Indicate the Display item or press <f5>.
You can set a grid. This grid will help to position objects accurately and allow the use of Snap to Grid.
When you select this item, a menu will appear :
When this item is selected, everything in the window will be fully displayed on the screen as close to the printed version as the screen resolution will allow. This means that all objects will be drawn with their linewidth, in their gray shade and possibly filled. This can be useful as a preview. However, it does slow down the drawing. Bitmaps are still not displayed as this would be unbearably slow (so they are displayed as a filled rectangle). Some objects may become invisible if they are drawn in white and the background has (almost) the same colour. Especially as there are only a few distinct gray shades on screen.
This command can have have two distinct actions depending upon whether an object (or group of objects) has been selected in edit mode or not.
The page will be scaled and moved in such a way to make sure the current object is completely visible, as large as possible. However, the object will not be bigger then when using the Zoom in item.
The page will be scaled and moved in such a way to make sure all objects are completely visible, as large as possible.
This command makes sure that the entire page is visible in the edit window. This returns the edit window to the same state as when LINEdesign is just started.
This command allows you to choose the unit which should be used for the current position, the information on screen (for relative move etc.), for the Translate menu option and in the Grid menu. The line thickness, fontsize and leading are always expressed in points.
The menu gives you the option to choose between points (pt), millimeters (mm), centimeters (cm) or inches (in).
The current unit is always displayed on the menu next to the current position.
You can choose whether bitmapped objects have to be rendered on screen. When this item is not indicated, bitmaps will be displayed as a rectangle (filled when in preview mode). When bitmaps are not too big and not rotated or slanted, they are rendered quick enough to use this option. Otherwise, redrawing the screen can be slowed down quite a lot.
When this item is indicated, and you are interactively transforming an object, the a preview of the transformed object will be displayed when the pointer doesn't move for an instance. As this can be very annoying when trying to move complex objects which take a while to draw, you can also disable this.
There are two possibilities for the method that LINEdesign uses to determine which abjects are being selected using lasso select.