You can access this dialog by choosing the "Tools | Options..." menu command or clicking the Change settings button of the Help toolbar
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The user interface of Atlantis is available in multiple languages. Switching to a different language of the user interface requires a restart of Atlantis. Atlantis may also download the corresponding UI language pack from the Atlantis server.
Atlantis automatically updates the active UI language pack when the "Automatically check for updates and news at startup" option is checked on the General tab of the "Tools | Options..." dialog.
Use this option to increase the size of text and controls of the entire Atlantis GUI for better readability.
Choose the preferred method for onscreen rendering of document text:
GDI with default antialiasing
The system default font edge smoothing (antialiasing) method.
GDI without antialiasing
This is the fastest rendering method with sharp display. Intercharacter spacing is not always perfect:
GDI with ClearType antialiasing
This is usually the system default text rendering method. Fast enough, but the display is a little blurry. Intercharacter spacing is not always perfect:
DirectWrite with grayscale antialiasing
Thanks to the subpixel positioning of characters, intercharacter spacing is nearly always perfect which is most noticeable under smaller font sizes or zooming factors. Antialiasing uses the shades of the font color. Display is the blurriest of all, and slower than the GDI methods:
DirectWrite with ClearType antialiasing
Similar to "DirectWrite with grayscale antialiasing" but the display is lighter and less blurry:
Both DirectWrite rendering methods are available under Windows 7 (with the Platform Update) and higher versions of Windows.
Specify when Atlantis should display the keyboard accelerators in various dialogs and menus:
Keyboard accelerators allow to perform various actions (selecting visual controls or choosing menu items) without the mouse. Using keyboard accelerators can improve your productivity.
The "System" option means the appearance of the accelerators is controlled by the operating system. Usually this means that the accelerators are displayed when you access a dialog or menu using the keyboard, or when you press the Alt key in a dialog.
Allows to choose the width and color of the text cursors used in the document window of Atlantis. You can also enable additional indicators to improve visibility of text cursors. Click here for details.
When this option is checked, the text cursors and mouse pointers display in italic when they are within an italic text in the document window of Atlantis:
To reduce eye movement and strain when working on documents, you can instruct Atlantis to keep the text cursor within the area of the document window that is most convenient for your eyes. If you choose "top", "middle" or "bottom" as a preferable cursor position, as you type text, navigate through the document text using the keyboard or perform various editing or formatting operations, the text cursor will stay in the corresponding area of the document window. Choosing one of these three options adds additional padding before the first page and/or after the last page in the document window.
If you choose "Don't care" for this option, the text cursor may appear at any location within the document window.
When this option is on, Atlantis provides additional visual feedback for typed characters:
You may find this useful for entering numeric data to tables, or when learning to type without looking at the keyboard. This animation can also be helpful to users with sight-related issues. For additional sound feedback, you can also enable typewriter sounds in Atlantis.
Note: Typing punctuation signs can trigger automatic correction in the document. When a typed character gets automatically replaced by another character, the text typing animation displays the replacement character, not the character that you actually typed. For example, when you type a straight quote character, the text typing animation might display a curly (smart) opening or closing quote instead, not the straight quote.
Click the Save to File... button to save all the current Atlantis settings to an external INI file. To load the saved settings from such an INI file, click the Load from File... button.
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