Export Preferences

These settings control how sketches are printed and how Sketchpad objects are copied onto the clipboard.

To access the Advanced Preferences, hold down the Shift key before activating the Edit menu.

Include Arrowheads: If this box is checked, printouts and pictures copied to the clipboard include arrowheads at the ends of lines, rays, and infinite point loci. If this box is not checked, the ends of these objects appear on printouts and on the clipboard just as they do in the sketch—with no special markings.

Locus/Plot Export Quality: The value displayed here determines how loci and function plots appear in printouts and on the clipboard. If the setting is 1x, such objects appear just as they do on the screen. Set the value to 5x to use five times as many samples or to 10x to use ten times as many samples. The default setting of 5x works well on most printers; you may want to change this to 10x for a very high-resolution printer. The higher the number of samples, the smoother the appearance of the curve.

Clipboard Image Scale: This value determines the magnification used for clipboard pictures. Set this to more magnification if you’re copying pictures from Sketchpad to paste into a document in a word processor or page layout program that you intend to use for high-quality production. If you set the scale to more than 100%, the pasted picture will be large, and you’ll have to scale it down in the word processing or page layout application into which you paste it. The result will be a higher-quality printout from the other application.