The choices dialogue has a number of sections, accessed via the Tabs at the top of the window, and a set of action buttons at the bottom of the window.
The actions available are:
This tab allows a number of font details to be set.
For the data input window, you can change the font face, using the popup menu button to the right of the font name, and the text size (in pt), using the bump icons.
For the chart display, the font face used for the text on the chart can be chosen from the font menu, accessible from the popup button to the right of the font name. It is also possible to set the size of the text (in pt) for the chart title, subtitles, and chart labels.
If data input or chart windows are showing when any of these options are changed, the change will be reflected in all the open windows immediately.
This section contains general settings for the various chart displays, applying to more than one type.
When using line widths of a small fraction of a pt, the VDU display can sometimes look a little uneven, particularly with lines at an angle to the horizontal/vertical. In some cases, lines can completely disappear. This is where the option Use thin lines on vdu comes in. If this is selected, then the screen display will use 1 pixel wide lines for all the lines on the chart, but when saving draw files and printing will revert to the actual line widths as set in this dialogue. If this is not set, then ChartDraw will make the assumption that lines of less than about 0.80 pt should be displayed on screen as 'thin' lines, and thicker lines will be displayed at their configured thickness. (Why 0.8 pt? There are 72 pt to the inch, and the vdu display is nominally 90 px to the inch. Thus 1 px is nominally 0.8 pt).
In addition, if one of the slant options has been chosen, the angle of the slant can be set at 30°, 45°, or 60° to the horizontal.
Note that all of the above settings can be changed for individual charts once they are being displayed (see the chart display options section for a fuller description and example images). Changes made while one or more chart windows are showing will not affect these windows. Remember, the chart options are inherited by a data set when that data set is first created or loaded, thus these changes will only affect new data sets.
See the chart display options section for a fuller description and example images
See the chart display options section for a fuller description and example images
This option, when selected, will show the printer margins on the display in a mid grey colour.
Note that the printer margins are reread whenever the active printer is changed, so the chart margins will immediately reflect these changes.
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