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Once you have all your images edited, arranged in hierarchical order and indexed, you are ready to convert them to PDF.

 

1.To start the conversion process, click on the Convert button. convert-button        
2.The Conversion 2 PDF dialog will open. Here you need to review a number of settings that are described below.
3.When you are ready to proceed, click the Process button. process-button
4.Watch the progress indicators along the bottom of the window until the "Current Status" displays "Complete", and then click the Close button. close-button

                       

PDF File NamingPDF OptionsAdvanced PDF SettingsMetadata Export SettingsDatabase Export SettingsProofer Export Settingsconversion-2-pdf

Conversion to PDF Dialog

 

Your settings can be made permanent by clicking on the "Set default" pdfconversion-set-defaults button. These settings will be saved into file name "DefaultSettings.xml" that is located under your "Document and Settings" (ELAN/ELAN Capture) location. If this step is performed, your next new ELAN Capture will use the same settings.

 

It also possible to save and load the conversion settings using the "Save" and "Load" buttons. These are industry-standard XML files that can also be modified externally to ELAN Capture.

 

Job List

It is possible to process several conversion jobs that will be processed one after the other one. This is useful in situations where large number of files have to be processed with time consuming OCR conversions. You can select several jobs that have previously been set properly, saved and now added to the job list.  By default your current job is selected; however, you can include other jobs by clicking on the Add button add-button in the bottom left corner of the Conversion window. You will see a browse window where you will need to find the *.org file for the corresponding job.

 

Likewise you can remove a job by selecting the job and clicking the delete-button button.

 

To remove all the listed conversion jobs and start over, click clear-button.

 

The individual options are explained in detail on the following chapters.