Setting up user preferences

To set up User Preferences, you have to click on “Archive” and select “Preferences“ in the Menu Bar at the top of the screen, both for Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X.

GENERAL OPTIONS:
General Options Panel, allows to define general view options. Thanks to it, it is possible to set:

• Units of measure and increments:

• Units of Measure: deal with the unit of measure used in the Plan. It can be set to millimeters (mm), Inches or Points (Pts);

• Keyboard increment;

• Grid snap area.

• Issue modification check:

• Enable Modification Check: it enables a check for all the modifications made into the Plan. Each modification will be notified: a notification will be displayed in the notification area at the bottom of the Plan

• Check Interval: this option allows the user to select the interval between checks for modifications in the Plan (in seconds).

VIEW OPTIONS:
Thanks to different View options, you can create various view sets and change them at will. For example, it is possible to have a defined preset set to do some activities and then switch to another with a different view option to do others.
View presets, along with Print presets and Preview presets, are stored locally on the user's system.
At the top of the panel you can find a dropdown list showing all the available presets. In order to identify the preset in us. it has an asterisk next to its name (*).
You can CREATE new presets by clicking on “Add” next to the list. If you want to DELETE one of them, you just have to click on “Delete” which is next to “Add”. You can not delete the preset in use! If you want to delete the preset in use you have to temporarly choose another preset to delete the one you are not interested in.
 

The View presets panel is divided in various tabs: View, Editorial, Advertising, Elements, and Pages.

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