Author: gpittman
Date: Wed Nov 1 17:58:07 2017
New Revision: 22209
URL: http://scribus.net/websvn/listing.php?repname=Scribus&sc=1&rev=22209
Log:
Editing the manual information on Preferences
Modified:
trunk/Scribus/doc/en/settings1.html
Modified: trunk/Scribus/doc/en/settings1.html
URL:
http://scribus.net/websvn/diff.php?repname=Scribus&rev=22209&path=/trunk/Scribus/doc/en/settings1.html
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--- trunk/Scribus/doc/en/settings1.html (original)
+++ trunk/Scribus/doc/en/settings1.html Wed Nov 1 17:58:07 2017
@@ -20,31 +20,32 @@
<tr><td width="200" valign="top"><ul>
<li><a href="#1"><strong>User Interface</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#2"><strong>Paths</strong></a></li>
+<li><a href="#16"><strong>Keyboard Shortcuts</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#3"><strong>Document Setup</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#4"><strong>Page Sizes</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#5"><strong>Guides</strong></a></li>
+<li><a href="#7"><strong>Item Tools</strong></a></li>
+<li><a href="#10"><strong>Fonts</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#6"><strong>Typography</strong></a></li>
-<li><a href="#7"><strong>Item Tools</strong></a></li>
-<li><a href="#8"><strong>Operator Tools</strong></a></li>
-<li><a href="#9"><strong>Hyphenation</strong></a></li>
</ul></td>
<td width="300" valign="top"><ul>
</li>
-<li><a href="#10"><strong>Fonts</strong></a></li>
+<li><a href="#9"><strong>Hyphenator</strong></a></li>
+<li><a href="#12"><strong>Color Management</strong></a></li>
+<li><a href="#22"><strong>Image Cache</strong></a></li>
+<li><a href="#18"><strong>Display</strong></a></li>
+<li><a href="#8"><strong>Operator Tools</strong></a></li>
+<li><a href="#19"><strong>External Tools</strong></a></li>
+<li><a href="#17"><strong>Scrapbook</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#11"><strong>Preflight Verifier</strong></a></li>
-<li><a href="#12"><strong>Color Management</strong></a></li>
+<li><a href="#27"><strong>Printer</strong></a></li>
+</ul></td>
+<td valign="top"><ul>
<li><a href="#13"><strong>PDF Export</strong></a></li>
+<li><a href="#20"><strong>Miscellaneous</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#14"><strong>Document Item Attributes</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#15"><strong>Table of Contents and Indexes</strong></a></li>
-<li><a href="#16"><strong>Keyboard Shortcuts</strong></a></li>
-<li><a href="#17"><strong>Scrapbook</strong></a></li>
-</ul></td>
-<td valign="top"><ul>
-<li><a href="#18"><strong>Display</strong></a></li>
-<li><a href="#19"><strong>External Tools</strong></a></li>
-<li><a href="#20"><strong>Miscellaneous</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#21"><strong>Plugins</strong></a></li>
-<li><a href="#22"><strong>Image Cache</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#23"><strong>Short Words</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#24"><strong>Scripter</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#25"><strong>Document Information</strong></a></li>
@@ -64,9 +65,17 @@
<h4>Startup</h4>
<p><img src="images/prefs_userinterface_tab4.png" align="center"></p>
<p>As shown, these default startup behaviors are optional.</p>
+
<h3><a name="2"></a>Paths</h3>
<p><img src="images/prefs_paths.png" align="center"></p>
<p>The various “paths” are the default locations Scribus will use.
The path for scripts is where Scribus looks when you choose <em>Scripts >
Execute Script</em> from the menu bar.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="16"></a>Keyboard Shortcuts</h3>
+
+<table width="90%"><tr><td align="center"><img
src="images/prefs_keyb_shortcuts.png" alt="Setting the Keyboard Shortcuts for
Scribus" title="Setting the Keyboard Shortcuts for Scribus"/></td></tr></table>
+
+<p>Here you see the various default keyboard shortcuts, which are editable,
and many others can be assigned. Moreover, once customized, you can export them
into a separate XML file that can be exported and saved separately, along with
making it portable to other machines. The default file suffix is .ksxml. This
is a Unicode file and should not have issues being transported across
platforms, with the only caveat that Macs have an option and command meta key,
where Linux, UNIX, OS/2, eComStation and Windows share common keyboards.</p>
+
<h3><a name="3"></a>Document Setup (not to be confused with the menu selection
<em>File > Document Setup</em></h3>
<p>In Preferences, the various settings here will be those that you see when
you create a new document (<em>File > New</em>). With <em>File > Document
Setup</em>, they will change the current document.</p>
<h4>Size</h4>
@@ -87,9 +96,11 @@
<p><img src="images/prefs_documentsetup_tab4.png" align="center"></p>
<p><em>Save in a compressed format</em> uses the utility <strong>gzip</strong>
to make a compression of your file to save space. Rather than your Scribus
files ending in <strong>.sla</strong>, they will end with
<strong>.sla.gz</strong> instead.</p>
<p>The other settings here should be self-explanatory.</p>
+
<h3><a name="4"></a>Page Sizes</h3>
<p><img src="images/prefs_pagesizes.png" align="center"></p>
<p>You may have noticed that even though it was said above that you have a
large selection, when you actually first check your selection, it's rather
puny. This new category in Preferences explains why. Rather than needing to
deal with this entire list in the drop down menu, here you can only show sizes
which there is some likelihood that you will need, and you can add as many as
you want.</p>
+
<h3><a name="5"></a>Guides</h3>
<p>Although labeled <strong>Guides</strong>, there are many other settings
here, mostly related.</p>
<h4>Placement</h4>
@@ -104,11 +115,6 @@
<p><img src="images/prefs_guides_tab3.png" align="center"></p>
<p>For adjusting the color of each item.</p>
-<h3><a name="6"></a>Typography</h3>
-
-<p><table width="90%"><tr><td align="center"><img
src="images/prefs_typography.png" align="center" alt="Typography Tab
Panel"/></td><td valign="top"><p>Here are the default settings for various
typographic features – subscript, superscript, automatic line spacing and
scaling of small capitals.</p>
-<p>In addition, the amount of automatic linespacing can be adjusted relative
to the size of the font.</p></td></tr></table>
-
<h3><a name="7"></a>Item Tools</h3>
<p>In the Item Tools tabs you can change the defaults for text frames, image
frames, shapes, polygons, lines, calligraphic lines, arcs, and spirals.
Remember, these are simply the default settings, and can still be altered as
needed on the main canvas.</p>
@@ -119,6 +125,33 @@
<td valign="top"><p><img src="images/prefs_itemtools_tab2.png"/></p><p><img
src="images/prefs_itemtools_tab4.png"></p>
<p><img src="images/prefs_itemtools_tab6.png"></p></td></tr>
</table>
+
+<h3><a name="10"></a>Fonts</h3>
+<p>Selecting and installing fonts correctly is one of the most important
configuration items with Scribus, and an extensive set of notes is here: <a
href="fonts1.html">Fonts and Scribus</a>. If there is one part of the
documentation you really must read, it is this one.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="6"></a>Typography</h3>
+
+<p><table width="90%"><tr><td align="center"><img
src="images/prefs_typography.png" align="center" alt="Typography Tab
Panel"/></td><td valign="top"><p>Here are the default settings for various
typographic features – subscript, superscript, automatic line spacing and
scaling of small capitals.</p>
+<p>In addition, the amount of automatic linespacing can be adjusted relative
to the size of the font.</p></td></tr></table>
+
+<h3><a name="9"></a>Hyphenator</h3>
+<p>Hyphenation details are described here: <a
href="hyphenator.html">Hyphenation in Scribus</a>.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="12"></a>Color Management</h3>
+<img src="images/prefs_colormanagement.png">
+<p>There are detailed notes on this topic in the <a href="cms.html">Color
Management</a> section. Most of these options will not be available unless
<em>Activate Color Management</em> is checked. Also, setting the monitor
profile is only possible when no document is open.</p>
+<p><em>Note: You will not be able to export to PDF/X-3 if color management is
not enabled, and the Preferences settings for this format will likewise not be
available.</em></p>
+
+<h3><a name="22"></a>Image Cache</h3>
+<img src="images/prefs_imagecache.png">
+<p>Here is a new feature, allowing you to set up an image cache for faster
loading of images on screen rewrites.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="18"></a>Display (not all of these are available in Document
Settings)</h3>
+<p>Most of these are pretty straightforward. Depending on the size of your
screen, you can use this to adjust the rescale and rearrange your workspace. If
you have plenty of space, you may want to adjust the display to accurately
reflect your document size by default. <em>Display Scaling</em> can only be
adjusted with no document open. Remember, you can adjust the magnification
settings in <em>Operator Tools > Zoom</em>.</p>
+
+<img src="images/prefs_display.png" alt="Display Settings" title="Display
Settings" />
+
+<p>The Colors tab allows for customization of the colors used for various
screen features, such as marking the margins, grids, and guides. In Document
Settings only Fill Color is available. It’s also worth mentioning here
that the Fill Color only has to do with the <em>appearance</em> of the document
background and is not printed or exported to PDF.
<h3><a name="8"></a>Operator Tools</h3>
<p>In 1.5.0, these have been pulled out into their own category.</p>
@@ -129,46 +162,6 @@
<td valign="top"><p>Here we have the settings for the amount of shift with the
copy when you click <em>Item > Duplicate</em> from the menu. In addition, here
is the amount of jump with each click of the rotation tool.</p></td></tr>
</table>
-<h3><a name="9"></a>Hyphenation</h3>
-<p>Hyphenation details are described here: <a
href="hyphenator.html">Hyphenation in Scribus</a>.</p>
-
-<h3><a name="10"></a>Fonts</h3>
-<p>Selecting and installing fonts correctly is one of the most important
configuration items with Scribus, and an extensive set of notes is here: <a
href="fonts1.html">Fonts and Scribus</a>. If there is one part of the
documentation you really must read, it is this one.</p>
-
-<h3><a name="11"></a>Preflight Verifier</h3>
-<p>See the information about <a href="print2.html">Printing Tools</a> to learn
more about the configuration options in this panel.</p>
-
-<h3><a name="12"></a>Color Management</h3>
-<img src="images/prefs_colormanagement.png">
-<p>There are detailed notes on this topic in the <a href="cms.html">Color
Management</a> section. Most of these options will not be available unless
<em>Activate Color Management</em> is checked. Also, setting the monitor
profile is only possible when no document is open.</p>
-<p><em>Note: You will not be able to export to PDF/X-3 if color management is
not enabled, and the Preferences settings for this format will likewise not be
available.</em></p>
-
-<h3><a name="13"></a>PDF Export</h3>
-<table><tr><td><p><img src="images/prefs_pdfexport_tab1.png"></p><p><img
src="images/prefs_pdfexport_tab3.png"></p><p><img
src="images/prefs_pdfexport_tab5.png"></p></td>
-<td valign="top"><p><img src="images/prefs_pdfexport_tab2.png"></p><p><img
src="images/prefs_pdfexport_tab4.png"></p></td></tr>
-</table>
-
-<p>Remember that the settings here simply change the default values for PDF
Export. You can still override any settings with the PDF Export dialog. For
more info on PDF look at <a href="pdfexport1.html">PDF Export Options</a> and
<a href="pdfx3.html">PDF/X-3 and Scribus</a>.</p>
-
-<h3><a name="14"></a>Documents Item Attributes</h3>
-<p>Aside from storing additional information about a given item, this feature
is currently most useful in connection with the creation of a table of
contents.</p>
-<h3><a name="15"></a>Table of Contents and Indexes</h3>
-<p>These two subdialogs relate to each other. One use of these features is
explained here: <a
href="http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Creating_a_Table_of_Contents";>http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Creating_a_Table_of_Contents</a></p>
-
-<h3><a name="16"></a>Keyboard Shortcuts</h3>
-
-<table width="90%"><tr><td align="center"><img
src="images/prefs_keyb_shortcuts.png" alt="Setting the Keyboard Shortcuts for
Scribus" title="Setting the Keyboard Shortcuts for Scribus"/></td></tr></table>
-
-<p>Here you see the various default keyboard shortcuts, which are editable,
and many others can be assigned. Moreover, once customized, you can export them
into a separate XML file that can be exported and saved separately, along with
making it portable to other machines. The default file suffix is .ksxml. This
is a Unicode file and should not have issues being transported across
platforms, with the only caveat that Macs have an option and command meta key,
where Linux, UNIX, OS/2, eComStation and Windows share common keyboards.</p>
-
-<h3><a name="17"></a>Scrapbook</h3>
-<p>With Scrapbooks, you can <em>right button</em> drag and drop frequently
used items, including pictures, images and text files for quick placement.
Scrapbooks can be saved with a file or independently of a document, as a
separate Scrapbook which can be loaded use with many different Documents.
Separate Scrapbooks are kept with a <code>.scs</code> designation. This panel
sets the defaults for the thumbnail preview size of items in the Scrapbook
palette and whether Scrapbooks should be saved automatically when changed.</p>
-<h3><a name="18"></a>Display (not all of these are available in Document
Settings)</h3>
-<p>Most of these are pretty straightforward. Depending on the size of your
screen, you can use this to adjust the rescale and rearrange your workspace. If
you have plenty of space, you may want to adjust the display to accurately
reflect your document size by default. <em>Display Scaling</em> can only be
adjusted with no document open. Remember, you can adjust the magnification
settings in <em>Operator Tools > Zoom</em>.</p>
-
-<img src="images/prefs_display.png" alt="Display Settings" title="Display
Settings" />
-
-<p>The Colors tab allows for customization of the colors used for various
screen features, such as marking the margins, grids, and guides. In Document
Settings only Fill Color is available. It’s also worth mentioning here
that the Fill Color only has to do with the <em>appearance</em> of the document
background and is not printed or exported to PDF.
<h3><a name="19"></a>External Tools</h3>
<p>This panel enables you to change the default settings for the location of
Ghostscript and other external programs. If you have installed Ghostscript
before installing Scribus, it is usually detected automatically. If you receive
an error message indicating that EPS files cannot be used, this is where the
settings can be changed to allow Scribus to find the correct location of
Ghostscript.</p>
<h4>Ghostscript</h4>
@@ -186,14 +179,33 @@
<p><strong>Render Frames</strong></p>
<p>See <a href="WwRenderframes.html">Working with Render Frames</a>.</p>
+<h3><a name="17"></a>Scrapbook</h3>
+<p>With Scrapbooks, you can <em>right button</em> drag and drop frequently
used items, including pictures, images and text files for quick placement.
Scrapbooks can be saved with a file or independently of a document, as a
separate Scrapbook which can be loaded use with many different Documents.
Separate Scrapbooks are kept with a <code>.scs</code> designation. This panel
sets the defaults for the thumbnail preview size of items in the Scrapbook
palette and whether Scrapbooks should be saved automatically when changed.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="11"></a>Preflight Verifier</h3>
+<p>See the information about <a href="print2.html">Printing Tools</a> to learn
more about the configuration options in this panel.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="27"></a>Printer</h3>
+<p>This is a new tab to Preferences, allowing you to set your default printer
settings as shown in the screenshots.</p>
+<table><tr><td><p><img src="images/printingprefs1.png"></p><p><img
src="images/printingprefs2.png"></p><p><img
src="images/printingprefs3.png"></p></td></tr></table>
+
+<h3><a name="13"></a>PDF Export</h3>
+<table><tr><td><p><img src="images/prefs_pdfexport_tab1.png"></p><p><img
src="images/prefs_pdfexport_tab3.png"></p><p><img
src="images/prefs_pdfexport_tab5.png"></p></td>
+<td valign="top"><p><img src="images/prefs_pdfexport_tab2.png"></p><p><img
src="images/prefs_pdfexport_tab4.png"></p></td></tr>
+</table>
+
+<p>Remember that the settings here simply change the default values for PDF
Export. You can still override any settings with the PDF Export dialog. For
more info on PDF look at <a href="pdfexport1.html">PDF Export Options</a> and
<a href="pdfx3.html">PDF/X-3 and Scribus</a>.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="14"></a>Documents Item Attributes</h3>
+<p>Aside from storing additional information about a given item, this feature
is currently most useful in connection with the creation of a table of
contents.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="15"></a>Table of Contents and Indexes</h3>
+<p>These two subdialogs relate to each other. One use of these features is
explained here: <a
href="http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Creating_a_Table_of_Contents";>http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Creating_a_Table_of_Contents</a></p>
<h3><a name="20"></a>Miscellaneous</h3>
<table width="80%"><tr><td align="center"><img src="images/prefs_misc.png"
title="Miscellaneous Settings"></td></tr></table>
<h3><a name="21"></a>Plugins</h3>
<p>This is an informational display about the various plug-ins you have at
your disposal, how to use them, and where their libraries are located.
-<h3><a name="22"></a>Image Cache</h3>
-<img src="images/prefs_imagecache.png">
-<p>Here is a new feature, allowing you to set up an image cache for faster
loading of images on screen rewrites.</p>
<h3><a name="23"></a>Short Words</h3>
<img src="images/prefs_shortwords.png">
<p>Short Words is a plug-in to assist with adding non-breaking spaces to
abbreviations like Mr. and measurements like km. Details on configuration and
use are here: <a href="short-words.html">Short Words in Scribus</a>. </p>
@@ -203,16 +215,9 @@
<p>Scripter Extensions are special Scripter module or scripts which are loaded
at startup to modify the abilities of the Python Scripter plug-in within
Scribus. Details are <a href="scripter-extensions.html">here</a>. The Console
tab is for choosing syntax highlighting colors within the Scripter Console.</p>
<h3><a name="25"></a>Document Information (available in Document Settings but
not in Preferences)</h3>
See the section on <a href="docinfo.html">Document Information</a>.
+
<h3>Where Are the Preferences Files?</h3>
-<p>Scribus’ preferences are kept in a hidden directory
<code>.scribus</code>, the location of which is as follows:
-<ul>
-<li><strong>Linux/UNIX:</strong> <code>/home/username/.scribus</code></li>
-<li><strong>Mac OS X:</strong> <code>User/username/.scribus</code></li>
-<li><strong>OS/2 and eComStation</strong>:
<code>X:\SCRIBUS-1.4.x-OS2-date\scribus\.scribus</code></li>
-<li><strong>Haiku</strong>:
<code>/boot/home/config/settings/Qt/.scribus</code></li>
-<li><strong>Windows:</strong> <code>C:\Documents and
Settings/username/.scribus</code></li>
-</ul>
-<p>Within the directory are a <code>.scribus14.rc</code> file, a
<code>scribusfont.rc</code> file (which preserves your font preferences) and a
<code>prefs14.xml</code> file. These files are stored in XML format, so you can
inspect and edit their contents with a text editor. If you have installed
Python, there will also be a <code>scripter.rc</code> file that lists most
recently used scripts. There are also several other directories, most which are
comprised of configuration or history files. If you are encountering any issues
with a previously working Scribus installation, <strong>renaming</strong>, not
deleting, the <code>.scribus</code> directory may be a good idea. See the notes
on <a href="fileproblems.html">Troubleshooting</a> for more information.</p>
+<p>For information on the location of these are other settings, check <a
href="configfiles.html">Configuration Files</a>
<hr>
<p>See also</p>
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