## Preferences

### Setting up the program how you like it

Whyteboard has a number of configurable parameters, allowing you to influence how the program behaves. They are split into several categories:

- General
- Fonts and Colour
- View
- PDF Conversion

#### General

- Language: Whyteboard has been translated into a number of languages: select your preferred one here. Please note that many translations are half-complete.
- Number of Recently Closed Sheets: When a sheet is closed, its data is saved internally so that the closing action can be undone, restoring the sheet. This setting controls how many sheets Whyteboard will store - the higher the number, the more memory Whyteboard will use.
- Selection Handle Size: When you select a shape with the Select tool, several selection handles are displayed. This setting controls the size of these handles, as larger handles are easier to click on.
- Canvas Border: When the canvas is larger than the program's size, scrollbars are shown. A small border is always visible - this is the area you can grab to resize the canvas. This controls the size of the border - larger values are easier to grab.

#### Fonts and Colours

- Choose Your Custom Colours: You can click any of the colour buttons to select the 9 colours that are shown in the grid on the left-hand pane.
- Default Font: The font that the Text and Note tool automatically use when you first start the program.
- Transparent Bitmap Selection: The Bitmap Select is drawn with a fancy transparency. This may perform slow on older computers with low-end graphics cards. Is turned off by default.

#### View

- Toolbox View: View the toolbox as text, or as icons. The text view takes up more space vertically, and when other languages are used, may also take up more horizontal space.
- Default Canvas Width: The default width of the canvas when a new tab is opened.
- Default Canvas Height: The default height of the canvas when a new tab is opened.
- View the statusbar: Toggles the statusbar on/off at program startup. Can be turned on/off temporarily from the "View" menu..
- View the toolbar: Toggles the toolbar on/off at program startup. Can be turned on/off temporarily from the "View" menu..
- Show the title when printing: Toggles the file name being displayed when printing.
- Show the tool preview: Toggles the tool preview at the bottom of the control panel.
- Show the colour grid: Toggles the colour grid in the control panel.

#### PDF Conversion

- Conversion Quality: Specifies how good the images from a converted PDF are. At standard quality, most PDFs should be readable, but better quality options will create a clearer, larger and overall better conversion of the PDF. This comes at the expense of more computing power, and the process will take longer, especially with PDFs that have many pages.
- ImageMagick Location: (Windows-only) Brings up the ImageMagick locator dialog.