The General Preferences section contains all of the general settings for PDF Studio Viewer.
To open the General Preferences dialog:
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- Go to File Tab > Preferences
- 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 Viewer 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.
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
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
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
- 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.