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498 Customizing Web Designer Premium

Marquee Object Selection
This option enables you to change the default setting for marquee selection (where you
drag a selection rectangle over the objects you want to select). So you can choose to
have objects touching the selection rectangle selected or only the objects wholly inside
the rectangle.

Legacy web browser compatible line lengths
Older web browsers were not able to render text very accurately. When you asked for a
certain font size they rounded it up or down, often displaying the wrong size and width
(compared to the original font design, and how Web Designer Premium, Word, PDF and
all modern DTP programs would display it).

Older versions of Web Designer Premium attempted to compensate for these
inaccuracies, by providing a LEGACY WEB BROWSER LINE LENGTH COMPATIBILITY option
which meant the text was slightly differently formatted - line lengths would be different
compared to normal print documents, or the same text in Word, or PDF documents.

Most modern web browsers are getting better at rendering text accurately - you can now
specify any px or pt font size, even fractional sizes, and the text will for the most part, be
rendered accurately*. The text formatting should be the same as in print documents,
PDF, and page layout documents. This includes auto-kerning, manual kerning and
tracking (letter spacing).
If you load an older Web Designer Premium web document, a dialog will appear
prompting you to update the text formatting. This in effect prepares your web document
so that it will display accurately on most modern web browsers.

A consequence of updating the formatting to support the more modern browsers is that
text may re-flow because of slightly different line lengths, causing text columns to be
slightly longer or shorter than before. Once you update formatting the document will
remain like this and you will not be asked again.

To turn formatting back to the old style use the GENERAL TAB of "UTILITIES" > "OPTIONS"
dialog and make sure that the LEGACY WEB BROWSER LINE LENGTH COMPATIBILITY option
is checked. Or if you are loading an older document into Web Designer Premium just
choose the KEEP ORIGINAL FORMATTING option.