View
Specifies view options.
Scaling
Uses percentile scaling for font size in user interface elements, such as dialogs and icon labels.
 | The Scaling setting does not affect the font size of text in a document. |
Toolbar icon size
Specifies the display size of toolbar icons.The Automatic option uses the font size settings of your operating system for menus.
Use system font for user interface
Specifies to use the system font to display all menus and dialogs.
Menu
Show icons in menus
Displays icons next to the corresponding menu items.
Show preview of fonts
Displays the names of selectable fonts in the corresponding font, for example, fonts in the Font box on the Formatting bar.
Show font history
Lists the last five fonts that you used in the current document at the top of the list in the Font Name box on the Formatting bar.
Restore
Editing view
Specifies whether to restore the last used document view in OpenOffice.org. Many view properties valid when the document was last saved will be restored.
Open windows
This is where you define whether windows that are open when you end the program are to be restored when you restart OpenOffice.org.
3D view
Use OpenGL
Specifies that all 3D graphics from OpenOffice.org Draw and OpenOffice.org Impress will be displayed in your system using an OpenGL capable hardware.
Optimized output
Select this option for an optimized OpenGL output. Disable the optimization in case of graphical errors of 3D output.
Use dithering
The Use dithering option uses dithering to display more colors with few colors available. Dithering creates the illusion of new colors and shades by varying the pattern of color pixels. Varying the patterns of black and white dots, for instance, produces different shades of gray.
| Internally, 3-D graphics are always created with 16 million colors (24-bit color depth). They are used to dither portrayals with fewer colors. Without dithering, several bits of color information are omitted, making the grading distinctly visible. The fewer colors available, the poorer the quality. |
Object refresh during interaction
Specifies that if you rotate or move a 3-D object, the full display is rotated or moved and not a grid frame.
 | Press Shift+Ctrl+R to restore or refresh the view of the current document. |
Graphics output
Use hardware acceleration
Directly accesses hardware features of the graphical display adapter to improve the screen display. The support for hardware acceleration is not available for all operating systems and platform distributions of OpenOffice.org.
Mouse positioning
Specifies if and how the mouse pointer will be positioned in newly opened dialogs.
Middle mouse button
Defines the function of the middle mouse button.
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Automatic scrolling - dragging while pressing the middle mouse button shifts the view.
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Paste clipboard - pressing the middle mouse button inserts the contents of the "Selection clipboard" at the cursor position.
The "Selection clipboard" is independent of the normal clipboard that you use by Edit - Copy/Cut /Insert or the respective keyboard shortcuts. Clipboard and "Selection clipboard" can contain different contents at the same time.
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Clipboard |
Selection clipboard |
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Copy content |
Edit - Copy Ctrl+C. |
Select text, table, object. |
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Paste content |
Edit - Paste Ctrl+V pastes at the cursor position. |
Clicking the middle mouse button pastes at the mouse pointer position. |
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Pasting into another document |
No effect on the clipboard contents. |
The last marked selection is the content of the selection clipboard. |
Index
views, defaults
defaults, views
settings, views
scaling, screen representation
font sizes, scaling on screen
menus, inactive menu items
commands, not visible
WYSIWYG in fonts lists
previews, fonts lists
font lists
font names,histories
3D view
views, in 3D
OpenGL, optimized output
dithering
mouse, positioning
clipboard, selection clipboard
selection clipboard
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