4. The Screen Setup of PhotoLine

4.8 The Attributes Dialog

The Attributes Dialog is used to get a quick overview of the settings and attributes of the active document, the active page and the active layer respectively.

Most properties can be edited by double-clicking or by clicking the Edit-button and can be deleted by clicking the paper basket. But not all are editable or deletable. Some can only be edited and so can only be deleted.

The document tab shows always the following properties:

Beside that a document often contains print options (see chapter 5.8).

Layers offer many more settings. There are always the following properties:

Often layers contain additional attributes. Most common are:

"Draw Isolated" gives the expected result.
Additionally isolated groups allow the creation of adjustment layers, that affect only the content of their group.
Aside from that advantages there are disadvantages, too. Drawing isolating groups is significantly slower. Furthermore no file format - with the exception of the native PhotoLine-format PLD - can save isolated groups. Therefore they will be converted to images on export.
  • Print
  • Turning off this switch the layer is still displayed onscreen but no longer printed. If a layer is made invisible by using the Layer-dialog, the layer won‘t be printed, even if Print is turned on.
  • Align Patterns
  • This switch has the same meaning as Align Patterns in Layer Properties (see chapter 7.5.48).
  • Antialiasing
  • Antialiasing defines whether layers will be antialiased/smoothed when displayed onscreen, when printed and when saved. Default means that layers will only be antialiased, if Antialias (see chapter 7.10.2) is turned on. Onscreen the layer will only be antialiased, if it doesn‘t cost too much time, on printing and saving always. Never means that the layer will never be antialiased even if Antialias is turned on. When using Always it will always be antialiased even if Antialias is turned off. and even if displaying onscreen is slow.