To add your own settings to qpdfview you can get to a settings window with :menuselection:`Edit --> Settings`. The checkbox for open url allows you to turn on or off Opening URL within within qpdfview. The autorefresh checkbox relaods the pdf whenever the file changes which is useful if you are authoring pdf files. If you want to scroll once to go to an entire page check the :guilabel:`minimal scrolling` checkbox. To change the color of highlights tpye a hex number for a color or select one from the drop down menu by name.
If you want to reset these settings to the defaults is to press the :guilabel:`defaults` button. If you just want defaults on the current tab you can press the :guilabel:`defaults on current tab` button. If you want to return to viewing your pdf with the same settings press the :guilabel:`OK` button. If you wish to discard your changes press the :guilabel:`cancel` button.
If you want to reset these settings to the defaults is to press the :guilabel:`Defaults` button. If you just want defaults on the current tab you can press the :guilabel:`Defaults on current tab` button. If you want to return to viewing your pdf with the same settings press the :guilabel:`OK` button. If you wish to discard your changes press the :guilabel:`Cancel` button.
To deal with settings on graphics press press on the :guilabel:`Graphics` tab. The settings for paper color will has a drop down menu for previewing what it is like printing on colored paper. The checkbox :guilabel:`Prefetch` will preload pages not directly viewed by the pdf viewer not directly on the screen however this will use more resources. The drop down for :guilabel:`Cache size` will increase laoding speed but will use more resources. The :guilabel:`Prefetch` checkbox loads pages before you view them. The :guilabel:`Prefetch distance` tells you how many pages away from where you are to load. The field for :guilabel:`Presentation background color` sets the color of the background for presentations. The :guilabel:`Cache size` increases the size of the cache which will apply more system resorouces to run heavy pdfs like hundred of pages of full color artwork.
The :guilabel:`PDF` subtab of the graphics tab has settings for font and paper color for viewing pdf files. To antialias images check the :guilabel:`Antialiasing` checkbox. To antialias text check the :guilabel:`Text antialiasing` checkbox. To use font hinting to view text easier to view change the :guilabel:`Text hinting` menu to Reduced or full.
The :guilabel:`PDF` subtab of the graphics tab has settings for font and paper color for viewing pdf files. To antialias images check the :guilabel:`Antialiasing` checkbox. To antialias text check the :guilabel:`Text antialiasing` checkbox. To use font hinting to view text easier to view change the :guilabel:`Text hinting` menu to Reduced or full.
To change the interface settings click on the :guilabel:`Interface` tab. If you want the tabs to be spread out press the spread tabs checkbox. The the :guilabel:`Tab position` changes where the tabbar on the window. The :guilabel:`Tab visibility` menu can be set to as needed, always or never which will show or hide the tabbar. The checkbox for :guilabel:`New tab next to current tab` opens new tabs next to the current one. The field for recently used lets you set the maximum number of files to keep around in recently used. The :guilabel:`Spread tabs` checkbox spreads the tabs to take up the whole tab bar and they get smaller the more tabs you open. To have qpdfview close when the last tab in qpdfview is closed check the :guilabel:`Exit after last tab` checkbox. To change the number of recently used pdf files in the menu change the number in :guilabel:`Recently used count` field. To change how many recently closed tabs of pdfs are shown change the :guilabel:`Recently closed count` field.
