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Media types for evaluations
Omega generates reports in the proprietary intermediate format application/vnd.omega.report . This has the advantage that you only need to create a report once and can then save it repeatedly in the formats specified below or with different layout settings. The procedure for this is described in the section "Using the Document Viewer with Omega Reports" . Please remember that any adjustments you make to the generated files are not automatically reflected in your Omega database, but must still be entered in the file. Furthermore, these adjustments must be repeated with each new report. Therefore, it is recommended to perform these adjustments only once in the final version of the report and to always make changes to the family history data directly in the file, not in the report generated from it.
In addition to application/vnd.omega.report (Omega analysis), these are the possible media types for Omega analyses:
Text file
Plain text files contain no formatting whatsoever, i.e., no information about bold, font size, margins, etc. Text files can be created in any encoding . The most important are:
- UTF-16 LE (1200) : this encoding is suitable for further processing with Windows programs.
- ANSI - Latin I (1252) : This encoding is suitable for further processing with Windows programs. Genealogical special characters can only be represented to a very limited extent.
- UTF-8 (65001) : this encoding is suitable for further processing on the web.
RTF file
Rich Text Format (RTF, application/rtf ) is a text file format that allows documents to be exchanged between different word processing programs. All possible formatting and layout settings are preserved within the document. You should select RTF as the output destination if you intend to further process the results with a word processing system (e.g., Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, or OpenOffice Writer). This ensures that all layout settings are transferred to your word processor's document.Links are inserted as hyperlinks. For links to image files, the image is also inserted as a shortcut.
Numbers are marked as bookmarks, so that clicking on the numbers in the RTF file allows you to follow the links between people and from the registers. Furthermore, bookmarks are embedded. These bookmarks are included when saving the RTF file as a PDF from your word processing program to facilitate navigation within the document for the reader.
The individual sections within an RTF file are marked up using paragraph styles:
- Normal
- Person beginning
- Person continued
- Person godparents
- Child Heading
- Child beginning
- Child sequel
- Child godparents
- Number/Person Start
- Number/Person Continued
- Number/Person Godparents
- Number/Child Heading
- Number/Child Start
- Number/Child Continued
- Number/Child Godparents
- Foot block
- Number/Footblock
- register
- Table
- list
- Heading 1
- Heading 2
HTML file
HTML ( text/html ) stands for Hypertext Markup Language and is a format specifically developed for documents on the World Wide Web (Internet). Similar to RTF, it allows formatting to be incorporated into text files. This output option was introduced specifically for users who want to publish genealogical information on the World Wide Web using Omega or view it with their web browser (e.g., Edge, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, etc.).Links are inserted as hyperlinks. For links to image files, the image is also inserted as a shortcut.
For publications on the World Wide Web, it is common practice to split the monolithic HTML file generated by the document viewer using the HTML splitter . Proceed as follows:
- Save the report in HTML format using the document viewer .
- An entry will be displayed in the document manager for the created HTML file.
- Rename the document to give it a more descriptive name (e.g., "The Families of Sample City 1710–1899 " instead of "Local Family Register: All Persons "). This name will be used as the title of all HTML files in the HTML output. The filename of the HTML file itself will not change.
- Call up the HTML splitter from the context menu of the entry for the HTML document created from the evaluation.
- Select a folder. A subfolder for the HTML output will be created within it, named after the original HTML file.
- Answer "yes" to the question of whether you want to copy linked files.
- After successfully generating the HTML output, locate the folder containing it. Copy the files within that folder to the web server.