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

Ch. 3 – Basic Program Mode• Calibration and Measurement• Annotation• MemosThe options associated with each category are described below. In some cases, where the options areidentical to those in the Advanced program mode, the manual refers you to the appropriate chapter andsection.Basic EditingThe Edit menu contains several functions that are common to most operating systems.UndoCut (Mac)Copy to Clipboard(PC)/Copy (Mac)Paste (Mac)Clear (Mac)Select All (Mac)Undo the last edit that you made. The Undo option only allows for one level of edits: inother words, you can only undo the immediately preceding edit. To Undo an action,select Undo from the Edit menu.Cut text fields within the SPOT program.Copy all or part of an image onto the clipboard for insertion into another program. Theseoptions are identical to the Windows [Ctrl C] command and the Mac [ C] command.1. Press and hold the left mouse button (PC)/mouse button (Mac).2. Drag the cursor over the image until the dotted rectangle covers the area of theimage that you want to copy. If you copy without "cutting out" a specific portion ofthe image, SPOT selects the entire image.3. Either select the Copy to Clipboard/Copy option from the Edit menu, or press[Ctrl C] (PC)/[ C] (Mac). The image is now ready to be pasted into anotherapplication.4. Open the application that you want to paste the image into, and select from theavailable pasting options.Paste text fields in the SPOT program. The Paste field is grayed when editing images.Clear a text field in the SPOT program. The Clear field is grayed when editing images.Select an image for copying into another application.Image PositionFrom the Edit menu, you can:• Reposition images• Match the on-screen orientation of a specimen to the microscopic view• Crop an image to better reflect the area of interestRotate RightRotate LeftFlip HorizontalFlip VerticalRotate an image clockwise in 90-degree increments.Rotate an image counter-clockwise in 90-degree increments.Flip an image from right to leftFlip an image from top to bottom.48 User Guide to the SPOT Insight Camera