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help system Piers Cornwell <piers.cornwell@bigfoot.com> who has taken the burden to continue this project Karin and Olof started. --Sven
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HTML
191 lines
6.0 KiB
HTML
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
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<HTML>
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<HEAD>
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<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
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<TITLE>Preferences / Interface</TITLE>
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</HEAD>
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<BODY text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#0000FF" vlink="#FF0000" alink="#000088">
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<TABLE width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1">
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<TR bgcolor="black">
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<TD width="100%" align="center"><FONT size="+2" color="white">Interface</FONT></TD>
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</TR>
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<TR bgcolor="white" >
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<TD width="100%" align="left"><H4>
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</H4>
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<H3>
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Interface Settings
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</H3>
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<DL>
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<DT>
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<DD>
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<DT>
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<EM>Preview Size:</EM>
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<DD>
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Set the size of the preview thumbnails present in e.g the Layers & Channels
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dialog. NOTE: That setting the size to None will disable the preview function.
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<DT>
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<EM>Nav Preview Size:</EM>
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<DD>
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Will affect the size of the
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<A HREF="../navigation_window.html">navigation</A> window present from the
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bottom right corner of the image widow or as right-click|View|Nav Window
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<DT>
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<EM>Levels of Undo:</EM>
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<DD>
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By default Gimp has five levels of undo. The amount of undo levels is only
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limited by disk space. A high amount of undo levels requires a large amount
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of disk space so use it with care. The default value is reasonably good for
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most use.
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<DT>
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<EM>Resent Document List Size:</EM>
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<DD>
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Will set the amount of previously opened or saved documents that you can
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direct access in the Toolbox|File menu.
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<DT>
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<EM>Nav window per display:</EM>
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<DD>
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If you check enable this feature the Navigation will behave like the Layers
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& Channels dialog with Auto enabled. I.e it will switch as you switch
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image.
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<DT>
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<DD>
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<DT>
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<EM>Show Tool Tips:</EM>
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<DD>
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Lets you enable or disable tool tips in Gimp.
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<DT>
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<EM>Context Sensitive Help with "F1":</EM>
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<DD>
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Lets you enable or disable the <ModKey>-F1 way of enabling context
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sensitive help. It can sometimes interfere with the window manager. You can
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still access the context help in the Toolbox|Help menu.
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</DL>
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<H3>
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Image Windows Settings
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</H3>
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<P>
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<DL>
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<DT>
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<EM>Resize Window on Zoom:</EM>
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<DD>
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Lets you enable (disable) window resize on zoom. Normally when you zoom the
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window size will not be affected. If you enable this function the size of
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the window will be fitted to the size of the image when you zoom in our out.
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I.e zoom in will enlarge the window and zoom out will shrink the window.
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<DT>
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<EM>Show Rulers:</EM>
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<DD>
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Controls what ever you want to show the rulers or not by default.
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<DT>
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<EM>Show Statusbar:</EM>
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<DD>
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Controls what ever you want to show the statusbar or not by default.
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<DT>
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<EM>Marching Ants Speed:</EM>
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<DD>
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When you make a selection in Gimp you will the will be a "blinking" boundary
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of the selection. This "blinking" boundary is refered as marching ants. This
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options controls how fast the ants will march.
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<DT>
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<EM>Image Title Format:</EM>
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<DD>
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Lets you set the window title of the image window. The default custom value
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is reasonably sane but you are able to choose form Standard, Show zoom
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percentage, Show zoom ratio, Show reversed zoom ratio and Custom. To build
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a custom image title can you use some macros along with ordinary characters.
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<DT>
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<DD>
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<TABLE CELLPADDING="2">
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<CAPTION>
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Title Format
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</CAPTION>
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<TR>
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<TD>%%</TD>
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<TD>literal percent sign</TD>
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</TR>
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<TR>
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<TD>%f</TD>
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<TD>bare filename, or "Untitled"</TD>
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</TR>
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<TR>
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<TD>%F</TD>
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<TD>full path to file</TD>
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</TR>
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<TR>
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<TD>%p</TD>
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<TD>PDB image id</TD>
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</TR>
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<TR>
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<TD>%i</TD>
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<TD>view instance number</TD>
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</TR>
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<TR>
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<TD>%t</TD>
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<TD>image type (RGB, indexed, grayscale)</TD>
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</TR>
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<TR>
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<TD>%z</TD>
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<TD>zoom factor as a percentage</TD>
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</TR>
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<TR>
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<TD>%s</TD>
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<TD>source scale factor</TD>
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</TR>
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<TR>
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<TD>%d</TD>
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<TD>destination scale factor</TD>
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</TR>
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<TR>
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<TD>%D*</TD>
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<TD>expands to * if the image is dirty</TD>
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</TR>
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</TABLE>
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<DT>
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<DD>
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<DT>
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<EM>Perfect-but-slow Pointer Tracking:</EM>
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<DD>
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When you are drawing in Gimp, Gimp will not catch your pointer every moment.
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Instead Gimp catch it a certain time interval. This means if you draw a circle
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very fast Gimp will not draw a circle but lines between each pointer grab.
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However if you turn on Perfect...Tracking Gimp will record every single movement
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and make a perfect circe even if you draw it very fast. You will however
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not be able to draw in real time instead that drawing will "played" with
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a time delay since you "recorded" every movement. (Well this is not exactly
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what's happens but it makes it easier to explain it this way).
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<DT>
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<EM>Disable Cursor Updating:</EM>
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<DD>
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Normally when you paint with e.g the airbrush you will have a little pencil
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as cursor. If you disable cursor updating the cursor will always be a little
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pencil even if you shift tool. I.e the cursor will always be the same shape
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as the last tool you used before you disabled updating.
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<DT>
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</DL>
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<H3>
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Tool Options Settings<A href="index.html"></A>
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</H3>
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<P>
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<DL>
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<DT>
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<EM>Use Global Paint Options:</EM>
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<DD>
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Normally when you paint in Gimp you set the opacity and paint mode in the
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brush dialog. If you disable Use Global Paint Options you will have the
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opportunity to set both Opacity and paintmode separately for each tool (the
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tool option dialog will change and you will have new controls for opacity
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and paint mode).
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<DT>
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<EM>Display brush and pattern indicators on Toolbar:</EM>
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<DD>
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In the toolbox you have a area displaying the currently active brush, pattern
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and gradient. If you don't want the area to be present in the toolbox you
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can disable it here.
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</DL>
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<P>
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<A href="index.html">Index</A>
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</TD>
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</TR>
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</TABLE>
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</BODY></HTML>
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