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3.11 Tips

This section contains some general information concerning the usage of QuiteInsane.

3.11.1 Automatic filename generation

Automatic filename generation is available, when you are scanning in Save-mode or in Multi scan-mode.
You can control the filename generation through Options->Filename generation.

Possible settings:

Filecounter increment - specifies the value which is added to the counter.
Prepend zeros - specifies, whether zeros should be prepended to the counter.
Counter width (digits) - specifies the number of digits used for the counter.

In Save-mode, the checkbox Automatic filename generation must be selected. Generation of filenames is also influenced by the filename given under Save as: and by the Image type.
In Multi scan-mode, you can change the filename template by clicking the Change... button next to the text field. The image type can be selected with the Image type combobox. the Image type.

Some examples:

  1. Filename: testimage.png, Image type: by extension, don't prepend zeros

    If no similar file exists, the generated filenames will be testimage0.png, testimage1.png and so on. You can also control the counters start value; simply add a number to the filename, e.g. testimage10.png, and the counter will start with the value of 10.
    If a similar file already exists, the counter is increased automatically. E.g. if there's a file testimage66.png, then the generated filename will be testimage67.png (if Filecounter increment is set to 1)

  2. Filename: testimage.png, Image type: PNG, don't prepend zeros

    Works in exactly the same way like decribed above. QuiteInsane will recognize, that the imageformat is specified twice (by filename extension .png and by Image type PNG).

  3. Filename: testimage, Image type: PNG, don't prepend zeros

    See above; QuiteInsane will automatically append the filename extension .png .

  4. Filename: testimage.png, Image type: JPEG, don't prepend zeros

    In this case, the automatically generated filenames will look like testimage.png0.jpg, testimage.png1.jpg and so on. QuiteInsane will not replace the extension .png with .jpg.

  5. Filename: testimage.png, Image type: by extension, prepend zeros, counter width 2

    If no similar file exists, the generated filenames will be testimage00.png, testimage01.png and so on. You can also control the counters start value; simply add a number to the filename, e.g. testimage10.png, and the counter will start with the value of 10.
    If a similar file already exists, the counter is increased automatically. E.g. if there's a file testimage66.png, then the generated filename will be testimage67.png (if Filecounter increment is set to 1)
    Please don't forget, that the highest value for the counter is 99 in this case. The attempt to scan another image will result in an error message.

  6. Filename: testimage, Image type: PNG, Filecounter increment equals 2

    In this case, the automatically generated filenames will look like testimage0.png, testimage2.png and so on. QuiteInsane will increase the counter by the value specified under Filecounter increment.


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