General Preferences Controls

Ordinarily, you want page numbers to be displayed in the Pages palette according to their section numbers. This usually starts at number 1 and ends with the last page of the document. However, if you have several sections in the same document, they could all have a page number 1. The page numbering preferences change how the page numbers are displayed.

To set the page number preferences:

• Choose one of the following from the Page Numbering View menu :
  
  

  The Page Numbering View menu lets you choose the section numbers or absolute numbers.

  

  • Absolute Numbering ignores any section numbers and uses the physical placement number of the page in the document . Use this if you want to print a page that has the same number as another page in a separate section.

    The difference in the Pages palette between using absolute numbers and section numbers. The black triangles indicate the start of a new section.

    

  • Section Numbering uses the numbers set from the section options .

Tool Tips are explanations and notes that appear when you pause your cursor over a tool or onscreen element. You can control how fast Tool Tips appear.

To control the tool tips:

• Use the Tool Tips menu to choose one of the following :
  
  

  An example of a tool tip that appears when you pause over an interface element.

  

  • Normal waits a moment before displaying the tip.

  • None turns off the display of the tips.

  • Fast displays the tips almost immediately after the cursor pauses over the tool or feature.

You can also change the orientation and arrangement of the Toolbox.

To change the display of the Toolbox:

• Use the Floating Tools Palette menu to choose how the Toolbox is displayed :
  
  

  The Floating Tools Palette menu lets you choose the configuration of the Toolbox.

  

  • Single Column displays the palette in a single vertical column .

    The three arrangements for the Toolbox.

    

  • Double Column displays the palette in two vertical columns .

  • Single Row displays the palette in a single horizontal row .

  Tip

  You can also change the shape of the Toolbox by double-clicking the Toolbox title bar.

The Font Downloading and Embedding section controls the threshold below which a font is subset.

To choose the threshold for font subsetting:

• Enter an amount in the Always Subset Fonts With Glyph Counts Greater Than field .
  
  

  The Font Downloading and Embedding lets you control if fonts are embedded or subset.

  

  Tip

  A number such as 2000 ensures that fonts with large character sets are always subset, creating smaller files. But custom fonts with only one or two characters are set in their entirety. (The word TIP in this book is just such a custom, single-character font.)

Every once in a while you may see a dialog box that warns you about doing something. These alerts have boxes you can check so you never see the warning again. If you've turned them off, you can reset them all to turn back on.

To turn the warning dialog boxes back on:

• Click the Reset All Warning Dialogs button at the bottom of the General preferences . An alert box informs you that you will now see the warnings.
  
  

  Click the Reset All Warning Dialogs to bring back those annoying alert messages when you perform certain actions.