Setting General Preferences
By default, Cosmo Create saves changes to the open file every 2
minutes, and creates a backup file each time it is saved (see Saving Changes Automatically.) It's also set up
to suppress all HTML warning and error messages and use Netscape as the
HTML browser. Lastly, when you drag and drop files onto the page, Cosmo
Create automatically makes a link to the selected text or image.
To change these default behaviors, follow these steps:
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Choose File > Preferences
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Click the General tab on the Preferences dialog tab deck.
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Specify which behaviors you want to change.
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To stop Cosmo Create from making a backup file after every save, click
to remove the check mark from the box next to Make a backup
file when file is saved.
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To stop Cosmo Create from saving automatically, click to remove the
check mark from the box next to Make a checkpoint file
every 2 minutes while editing.
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To continue to have Cosmo Create save automatically but to have it do
so more or less frequently, keep the check mark in the box, and change
the value in the editable field from 2 to a different number of
minutes.
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To see all HTML warnings and errors when Cosmo Create reads an HTML or
RTF file, click to place a check mark in the box next to Show
HTML warnings/errors.
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Cosmo Create inserts some Silicon Graphics-specific attributes into
your HTML file when you edit. These attributes help enhance editing in
Cosmo Create, and it is best to leave them in. However, if you want to
turn off the writing of these attributes in the HTML output, click to
remove the check mark from the box.
Turning off the writing of Silicon Graphics-specific attributes is
strongly discouraged. You are unable to edit the original version of
inline images using the editing plug-ins. In addition, you may be
unable to view inline images. The Silicon Graphics attributes are
automatically stripped out during the packaging phase, and so do not
cause problems in packaged documents.
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To prevent the palettes from being raised with the document window,
click to remove the check mark in the box next to Raise
palettes with document window. By default, when you click
on a window to bring it to the top of your desktop, the palettes come
along to the top as well. This options allows you to override this
behavior, and leave the palettes at their current level.
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To change whether you create image maps for clients, servers, or both,
choose the appropriate item from the Create image maps for
menu button.
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Save the preference values, or cancel your changes.
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Click OK to save the changes for this file only and to
close the window.
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Click Save to save the changes for all Cosmo Create
documents and to keep the window open.
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Click Cancel to close the window. If this is the first
button you click in this window, no changes are made. If you first
clicked OK or Save, those changes are made.
Cosmo Create saves the preferences in the file .cosmocreate/cosmocreate-preferences
in your home directory. See the cosmocreate(1) man page for more
details.