Sunday 30 October 2022

Layout manager supports text at an angle

 The layout manager in Annapurna has been updated so that it is possible tospecify the angle that the text is to be printed at.

90 means sideways upwards.

180 means upside-down.

270 means sideways downwards.


0 or blank means as normal.

Monday 24 October 2022

Browser report on Semi-finished

 There is a new option in the browser reports for those Annapurna sites that use Kalahari.

This will show the semi-finished  used for the manufacture of the lenses.


The report is triggered by the information icon which is placed next to the blue folder icon just below the Search button.

In Settings / Browsing / Show Semi-finished Data needs to be ticked for the icon to appear.

Wednesday 19 October 2022

Hawkstone Design Order CSV format

The Hawkstone Design software has been updated to allow CSV files to be passed containing order information.  This does not perform validation but it is sometimes a convenient method for ending orders.


The format is described here:  CSV Format

Tuesday 11 October 2022

Reviewing Semi-finished in Annapurna Browse Orders

 There is a new setting in Annapurna Browser which will show the semi-finished information used on an order.

If this is enabled then an information icon will be shown next to the blue folder that is used to report on the full prescription information on the orders.