Documents¶

A smile document contains all information necessary to describe a structure:

Size and location of the Write Field

A hierarchical list of elements (see: Outliner and Concepts)

Construction history (see: Node Editor and doc_elements)

Profile Maps (see: ExposureMap)

All kind of exposure settings

Position markers for alignment

Alignment scans

Alignment matrix

Different kind of document settings (eg. appearance and save options) (see: document)

The following chapters give on overview how structures are represented in smile documents. For a reference on all document settings refer to the document node reference.

Note

This chapter focuses on the “ingredients” of a smile2 document. The manual on how to work with the document view can be found in the Document View Chapter.