IBM Lotus Symphony


Setting general view preferences

Specifies view options in IBM® Lotus® Symphony™ .

To access this command...
Choose File > Preferences > Symphony > View

Font list

Show preview of fonts

Displays the names of the selectable fonts.

Show font history

Displays the fonts you assigned to the current document.

Graphics output

Use hardware acceleration

Directly accesses hardware features of the graphical display adapter to improve the screen display. The support for hardware acceleration is not available for all operating systems and platform distributions of IBM Lotus Symphony .

Use Anti-Aliasing

When supported, you can enable and disable anti-aliasing of graphics. With anti-aliasing enabled, the display of most graphical objects looks smoother and with less artifacts.

Mouse

Mouse positioning

Specifies if and how the mouse pointer will be positioned in newly opened dialogs.

Middle mouse button

Defines the function of the middle mouse button.
  • Automatic scrolling - dragging while pressing the middle mouse button shifts the view.

  • Paste clipboard - pressing the middle mouse button inserts the contents of the "Selection clipboard" at the cursor position.

The "Selection clipboard" is independent of the normal clipboard that you use by Edit - Copy/Cut / Insert or the respective keyboard shortcuts. Clipboard and "Selection clipboard" can contain different contents at the same time.

Table 1. Using the clipboard versus the selection clipboard
Task Clipboard Selection clipboard
Copy content Edit - Copy Ctrl+C. Select text, table, object.
Paste content Edit - Paste Ctrl+V pastes at the cursor position. Clicking the middle mouse button pastes at the mouse pointer position.
Pasting into another document No effect on the clipboard contents. The last marked selection is the content of the selection clipboard.

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