- Preferences make the program yours
- More efficient
- Faster because of hardware
- Perfect your workflow
- Change per workflow
- Random valuable settings follow
- Preferences key: Command-K
- General
- Keyboard increment
- Arrow key moves by one increment
- Shift-arrow moves by ten increments
- Important for symbol placement on keycaps
- Set to 0.1mm
- Constraint angle sets the axis on which your tools draw
- Precise Cursors sets default between gross and fine selection cursor
- Hold caps-lock to access tool via hold-and-release
- Scale Stroke and Effects controls whether or not effects resized when you resize the object with drag-and-resize
- Sync Settings
- Not on my box
- Synchronizes between multiple boxes
- Settings
- How do we reset all of them?
- Via here
- Delete the Adobe Illustrator Prefs file, it will be regenerated on startup
- Can we define different settings profiles?
- Seemingly not
- Could use Git
- Units
- Configured with: Millimeters
- For everything
- Identify Objects By: XML ID
- Might make it easier to work with Inkscape/XML tools?
- Plug-Ins & Scratch Disks
- Can speed up image manipulation by dividing load between disks
- Depends on disk speed
- User Interface
- Brightness themes
- Custom: 64%
- Tabs and not-auto collapse are good
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