Never mind that last observation; specifically, I need a an example of a
latex directive or directives to place a checkbox to a specific X+Y
offset (from the corner crossmarks...)
On 9/23/2015 9:36 AM, Steve wrote:
"The position of the boxes is provided automatically by the
\textbackslash{}checkbox command"
That's what I need to adjust; the position of the boxes to specific x,
y coordinates. I can skip all else...
On 9/23/2015 9:31 AM, Benjamin Berg wrote:
On Mi, 2015-09-23 at 09:23 -0400, Steve wrote:
Or perhaps there is a latex directive that can get a choiceitem
placed at a specific coordinate offset??
I have no idea what you want to do. There are ways, i.e. write out the
metadata to an answer and use the \checkbox command to place a
checkbox. You could probably even just change the text color to make it
invisible if that is really what you want.
Se:
http://sdaps.org/FAQ#Is_it_possible_to_do_custom_layouts_in_LaTeX.3F
Benjamin
On 9/23/2015 9:19 AM, Steve wrote:
Got that; but how can I designate checkbox coordinate offsets at
generation time? That must be getting output somewhere at the setup
step, so that a recognize knows where to look for checks relative
to the corner crossmarks...
On 9/23/2015 9:16 AM, Benjamin Berg wrote:
On Mi, 2015-09-23 at 09:12 -0400, Steve wrote:
Thanks for the answer on the rotation.
So how can I adjust the box locations immediately after
setup_tex to be
at specific locations?
(or how can I designate through a choiceitem directive the
coordinate
locations of checkboxes, without necessitating that the latex
generate
content that offsets the checkbox to the same location...)
It just does not work the like that. SDAPS is designed to only
handle
one specific layout, and there is no code in place to modify the
checkbox locations on the fly.
Benjamin
On 9/23/2015 9:04 AM, Benjamin Berg wrote:
On Di, 2015-09-22 at 09:32 -0400, Steve wrote:
I need to do it without those two small squares that
"classic"
mode
prints at the top. The crossmark lines are OK.
So is there a way to accept pages that are insured by an
operator
to
be fed with a particular consistent rotational orientation
and
side?
Evaluation of the corner crossmarks by sdaps can be used to
insure
that the boxes are in positional alignment on the page (by
x and
y...); but no barcodes and no small boxes in the corner.
If you really want to, you can. But you really need to make
sure
that
all pages are scanned correctly. There are no safeguards in
place
once
you disable the barcode reading.
But if you want to, there is even a file that shows how it
can be
done.
The steps involved are:
1. Switch to "custom" style.
2. Preload script that implements your "custom" style.
The first part is as simple as putting "style=custom" into
the
latex
document. The second step requires a wrapper script that is
run
instead
of the normal sdaps executable. It simply loads an
implementation
for
the required functions that will be used later and then runs
SDAPS
normally.
There is an example "blank.py" in sdaps/sdaps/recognize.py
which
just
assume first page and correct rotation.
Note that you may need to grab the git checkout, as the file
is not
in
the release tarball.
And separately: can I edit questionnaire.sdaps after
project
setup,
to reflect possibly new box locations??
Nope, it is only read once at setup time. I have some
(currently
still
private) example that reads a .csv file with checkbox
definitions
on
the fly, does a recognize step and outputs the data as XML.
It uses
a
custom style which assumes a QR code in the top left corner.
(The
form
would be created manually using another method.)
If people are interested, please ping me, and I'll polish it
a bit
so
that it can be published.
Benjamin
On 9/22/2015 8:15 AM, Terrence Kovacs wrote:
I am using sdaps w/o the barcode with this documentclass
line:
\documentclass[english,pagemark,stamp,final,letterpaper,n
o_prin
t_su
rvey_id,style=classic]{sdaps}
Corner marks are printed to orient the page.
Terrence Kovacs
Research Systems Engineer
Physics and Astronomy Department
Dartmouth College
Wilder 341, 603-646-9303
From: Steve <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 5:39 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [sdaps] Inspection of Page Number and
Orientation...
(#82)
This is sort of related to my previous page orientation
question
(which is not working yet; but let me bring this question
to
the
fore...):
In sdaps.cls, there is a comment:
% We unconditionally print this barcode; it is required
for the
recognition process...
And sure enough: if I comment out the bar code and
attempt a
scan,
checkmarks don't get recognized
(but note that I left the corner crossmarks from the
stamp
process
in place...)
My question is: if I feed all my documents to be oriented
in a
uniformly consistent way (and perhaps even pass a hint to
sdaps
as
to how they are oriented on the feeder?), can I get sdaps
to
recognize the checkmarks without the barcode?
An interrelated question: I see in questionnaire.sdaps
that
coordinates for the checkboxes get defined during the
setup
process.
If I adjust the coordinates in this file, will a
subsequent
scan
read from those new locations??
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