Operation Manual

• If your documents contain a lot of objects such as images, or the objects are large,
LibreOffice’s performance may improve if you increase the memory for LibreOffice or the
memory per object. If you find that objects seem to disappear from a document that
contains a lot of them, increase the number of objects in the cache. (The objects are still in
the file even if you cannot see them on screen.)
• To load the Quickstarter when you start your computer, select the option near the bottom of
the dialog. This makes LibreOffice start faster; the trade-off is LibreOffice uses some
memory even when not being used. This option is called Enable systray quickstarter on
Linux. It is not available on Mac OS X or on systems where the Quickstarter module has
not been installed.
Figure 15: Choosing Memory options for the LibreOffice applications
View options
The options on the LibreOffice – View page affect the way the document window looks and
behaves. Some of these options are described below. Set them to suit your personal preferences.
User Interface – Scaling
If the text in the help files or on the menus of the LibreOffice user interface is too small or too
large, you can change it by specifying a scaling factor. Sometimes a change here can have
unexpected results, depending on the screen fonts available on your system. However, it
does not affect the actual font size of the text in your documents.
User Interface – Icon size and style
The first box specifies the display size of toolbar icons (Automatic, Small, or Large). The
Automatic icon size option uses the setting for your operating system. The second box
specifies the icon style (theme); here the Automatic option uses an icon set compatible with
your operating system and choice of desktop: for example, KDE or Gnome on Linux.
User interface – Screen font anti-aliasing
(Not available in Windows.) Select this option to smooth the screen appearance of text. Enter
the smallest font size to apply anti-aliasing.
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