Designing The Esl Image Layout - Opticon ESL Server Manual

8. Designing the ESL image layout

Probably the most important step in the customization process of the ESL system is specifying the
images that should be displayed on the ESLs.
The template editing consists of 2 parts:

Template selection
(i.e. EE201 or EE440) and under which conditions (i.e. discount or no discount)

Template editing
Both aspects will be described in the following chapters.
When designing the layout of an e-paper ESL, it's important to know the limitations of what can
and what can't be displayed on an ESL.
The main characteristics are:

Fixed resolution (i.e. 200x96 pixels for the EE20x)

Monochrome images (for black & white ESLs) or Black/white/red images (for BWR ESLs)
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No anti-aliasing can be used on fonts (limiting the amount of available fonts)

Black / white (/red) company logos or other images can be added to the layout.
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1D- and 2D-Barcodes can be added using information from the database
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Texts, images and barcodes can be rotated in steps of 90°

Dynamic texts, using information from the database, can be added and aligned as desired.
The 'Templates'-tab contains the following configurations:

Template Folder Folder in which all templates are stored. The default location of the
templates is "/Templates".

Images Folder
these images have been sent to ESLs they will be moved to the sub-folder: '/Completed'
Determines which template should be shown on which ESL variant
Determines the layout of the image that will be shown on the ESL
All automatically generated images will be placed in this folder. Once
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