This panel, which may be popped up with the Edit/Global Settings
menu item or the keyboard accelerator Meta-G,
allows the user to change various settings in xfig.
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Track mouse in rulers
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This option will cause xfig to show triangular pointers in the rulers
which indicate where the mouse is pointing on the canvas.
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Show page borders
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Xfig will draw a border on the canvas showing the size of the current page
setting (see Export
or Print) if this option is checked.
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Show info balloons. delay(ms)
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If this option is checked, xfig pops up a ``balloon'' with information
as the mouse passes over buttons or other areas of xfig. E.g.:
The delay tells xfig how long to wait (in milliseconds) after the mouse is positioned on
an area before popping up the balloon. The default is 500 ms.
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Show lengths on lines
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If this is checked, xfig will show the lengths of lines as
they are being drawn, thus:
This option may also be turned on or off with the
-showlength/-dontshowlength
command-line option.
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Show vertex numbers
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If this is checked, xfig will show the number of each
vertex of objects on the canvas thus:
This is probably only useful for debugging of Fig files.
This option may also be turned on or off with the
-shownums/-dontshownums
command-line option.
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Allow negative coords
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If checked (the default), xfig will allow panning to negative
x and y coordinates. This also turns off the query about shifting
a figure with negative coordinates when loading a figure.
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Draw lines through 0,0
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If checked (the default), xfig will draw X and Y axis lines through
0,0 on the canvas
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Recently used files
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This spinner entry lets the user set the number of recently used files that
are kept in the File menu. This is also updated in the user's .xfigrc
file in the user's home directory, as are the file names themselves.
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Max image colors
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This sets the maximum number of colors xfig will attempt to use
for imported images. The default is 64 and may also be set with the
-max_image_colors
command-line option.
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Image editor
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This is the external program used when the Edit Image button
is pressed in the import picture editor.
The default is xv .
You may use this program to crop/rotate/change colors in etc. your
imported image. When you exit from this program xfig will
re-import the image.
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Spelling checker
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This is the external spelling check program which will
be called when you use the spell check feature in xfig
(Edit/Spell Check, or Meta-K accelerator).
The spell program is the default.
The %s is necessary to tell xfig to insert the
filename into the spell command.
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HTML Browser
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This is the external web (HTML) browser that xfig will call to view help files.
The default is Netscape. The -remote option says to
look for a running Netscape and open the pages in that. If none is running,
a new one will start.
The %f is necessary to tell xfig to insert the filename into the
browser command.
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PDF Viewer
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This is the external PDF (Portable Document Format) viewer that xfig will
call to view the xfig tutorial..
The default is acroread.
The %f is necessary to tell xfig to insert the filename into the viewer command.
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