Tuning the application

Tuning the application

Use the Preferences dialog, to define the general settings of the program. To open this dialog, choose Preferences from the Tools menu or click the button on the Settings toolbar

New values can be added, deleted and existing ones modified, or items set active. If a value can be modified, then the Add, Modify, and Delete buttons are active.
The settings are arranged by sections; to work with them do the following: first select a section, and then select the desired subsections and settings.
The Settings box contains the following items:

Cursor	Changes the appearance and size of the graphic cursor.
Crosshair	Sets the size of Crosshair.
Full Screen	Sets the size of Crosshair to the full screen size.
Size	Sets the size of Crosshair as a percentage of the screen size.
Pickbox	The Pickbox size.
Show Crosshair	Turns off Crosshair in the Selecting mode.
PickBox size	The pickbox size in pixels.
Colour	Cursor colour.

Grip	Changes the size and colour of Grips.
Grip size	Grips size.
Grip max objects count	The maximum number of objects selected which have the Grips displayed.
Single object grip colour	The Grips colour of a single selected object.
Multiple objects grip colour	The Grips colour of multiple selected object or grouped objects.
Inactive objects grip colour	The Grips colour of an inactive selected object.
Node edit mode grip colour	The Grips colour in the Node edit mode.
Node edit mode selected grip colour	The selected Grips colour in the Node edit mode.

Colours	Sets the program colours.
Raster Selection	Sets raster selection parameters
Raster Selection	The colour of a selected raster object.
Semitransparent	Sets the semitransparent view mode for monochrome raster selections
Preview frame	The frame colour that indicates an image preview area inside the preview window.
Background	The colour of the program window background.
Found raster symbol	The colour of a found raster symbol when working with the Search and Replace command.
Print Area	The frame colour that indicates a print area.
Print Grid	The frame colour that indicates the paper format edges.
Grid Colour	The colour of Grid points.
Layout Paper	The color of document paperspace (Layouts).

Preview style	Sets the display mode of an obtained monochrome image in the preview window
Opaque	Displays an obtained monochrome image on a white background.
Semitransparent	Shadows an original image and displays an obtained image.
Transparent	Puts an obtained image over an original one without shadowing.

Scroll setting	Defines the scroll parameters of a document in the program window.
Scroll step	A step of document movement when using the Scrollbar.
Arrow step	A step of document movement as a percentage of the window size when using the ALT+ keyboard arrows.
Mouse Wheel scale factor	Scale factor used to scale with the Mouse Wheel.
Drag&Drop scroll area	The width of the invisible viewport borders used for scrolling a current view during a drag process.

Snap Setting	Defines Snap settings.
Hold Aperture Size	The size of a cursor frame in snap mode.
Snap Marker size	Snap marker size.
Show Tooltips	Turns on the display of a snap name.
Vector Marker Colour	The colour of the snap marker when snapping to a vector object.
Raster Marker Colour	The colour of the snap marker when snapping to a raster object.

Inspector	Defines the Inspector settings.
Properties mode	Defines an operation mode of the command properties
Document Transparent	Changed properties during command running also change default document settings
Command sensitive	Changed properties during command running do not affect default document settings
Multiple selection	Inspector properties behaviour on multiple selections
Max count of controlled objects No limit	The maximum count of selected objects which have properties displayed Properties of objects are displayed regardless to selection contents

Papers

Contains standard paper formats. Allows the modification of an existing format or adding a new one. The formats contained in this section are applied to the Change Size, Print, New Image commands.

Autocorrect

Sets the command to be performed during Autocorrection.

Raster file formats

Allows a list of raster formats for the Open and Save commands to be specified, the creation of default format settings for file saving as well as a new format based on an existing one.

Printing Control	Defines print settings.
Disable print optimization	Turn on this checkbox if there is a problem with printed output.
Enable printing by stripes	Enable printing by stripes.

Default raster properties	Sets the parameters of a raster image used by the program if they are not set by the user. For example, when opening an image with no resolution information.
DPI	Resolution in DPI.
Transparent Color	Defines a Transparent Color property for monochrome images.

New image from selection	Defines the New Image From Selection settings.
Keep Selection	Creates a new image without erasing selected objects.
Erase Selection	Erases the selected objects of a raster image.

New image from selection	Setting options to work with multipage files.
Enter multipage mode automatically	When loading multipage raster files always switch to multipage mode automatically.

Point	Allows the appearance of all points in a document and the sizes of their markers to be changed.
Size	Sets the size of a marker in pixels.
Point style	Sets the type of a point marker. Allows users to turn on a rectangular or round frame for a point. When the Dot type is chosen, an element of 1 screen pixel is displayed.

Template Usage	Controls the actions of WiseImage on opening new documents and images.
For new documents	Actions on the File > New command
None	No action taken
Use default	Opens file specified in Default Template File Name
Ask for file	Opens dialog File > Open
Default Template File	Shows and lets change Default Template
Name	File Name
For opened raster	Actions on File > Open command for raster image
None	No action taken
Use default	Opens the file specified in Default Template File Name
Ask for file	Opens File > Open dialog
Default Template File	Shows and allows change Default
Name	Template File Name

Script	Defines the settings for Script operation.
Linear Units	Sets measurement units. If this value is not specified, then the units set in UCS Setup are used.
Angular Units	Sets angle measurement units. If this value is not specified, then the units set in UCS Setup are used.
Default Log file	The name of a text file to which the results of Script performance are placed.

Display View	Effect of displaying zoomed images.
Half tone paint	Turns ON/OFF monochrome raster high quality paint.
Draw Raster Frame	Turns ON/OFF display of a raster image frame.
Fit Dashed Lines	Adapts the view of dashed contours of vector lines at the expense of slightly changing dashed and spaced size lengths. This mode guarantees that the endpoints of lines, polylines and arcs will be started and ended with a dash.
Use Screen Width for Lines	Shows width of lines in screen pixels. Switch OFF this checkbox to display it in millimeters (WiseImage units) to scale line width during zoom operations.
Use Screen Line Types	Set this parameter to view and print symbols, markers, hatches and etc. with constant size independently from a document scale.  When this item is selected, the Use Screen Width for Lines item is selected automatically.

GIS	GIS option
Use World File	Writing the raster coordinates in a special text file (world file) when saving. To make this world file readable when opening a raster file this parameter must be on.
Use TAF file	Writing the raster coordinates in a special text file (TAF file) when saving. To make a TAF file readable when opening a raster file this parameter must be on.

Conversion parameters	Parameters of R2V and V2R conversions.
Scale independent	Applies unified R2V conversion parameters to raster images with different insertion scale. Affects R2V, V2R, Raster selection, Tracing commands.

Text	Text parameters.
Text Tab size	Multitext tab size.

DWG Export	Export to DWG file options.
Apply UCS scale to geometrical object properties	Switches to apply or not to apply the UCS scale to geometrical object properties, such as Text Height and Line Width during DWG export.

Standard directories

Sets a folder in which the miscellaneous system files, the OCR templates’ folder and the SHX fonts’ folder are stored.

Saving Parameters	Sets parameters for backup and recovering operations.
Generate backup copies	Generates backup copy of current document right before save to a file. Backup copy is a complete copy of a document with BAK extension. It can be renamed back to CWS an opened at any time.
Autosaving every min	Specifies time interval between automatically savings of opened documents. To switch OFF automatic saving set 0 for this parameter.

Vector correction edge	Sets the appearance of an edge, which is made with the Group/Ungroup by Edge command.
Width	Sets an edge width in pixels.
Color	Sets an edge color.

Markup	Sets parameters for Markup objects showing.
Show automatically	Shows markup automatically on document open if markup file is exists.
Show semitransparent	Shows markup using semitransparent fill.
Alert	Shows warning message in case of unknown markup.

PDF Import Property	Sets parameter of PDF import.
Load PDF pages uses <72> dpi	Sets resolution (in DPI) for raster images that are created during PDF import..
Background color	Defines PDF pages background color.
Use this engine in open document and insert image commands	Sets the use of this engine in open document and insert image commands.

Selection mode
New selection style	Performs one click at start and another one at the end of selection.
Inside	Defines color for selection rectangle during inside-selecting..
Cross	Defines color for selection rectangle during cross-selecting.

Selection mode
Import from Clipboard	Activates block renaming mechanism if document contains any blocks with the same names.
Import from Clipbook	Activates block renaming mechanism if document contains any blocks with the same names.

CWS tools
Layers	Unlock all cws layers during document load to improve cws versions compatibility.

Advanced
Show block grips	Turn on visibility of 2 additional grips of block insertions.

After making changes, press OK to complete.