Applets are used to add features to Ovation Pro. For more information see Chapter 18 of the Reference Guide.
All the applets on the Ovation Pro CD are listed below. You should remember that every applet you install will make Ovation Pro slower to load and use more memory. The idea of applets is to let you add just the features you need, so try to only install applets you really need.
Applets are best manipulated by using the Ovation Pro applet manager, this is available from the Applet menu in Ovation Pro. The applet manager will let you install and remove applets and investigate the help files supplied with them.
Applets are contained in files with the .oap extension. They can be installed by opening the .oap file by double clicking. Clicking on the location links below will give you a chance to install the relevant applet.
If you're not sure what an applet does or how to install it, don't.
Abbreviations
Location DavidPilling\Applets\Abbrev.oap
Provides abbreviation expansion as you type.
Access
Location DavidPilling\Applets\Access.oap
Allows documents to be made read-only, or password protected.
Arrange
Location DavidPilling\Applets\Arrange.oap
Spaces or aligns selected objects.
BookMark
Location DavidPilling\Applets\Bookmark.oap
Provides options to create, delete and go to bookmarks.
Calculator
Location DavidPilling\Applets\Calcs.oap
Pop-up calculator for adding and subtracting numbers at the caret.
Capital
Location Others\Noble\Applets\Capital.oap
Capitalise selected text.
Clipboards
Location Others\Pettigrew\Applets\Clipbrds.oap
Multiple clipboard manager.
ColPal
Location DavidPilling\Applets\ColPal.oap
Palette which allows colours to be applied and edited.
ColSupp
Location DavidPilling\Applets\ColSupp.oap
Colour Supplement - colour printing and image processing.
Contents
Location Others\Noble\Applets\Contents.oap
Contents table generation.
Convert
Location DavidPilling\Applets\Convert.oap
Converts values into different units.
Custom
Location DavidPilling\Applets\Custom.oap
A safe home for any files you may want to use for customising Ovation Pro.
Dbase
Location Others\Ford\Applets\Dbase.oap
Relational database facilities with CSV files.
Document
Location DavidPilling\Applets\Document.oap
Displays menu listing documents that have recently been edited.
FancyDate
Location DavidPilling\Applets\FancyDate.oap
Inserts date with 'th', 'st' or 'nd' suffix in superscript.
Fill
Location DavidPilling\Applets\Fill.oap
Graduated, patterned and hatched fills.
Fluff
Location DavidPilling\Applets\Fluff.oap
This applet corrects common typographical errors. For example double spaces will be replaced by single spaces.
Fog
Location DavidPilling\Applets\Fog.oap
This applet prints out an analysis of any selected text. The idea is to give a quantitative indication of how easy the text is to understand.
FontCat
Location Others\Williams\Applets\FontCat.oap
Generates a list of all fonts available to Ovation Pro displaying some text in each font.
FontList
Location DavidPilling\Applets\FontList.oap
Generates a list of fonts used in the current document.
Fraction
Location DavidPilling\Applets\Fraction.oap
Converts selected text in the form n/d into fraction format.
Grabber
Location DavidPilling\Applets\Grabber.oap
Provides a new grabber hand tool, which may be used to drag the document around in the window.
Headings
Location Others\Noble\Applets\Headings.oap
Automatic generation of page headers.
Hints
Location DavidPilling\Applets\Hints.oap
Displays Ovation Pro hints.
Ignore
Location Others\Overett\Applets\Ignore.oap
The purpose of this applet is to allow certain words to be ignored by the spell-checker for example words with numbers in like post codes.
Imposition
Location DavidPilling\Applets\Imposition.oap
Adds new print formats, Booklet (four up printing), Tile (print large pages over a number of sheets), Thumbnails (print many pages on each sheet).
IncSave
Location Others\Kaijaks\Applets\IncSave.oap
Each time a document is saved an incrementing number is added to its filename.
JoinLine
Location DavidPilling\Applets\JoinLine.oap
Provides a quicker way of joining lines of text that are terminated by Return characters.
Label
Location DavidPilling\Applets\Label.oap
Automate the printing of individual labels onto sheets of labels.
Ligature
Location DavidPilling\Applets\Ligature.oap
Converts character pairs to ligatures as-you-type.
Logger
Location DavidPilling\Applets\Logger.oap
Automatically logs date and time of file and print operations.
Lockswtch
Location Others\Woolf\Applets\LockSwitch.oap
Simple applet that provides buttons to toggle the snap to guide and frames preferences. What is interesting is that the buttons show the current state and this applet is an example of how to create such buttons.
Mines
Location Others\Barron\Applets\Mines.oap
Mines game.
MPairs
Location Others\Levens\Applets\MPairs.oap
Easy insertion of matched pairs around selected text.
OEPS
Location DavidPilling\Applets\OEPS.oap
This applet allows Encapsulated PostScript files to be loaded directly into Ovation Pro. Support is provided for RGB EPS files, pre-separated CMYK EPS files and CMYK DCS (desktop colour separation) files.
Ovation1
Location DavidPilling\Applets\Ovation1.oap
This Applet enables Ovation 1.XX documents and stylesheets to be loaded directly into Ovation Pro.
OverWrite
Location DavidPilling\Applets\Ovrwrite
Gives warnings before over writing documents.
PagePal
Location DavidPilling\Applets\PagePal.oap
Page Palette allows you to move quickly through the chapters and pages of a document.
POBar
Location DavidPilling\Applets\POBar.oap
POBarNL
Location DavidPilling\Applets\POBarNL.oap
Applets for inserting Post Office bar codes into documents. The first version is suitable for use in the UK, the NL version is for The Netherlands.
PrePress
Location DavidPilling\Applets\PrePress.oap
This applet looks for possible problems when documents are sent for professional printing.
QuickSave
Location DavidPilling\Applets\QuickSave
Saves unsaved documents in Temp directory without prompting.
Quotes
Location DavidPilling\Applets\Quotes.oap
Converts plain quotes into smart quotes as-you-type.
Sections
Location Others\Noble\Applets\Sections.oap
Automatic generation of section numbers.
Sequencer
Location Others\Noble\Applets\Sequence.oap
Used to maintain one or more sequences of numbers and references to those numbers. For example, it can be used to automatically generate numbers for figures in a document and to keep track of references to those figures in the text. This makes it easy to insert a new figure without having to manually renumber all of the ones later than it in the document.
SmartCal
Location Others\Levens\Applets\SmartCal.oap
Easy entry of the date for yesterday, tomorrow, next week, next month or the end of the month.
Spell French
Location Others\Mawhood\Applets\SpellFR.oap
An applet which intercepts spelling errors and sees if the words are mere variations on known words, designed for use with the accompanying French dictionary.
Spell Italian
Location Others\Korwin\Applets\SpellITA.oap
This applet checks Italian words with an apostrophe and avoids many variants of the same words in the Italian dictionary.
SRWE
Location Others\Brown\Applets\SRWE.oap
This applet makes it possible to search for words in a particular style, and then replace it with another word in either the same or a different style.
Stationery
Location DavidPilling\Applets\Statnry.oap
Allows document templates to be chosen from the icon bar menu.
StylePal
Location DavidPilling\Applets\StylePal.oap
Palette which allows user styles to be added, removed and edited.
SuperShift
Location DavidPilling\Applets\SuperShift.oap
Auto capitalisation of sentences.
TextPal
Location Others\Pettigrew\Applets\Textpal.oap
This applet creates a palette that gives easier access to some text attributes.
TidyMove
Location Others\Haines\Applets\TidyMove.oap
Intelligent copy/paste/select of words.
Today
Location DavidPilling\Applets\Today.oap
Insert date and name of day e.g. "21st August 2000
(St. Francis De Sales' day)".
Together
Location Others\Noble\Applets\Together.oap
Keep section headings and text together.
TransDate
Location DavidPilling\Applets\TransDate.oap
Output date, translated to different languages.
TWAIN
Location DavidPilling\Applets\Twain.oap
Allows images to be imported via the TWAIN protocol into any picture frame. Twain is typically used by scanners and digital cameras. Adds Scan entry to Applets menu. TWAIN is an alternative to WIA, see the WIA applet.
Unique
Location DavidPilling\Applets\Unique.oap
Inserts unique number with optional prefix at the caret.
Version
Location DavidPilling\Applets\Version.oap
This applet allows version control of documents. It automatically keeps track of who created a document, who last edited it and when, and how many times it has been edited.
WIA
Location DavidPilling\Applets\WIA.oap
Allows images to be imported via the WIA protocol into any picture frame. WIA is typically used by scanners and digital cameras. Adds Scan entry to Applets menu. WIA is an alternative to TWAIN, see the TWAIN applet. WIA is more likely to be supported by cameras than TWAIN.