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<title>Configuring Quill</title>
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<h1>Quill User's Guide</h1>
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<h2>Configuring Quill</h2>
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<p>There are two groups of settings that can be configured for all of Quill.
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These are general tool settings and the default background settings for new
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Quill documents. When you click on Settings->Configure Quill, these two
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groups are on the left.</p>
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<p>In addition, right-clicking on a page will bring up a context menu. Here,
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you can select Page Properties to bring up the page properties dialog. This
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section has background configuration for both the current page and the
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entire current document. Document background settings are the settings used
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for new pages of the current document. Note that when updating the document
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background settings, existing pages do not have their backgrounds
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<h3>Tool Configuration</h3>
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<p>Each tool can be configured independently. In this section, you can set
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the default settings for the tools. If the tools currently being used with
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the document are still at their original defaults, they will also be
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updated. Each tool has its own configuration items.</p>
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<p>The pen and highlighter tools both can have their default color and
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default width configured. The highlighter can also have its translucency
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configured. The translucency is a percentage opacity level. That is to say,
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setting this value to 35% means that the strokes will be 35% opaque, meaning
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they will be 65% translucent.</p>
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<p>The eraser can also have its default width configured. The other option
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for erasers is the erasing mode. The erasing mode can take one of three
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<dd>Erases contiguous sections of strokes that are of the same
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<dt>Erase entire strokes</dt>
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<dd>Erases entire strokes (i.e., lines drawn between the stylus or mouse
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being pressed and then released). Note that ``Erase paths'' behaves like
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``Erase strokes'' for strokes drawn with the mouse and with the
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highlighter tool, since these do not vary stroke width based on
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<dt>Erase all objects</dt>
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<dd>Erases all objects, including, e.g., text, images, etc.</dd>
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<p>The selection tool currently has no configuration available.</p>
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<h3>Background Configuration</h3>
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<p>The background configuration sections configures the background type for
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either new documents (in the main Quill configuration dialog), the current
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page (in the Page BG section of the page properties dialog), or new pages on
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the current document (in the Document BG section of the page properties
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dialog). For more information about configuring backgrounds, see the
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section on <a href="backgrounds.html">Annotating PDFs and Alternate
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Page Backgrounds</a>.</p>