View

Specifies view options.

Display

Scale

Defines percentile scaling for the font size in the dialogs. Modifications affect displayed fonts, such as dialog texts or icon labels. The Scale setting does not effect the font size of text that you have typed. It only effects fonts displayed in the user interface.

Icon Size

Choose the size of the toolbar icons.

Preview in Fonts Lists

Specifies that the names of the selectable fonts, such as the fonts in the Font field in the object bar, are formatted as that font.

Inactive Menu Items

Allows the user to view all deactivated menu entries in gray. Deactivated entries in context menus are never displayed.

Font History

Displays the last five fonts you assigned to the current document in the Font Name box on the Object bar.

Show Icons in Menus

Displays icons next to the corresponding menu items.

Restore

Defines the editing view for documents and windows, which have to be restored when restarting StarOffice.

Editing View

Specifies whether to restore the last used document view in StarOffice.

All properties valid when the document was last saved are restored. In text documents, this includes the cursor position; in spreadsheets, the active sheet; and in presentations, the selected slide or background mode.

Open Windows

Specifies whether windows that are open when you end the program are to be restored when you restart StarOffice.

3D View

Use OpenGL

Specifies that all 3D graphics from StarOffice Draw and StarOffice Impress are displayed in your system using OpenGL-capable hardware. This box is selected by default. If your system does not have OpenGL-capable hardware, this setting is ignored.

Optimized Output

Select this option for an optimized OpenGL output. If Optimized output has been activated, all geometry data is simultaneously transferred in an array to the graphic driver. Not every graphic diver correctly supports this OpenGL capability. For this reason, you can deactivate Optimized output in case of presentation errors of 3D output. All geometry data is now transferred one after the other as single components.

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. This option is activated by default. 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. This option is deactivated by default.

Mouse

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.

Automatic Scrolling - dragging while pressing the middle mouse button shifts the view.

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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