General Preferences

The General Preferences section contains all of the general settings for PDF Studio.

To open the General Preferences dialog:

1. Go to File Tab > Preferences
2. Select General from the panel on the left of the preferences dialog to view or modify these preferences.

Settings

Language - Select English, French, German, Japanese, Italian, or Spanish. Additional locale options are listed after the language. The default language will be determined from the language setting for the computer/operating system. Restart PDF Studio after changing this setting.

Units – Define preferred measurement units (inches, centimeters, points, millimeters). Units will be used for the Crop dialog and in Document Properties when displaying the page size.

Default Page - Sets the default page size and orientation when Creating a Blank PDF or Adding a Blank Page.

Size: the page size of the document using many of the global standards and also a custom option.
Orientation: The orientation of the page, landscape or portrait.

Documents - Sets document behavior for opening additional documents

Open documents in new tabs: Sets the application to open all documents as tabs within the frame.
Open document links in same window: When checked, links to external documents will open in the same window
Restore last session on startup: When checked, will restore all document tabs that were open when PDF Studio was last exited

Signatures - Digital signature display settings

Show signature validity: When checked displays the Signature Validation directly on the signature on the page. Otherwise validity will need to be checked in the Signature Panel

Paste Images – Sets whether or not adjust to zoom for the pasted images.

Adjust to zoom: When checked images pasted into PDF Studio will maintain the same size and scale as when viewed from the application it was pasted from.

Other

Use system file dialog: Switch between the PDF Studio file dialog and System file dialog. This selection is available to Windows and Linux/Unix installations.
Use temporary file on save: Create a temporary file when saving documents. Some document management applications that use a WebDAV server require writing directly to the original file to preserve the document history.
Show welcome screen on startup: when checked, the Welcome Screen will be displayed on startup
Warn before deleting pages: displays a warning before Deleting Pages.
Warn before changing security: displays a warning when making changes to Document Security
Warn before sanitizing document: displays a warning before Sanitizing Documents
Create Links from URLs: Automatically detects text in a document that resembles a URL and makes it a clickable link
Warn before flattening all comments: displays a warning before Flattening All Comments.
Warn before deleting all comments: displays a warning before Deleting All Comments.
Warn before saving signed document: Displays a warning before saving a document that contains a Digital Signature as this would invalidate the signature within the document.
Show '*' on title bar of modified document: When a document is modified PDF Studio will append an asterisk '*' to the end of the file name displayed so to easily distinguish if the document has been modified or not.
Prompt for including subfolders on Batch -> Add folder: Displays a warning before processing batch files with the "subfolders" option enabled
Show page options dialog when creating new document: When checked, user will be prompted for new page size settings before creating a new document
Paste pages after current selection: When checked, pages that are copied will be pasted AFTER the selected page in the thumbnails pane