default options

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Dear forum,

I would like to have WinFIG start with some default page options
(e.g. A4 landscape using imperial units.)
Does WinFIG store the preferences for these anywhere, and can I alter them?

I would also like to know how I can alter the path of the Ghostscript binary file. I have two versions of GS installed, 8.13 and 8.53, WinFIG picks up the version 8.13 .

Thanks,
David

[Andreas]

Hello,

right now only some preferences are stored. You can see by opening regedit and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WinFIG

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Version 4.x and later stores the settings in: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AndreasSchmidt\WinFIG
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It always stores the last used values as defaults. Probably you are right and it would be nice to store grid, magnet, units, zoom, page size and orientation too. I will see if I have some time to do it.

The GhostScript path is determined by looking into the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AFPL Ghostscript

Then WinFIG picks the first entry it finds. If you have 8.13 and 8.53, it would pick 8.13. This is perhaps not the most elegant way, but I did not really consider machines with more than one GhostScript on them.

Right now you can probably only remove the 8.13 installation. Actually I would do that. Or is there a special reason why you still need the 8.13?

Perhaps it would work to install 8.53 and then 8.13. This could place 8.13 after 8.53 (but I did not try). In that case WinFIG would choose 8.53.

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Right now you can probably only remove the 8.13 installation. Actually I would do that. Or is there a special reason why you still need the 8.13?

There's no particular reason I need 8.13, so I've just removed that. I think all of the recent LaTeX programs I have installed (LEd, TeXnicenter) work from the most recent 8.53 build anyway, I was just keeping the 8.13 as an insurance policy

I thought about it a bit more and just saved a blank WinFIG file with the preferences I need - (landscape, A4 imperial) - into a blank file and open this from the "file -> open" menu. I should really have thought of this before!

Thanks for the quick reply.
David

[Andreas]

There's no particular reason I need 8.13, so I've just removed that. I think all of the recent LaTeX programs I have installed (LEd, TeXnicenter) work from the most recent 8.53 build anyway, I was just keeping the 8.13 as an insurance policy

yes, 8.53 is fine. 8.54 seems to have at least one font with wrong metrics. It hink Bookman is sligthly too big, but maybe it was another one.

I thought about it a bit more and just saved a blank WinFIG file with the preferences I need - (landscape, A4 imperial) - into a blank file and open this from the "file -> open" menu. I should really have thought of this before!

Yes, some settiings are stored at the beginning of the file. You can see it in a text editor. You still have to set it for each new drawing, but my assumption ist that this is not so often.

[Andreas]

Hello,

right now only some preferences are stored. You can see by opening regedit and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WinFIG

It always stores the last used values as defaults. Probably you are right and it would be nice to store grid, magnet, units, zoom, page size and orientation too. I will see if I have some time to do it.

The GhostScript path is determined by looking into the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AFPL Ghostscript

Then WinFIG picks the first entry it finds. If you have 8.13 and 8.53, it would pick 8.13. This is perhaps not the most elegant way, but I did not really consider machines with more than one GhostScript on them.

Since version 3.0 beta 2 WinFIG also looks for

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\GPL Ghostscript

and chooses the last sub-entry, i.e. if there is...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\GPL Ghostscript\8.62
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\GPL Ghostscript\8.63

...it choses the latter.