Set your preferences

Preferences are set via the Edit menu.  The preferences (Figures A-D) window allows you to modify your interface environment to better meet specific needs.  Specifically, you can:

• Change the size and style of the font used within Instance (Figure A).
• Hide markup icons and/or content hints (Figure A).
• Set your help files source (Figure B).
• Set your help files browser (Figures B and C).  Select Use External Help Browser to use your machine's web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape) in place of the Java browser.  The path to the browser you want to use should be specified in the Paths tab.  The help browser settings also govern the browser used to preview XSLT stylesheets, in which case it is recommended that you use Internet Explorer or Netscape.  
• Hide or show the welcome window upon launch (Figure B).
• Enable support logging (Figure B).
• Choose the schema editor to be used when editing a schema (Figure C).
• Set a default URL for save-to and open-from functions (Figure C).
• Specify how your XSLT transformations should be delivered to your browser. The HTTP localhost server option delivers the generated document to the browser from memory, while the Preview directory option first outputs the document to a file (stored in the XML Instance preview folder) which is in turn called by the browser.   The preview directory option is required for Mac users, but can also be used by those wishing to save a copy of the HTML file generated in XML to HTML transformations.  Note:  Files saved to the preview folder will never be erased by XML Instance.

        Figure A: View Preferences

Figure B- General Preferences

Figure C - Path Preferences

Figure D - XSLT Preview