Diagram Appearance Options

Configure Default Element Fonts

Click on this button to set the default text fonts to use on diagrams either across the model or that you have created yourself. A font defined across the model overrides the font for diagrams you create yourself.

Set Default Fonts

Renderer

Render smooth curves and diagonal lines in diagrams, so that staggered vertical or horizontal pixels are less obvious. Click on the drop-down arrow and select the type of renderer you prefer to use:

Experiment with these options and see which works best for your system and requirements.

GDI Plus Metafiles

This checkbox defaults to selected, to include the use of GDI+ metafiles in your diagrams.

Deselect the checkbox if you do not want to use GDI+ metafiles.

Default Element Border Width

Click on the drop-down arrow and select the default element border width (1, 2 or 3 pixels).

Scale view by

Click on the drop-down arrow and select the percentage (from 0 to 50, in increments of 10) by which you can automatically increase the size of all objects on a diagram you are viewing, without affecting other users reading that diagram.

You can perform the same function with the Zoom Slider on the Status bar; changes in the 'zoomed' display scale of a diagram update this field and affect any other diagrams that you open.

This has no impact any other diagram Zoom facility in the system.

Status bar

Print in Color

Select the checkbox to print your diagrams in color.

Deselect the checkbox to print the diagrams in black and white.

Anti-aliased text

Select the checkbox to force text anti-aliasing in diagrams.

If you deselect the checkbox, the system applies the MS Windows default setting. Therefore, if you do not want to use anti-aliasing, ensure that the Windows anti-aliasing default is also set to OFF.

Compress text to fit within Element

Select the checkbox to compress element text within the current element boundaries, when text at zoom levels other than 100% would not fit inside those boundaries.

Deselect the checkbox to expand the element boundaries under those conditions.

Bold Element Names

Select the checkbox to display element names in bold text.

Element Shadows On

Select the checkbox to display a shadow around the bottom and right edges of each element in a diagram.

Invert rotated text for metafiles

Select the checkbox to use a different text format when external metafile readers are causing issues.

Use Watermark

Select the checkbox to add a watermark to any diagrams that you print.

Text

Type in text to use as watermark text. If the Use Watermark checkbox is selected, this text is displayed on any diagrams that you print.

Show Gradient Fill for Paper Color

Select the checkbox to apply a color gradient to the background color of the diagrams you display. You set the background color itself on the Standard Colors page.

Deselect the checkbox to apply the background color uniformly to the diagram background.

Standard Colors

Gradient Fill Direction For an Element

Click on the drop-down arrow and select the direction of the color gradient applied to the element fill color. You set the fill color itself on the Standard Colors page.

Select <none> to apply the element fill color uniformly to the element, with no color gradient.

Hand Draw Mode    Font

Click on the drop-down arrow and select the font to be used in any diagram you display that has the Hand Drawn diagram option selected.

Configure Diagram Display

Default

Click on this button to re-set the font you see used in hand-drawn diagram mode to the system default (Segoe Print).

Close

Click on this button to save the changes you have made, and to close the Options dialog.