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Legal Notices

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Chapter 1: Interface Preferences

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Chapter 2: Shortcut Preferences

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Chapter 3: General Preferences

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Chapter 1: Interface Preferences
Adjusting preferences to suit your work style allows you to work more efficiently. Harmony has aseries of preferences you can adjust to customize your personal workflow.

The Preferences dialog box is divided into the following tabs:•Shortcuts•General•Exposure Sheet

Some preferences require you to exit and restart the application or to close a view and reopen it.

How to access the Preferences dialog box
Do one of the following:‣From the top menu, select Edit > Preferences (Windows/Linux) or Stage > Preferences(Mac OS X).

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Press Ctrl + U (Windows/Linux) or ⌘ + U (Mac OS X).

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Chapter 2: Shortcut Preferences
To speed up your work, all of the keyboard shortcuts can be customized. You can even choose othersoftware keyboard shortcut sets.
In Toon Boom Harmony, you can choose a set of default keyboard shortcuts you are familiar with. You
can choose between the following:•Adobe Flash•Toon Boom Harmony•

Toon Boom Studio

You can also customize most of the shortcuts.

How to switch keyboard shortcut sets
1. Do one of the following:‣Windows: Select Edit > Preferences‣Mac OS X: Select Stage> Preferences.

‣Press Ctrl + U (Windows/Linux) or ⌘ + U (Mac OS X).

2. In the Preferences dialog box, select the Shortcuts tab.
3. From the Shortcut Set list, select the desired set.

How to set a keyboard shortcut
1. Do one of the following:‣

Windows: Select Edit > Preferences‣

Mac OS X: Select Stage> Preferences.

‣Press Ctrl + U (Windows/Linux) or ⌘ + U (Mac OS X).

2. In the Preferences dialog box, select the Shortcuts tab.
3. In the left pane, select a category and then select a command to modify.
4. Click on the shortcut rectangle (above the right pane).

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5. On your keyboard, click the desired shortcut.
‣To remove any keyboard shortcut associated to a command, click Clear.

‣To reset a command’s default keyboard shortcut, click Default.

6. Click OK.
If a keyboard shortcut is already in use, the Conflict Detected dialog box will appear notifying youof the command to which it is already associated. You can continue to associate the shortcut orcancel the operation and choose another command.

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Chapter 3: General Preferences

To customize your interface, you will use some of the preferences located in the General tab as well as
the Camera tab.
Parameter

Description

Colours
The Colours preference allows you to modify the colours of thedifferent user interface views and elements. For example, you canchange the Camera view’s background colour from grey to white.
Altering these preferences requires you to restart the application or toclose a view and reopen it for the modifications to be applied.
Current View Border: Sets the colour of the frame around theworkspace view you are currently using, also known as focus. By
default, the colour is red. Click on the red colour swatch to select anew colour in the Colour Picker window.
Edit Colours Button: Click on the Edit Colours button to open theColours window.
Options
Editors Always on Top: When enabled, the Layers and Function
Editors are on top of the main window.
Close Previous Editors: Closes previously opened editors.
Display Cardinal Coordinates: Display coordinates throughapplication either scalar (ex:+1 -1) or cardinal (1N1S).

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Save Scene: When set to "yes", this preference saves the scene datewhen the Save command is activated. When set to "No", the Savecommand will not save the scene data and you will have to use the Savecommand to save the scene data.
Close Previous Editors: If set, it will close any opened module editor
before opening a new one. Notice also that if you set it to TRUE,
pressing ALT while opening a module editor will keep the previouseditor(s) opened anyway.
Settings
Default Separate Position: New instances of pegs use separate modefor position if this is set.
Default Separate Scale: New instances of pegs use separate modefor scale if this is set.
Default Bezier: New functions curves are created as Bezier Curves.
Default Bezier Velocity: New velocity curves are created as BezierCurves.
Read Use Drawing Pivot: Read using drawing pivot.
Minimum FOV: This is the minimum field-of-view value of the camera.
Maximum FOV: This is the maximum field-of-view value of the camera.
Field Chart:
X: Default value for the number of units in the X axis (east-west) of
the field chart used for new scenes. This value should be half thetotal number of units in the X axis of the field chart. This value willappear by default in the Alignment dialog box.
Y: Default value for the number of units in the Y axis (north-south)of the field chart used for new scenes. This value should be half thetotal number of units in the Y axis of the field chart. This value willappear by default in the Alignment dialog box.
Z: Default value for the number of units in the Z axis (front-back) of
the field chart used for new scenes. This value will appear by default
in the Alignment dialog box.

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Levels of Undo: Determines the number of actions retained by theUndo list. By default, 50 actions are stored in the list. You can alter thenumber if you want to.
HTML Browser for Unix: This option is used to view the online help on
Linux machines. Enter the command to launch the browser, including
the path if necessary.

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Chapter 4: Exposure Sheet Preferences

Parameter

Description

Filtering
These preferences are used to display or hide certain layertypes in the Xsheet view.
Show Drawing Columns: Displays the Drawing layers in theXsheet view.
Show Sound Columns: Displays the Sound columns in theXsheet view.
Show 3D Path Columns: Displays the 3D Path columns in theXsheet view.
Show Function Columns: Displays the Function columns layers
in the Xsheet view.
Options
Default Add Columns: The default position where the newcolumn will be added.
Default Column Width: The default width value for the newcolumn being created.
Cycle Exposure: Make navigation in the X-sheet view wraparound from last frame or last column to the first.
Element Manager
Scan Type: By default, the Scan Type is set to 2 which equals
vector import. This means that the imported bitmap images
will be placed into a Drawing layer. Scan type 1 is bitmap
import.
Bitmap Format:By default, when you create a new empty

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bitmap column, it will use the file format indicated in the field as
the new column format. The default value is SCAN, whichmeans that it is set for scanned-in drawings.
Vector Type: By default, the Vector Type is set to 2 whichindicates that the element is a TVG vector drawing. Thisfunction returns the vector type for the given element. In
theory, there is support for multiple types of vector drawing. In
practice, only TVG has been implemented. The value 0:
indicates that the element is NOT a vector drawing. It is an
IMAGE type.
Function Editors
Show Grid: When selected, the grid is displayed by default
when opening the Function Editor.
Constant Segments: Enabling this will create constantsegment keyframes.
Control Point Tension: Default tension value for control
points. Values should be from -1.0 to 1.0.
Control Point Continuity: Default continuity value for control
points. Values should be from -1.0 to 1.0.
Control Point Bias: Default bias value for control points. Values
should be from -1.0 to 1.0.
From Left to Right: When clicking the Apply/Next button in
the Xsheet view Column Properties, the next column to be
displayed in the Column Properties will be the one on the right.
From Right to Left: When clicking the Apply/Next button in
the Xsheet view Column Properties, the next column to be
displayed in the Column Properties will be the one on the left.
New Element
Bitmap Format: By default, when you create a new empty bitmap
column, it will use the file format indicated in the field as the new column
format. The default value is SCAN, which means that it is set for scannedin drawings.

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