General Preferences

Choose File > Options to display the Options dialog box, and choose General to set Startup, Page Display, Units & Grid, Full Screen, Miscellaneous, Integration of PDF Convert (unlocking PDF files), Scanner setup and further options:

Startup

Show splash window

Determine whether program's splash window appears each time it starts.

Show start screen

Determine whether to display the start screen with recently opened documents each time when Power PDF starts.

Default Application View

Use the view defined by the document or save and use the current view.

Open documents as new tabs in the same window

Clear this if you want to open each documents in a new window. By default, documents open in new tabs, just like in modern Web browser applications.

Application Language

Select the language to be used for the screen display in the program. Choose a specific installed language or select Same as the operating system to adjust to the OS preference.

Click Add Languages to display the Application languages dialog, where you may select, download or install application languages.

Note: Power PDF should restart for the new language settings to take effect.

Default PDF Application

Use this to set Power PDF as your default program to open PDF files.

Page Display

Smooth

For smoothing text, choose from None, Monitor, or LCD in the selection box. Select whether to make graphics, images, and thin line smooth. The default setting is to smooth all three.

Gray-out text below __ pixels

Gray-out displayed text when the number of pixels is below the set value.

Use page cache

Select this to allow page data to be stored in temporary memory, so that page operations are speeded up.

Use logical page numbers

This is the default setting for page numbering.

Default Page Layout

Select an option to set the default page display when you first open a PDF document.

Default Zoom

Set a default magnification level for PDF documents when they are first opened. This value is used when the document zoom value is set to Default.

Units & Grid

Page Units

Set the unit of measurement to be used in the program. It can be Points, Inches, Centimeters or Millimeters.

Grid

Set grid properties and color for PDF document pages. Use the View menu to display or hide grids.

Identity

Provide identity information to appear on your Digital ID stamps.

Full Screen (Navigation & Appearance)

Display next page __ second intervals

Specify whether to advance automatically from page to page every set interval. By default this is off. You can use mouse or keyboard commands to page through a document even if this option is selected.

Return to start when end of document is reached

Let the document return to first page after the last one, when paging through a PDF document. The option is typically used for setting up kiosk displays.

Use Escape key to exit full-screen viewing

Allow using the Escape key to exit Full Screen mode. If the option is not selected, exit with the shortcut Ctrl + L.

Next page on left click; previous page on right click

Allow mouse clicks to turn pages. You can also press arrow keys to page through a document.

Navigation bar

Choose whether to show this or not (Next page, Previous page, exit Full Screen); if to be shown, define a screen corner for it and set its transparency.

Mouse Cursor

Specify mouse cursor status (show, hide, hide after delay) in Full Screen mode.

Background color

Select a background color to surround the page in Full Screen mode. Click the button to display the system color palette. Click Other Color to define custom colors.

Miscellaneous

Open cross-document link in same window

Enable this to close the current document and open the linked document in the same window, minimizing the number of windows open. If you do not select this option, a new window opens each time you click a link to a different document.

Link behavior can be set individually at link creation, for details see About Actions.

Allow layer state to be set by user information

Enable this to use user information as a basis for setting the state of the current layer of an object.

Maintain revisions

Permit or prohibit the retention of revision versions. When a document is finalized and distributed it may be important to suppress draft versions.

Open portfolio as package

Open a portfolio without using the Portfolio interface.

Use Select tool as default instead of Hand tool

The Hand tool is active on Panel Bar by default, select this check box to promote Select tool instead.

Links

Make settings related to hyperlinks.

Hand Tool Click

Determine how the document responds when the Hand tool is clicked. By default, it does nothing. Choose Page down to have the display jump half a page down. Choose Scroll down to have the page scroll down until the next mouse click.

Reset All Warnings

The program has warning messages with a checkbox 'Do not show this message again'. Click this button to restore them.

Printer

Default Printer

Use the last used printer or your system default printer.

Print in background

Select it to allow continued use of the program while printing is in progress. This is not available when working with a PDF file inside a network browser.

Save Location

Select Set default Save Location to enable the Browse button on the right, then click Browse and specify a path to start with when using File > Save As > Browse.