## Preferences

The options in the Preferences dialog box affect the working environment for all subsequent documents.

### To display the Preferences dialog box

- Open the Freeway menu and choose Preferences....
- Click the appropriate icon in the icon bar to display the corresponding panel of preferences.

### General

Provides general preference options.

The options are summarised in the following table:

Option | Description
Arrows nudge | Specifies the nudge distance for moving objects with the arrow keys.
Make backups | Specifies whether Freeway makes a backup version of your document, with a .fwbackup extension, when you open the document.
Old selection behavior | Enables the behavior of selecting objects used in earlier versions of Freeway.
Enable AppleScript in Actions | Enables the ability to run AppleScripts in Freeway Actions.
Palettes snap | Makes the Freeway palettes snap together automatically, to help maintain a tidy screen appearance.
Adjust box dimensions when adding padding | Changes the size of graphic and HTML items to keep the content the same size when adding padding.
Show help tags | Shows a pop-up tag with help on toolbar icons and controls when you point to them with the mouse pointer.

### Text

Provides options that affect the appearance of text in the Freeway window:

Option | Description
Minimum anti-alias Size | Specifies a minimum size for applying smoothing to graphic text.
Invisibles color | Specifies the color used to display invisible characters, such as spaces and carriage returns.

### Appearance

Allows you to change the color used to identify each of the different item boxes:

Option | Description
Graphic boxes | Specifies the color used for the border of graphic items.
Table-positioned boxes | Specifies the color used for the border of HTML non-layer items.
CSS-positioned boxes | Specifies the color used for the border of HTML layer items.
Map area boxes | Specifies the color used for the border of map area items.
Revert to default colors | Restores the colors to their default values.

### Grids & Guides

Provides options relating to the guides and grid lines:

Option | Description
Grid color | Specifies the color used to display the grid lines.
Grid magnetic range | Specifies the snap-to distance for grids, in pixels.
Horizontal/Vertical guide color | Specifies the colors used to display the horizontal and vertical ruler guides. Select Link to make the horizontal and vertical lines the same color.
Margin guide color | Specifies the color used to display margins.
Guide magnetic range | Specifies the snap-to distance for guides, in pixels.

To specify grids and margins for a master page or document page use the Grids... command on the Page menu.

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