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Support For Older IDC Software Now in Unibase by DMAC IDC

More sophisticated and newser scanner software will create image data control ".idc" files and  put  them in the "%ETROOT%\idc"  subdirectory.  Unibase Image Entry uses these files to determine which tiff  images to  use  for  a batch of image entry.  Unibase  assumes  the images  are in the "%ETROOT%\image" subdirectory unless  the fourth  parameter  of  the line entry  in  the  ".IDC"  file specifies a line number in the "imgpath.idx" file. The entry in  the "imgpath.idx" file is a path that precedes the  tiff name  in  the ".IDC" file. (In other words, Unibase  is  NOT expecting  the  tiff  name  in the ".IDC"  file  to  have  a complete path name, just a partial path of less that 32 characters from the image  sub- directory.)

However, some older scanner software can only put the entries into an  ".IDC" file with a complete path. To  accommodate  these scanners,   put   this  same  path  as  an  entry   in   the "imgpath.idx"  file.  Then  put  a  minus  sign  before  the parameter  in the ".IDC" line that specifies the  number  of the entry in the ".IDX" file.

Then  Unibase Image Entry will  "subtract" the  contents  of that line number from the tiff name given in the ".IDC" file before  preceding  the  tiff  name  with  the  path  in  the "imgpath.idx" file.

The  directory  path  may be  changed  with  this  technique provided the new directory path has exactly the same  number of characters as the old directory path.