Configuring

General configuration
You can configure by choosing Settings Configure .... The configuration dialog is split into six sections. This chapter describes the available options in detail.
General
Accessibility
Performance
Presentation
Annotations
Editor
The configuration dialog
The configuration dialog
Depending on the currently installed backends, the Settings Configure Backends... menu item could be enabled. This particular configuration dialog holds the configurations of the backends that can actually be configured.

General
Show scrollbars 	 Whether to show scrollbars for the document view.
Link the thumbnails with the page 	 Whether the thumbnails view should always display the current page or not.
Show hints and info messages 	 Whether to show some informative messages on startup, file load,
Display document title in titlebar if available 	 Whether to show the current document title in the titlebar of window. If no metadata for title found in the document or this item is unchecked shows filename of the document.
When not displaying document title 	 You can choose any of two options, Display file name only or Display full file path.
Use custom background color 	 Enables choosing the document background color (the color around the displayed page). By default, the toolkit color is used when this option is unchecked.
Open new files in tabs 	 Whether to open new documents in tabs. The tabs are disabled by default.
The default shortcuts to switch between tabs are . (Next tab) and , (Previous tab).
Obey DRM limitations 	 Whether should obey DRM (Digital Rights Management) restrictions. DRM limitations are used to make it impossible to perform certain actions with documents, such as copying content to the clipboard. Note that in some configurations of , this option is not available.
Reload document on file change 	 Whether opened files should be automatically checked for changes and updated, if necessary.
Show backend selection dialog 	 Whether should ask the user which backend to use in case of more than one backend able to open the current file. If unchecked, will use the backend with the highest priority.
Right to left reading direction 	 Whether to use right to left reading direction by default for the opened files. Can be useful for some writing systems.
Overview columns 	 This option represents the number of columns to use in the overview mode.
Page Up/Down overlap 	 Here you can define the percentage of the current viewing area that should be visible after pressing Page Up/Page Down keys.
Default Zoom 	 This options specifies the default zoom mode for file which were never opened before. For those files which were opened before the previous zoom mode is applied.

Accessibility
Draw border around links 	 Whether to draw a border around links.
Change colors 	 Enables the color changing options.
Invert Colors 	 Inverts colors on the view, black objects will be shown white.
Change Paper Color 	 Changes the paper's color, the document's background.
Change Dark & Light Colors 	 Changes the dark and light color to your preference, that means black will not be rendered as black but as the selected dark color and white will not be rendered as white but as the selected light color.
Convert to Black & White 	 Converts the document to black and white. You can set the threshold and the contrast. Setting the threshold to a higher value by moving it to the right will result in lighter grays used.

Performance
Enable transparency effects 	 Draw selections and other special graphics using transparency effects. Disable the option to draw them using outline or opaque fill styles and increase speed on selections.
Memory Usage 	 can achieve best performance by tuning the memory usage, based on your system and your tastes. The more memory you let it to use, the faster the program will behave. The Default profile is good for every system, but you can prevent from using more memory than necessary by selecting the Low profile, or let it get the most out of your system using Aggressive. Use Greedy profile to preload all pages without risk of system memory overfull (only 50% of total memory or free memory will be used).
Rendering 	 Using this group of options you can improve text and image rendering in . The result depends on the device to display the document. Enable Text Antialias and Enable Graphics Antialias items can be used to switch on and off spatial anti-aliasing of text and images in document, correspondingly. Enable Text Hinting item is meant to be a switcher for font hinting. Antialiasing and hinting change how the documents are displayed, you may want to tweak them to your preference.

Presentation
Advance every 	 Enables automatic advancing of pages given a time period.
Loop after last page 	 When navigating on presentation mode and going past the last page the first page will appear.
Background color 	 The color that will fill the part of the screen not covered by the page when on presentation mode.
Mouse cursor 	 Whether the mouse should be always hidden, always shown or hidden after a small time of inactivity.
Show progress indicator 	 Whether to show a progress circle that shows the current page and the total number of pages on the upper right corner of the presentation screen every time you change the page.
Show summary page 	 Whether to show a summary page at the beginning of the presentation with the title, author and number of pages of the document.
Enable transitions 	 Use this check box to enable or disable transition effects between pages.
Default transition 	 The transition effect between page and page if the document does not specify one. Set this to Random Transition to make randomly choose one of the available effects.
Placement 	 In this section you can select the Screen used to display the presentation.
Current Screen is same screen of the window that starts the presentation mode.
Default Screen is the screen marked as default in the xinerama configuration.
Screen 0, Screen 1 are the available screens.
Drawing Tool Configuration 	 Manage the colors of the pencil used when drawing on the pages during the presentation mode.

Annotations
The Annotations page of the configuration dialog
The Annotations page of the configuration dialog
Author 	 The author of the contents added on a document. Default is the name from the Password & User Account page of the module Account Details.
Annotation tools 	 This pane is used to configure your annotating toolbar.
There are five buttons (Add, Edit, Remove, Move Up, Move Down) and a list box (which lists the contents of the current annotating toolbar) which are used to configure the toolbar.
If you need to add some tool button on the toolbar click on the Add button. You can choose the Name, the Type and the Appearance of the created tool.
Please remember that annotation tools in are highly configurable. For example, you can have two buttons of the same tool but with different color. Do not hesitate to experiment in choosing the button set that is exactly tailored to your workflow.
Click on some item in the list box then click on the corresponding button at the right part of the page to edit, remove, move up or move down the item. The keyboard shortcut of the tool (keys from 1 to 9) depends on its position in the list of annotating toolbar.
Using Custom Stamps 	
Create the icon you want to use for your own stamp and save it in any graphics format supported by
Click the Add button, select type Stamp and enter a name for your stamp.
Enter the full path to your custom icon into the dropdown box in the Stamp Symbol group

Editor
Editor 	 Choose the editor you want to launch when wants to open a source file. This is the case when the document has references to the various points (usually row and column number) of sources it was generated from. The format supports natively the addition of the information about the sources the LaTeX document was generated from. A similar system exists for documents, called pdfsync, which stores these extra information in an external file named after the file itself (for example mydocument.pdfsync for mydocument.pdf).
ships with preconfigured settings for the following editors: , Kile, SciTE, client, and LyX client.
To use inverse search in Kile, you have to compile your LATEX file with the Modern configuration.
Command 	 This is the command and its parameters to invoke the selected editor with the source file of the actual document.
This field will be filled automatically if you use one of the preconfigured editors. Otherwise, please choose Custom Text Editor in Editor drop down box and refer to the documentation on your favorite editor to find the proper command.
You can use the following placeholders:
%f - the file name
%l - the line of the file to be reached
%c - the column of the file to be reached
If %f is not specified, then the document name is appended to the specified command.