SPOT 4.1 Basic and Advanced Software Manual for SPOT Insight ...

Ch. 10 – ReportingText Border, Justification, andBackgroundDefine the appearance of the text boxes for the Text, Date, and Timeobjects1. Specify whether the text box should have a border. To add a border,click on the Border box, and enter a Thickness value between .05 and10.2. Define the Justification of the text. This justification applies to theposition of the text in the box, not the position of the text on the page.3. Define the Background. Select either Transparent or Opaque.4. Click on OK.Title OptionsTime OptionsSpecify how the title of an image will appear on a report. This attributeapplies only to the Image Title report object. If you have not added animage title to your report, the Title Options do not matter.• To display only the file name – e.g., Healthy1 – leave both optionsunselected.• To display the entire path for an image – e.g.,C:\My Images\Cells\Healthy1 – check the Show Path for FileNames box.• To display the file name with the file type extension – e.g.,Healthy1.jpg – check the Show Extension for File Names box.• To display the file path and the file name with the extension – e.g.,C:\My Images\Cells\Healthy1.jpg – check both boxes.Specify whether the Image Time report object will include seconds andmilliseconds in addition to the hour and minute.• To display only seconds, check the Show Seconds box.• To display seconds and milliseconds, check both the Seconds andMilliseconds boxes.Defining Report ObjectsAll of the components of your report, including the formatting, text, images, and fieldsare known as objects. Using the objects, you can specify the information that your reportwill contain, as well as how the report will work.• You can, using run-time images, produce reports for images as they are captured. This is a goodoption for situations where you are capturing many images in one sitting.• You can produce reports for images that are saved to a SPOT database. Refer to Ch. 9 – Using SPOTDatabases for details on creating and modifying SPOT databases.• You can produce ad-hoc reports for single or multiple saved images.206 User Guide to the SPOT Insight Camera