Compressing the Project

Compressing the Project

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1 Compressing Project Data ...........................................................................3

1.1 Determine scope of compression..............................................................3
1.2 Select compression scheme and filters.....................................................4

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1 Compressing Project Data

The settings for the scope of compression are stored in schemes. This allows you to
save the settings you use most often for easy reuse.

Precondition:

You have opened and selected a project in the page navigator.

Project > Organize > Compress

1.1 Determine scope of compression

1. Click [...] next to the Settings field in the Compress project data dialog.

2. In the Settings: Compression dialog, click (New).

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3. In the New Scheme dialog, in the Name field, enter a name for your new
scheme. In the Description field, enter a descriptive text for the scheme, then
click [OK].

4. To select the project data for the Compression settings, in the Settings:
Compression dialog, in the Data to be compressed field, select the check
box for a layer.

If the level has sublevels, they will automatically be selected as well.

5. To save the settings, click (Save).

6. Click [OK].

1.2 Select compression scheme and filters

If you have already stored the scope of compression as a scheme, you only need to
select the existing scheme. To exclude layers of the project structure from
compression, you need to define a filter.

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1. In the Compress project dialog in the Settings field, select a scheme for the
scope of compression.

2. To exclude project data from compression, select a filter from the Filter field,
and select the Active check box.

3. Click [OK].

The results of the compression are displayed in the System messages

dialog.

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