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- This application allows you to easily adjust the way the Finder
- displays the desktop. The font and size of the text drawn on the
- desktop can be changed, as can the icon spacing and many
- other parameters.
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- Your custom display specifications are saved within the Finder
- itself and from then on they will be used whenever that Finder
- is in control.
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- Please scroll to see more information.
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- Open
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- Allows you to select the Finder file you wish to modify.
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- When the application starts up, it automatically opens the Finder
- in the current System Folder. If it can't find a Finder, it prompts
- you to use the Open command to select a Finder.
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- If you have made changes to a previously opened Finder, you
- are first asked if you want to save those changes.
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- Old Finders do not have the ability to be customized. If you
- try to open an old Finder you will get a message to this effect.
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- Save
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- Writes out any changes you made to the Finder so they are
- permanently saved.
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- Revert…
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- This command forgets any changes you have made, and restores
- the settings which were last saved in this Finder. It is useful
- when you want to undo all changes since the last Save or since
- the application was started if you haven't done a Save yet.
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- Defaults…
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- This command forgets any changes you have made, and
- restores the standard default settings of a "normal" Finder,
- which may or may not be different from the settings last saved
- in the currently open Finder. The command is useful if you want
- to undo all the changes you ever made to this Finder and return
- it to normal.
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- This command changes all the settings. Many settings can be
- changed to the standard defaults individually. For example,
- you can restore the standard Small Icon spacing by double-
- clicking on the grey icon in the Small Icon View window.
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- Quit
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- This command exits the program. If you made any changes, it
- gives you a chance to save them first.
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- The Edit menu is only active when a desk accessory is being used.
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- Small Icon View
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- Selecting this command displays a grid of icons in the "by Small
- Icon" format. By dragging the gray icon, you can set the hori-
- zontal and vertical spacing of the grid. This spacing will be used
- by the Finder whenever you issue a "Clean Up" command, when
- a new icon is created, and when a "gridded drag" takes place in
- a "by Small Icon" format window (see the "Always Grid Drags"
- command below).
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- Icon View
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- This command is automatically in effect when the application
- starts up. It displays a grid of icons in the usual "by Icon"
- format. You can adjust the grid spacing by dragging the light
- gray icon, and the grid offset by dragging the dark gray icon.
- The grid offset vertically staggers the icons, allowing you to
- space the icons a bit closer together and still read the document
- titles. The grid you specify will be used when you do a "Clean
- Up", gridded drag, or when a new icon is created in a "by Icon"
- format window.
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- Text Views
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- This command allows you to adjust parameters that control
- the windows displayed in the "by Name", "by Size", "by Date"
- and "by Kind" formats, as well as the printed output generated
- by the "Print Catalog" command in the Finder.
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- When you adjust the column spacing by dragging a dotted line,
- that line and those to its right are shifted over. The Finder
- truncates any text which is too wide for the column (an effect
- which is not simulated here), so make sure the Size, Date, Time
- and other columns are wide enough. You cannot change the
- ordering of the columns or eliminate any of them.
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- Each column can be left or right justified, and the format of the
- date can be set to short (12/25/86), medium (Thu, Dec 25, 1986)
- or long (Thursday, December 25, 1986). The date cycles through
- the three formats when you double-click in the date column.
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- Default Window
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- This command displays a window which controls the position
- and size of new windows created by the Finder. The radio
- buttons in the window let you specify the kind of view given
- to windows of newly initialized disks (windows of new folders
- are given the same view that the "parent" window has regard-
- less of the setting of the radio buttons).
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- Grid
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- When this menu item is checked, the adjustments you make to
- the icon spacing in the "Small Icon View" and "Icon View" are
- snapped to an invisible grid. To make fine adjustments to the
- spacing, remove the checkmark. This command is not related
- to the "Always Grid Drags" command described below.
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- Use Zoom Rects
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- This menu item is normally checked, which means that the
- usual zooming effect will take place when the Finder opens
- a window or an application. If you remove the checkmark,
- the Finder will not use the zooming effect.
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- Always Grid Drags
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- This item is normally not checked, which means you can position
- icons freely on the desktop. If you check this item, whenever
- you drag an icon, it will snap into position on the grid
- automatically without having to do a "Clean Up".
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- Skip Trash Warnings
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- THIS COMMAND IS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS. If you set a
- checkmark on this item, the Finder will skip the usual warning
- that is given whenever you throw an application or System file
- into the trash.
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- The Font Menu
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- By selecting a font name from this menu, you will change the
- font of most text displayed by the Finder. This includes the
- icon titles, the window top margin text, all the text in the
- Text Views, and the printed text generated by "Print Catalog".
- A check is placed next to the font the Finder will use, unless
- that font is not in the current System file.
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- The font names displayed are those which are installed in the
- current System. If you later change the System fonts or use
- the Finder with a different System file, the font you specified
- may be missing. In that case the default font will be used.
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- The Size Menu
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- This menu displays the various sizes you can set the text to.
- Font sizes which are installed in the current System file for
- the checked name in the Font menu are hilighted. If you later
- use the Finder with a different or modified System, the size
- may not be available and a scaled font will be used.
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- This software is provided free of charge. Unmodified copies may
- be passed on to others by any commercial or noncommercial
- means of distribution. Please give away copies to your friends.
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