How about multi-page tiff format that could be easily converted to pdf as needed?

Quote:


Yes, it can be done right now. I don't have a scanner at home (its late on Saturday night) to try things out, so I'm not sure how difficult it would be.  Looking at the command line scan utility included in most Linux systems ("scanimage") it looks to be pretty easy to do with @Shell.

It is possible for us to license one of several TWAIN libraries. Some of them are not DLL, they are static libraries. That would allow Sesame to scan directly into Sesame without saving an external file of any kind. I haven't looked into cost. Also, as I said, it wouldn't be readily cross platform.

Of course, I'm not sure that having any of the binary formats (images, PDFs) actually embedded in the application file (.db, .dat) is actually useful for anything other than making it very easy to copy and transport. Being binary, they could not be searched or displayed in Sesame easily.

As external files (as would be made by command line tools), the scan results could be used in Sesame by filename, much like Sesame uses images or HTML files.

Yes, I located and tested out the command line scanner program with all different switches that one needs to have in order to have the completely seamless operation. One can choose size, type of file including pdf, no user interface, adf, multipage and much, much  more. Even one can put multiple different switches in a text file and call that text file in the command.

http://www.dynarithmic.com/dtwain_twainsave.html

I can foresee using @shell to get the document image in the computer and locator link in the system using the above program and  @Asychshell to open it with linked program.  Using programing, one can make unique name of the file without having to choose the name by the user. Ofcourse user can add a little description preferably from combo box, such as lab report, Patient ID card, Insurance Card, Payment Voucher, consult note, x ray report and so on.  This amounts to one click to get the document or documents in the system and one click to open it.  Now we have reasonably good and workable document management system within Sesame and within our favorite application. 

The above program has 30 days free trial and cost about $79 but it is well worth to have integrated document management system within your application. I can foresee having paperless office now.  Possibilities are endless. Thanks to Sesame Developers Team and exceptional support.

Bharat Naik

Hey Gentlemen,
Don't know if this will be of help, but its is a very, very easy utility, and free, to convert images or documents into a pdf file.
The link is:
http://www.pdfonline.com/convert_pdf.asp

Peter

A couple of thoughts/requests:

1. When opening a file from Sesame, it is a bit disconcerting to have the "Root Directories" drop-down list disappear if the mouse button is released.  I find in most applications (in fact, Sesame seems to be the only exception in my experience) when you click on the drop-down arrow the selections drop down and remain present until a selection is made with another click.  In Sesame you have to hold the mouse, slide over to the directory you want, hover, and release.  Many of my experimental databases are in different directories so I use this often, but it is frustrating to see the directory selection disappear even after numerous uses.

2. The F6 "Notes" editor...would it be possible to have "Save" as a toolbar menu choice instead of (or in addition to) placing it under the file menu?  X-ing out of this box and losing my changes has caught me many times.  Seeing "Save" right in front of me will help.  And I'm sure this issue will come up when I show the editor to my users.  They are used to Q&A's F6 editor, which will warn them of unsaved changes and requires F10 to save.  In Sesame there is no warning, and F10 moves to the next record.

3. Also related to the "Notes" editor:  would it be possible to have "Edit" added to the right-click menu when you click in a field?  This would then open the "Notes" editor.  Current selections are Undo, Paste, Select All, Copy, Cut, Clear, and Help.  And now that I think of it, the ordering of these choices seems odd.  Not that it really makes much difference but I'm used to seeing a different order in just about every other program I use:  Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Clear, Select All.

Thank you for listening to my ideas.

Quote:


In 2.0 both the Field Editor and the @PopupStringEditor() Editor will prompt you to save changes, if anything has been changed, when you close the window by either Esc or the little Red X. The options on this dialog are Save, Discard, and Cancel.

-Ray