. Click on Auto-detect for an automatic
detection. To force the ID, use the pull-down menu to make your selection.
SCSI BUS: SCSI bus to which the peripheral is connected. Click on Auto-detect for an
automatic detection. To force the ID, use the pull-down menu to make your selection.
USB-type connection:
Device: Destination device.
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FireWire connection:
GUID: This information can be retrieved from the Devices window (see Servers Admin
main window).
File connection:
Settings for this type of connection are to be defined in the Files tab.
RawIP connection:
IP address: IP address of the host machine.

Port: The port that must be used to connect to the peripheral.
The Files tab

This tab is only available for servers that are able to print in a file, such as the Rho-600 printer,
for instance.
Root: Defines the folder in which the files generated by the printer will be saved. Click
the […] button to select a new folder.
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Optional: If you wish to add job-dependent strings to the folder’s name (media name,
resolution…), click the […] button, select the strings to insert, then click on Add.
Create one folder per job: Check this box if you wish that all the files generated be saved
in a folder specific to the job. The Name field allows you to define how these folders are
to be named.
Data: This is the name of the output data file(s). It must contain the string <%n>
(corresponding to the job’s name), unless each job is saved in its own folder. If the printer
generates one data field per ink channel, you also have to add the <v%> string (ink
identifier).
Ticket: This is the ticket’s name. Unless each job is saved in its own folder, it also has to
contain the <%n> string. If this field is left blank, no ticket is generated.
When job already exists…: This option defines what the printer driver has to do when
you rip the same file twice (or when two different files have the same name): increment
the job’s index, or write over the previous existing job (Erase files).
Indexation scheme: This option defines how the jobs’ names will be incremented.
Confirmation before printing: Set this option accordingly if you wish a confirmation
dialog window to pop up when you click the Print button, in Print’s main interface. This
dialog box shows where the file is to be generated, and also allows you to change the
job’s name and folder; you can choose to display it Always, Never, or on Shift+Click.
Edit forbidden characters: Clicking this button opens an editor where you can define
which characters cannot be used in the files’ names: spaces, quotes…
The Nest-O-Matik tab

Here you can configure the Nest-O-Matik function. For more details, please see the Nest-
O-Matik chapter.
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The configuration interface
The Misc tab

This tab contains five parts: On Error... (options available in case of error), Job Control
(options to control the jobs), Spooler (spooler options), Inks (ink cost computation), and
Troubleshooting (these options allow you to correct potential mistakes).
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On error
Report job error to sender only: automatically sends an e-mail to the user who has started
the job.
Report job error to everyone: automatically sends an e-mail to all the users.
Job control
People can access their own jobs only: the user can only access the job he has himself
started.
People can access their jobs, plus all the jobs of their group: same as above, but also
within the user's workgroup.
People have access to all jobs (no checking): the user can access all groups of the server.
Spooler
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Max number of jobs in the spooler: defines the maximum number of tasks you can send
to the spooler (0 indicates that there is no limit).
Max number of non-printable jobs: defines the maximum number of non-printable jobs (-
1 indicates that there is no limit).
Sleeping time between: defines the time between each job.
Enable Rip While Rip: activates or deactivates the Rip While Rip functionality.
Inks
This part of the tab is used to compute the ink cost per liter.
Click the Compute button to open the Ink Cost window.
In the Bottle's content field, type how much ink there is contained in a bottle for the
selected printer (in ml, cl or l).
In the Bottle's cost field, type the cost of the bottle.
Click OK to compute the cost for one liter of ink.
Troubleshooting
Emulate mode: this option is for debugging purposes only.

Low-level reports: this option is for debugging purposes only.
The Pages tab

Available resolutions displays the resolutions available on the server (printer).
NOTE: This list can only be released for PostScript printers.
Click New to define a new resolution.

Click Delete to delete the selected resolution.
Click Edit to edit the resolution.
Available pages gives you the list of the page sizes available for the specified printer. This
list shows the name and the type of each page, its length and width, and the size of its
margins.
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Click New to create a new size of the page.

Click Dup... to duplicate the size of the page, using a different name.
Click Delete to delete the size of the selected page.
Click Edit to edit the parameters of the size of the page.
Restore default pages restores the default pages that have been defined during the installation.
Inch/cm is used to select the unit in which the size of the pages and the margins will be
displayed.
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CalServer setup
License server: Keys server for all the machines using the Caldera software.
Language: The language in which your Caldera software is currently displayed.
Display warning when disk size is less than (MB): Size (in Mb) under which a server
cannot find the necessary disk space to finish its job. In such a case, a message will tell
you to free some space before going on.
Change password: Here, you can change the administration password (which is, by
default, caldera).
User Configuration
The User Configuration tool allows you to modify and customize your work
environments: Applications window, working directories, and so on. You can thus adapt
the Caldera software to the performances of your workstation.
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When you run your Caldera product for the first time, its applications are ordered
according to a predefined model. Thanks to the User Configuration module, you can hide
the modules you do not plan on using, and add new modules if needed. It is also in this
application that you will be able to configure your Working Directory, the one where the
images you are working on will be temporarily stored.
The default working directory is /HOME/ImageWorkDir.
Warning: If your directory is not set as a local one, you will not obtain the best
performances possible.
You can also access other peripherals managed by Caldera on your network (printers and
scanners).
There are three different ways of opening the User Configuration window:
 by right-clicking with your mouse in the applications bar in order to display the
Applications menu
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 by clicking the Special>User Configuration tab, available in the application bar

when you run the software
 by using the Alt+f shortcut
Main window
Four tabs are available in this window.
 Applications allows you to select modules and add them to (or delete them from)
the application bar.
 Images is used to set your working directory.
 Advanced contains the advanced settings needed to configure directories and

style. Be careful when modifying these parameters!
 ICC allows you to choose the color profiles to apply.
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The changes made in the User Configuration are stored in a file that can be found either
in the user's home folder or in the directory from which the software is run. This file can
be edited manually.
NOTE: Please do not move—or, worse, delete—the following file: .CAS.config, in the
.cas directory.
The Applications tab
In the left part of this window, Available Applications, you will find the icons for the
applications currently installed with your Caldera software. They are sorted in four
categories, which you can select in the menu in the upper left part:
All: Displays all the available applications.

Applications: Displays the available work modules only.
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Printers: Displays the available printers only.

Cutters: Displays the available cutters only.
The right part of the tab, called Applications Bar, shows you which modules are currently
placed in your applications bar. These modules are sorted in three tabs, which themselves
mirror the applications’ organization in your software’s main window:
 Main: General applications, such as Info, FileManager, WorkFlows...
 Image Tools: The applications that allow you to directly modify an image
(Pixtouch, Geometry...).
 Settings: Configuration applications (Server Admin, KeyManager...).
These are the default categories, but you can rename them, or add/delete some if necessary:
 New tab allows you to create a new tab. You just have to give it a name, then
click OK. Cancel closes this window without applying any changes. The same
goes for the two following windows.
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 Delete Tab allows you to delete the tab that is currently active. Simply click OK
to accept the deletion.
 Rename tab allows you to rename a tab. You just need to give it a new name, then
to click OK.
To add a module, first choose in which category you want it to be placed (Main, Image
Tools or Settings), then select the module in the left part of the window, and click the
black arrow pointing to the right. The module will then be placed in the corresponding tab
in the Application bar.
On the contrary, if you want to delete a module from the applications bar, select its icon in
the right part of the window, and click the black arrow pointing to the left.
You can also add/delete modules by using our “Drag&Drop” system: add a module by
taking it in Available Applications, then throw it in Applications Bar; to delete it, just do
the contrary.
Other operations are available in the Applications tab:
Direction: Allows you to choose the orientation of the applications bar (Vertical or Horizontal).
Icon size: The size of the icons representing your modules. There are two available sizes,
Normal and Small.
Position: This function is only available when a module is selected. In this case, you can
choose its place in the list of modules that will appear in the applications bar.
Edit: When the icon of a module is selected, this button allows to edit its name and
parameters.
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Duplicate: When a module is selected, this function allows you to duplicate it. You can
then rename it, thanks to the Edit function.
Lock Workflows/Hotfolders: Locks the Workflows and Hotfolders.
Reset Application configuration: Resets the application bar.
Lock Application configuration: Locks the configuration.
New: By clicking this button, you can also add a new application to your bar. Type its
name, the executable corresponding to it, and the category (Application, Printers,
Scanners) in which this icon is to be displayed.
The Advanced tab

This window contains two parts: Files and Directories, and Main Configuration.
The first one allows you to configure the directories:
 The Temporary Directory. In the nearest field, you can define its size (in Gb)
 The Data Directory, containing the needed resources, such as PS fonts,

ColorTune profiles, calibration files, etc.
 The directory of the object program (Executable Directory).
 The files in which the configurations of all the modules are saved (Configuration
file).
In the Main Configuration part, you will find:
 The name of the keys server (License Server).
 The maximum number of WorkFlows that can be active at the same moment
(Max Nb of Workflows running).
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 The Language in which you want your Caldera software to run (if you switch to
another language, you will need to restart the server for the change to take effect).
 Whether you want to Run spooler at startup.
 Whether you want to Run Hotfolder at startup or not (with Invisible window, the
Hotfolder window does not appear at startup, although it is run in the
background).
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The ICC tab

The options in this window allow you to choose the ICC profiles you want to use.
The Screen Profile is the profile used by the software to display the images on the screen
(see also the Display chapter). The other listed profiles are the default profiles that will be
applied to every image not including any ICC information.
Default Profiles
Choose here the default profiles.
For each profile (Grey Profile, RGB Profile, CMYK Profile and Screen Profile), click
Browse to display the Profile Selection window, and choose among the
Trinitron_6500K_....icc the profile that fits your needs.
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NOTE: You can of course choose another type of profile. However, we recommend a
Trinitron one, to make sure that the capacities of our software are used to their full extent.
My favourite Profiles
This part of the tab contains your favorite profiles. This way, it will be easier for you to
find the profile you use the most often.
You can add profiles to this list thanks to the Add button: select a profile in the Profile
Browser window (see hereabove).
To delete a profile, select it in the list, and click Delete.
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General functions
These different functions are common to the two tags in the User Configuration window.
Clear Temporary Folder: Click this button to empty the Tmp directory.
Lock Workflows/Hotfolders: Prevents adding, removing or modifying Workflows and Hotfolders.
Apply/Restart: Depending on the modified settings, this button does not always display
the same label.
 If its name is Apply, you will not need to restart the software to apply the
modifications; simply click the button to apply them
 If its name is Restart, you will have to restart the software to apply the changes.
Quit: Closes the window and quits the User Configuration tool.
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Glossary
Absolute colorimetry
Rendering mode favoring the precision of colors to the relations between them. It allows
converting off-range colors in the closest colors of the destination range. Absolute
colorimetry is perfect for special colors, which have to correspond exactly.
Additive primaries
Red, green and blue are the primary colors of light, from which all other colors can be produced.
Analogical (adj.)
Opposed to digital. Continuous representation of data as physical units.
Antialiasing
Technique that eliminates the visual staircase effect by smoothing the lines and contours
of an image.
Batch
A module that can be executed in Command-Line mode.
Binary picture
An image of binary coding, containing only two colors (black and white).
Bitmap picture
A digitized image stored in computer memory and displayed on a monitor, composed of a
mosaic of square points (pixels). The density, or color intensity, of each pixel is expressed
in binary digits (bits).
Black point
This is the reference point defining the darkest area of an image, from which the tones of
all other areas are spread out. The black point is the limit below which all the colors are
considered as black.
Brightness
This term is used to describe differences in the intensity of light reflected from or
transmitted through an image, regardless of its hue and saturation.
CAD (Computer-Assisted Design)

This terms gather all the computer techniques used in creating data, manipulating this
data to conceive a finished shape, and generating the information necessary to the
manufacturing of this object.
The CAD was born in the United States, at the beginning of the 50s, thanks to joint
researches concerning graphic tools (screen, light pen, etc.) and to the basic programs of
computers allowing to work in interactive mode. Numerous disciplines resort to the
computer-aided design nowadays. Among them, we can find mechanics, aeronautics,
architecture, electronics, and so on.
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Calibration bar
On a film, proof or print, it is a strip of tones used to check printing quality.
Calibration curve
During the calibration, a curve is established by measuring the degree in which the
printed densities differ from the required densities.
CCD (Charge-Coupled Device)

This is the sensitive part of the scanner, made of a great number of diode photo detectors and
photosites that convert the light into electricity. A CCD sensor alternatively uses one out of two
columns of sensors to save and transfer electric charges.
Chromatic circle
This is a circle divided into 12 parts and composed of 3 primary colors, 3 secondary
colors and 6 tertiary colors. The virtual analysis of the chromatic circle makes it possible
to see that the 3 first primary colors (RGB) are diametrically opposed to the three others
(CMY). Moreover, each primary color can be defined as a mixture of two other
secondary colors.
CIE (Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage)

An international group that has developed a set of color definition standards.
CIE L*a*b*
Colorimetric model established by the CIE and serving as a reference for the
characterization of documents and materials. L* defines the luminosity, a* the red to
green axis, b* the axis from blue to yellow. The CIE L*a*b* model is based on the
visible range of colors by human eye, vast enough to include the RGB and CMYK
models. At the moment, the computer industry adopted the CIE L*a*b*, as it is a reliable
standard describing exactly the colors independently of the peripherals used.
Client-Server
Architecture allowing to share the peripherals (printers or scanners) in the network. The
Clients connect to the Server (one per peripheral) to reach the hardware resources. The
Server manages a list of requests to access the peripheral.
The Server runs on the workstation to which the peripheral is physically connected. A
Client is launched every time a user launches a printing or scanning module on any
station of the network—especially Unix stations of different brands.
The system keeps multitasking: the access to a peripheral does not jam a client in the
queue line.
CMS (Color Management System)

Computer program for the management of colors, ensuring the consistancy between the
various peripherals throughout the chain of treatment, in such a way that the final printing
is perfectly similar to the original.
CMY (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow)

Mode of composition of the color based on the principle of subtractive colors and used in
printing offices. The additive method starts with the white light (containing all the colors),
and allows the user to obtain the wished color by removing some others. On the contrary,
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100% of cyan, magenta and yellow creates the black color.

Colors are restored by the combination of the primary inks (cyan, magenta and yellow),
according to the “subtractive” synthesis of colors.
CMYK picture
Image made of the primary ink colors, which are the base for the realization of the
process ink colors.
Coding
Representation of the binary value (bit) of the color of a pixel, which is made from the
palette of colors. The coding of every primary color on 8 bits is the current standard. The
coding of a color determines its pixel depth.
Color
Impression produced on the human eye by visible electromagnetic waves. The color
perceived by the eye depends on the light spectre arriving on it, determined by a curve
representing the present light energy for every wavelength.
Color cast
Color that quantitatively dominates the others in a colored image. If the values present a
dominant of one of the components (Red, Green or Blue), you can solve this problem by
adjusting the curve of corresponding tone.
Color palette
System allowing to define a palette with all the colors that can be contained in the image,
to store these colors and to select them quickly. The main difference between 8 bits color
and 24 bits color lies in the way the information is stored. If an 8 bits system can only
show 256 different tints (to be chosen in a palette) at the same time on the screen, a 24
bits system can show 16,7 millions of colors.
Color proof
A printed or simulated printed image of each process color, using inks, pigments or dyes
to give a visual impression of the final reproduction.
Colorimeter
Photosensitive device measuring colors according to the same principle as the human eye
does, by filtering their red, green and blue components.
Color balance
This is a correction that allows you to adapt the shadows in a picture in order to re-
establish the color balance. Thanks to the latter, you can modify the relations between
complementary colors (red/blue, green/magenta and blue/yellow). You can also treat
clear, middle or dark tones separately, and keep the lightness value if you wish.
Color management
All the techniques allowing to preserve and to reproduce the color information in the most
accurate way possible throughout the graphic processing chain.
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Colored ink
Agent chemically tinted by molecular colored particles (cyan, magenta or yellow). The
superimposing of thin layers of colored ink (yellow, magenta, cyan) gives black, in
theory.
Command Line
This is the batch subset of the Caldera software, used to process images from the shell
only, rather than through the standard Motif Interface.
Compression
This operation consists in minimizing the space filled by a digital image, in order to
accelerate its sending and facilitate its storage.
Computer
Application of data processing in the field of graphic representation and image
processing.
Continuous tone
An tone is called continuous (or “contone”) when, instead of being composed of halftone
dots, the grey levels transitions are continuous and invisible. For instance, a photograph
contains such tones.
Convolution
Computer processing applied to an image. It is a filter replacing every pixel by a linear
combination of the pixels that surround it, in order to locally increase the luminosity, the
color or the depth of the image. Thanks to a matrix of convolution of n pixels, we can
extract the details which dimensions are closer to n pixels.
DBMS (Data Base Management System)

This computer tools allows to insert, modify and look for specific data among information
shared between all the users. It includes a set of connected data (the data base), and a set
of programs allowing to process and reach this data. It also ensures the control, security
and confidentiality of the data.
DCS (Desktop Color Separation)

Format of computer files developed by Quark, and based on the EPS file format. The
DCS uses EPS files headings to separate the colors of the digitized illustrations and make
them easier to handle. The DCS format is mostly used to transfer bitmap images during
the various prepress operations.
Density
A measure of the darkness of an image on paper or film. In the case of paper, which is
reflective, the less light reflected, the higher the density. In the case of film, which is
transparent, the less light showing through, the higher the density. Paper integral density
ranges from about 0 to 2, and film from about 0.2 to 4.0.
Densitometer
A device used to measure and record the variations of density and the transparency of
colors.
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Density range
The difference in density between the brightest highlights and darkest shadows of an image.
Desaturated colors
These are colors the saturation of which aims towards 0% in the center of the chromatic
circle. The saturation expresses the purity of a color from 0 to 100%. A matte color is said
to be desaturated (it aims towards the neutral gray at 0% in the center of the chromatic
circle). Conversely, a vivid color will be saturated (it aims towards 100%, and is therefore
situated on the perimeter of the circle).
Descreening
Process devised to find the initial information of the image and allow to obtain a restored
image, namely not made of screens. Descreening tends to result in a slightly blurred
image.
Desktop publishing
Computer-assisted method for the publishing of documents. It consists in creating
documents by means of a computer and software; the whole chain of conception-
production includes the use of the computer itself. The latter manages the text, and image
files, and integrates them into a real-time layout displayed on the screen.
Digitalization by scanning
The process during which an image on paper (a photography, for instance) is swept by a
beam of waves; it turns it into a digital format that can be exploited by a microcomputer.
The digitalization by scanning is generally made by means of scanners. These produce a
digital file representing colors or levels of gray. The size of this file in bytes depends on
the resolution, on the number of colors and on the size of the image. Scanners use
specialized software to proceed to the calibration and the necessary correction to obtain
an image of the highest quality.
Digitization
An operation that consists in translating analogic data (text, sound, image) into digital
data.
Display
The visualization module of the Caldera software. It does not have any icon in the
application bar. The “Display” of a particular image refers to the instance of Display that
is attached to this image.
Dot gain
Increase of the size of a screen point, depending on the viscosity of the ink and the
porosity of the used support. Generally, the printers are 30% to 40% of point fattening on
the press.
Dpi/dpcm
Dots per inch/Dots per centimetre: a commonly used measure for the resolution of
scanners, monitors, printers, and imagesetters.
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Driver
A control program that translates the commands sent by a software in order to allow the
computer to communicate with a peripheral. As an example, a printer driver ensures the
conversion of commands and data from the computer in messages that the printer is able
to 'understand'; therefore, said printer will work.
Drum scanner
Digitization device used for the digital reproduction of high quality documents. The exposure
and sampling units remain fixed, while the document moves around the drum.
Drum scanners employed for graphic arts work on the principle of “scanning in dot
mode”. The functioning of this device is similar to the one of a fax.
Dye sublimation
A printing process using small heating elements to evaporate pigments from a carrier
film, depositing these smoothly onto a substrate.
EPS
Standard format of recording of a drawing, image or whole page. It allows to import and
to export PostScript files in other documents and environments. EPS files carry the “.eps”
extension.
Euroscale
Printing standard used in Europe.
Film recorder
A peripheral device that transposes the digital information of an image onto film slides or
transparencies.
Filter
Set of orders allowing to apply various effects to an image, a selection or a layer.
Following the example of the effects filters, placed by photgraphers on the lens, a filter
modifies an image. However, the possibilities here are vaster than in traditional
photography.
Flatbed scanner
A digitization device in which the documents to be scanned are placed on a flat and
transparent glass. This device uses the CCD sensors technology. The scanning process
here is not rotating, but linear.
Flexo-printing
Printing process using rubber and ink based on coloring agents. Very close to the
typography, the “flexo” distinguishes itself from it by its shape. Flexo-printing is mainly
implemented on rotary presses with reels.
Floating color image

An image with the “floating color” attribute, describing a uniform color for the whole
image. In some way, a “0-bit” colormapped image.
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Four-process ink colors

Printing technique based on the use of four basic colors (cyan, magenta, yellow and
black), and allowing to obtain the black color by dividing the images into colored layers
to create all other colors.
The image in the four-process ink color must be in CMYK.
In theory, three basic colors (cyan, magenta and yellow) give black, but this is an
imperfect black, leaning toward a dark brown. This imperfection, due to the impurity of
ink, is compensated with the addition of the black color.
Gamma
Measure of the contrast of the average gray levels in an image. The gamma is in a way
the general balance of your image. The lower it is, the darker the photography will be.
The more it is raised, the clearer it will be.
Gamma correction
Adjusting images by using gamma curves. Because of the characteristics of a gamma
curve, gamma correction does not affect the density range of an image, but rather the
distribution of its density. The brightening (gamma>1) or darkening (gamma<1) occurs
mainly in the mid-tones. With gamma >1, highlights are compressed and shadows are
expanded; with gamma<1, highlights are expanded and shadows are compressed.
Gamma correction is often used to smoothly expand details in the shadows. This is often
required with transparent originals. Monitors also require gamma correction.
Gamut
This is the range of visible colors that an input or output device (such as a printer) can
reproduce. Different peripherals will have a different gamut—they will not be all able to
reproduce the same set of colors.
GCR (Gray Component replacement)

Compensating the addition of the three colors (cyan, magenta and yellow) by the black in
all the areas of the image, even the clearest ones. The theoretical principle of the GCR
compensation is that the addition in equal parts of the primary colors can be translated by
the same value of black.
Gray balance
In process printing, this indicates the proportion of cyan, magenta and yellow (in slide-
making, the proportion of red, green and blue) necessary to obtain a neutral gray (without
any noticeable color cast).
Gray levels
Discrete tonal steps in a continuous tone image, inherent to digital data. Most contone
images will contain 256 gray levels per color.
Grayscale
Variations of gray, black and white in an image. To the human eye, which can hardly
discern more than 200 variations of gray, the gradation seems smooth, although
theoretically, it is staged successively.
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Halftone
A technique used to reproduce a continuous-tone original, such as a photograph. The
printing press prints a matrix of miniature dots of varying size, or lines of varying
thickness. A limited set of inks (only black ink or CMYK inks) can thus produce on the
eye the illusion of many shades of gray, or many colors. See also Halftone cell.
Halftone cell
The grid composed of raster elements that form the halftone dot.
Highlight
The brightest areas in an original or an image, represented in halftone by the smallest dots
or the absence of dots. The highlights' dot area ranges from 0% to about 20%.
Histogram
A histogram represents graphically the distribution of pixels of an image, ordered by level
of luminosity.
The histogram indeed gives an immediate and easily interpretable radiography of the
colorimetric profile of the image.
Hotfolder
A hotfolder is a folder or directory on a computer that is continually monitored. When a
file is placed in that folder, the monitoring application performs a specified action on that
file. In an image setting environment, files placed in hotfolders get RIPed and output to an
image recorder. Usually, the hotfolder can be set up to enable specific features on the RIP
before the file gets rasterized and output by the image recorder. For instance, the hotfolder
can set the resolution or screening of the job.
HP-GL (Hewlett-Packard Language)

A printer language developed by Hewlett-Packard to control their output devices. HP-GL
commands are interpreted by the printer or plotter so that the intended output can be
obtained.
HSV system
Colorimetric model based on a natural and human perception of colors. This model
allows describing a color according to its tint (the wished color), its saturation (the
liveliness of the color) and its luminosity (clear or dark color).
Hue
This is the color of an object perceived by the eye, due to the fact that a single RGB color
(or pair of RGB colors) is predominant. The Hue parameter is defined by the position of
the cursor on the border of the chromatic wheel: it is what we call “pure color”. The tint
corresponds to the color as it is perceived (the red of a rose, the green of leaves, the blue
of the sky...). In graphic software, various tints follow each other around a chromatic
wheel or a chromatic cursor.
ICC (International Color Consortium)

An international consortium that defines the Color profile format or standards for a multi-
vendor/multi-platform application.
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ICC profile
A standard file that describes the colorimetric space associated to an image or to a
peripheral, which allows the integration in a color management system. The ICC profile
corresponds to a professional standard describing the range and the individual
characteristics of the various peripherals. It has become the reference for color
management at the system level.
Image definition
The subjective impression left by an image, that corresponds to its limit of resolution. For
a screen, the definition is calculated among pixels for a given surface (for example 640 x
480 pixels). On constant surfaces, the higher the resolution, the better the definition.
The height of resolution, the quality of detail, and the sharpness offered by a reproduction.
Image mode
As opposed to the Paper mode, a general environment parameter in many modules,
specifying that the user wants to see the image as an array of pixels.
Image processing
This term encompasses all the operations intended to process information in images; the
aim is here to obtain new or better images. Examples of image processing include
cropping, correcting the luminosity, resizing, applying a “Blur” filter, etc.
Image size
To determine the image size in bytes, one needs to multiply the number of pixels (coding
of the color) and to divide the result by 8, in order to convert bits into bytes. Compression
techniques allow to reduce the room taken by a file.
Imager
A peripheral that allows to transfer digital images from a computer to a photographic film.
Imposition
This operation consists in determining the order and the distribution of the pages of a
document, so that after folding, the pages follow each other in the right order and can be
assembled to form books. The imposition method was conceived for technical and
economic reasons.
Inch
English-American unit of measure, equal to 2.54 cm, and used to define the size of
screens and images.
Inkjet printer
An output device, connected to the computer, that converts digital data into paper data.
The printer's heads are made up of numerous nozzles, equivalent to several syringes,
which are warmed at approximately 400°C several times per second thanks to an impulse
signal. Every nozzle produces a tiny bubble, which causes an extremely fine droplet to be
ejected. The void engendered by the decline of pressure sucks a new drop in.
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Input resolution
The resolution at which a scanner scans an image, expressed in pixels per inch. See also
“ppi”.
Interpolation
Technique used to resize images: the reconstruction of the information is made on the
basis of the existing pixels of an image. During the increase, pixels are sometimes split in
two by interpolation: the added pixels receive an obtained color based on the average
color of the surrounding pixels. The interpolation does not improve the quality of the
digitized image at all, and can even contribute to lower it in some cases.
IT8
A charter of standardized colors that is used as a reference to calibrate input and output
devices. The IT8 target is a test card used in the graphic industry to calibrate scanners.
JPEG
Image format that considerably reduces the volume of the image files. It stood out as the
standard on the Internet and for the images of photographic type. The compression
algoerithm used in the JPEG method analyzes exactly the data in an image, and gets rid of
what is not necessary to depict the colors. This storing format uses a compression
technique with information, which implies a certain deterioration of the image quality.
JPEG is what is called a “lossy format”.
Laser printer
This is an output device the functioning of which is based on a process of electro-
photography. A tiny laser beam reflected by a mirror is sent on a photosensitive drum and
unloads it selectively. An inking cylinder gets covered with pigments that are going to
stick only to the places that were swept and left electropositive by the light. The ink
settles on the paper and sinks in it thanks to the heating process. The laser printer is made
up of an engine and a controller driving the printer. It is similar to the photocopiers
technology, because it is faster and less noisy than inkjet printers.
Layer
A layer is a transparent “coat” that can be placed over the background of the picture and
makes it possible to add elements to the latter without affecting it definitively. The layers
are substitutes for the Celluloid films used by cartoon animators: each element of the
picture is drawn on a layer, which allows you to adapt their position very precisely by
making the layers slide one onto the other.
Layout and retouching

Layout and retouching software integrates all design software and prepress equipment,
and enables faster networking, file management, print serving and printing. It also
provides image editing, page assembling, and PDF or PostScript editing tools.
Lightness
Parameter of characterization in the TSL (HSV) mode (tint, saturation, luminosity). The
luminosity describes the intensity of the color and thus allows to differenciate a clear
color from a dark color. The luminosity defines the quantity of black and white contained
in the color.
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Liquid ink
Coloring agent containing by a high percentage of water used in ink jet technology. The
principle of functioning of an ink-jet printer is very simple: liquid ink is thrown on the
paper.
Lock
The property set on an image when a module is reading or writing it.
Lpi
Lines per inch—the measure of frequency (the spacing) of the lines in a halftone screen,
usually ranging from 55 to 200. The higher the frequency, the smaller the halftone dots,
and the higher the quality.
Mask
A graphic file that is attached to an image and isolates a part of it, in order to protect it or
to correct it. A selection mask allows either to isolate the area to be corrected from its
environment (thus avoiding chromatic aberrations), or to substitute a correction of
gradation inside the selection (this will be done in a much more regular and more
progressive way.)
Mid-Tone
The middle range of tones in an image.
Module
A Caldera application dedicated to a specific task in the graphic chain. The Application
Bar contains the icons of every module.
Moiré
Unwanted visual effect produced by the superimposing of images in half-tone screening.
This phenomenon creates geometrical “drawings” that cause an interference. Moirés can
appear for instance when the number of colors is reduced, or when an unsuited resolution
is chosen.
Neutral gray
An area of an image is neutral gray when it does not have any apparent color.
Offset printing
A process used to make important prints. It is usually used for documents of about at least
four pages. The image is digital at first, then put on films looking like negatives. The
aluminum patches of magenta, yellow, cyan and black color are then made from these
black and white films. In offset printing, the lineature goes from 65 to 200 lines per inch.
The sheet is dried after every imprint of colors. At the end of the series, the final
document is complete, and ready to be bound. The whole process lasts a few minutes
only.
Original
The picture source in its original form, for example an artwork or a photograph.
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Paper mode
As opposed to the Image Mode, this is a general environment parameter in many
modules, specifying that the user wants to see an image as a page with physical
dimensions.
PDF (Portable Document Format file)

Standard format of electronic distribution of documents, developed by Adobe, and coded
according to the specifications of the exchange system of Adobe's Acrobat documents.
The PDF is a non-voluminous universal file that allows keeping fonts, layout, colors and
margins of the original documents (both during the viewing and printing). The word
“Acrobat” in “Acrobat file” is a registered trademark of Adobe. PDF files have the “.pdf”
extension.
Phosphor
Photo broadcasting element covering cathodic screens. A phosphor is a molecule capable
of emitting some light under the influence of an appropriate stimulus.
Pigment
Solid particle, insoluble in usual liquids, and that is part of the composition of printing ink
to which it confers intensity, colorimetric tone, resistance in the light or in the heat, and
shininess. According to the density of every pigment, a color will have luminosity and a
more or less raised contrast. A pigment can be organic, mineral, metallic or synthetic.
Pigmented ink
A coloring agent made from pigments reduced to a powder and mixed in a liquid. These
colored pigments are very stable, hardly soluble, and do not react to the UV; this causes
the pigmented ink to not get discolored easily. Pigmented ink is denser than regular inks.
Pixel
”Picture element”. This square dot is the basic information and the smallest unit of a bitmap
image, to which a color (or level of gray) and intensity can be associated. A scanner creates a
bitmap image by sampling the original and storing each sample in a pixel. The higher the
resolution of a scanner is, the smaller the pixels will be as well. The resolution of a scanner
should be expressed in pixels per inch (ppi). The resolution of an image corresponds to the
horizontal and vertical points (the pixels) that compose it.
Pixel depth
Pixel depth is a binary unit of measurement. If the pixel depth is of 1, the image can only
contain two gray levels or colors (a black and white image, for instance): a pixel depth of 8
allows 256 gray levels or colors, and a pixel depth of 24 allows 16,7 million colors.
Postscript
A language used to describe graphic and typographical elements. These elements can
then be displayed or printed regardless of the output resolution of the monitor, printer,
image setter or slide maker. This independence from resolution is achieved by describing
the elements as a collection of vectors with specific shapes. A PostScript file is a text file
that directly sends data towards a printer able to understand the PostScript language.
Postscript files carry the “.ps” extension.
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PostScript printer description (PPD)

PPD files are created by printer vendors to describe the set of features available for their
PostScript printers. On Macintosh computers, PPD files provide all the information
necessary to describe a PostScript printer's features, including options and default settings.
Prepress
All the operations to be realized before sending a document to press, from its creation to
its execution in photoengraving.
Primary color
A base color that is used to create other colors.
Printer
This output device connected to the computer converts digital data into data printable on
paper. The performances of the printer can partly be measured in dots per inches.
Printing
Process of reproduction of texts or illustrations implemented through the transfer of ink or
of other substances on a printing support.
Profile
The color characteristics of an input or output device, used by a Color Management
System (CMS) to ensure color fidelity.
Proof printing plate

Paper edition of a composition, so that it can be controlled (in typography or desktop
publishing). In a standard publication scenario, the illustration is first created through the
use of software; a paper test of the results is printed, then used as reference to adjust the
colors of the image.
Raster file
An image in raster format is composed of a matrix of pixels with a given dimension. A
change of scale, a distortion, and other alterations largely affect this type of image. To
obtain a quality image, it is necessary to make sure that you have the optimal resolution,
adapted to the use you want to make of this image.
Rasterization
A physical change of the image that occurs when an image is printed, and mostly when it
has been previously resized. The effect of this phenomenon is a rough output (“big
squares”). Algorithms of smoothing and interpolation try to ease the rasterization
engendered by the enlargement. This defect is due to an insufficient resolution of the
image.
Reflective original
An original that is printed on an opaque layer. Compare with “transparent original”.
Relative colorimetry
Mode of depiction that priviledges the precision of colors to the relations they maintain. It
converts off-range colors in the closest colors of the range of destination. However, and
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contrary to the absolute colorimetry, this mode also manages the characteristics of the
monitor, such as the definition of the white point.
Reproduction
The result of printing many copies of a single image.
Resizing
Technique allowing to enlarge or reduce the size of an image.
The most different treatments of retouching software (resizing, distortion, contrast,
rotation, clipping) can affect either the whole image or selected zones only.
Resolution
The precision with which the scanner samples the original; it is expressed in dpi.
Depending on the kind of works to be created, a compromise may be necessary, and one
might want to prioritize the price, the resolution or the number of colors.
RGB
Red, Green, Blue—The most wide-spread mode of color composition, based on the
principle of the additive colors. The additive method leaves three beams of light of
different colors (red, green and blue) which, when they confirm each other and when
colors add up, produce a light of another color. The sum of these three basic colors with
equal intensity gives white.
The various nuances of colors produced on the screen are determined by the variation of the
intensity. The RGB model is used for color television, monitors and scanners.
RIP (Raster Imaging Process)

This system allows to convert a graphic file into a raster image to view and print it. The
RIP knows the capacities of the peripheral (300 dpi, 600 dpi...), and whether it is a laser
printer or a photocomposer. The RIP can be either hardware or software.
Rosette
A pattern that appears when rasters of various colors are placed according to a certain
angle of inclination.
Ruling
Measure of the resolution of a printed raster image, generally expressed in lines per inch
(or lpi). The more the lineature is raised, the smaller the printing point, and the bigger the
sharpness. The frequency of the points on the screen considerably influences the
definition of the image.
Saturation
A measure of the amount of gray in a color in the HSL and HSV color models. The less
gray there is in a color, the higher its saturation is. High saturation corresponds to a
strong, vivid color, and low saturation to a dull, grayish color.
Scanner
Reading and analyzing device that allows to convert printed texts and images in codes or
digital signals. According to their type, scanners operate using various techniques of light
analysis. This electronic device works by using a moving beam of light.
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Scan to print system

Production-oriented, high speed, high fidelity system for scanning, printing, and copying
of large format originals including photographs, color renderings, posters, and artwork.
Screen angle
Orientation of the angle (in degrees) at which the lines in a halftone screen are printed.
For grayscale reproductions, an angle of 45° is common. For color reproductions, each
CMY+K halftone must have a carefully chosen angle; this is to avoid moiré effects.
Screen frequency (screen ruling)

The spacing of the lines in a halftone image, usually measured in lines per inch (lpi). Each
line is composed of a number of halftone dots.
Screening
A process allowing to reduce the number of colors used for the representation of a
photographic image.
Secondary color
Color obtained by mixing two primary colors. Although they are known as primary
colors in terms of printing, cyan (C), magenta (M) and yellow (Y) are the secondary
colors of light. For instance, red added to green produces yellow.
Separation tables
A color transformation model that converts an RGB color model to a CMYK color model.
Serigraphy (screen-printing)
Printing process using a screen constituted by a frame on which a mesh fabric is stretched out.
The serigraphy is a printing process derived from the silkscreen technique.
Shadow
A characteristic of the image that shows its darkest tone areas, represented in a halftone
by the largest dots. These are the under-exposed areas, in which details are not visible.
The dot area of shadows ranges from about 80% to 100%. If the shadow is erased,
progressive outlines are given to the edges.
Shot
Acquisition, by optical means, of a physical reality on an analogic or digital support. The
selection of the quality of the recording is essential, because the loss of data during the
compression of the images cannot be reversed.
Skeleton black generation

A color separation technique that substitutes black ink for calculated amounts of cyan,
magenta and yellow ink. Using black ink gives more depth to the reproduction, corrects a
color cast in the shadows, and results in better gray neutrality.
Spectrophotometer
An extremely precise color-measuring device allowing the analysis of a spectrum of
absorption. A light spectrum falls onto a mobile screen in which is a slit that allows only
the chosen color to pass through. This color wave then lands on the studied object, goes
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through it as well, and ends on a detector measuring the value of the wavelength. The
calibration method consists in placing a spectrophotometer on the screen to analyze the
emitted colors; a software will then correct the color divergences. The spectrophotometer
uses a grid of diffraction to split the light into its various wavelengths, which are then
measured by numerous sensors.
Spooler
A function of the computer that collects output instructions and data, and stores them in
memory before sending them to a printer.
Stochastic screening
This process separates an image into randomly placed microdots, rather than a grid of
geometrically aligned halftone cells.
SWOP (Standard Web Offset Printing)

Standard profile of printing and printing office used in the USA. Printers are mainly loaded
with the SWOP profile, which corresponds to the American standards of printing.
Test image
Document representing a cover, and allowing to characterize the output device in order to
proceed afterwards to the regulations necessary to the printing.
Thermal printer
Output device using a physical phenomenon of thermal sublimation. It is a flat broke
process during which the color is generated on the paper after directly going from solid to
gaseous. A chemical reaction occurs between the paper and the colored resin. In a thermal
printer, the printing heads release more or less vapor, depending on the desired tint.
Thermal transfer printer

Peripheral using a physical phenomenon during which a body goes from solid to gaseous,
without going through a liquid phase. In a printer using thermal transfer, the temperature
applied to each of the four colors determines the diameter of the screen dots.
This printing technique requires a high quality paper.
Threshold
The gray level above which a scanner records white pixels. In order to obtain an image
with only black or white pixels from an original with many gray levels, you should set the
threshold accordingly. The threshold setting will determine which range of gray levels are
recorded as white pixels and which as black.
Thresholding
Operation that consists in segmenting an image and in extracting from it areas in which
the luminous intensity is limited by a fixed threshold. The thresholding of an image
consists in removing certain frequencies.
TIFF
Acronym of Tagged Image File Format. This file format of graphic data allows to
compress images without any data loss.
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Toolbox
A set of tools that a module of the Caldera software can add to an image, and that can be
accessed through the Display.
TOYO
Standard profile of printing and printing office used in Japan.
Transfer function
A mathematical function that can be represented by a curve, and that transforms density
levels on input to density levels on output. See also “calibration curve”.
Transparent original
An original that is printed on a light sensitive support through which light can pass. A
slide is a transparent original. To be compared with “reflective original”.
UCR
Technique of compensation of the addition of three colors (cyan, magenta, yellow), which
brings in the black only in the shadows areas.
Variable dot density

System of printing thanks to which the printer is capable of producing various dot sizes in a
single pass. Thanks to the perfect control of the printing dot and to the variable dot density,
Epson printers are less subject to the phenomenon called “banding”.
Vector-coded image
The digital representation of an image in vector mode is created from a geometrical
definition of the shapes, which describes the start and end of a line and the appearance it
takes between both. A vector image can be distorted and resized without any data loss nor
aliasing. Working in vector mode is particularly recommended in desktop publishing.
View
The window managed by the Display of the Caldera software to view an image. It is able
to manage all the views of the same image.
Visible spectrum
Electromagnetic waves that are said to be “visible”, which includes all the wavelengths
between ultraviolet rays and infrared: these wavelengths form the colors of the rainbow.
Only a narrow strip of the electromagnetic spectrum (between the ultraviolet ray and the
infrared) contains a visible light. The white light is the result of the radiation on all the
wavelengths of this spectrum.
White point
Reference point defining the lightest part of an image. The almost empty pipette is used to
define the white point, which, let's say it simply, is a value of luminosity beyond which all
the colors are white.
Workflow
Automation of the traffic of the jobs in the chain of data processing. In the Caldera
software, it is a user-defined sequence of modules, each of them being configured to fulfil
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a specific task; they may be applied subsequently to any number of images. The
workflow is above all a management project that impacts the actors of the concerned
process, and concerns quality controllers as much as computer specialists. This process
allows to optimize the stream of tasks, and contributes to an increase in productivity.
WorkFlow Mode
As opposed to the Working Mode, this is the running mode in which a module is to be
configured to function within a Workflow.
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The ICC tab ...................................................................................................................................34

Image properties ..........................................................................................................................129

With the knowledge of eighteen years of expertise in imaging technology development,

The Caldera solutions run under Mac OS X /Leopard/Snow Leopard/Lion, Linux

Caldera mainly focuses on three markets:

 Sign – Repro – Poster creation

 Graphic design – Digital photographers – Agencies

 GIS – CAD/CAM – Engineering

Purpose of this manual

Conventions used in this manual

“Press the Return key”.

“Click the OK button”.

“From the Package Group Selection window...”

“Type the <machine name> in...”

NOTE A NOTE provides information for the preceding procedure.

All rights reserved.

Except when it is permitted by such license, no part of this publication may be

CALDERA, Wide Format Software, VisualRIP+, GrandRIP+, CopySHOP, ReproSHOP,

PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc. Unix is a registered

For defense agencies: Restricted Rights Legend. Use, reproduction or disclosure is

The Caldera interface

T he Caldera software is designed to use a specific graphic interface; in this manual,

 The use of the “Drag&Drop” method

 The use of menus, triggered by a right-click of the mouse

 Images & Applications bars.

The working bars

Printers Setup launches the Servers Admin application.

Quit closes all the applications and exits the software.

The Special menu gives you access to different configuration applications.

User Configuration allows you to configure your Applications bar.

WorkFlow Edition opens the application managing the Workflows.

HotFolders opens the application managing the Hotfolders.

KeyManager is used to manage the keys server.

Print Spooler opens the module managing the printing queues.

 Color Documentation: This is the documentation that explains the color

 Installation Documentation: Installation manual for our software.

 ImageTools gathers the applications related to the creation and retouching of

The two key menus:Applications menu and Images menu

 either in the Applications bar for the “Applications” menu

The Applications menu

It gives you access to a certain number of key functionalities of our products.

About this software: See the About function detailed above.

Workflows: Allows you to select and display a running Workflow.

User Configuration: Launches the User Configuration module.

WorkFlow Editor: Opens the Workflows module.

Print Spooler: Opens the print spooler.

Server Admin: Opens the module used to manage the servers.

Key Manager: Opens the keys server.

Hotfolders: Opens the reports window about the existing Hotfolders.

Kill EasyMedia: Kills the EasyMedia application.

Quit: Closes all applications and exits the software.

The Images menu

Display: Opens the selected image in a Display.

Select All: Selects all the images in your working bar.

Quit: Closes all applications, and quits the software.

D isplay allows you to open views of your images.

To open this or these view(s), there are four possibilities:

– Drag&drop your image icon on an empty screen area.

– Double-click the image in the image bar.

If you wish to obtain a square selection instead of a rectangle, or a circle instead of an

This menu also allows you to manage masks and selections.

The magic wand

For the magic wand, two modes are available: