Using the menu item Extras > Preferences (Windows) or MarkStein Publisher > Settings (Mac), you can set preferences for document display, word processing, standard settings for text and image frames, import settings for text and images, and the measurement units to be used. Settings made apply to the program. Documents created at a different workplace with different settings will open with their own settings.
The window is divided into themed sub-points, in which you can make the relevant settings.
You can reset the preferences to the basic settings used when the program was installed by clicking the [Default] button.
Layout
Layout preference window
Color
Lines: Select the color of the line grid from the drop-down menu.
Margin: Select the color of the grid reference lines from the drop-down menu.
Page: Select the color in which the page reference lines are displayed from the drop-down menu.
Columns: Select the color of the column lines from the drop-down menu.
Bleed: Select the color in which the bleed around the document page is displayed from the drop-down menu.
Current Page: The page margins on the current page are marked in color. Select a color for the marking from the drop-down menu. Frame edges and user-defined reference lines are always shown in the color of the respective level.
Text Frame: Use the drop-down menu to select the color in which the areas of text frames are to be displayed in the status view.
Advert Frame: Use the drop-down menu to select the color in which the areas of advert frames are to be displayed in the status view.
Image Frame: Use the drop-down menu to select the color in which the areas of image frames are to be displayed in the status view.
Image Position: Use the drop-down menu to select the color in which the border of the image content is displayed.
Snap Radius
Using the settings View > Line Grid > Magnetic and View > Reference Lines > Magnetic, you can align objects precisely to reference lines. When you draw, move or resize objects, the object edges are aligned to the nearest grid or reference line. The distance at which an object is attracted by reference lines is known as the snap radius; you can set its size here.
Grid: Enter the distance from which you want objects to be attracted by the line grid shown.
Reference Lines: Enter the distance from which you want objects to be attracted by the reference lines shown.
Snap to Whole Units: If you choose this option, new frames can only be created and moved in whole increments of the measuring unit selected (for example whole millimeter or point increments).
To disable these functions temporarily, hold down the <Alt> key while completing an action.
Insert / Duplicate
In this section, you can enter an offset value that will be used when copying, inserting and duplicating objects.
Offset X: Enter the horizontal offset value here.
Offset Y: Enter the vertical offset value here.
Size Change for Multiple Activation
The preference for size change for multiple activation determines the method used when the size of multiple selected frames is changed simultaneously.
Proportional: If you select the Proportional option, the positions of the selected frames change in proportion to the size change.
Linear – all: If you select the Linear – all option, the positions of the frame remain unchanged and the size change is only executed in the desired direction.
Linear – adjacent: If you choose the Linear – adjacent option, the change only applies to objects adjacent to the edge being moved.
When you change the size by dragging, holding down the <Shift> key at the same time will cause the change to be executed proportionately.
AutoScroll acceleration
The choice you make here defines how fast the image section scrolls when you move or resize an object beyond the edges of the image section.
direct: Choose this option if you want to scroll without delay.
delayed: Choose this option to delay scrolling.
Select Panel
Select by Hovering over For XXX msec If you choose this option, the panel will open after the time set when you hover the cursor over the icon in the Panels toolbar. Enter a value between 1 and 1,000 milliseconds or click on the arrow.
Select by Mouse-Click: If you choose this option, the panel will open when you click on the icon in the Panels toolbar.
In both options, the panel automatically closes as soon as the cursor is moved out of the panel, unless you drag the panel to a different position on the screen by clicking and dragging the caption area.
Mode
Edit Text by Pressing Alt and Mouse Button. Select Link by Double-Clicking: If you select this option, you will enter word processing mode when you click in a text frame while holding down the <Alt> key. Double-clicking selects the entire link.
Edit Text by Double-Clicking. Select Link by Pressing Alt and Mouse Button: If you select this option, you will enter word processing mode when you double-click. You can select the entire link by clicking on a frame that belongs to the link while holding down the <Alt> key.
Text
Text preference window
Edit
Entries replace selected sections: This option is selected by default. Selected text is replaced as soon as a new character is entered. If you deactivate the option, the selection is removed and the new text entered in front of the selected text. The text behind the selection is pushed back.
Edit Text Using Drag & Drop: If you select this option, you can move and drop selected text by holding down the mouse button and dragging. The program behaves in the same way as when using the Cut and Paste functions.
If you hold down the <Ctrl> or <Cmd> key at the same time, the text will be copied instead of moved. The program behaves in the same way as when using the Copy and Paste functions.
The following options are possible for text:
•Dragging and dropping within a story
•Dragging and dropping between different stories
•Dragging and dropping from an external program
•Dragging and dropping into an external program
Table areas selected in text mode can also be moved or copied when the mouse button is held down:
•Dragging and dropping within a table
•Dragging and dropping between different tables
•Dragging and dropping from Microsoft Excel
•Dragging and dropping into Microsoft Excel
Insert Text Without Style When Using Drag & Drop: If you select this option, texts that are moved in MarkStein Publisher automatically adopt the style of the target paragraph.
Overwrite Mode at Program Start: MarkStein Publisher works in insert mode by default – new text is inserted in the cursor position. When this option is selected, a character is deleted to the right of the cursor positions for each character entered.
No Processing of Next Styles: Next styles can be specified in the paragraph properties. The next style is applied after the end of a paragraph. Choose this option to prevent the defined next styles from being applied.
Warning When Deleting Text Sections Including Markers: If a text contains markers, such as register entries, bookmarks etc., by default these are deleted without notice when a text section is deleted. Select this option if you want to receive a warning about the type and number of markers to be deleted.
Insert using Drag & Drop
Insert as hyperlink: If you select this option, images inserted in the text by drag & drop are not displayed, but a hyperlink to the image file is inserted.
As frame anchored in text: If you have selected this option, the inserted image is anchored to the text at the cursor position where you release the mouse button.
As frame anchored in paragraph: If you select this option, the inserted image will be anchored to the beginning of the paragraph, regardless of where you release the mouse button.
Color
Block marking: Select the color for text marking from the drop-down menu.
Colored Text as of a Brightness Of: This setting only takes effect during word processing as a script or proof. Colored text in a bright color or a low tonal value that has a dark background in the layout that makes it easy to read in Layout view is difficult to read in proof or script mode, as the background there is white. Enter a percentage from which you want colored text to be shown in the selected color.
View:
When editing text, it can be useful to display non-printable characters, such as spaces, tabs etc. Here you can select the non-printable characters that you want to be displayed when the View > Non-printable characters command is selected.
Page View for Stories and Tables That Are Not Assigned
Select the page size in which a newly created or exported story should be shown in the page view.
End of Line
Select the keyboard shortcut with which a line end can be inserted without starting a new paragraph.
Text Frame
Text Frame preference window
Border
Here you can define default settings for line weight, style, position, color and tint, corner radius and the baseline grid for new text frames. In the Gutter section, enter the column spacing that should be used by default when a text frame is to contain multiple columns of text.
Background Transparent While Drawing: Select this option if you want to create new text frames without area fill, i.e. with the color “None”. If the option is not selected, new text frames will be created with the background color “White”.
Text wrap is activated for each new text frame by default. To deactivate text wrap for new frames, deactivate the Text Wrap Active option.
Style
Even if no style groups with paragraph and text properties have been created, you can enter text in a text frame. In the Style section, you can define the paragraph and text formatting for texts without style groups. Click the [Paragraph] button to define default settings for paragraph styles. Use the [Text] button to define default settings for text styles.
Import
Import preference window
Text
Delete empty lines: Select this option if you want empty lines to be deleted automatically when text is imported.
Convert Tabs to Spaces: Select this option if you want tabs to be converted into spaces when text is imported.
Dashes: You can use the drop-down list to define how you want dashes to be converted when text is imported.
If you select the No Conversion option, they will not be converted. If you select the EN Dash Width option, dashes will be converted to EN dashes. The EM Dash Width option converts them to EM dashes.
Font Type: You can use this option to define how the fonts should be loaded when an RTF text is imported.
Do Not Apply: The text is imported in line with your preferences, which you have defined in the Text Frame section. The fonts used in the original document are not applied.
Only Apply Font Style: The text is imported in line with your preferences, which you have defined in the Text Frame section. If mark ups such as italic, bold etc. were defined in the original document, the relevant fonts are applied when the text is imported.
Fully Apply: If different fonts and styles were used in the original document, these are applied when the text is imported.
Apply Special Fonts: Select this option if you want fonts used in the original document (such as special characters in fonts such as Zapf Dingbats) to be applied when a text is imported.
Footnotes
If a document to be imported contains footnotes, you can use the drop-down menu to define whether the footnotes should be imported as real end notes or as normal paragraphs.
Apply Footnotes During RTF Import: If an RTF document to be imported contains footnotes, you can use these options to define whether they should be applied when the text is imported.
Apply Footnotes from Clipboard: If you have copied a text that contains footnotes from Microsoft Word or an RTF document to the clipboard and this option is selected, the footnotes will be applied as end notes when the text is pasted.
Enumerations
Apply Bullet Points During DOCX Import: If a DOCX document to be imported contains bullet points, these will be applied if this option is selected. In the drop-down menu, you can choose between the options As Text and As An Actual Enumeration.
Apply Bullet Points During RTF Import: If an RTF document to be imported contains bullet points, these will be applied if this option is selected.
Apply Bullet Points From Clipboard: If you have copied a text that contains bullet points from Microsoft Word or an RTF document to the clipboard, selecting this option means that the bullet points will be applied when the text is pasted.
Comments
Apply Comments as Notes During DOCX import: If a Word document contains comments, these will be applied as notes if you select this option.
Image Frame / Image
Preferences window Image Frame / Image
Assign / Place
Fit to Frame: You can use this option to define how images should be adjusted to the frame when assigned.
Minimum Size: If this option is selected, the image content will be adjusted so that the entire image content is always visible and no content is cropped out. This may mean that the image frame is not entirely full either horizontally or vertically.
Maximum Size: If this option is selected, the image content will be adjusted to fill the entire frame. Parts of the image will not be visible either vertically or horizontally.
Keep Original Size: Select this option if you want images to be loaded in their original size, rather than adjusted to the frame size, when they are assigned to an image frame.
Scale to Specified Effective Resolution: Select this option if you want images to be scaled to the resolution specified in the entry field when they are placed.
Center: Select this option if you want the image content to be centered in the frame when an image is assigned.
Keep Position and Scale When Replacing: Select this option if, in an image frame that contains an image, you want a newly assigned image to retain the position and scaling of the loaded image. If the option is not selected, the image will be repositioned in the image frame in line with your preferences.
Change Image Size: If you choose the option Keep Aspect Ratio When Changing Size, the size of the image content will always be increased or decreased proportionately when you change the image size by dragging with the content tool. If this option is not selected, the size of images is increased or decreased disproportionately, unless you hold down the <Shift> button while dragging.
Fit
Using the command Content > Image > Fit > Keep Aspect Ratio, you can adjust the assigned image proportionately to the image frame.
Minimum Size: Select this option if you want the image content to be adjusted so that the entire image content is always visible and no content is cropped out.
Maximum Size: Select this option if you want the image content to be adjusted so that the entire image frame is filled.
PDF (Positioning only possible in MarkStein Publisher Professional Edition and MarkStein Publisher Workgroup Edition)
Extract Text from PDF/AI: When this option is selected, the text from a PDF or AI file is extracted during loading and displayed in the Content > Image > PDF/AI Properties... dialog window in the Text Content tab. The text can be copied from there for further use.
Stroke
Here you can define default settings for line weight, style, ends, position, color and tint, as well as the corner radius for new image frames.
Background Transparent While Drawing: Select this option if you want to create new image frames without area fill, i.e. with the color “None”. If the option is not selected, new image frames will be created with the background color “White”.
Text Wrap Active: Text wrap is activated for each new image frame by default. To deactivate text wrap for new frames, uncheck the Text Wrap Active option.
Line
Line preference window
Default Values
Here you can define the line weight, style, start, end, color, tint and opacity for new lines.
Frames & Objects
Frames & Objects preference window
Apply Layout Template
Fit Frames to Text: If this option is selected, the text frame of the layout template automatically adjusts to the existing text.
Apply Images From Existing Frame Chain: If this option is selected, the images from the existing link are applied when a layout template is assigned.
Remove Empty Image Frames/Remove Corresponding Photo Credit Frames: Select this option to remove empty image and caption frames when a layout template is assigned.
Import Snippets
Here you can define how an object previously exported as a snippet (.mxs) should be placed. Original Position places the object in the position it held during export; the Cursor Position option allows you to choose where to position the object.
Values / Units
Preferences window Values / Units
Units
Horizontal: Select the horizontal measurement unit for the ruler and objects.
Vertical: Select the vertical measurement unit for the ruler and objects.
Font: Select the measurement unit for font sizes.
Show Actual Units: Select this option if you want entries with units that differ from this preference to be displayed. Otherwise, these entries will be converted into the preset unit.
You can choose between Millimeter, Point and Didot Point.
The following conversions apply:
DTP Point (pt) to mm: 1 pt = 0.352777 mm
Didot point (P) to mm: 1 P = 0.376 mm
Proof/Script
Leading: Here you can define the spacing between the lines and different blocks in the galley proof and script views.
Script: The leading currently set in the selected style sheet is not used in the proof and script view. The leading of the screen lines can be increased or decreased in script and proof mode. Values between 25% and 400% are permissible. 200% means twice the leading compared to the print.
Block Change: In the case of a block change, the spacing stated is entered in order to highlight the block change.
Column Change: In the galley proof view, text is always shown continuously. In the case of a column change, the spacing stated is entered.
Show Block and Column Separators: Selecting this option results in block and column changes being highlighted in the proof by horizontal lines.
Script Width
Adjust Automatically: If you select this option, the width of the text will be automatically adjusted to the width of the working window in script mode. The writing width is around 80% of the window width. Deactivating the option allows you to define the width of the text. If you want to print in manuscript mode, you need to select a fixed width at which the text is displayed and printed.
Document
Document preference window
Layout
Original: If you select this option, documents will be opened in the original view. All elements that are not to be printed are hidden. You can select the menu command View > Original or use the keyboard shortcut <Ctrl> + <Alt> + <Shift> + O (Win) or <Cmd> + <Alt> + <Shift> + O (Mac), to switch between layout and original views at any time.
Show Line Grid/View Columns: Select these options to show the line grid and/or column reference lines automatically when a document is opened.
Line Grid / Columns in Front: Select this option if you want the line grid and the column reference lines to be shown in front of the objects. If this option is not selected, the line grid and the column reference lines will be shown behind the objects.
Magnetic Lines / Columns: Select this option if you want objects to be attracted automatically to line grid and column reference lines.
Invisible Line / Column Grid Magnetic: If this option is selected, the line and column grids are magnetic even in original view.
Show Guides: Select this option to show the user-defined reference lines when a document is opened.
Guides in Front: Select this option if you want the user-defined reference lines to be shown in front of the objects. If this option is not selected, user-defined reference lines will be shown behind the objects.
Magnetic Guides: Select this option if you want objects to be attracted automatically to user-defined reference lines.
Invisible Guides Magnetic: If this option is selected, the reference lines are magnetic even in original view.
Show Rulers: Select this option to display the horizontal and vertical rulers when a document is opened.
Adjust
You can use the command View > Fit Page to Window or the keyboard shortcut <Ctrl> + 0 (zero) (Win) or <Cmd> + 0 (zero) (Mac) to adjust the page view to the window size.
According to Page Size: Choose this option if you want to use the Fit Page to Window command to adjust the current single page to the window size.
According to Sheet Size: Choose this option if you want to use the Fit Page to Window command to adjust entire sheets or double pages to the window size.
Text
Show Non-Printable Characters: Select this option if you want non-printable characters to be shown when the document is opened.
Show Markers: Select this option if you want markers such as notes, registers or text variables to be shown automatically when a document is opened.
Show Style / Line Ruler: If you select this option, the paragraph formatting used will be shown in the style column in script and proof mode, as well as the line ruler in proof mode.
Table
Table Grid Behind Lines / Column Lines Select this option if you want the table grid to be behind the defined lines/column lines. If this option is not selected, the table grid will be displayed in front of the defined lines/column lines.
View
View preference window
View
Original View from: Define a value from which documents should be shown in original view. If the value is not met, the status view is shown.
Zoom
Increment of magnifying glass (+/-): Define the factor by which, when the Magnifying Glass is activated, a mouse click increases (left click) or decreases (right click) the size.
Export
Export preference window
Define whether the structure and/or properties of the e-book to be exported should be shown prior to the EPUB export.
You can find basic information on exporting as an EPUB in the Output as e-book section of this manual.
Design
Design preference window
Colors
Toolbar: The background color of the toolbar, the control panel and the title bars of panels and inspectors. To change it, click on the color box and choose a color from the dialog that appears.
Borders: The color of the border between window and scroll bar in panels. To change it, click on the color box and choose a color from the dialog that appears.
Background: The background color of panels and inspectors. To change it, click on the color box and choose a color from the dialog that appears.
Highlight: The marking color of active windows. To change it, click on the color box and choose a color from the dialog that appears.
Invert Text and Icons: Texts and icons are shown inverted.
[Light]: The default light setting is selected.
[Dark]: The default dark setting is selected.
[Preview]: Clicking this button displays a preview of the planned changes.
Menu
Show inactive items: All menu items are shown by default. Deselecting this option means that menu items that have no function for a specific object will be hidden.
