To display this dialog box, on the PRO tab, select Options and then click System Settings.
Use the System Settings Preferences dialog box to control the default settings for MapInfo Pro.
Units
Paper & Layout Units
Specifies the units when you measure the size of objects in a layout and the size of paper in the Print dialog boxes. Choose a unit of measurement from the drop-down list.
Distance Units
Specifies the default distance units you want to use for all subsequently created maps. Options include: US Survey feet, yards, rods, chains, miles, nautical miles, millimeters, centimeters, meters, and kilometers.
Area Units
Specifies the default area units you want to use for all subsequently created maps. Options include: square inches, square links, square feet, square yards, square rods, perches, square chains, roods, acres, square miles, square nautical miles, square millimeters, square centimeters, square meters, hectares, and square kilometers.
Undo
Number of Undo Objects
Enter the number of objects (0 to 800) that can be undone. For example, if you specify the number 50, and then you perform a single editing operation that affects more than 50 objects, you will not be able to Undo the operation. The number of undo objects can also affect the performance of MapInfo Pro.
The default is 10 objects. You can set it from 0 to 800. Setting the number of objects to 0 deactivates the system. After you use the Undo option, the system toggles to Redo.
You cannot use the Undo capability for the following operations: Revert, Save, Save As, or Modify Table, or any operations whose effects are primarily cosmetic.
Memory Size for Undo
Indicates the memory size in bytes for Undo operations. Maximum is 10,000,000 bytes. The default is 1,000,000 bytes; increasing this entry may result in slower response time.
For Undo to be available in the Clipboard group, the selected object(s) must be smaller in size than this setting.
Color Defaults
Available with the 32-bit release of MapInfo Pro.
Show Guides when Docking Windows
Available with the 32-bit release of MapInfo Pro.
Encode and Enable
Encode Workspaces and Tab Files
Select to use characters from any language, so MapInfo Pro can open tables, files, or workspaces with Unicode characters in the file name or path name regardless of the locale of MapInfo Pro or which localized version of MapInfo Pro you are running.
Disable this option to share MapInfo tables with version of MapInfo Pro that are older than version 15.2, to share data with applications that do not support the UTF-8 character set, or when you use data from only one language. Workspaces and tables are written with the current system character setting (charset).
When enabled, this option writes workspaces using the UTF-8 charset. New Tab files or Tab files being re-written, such as save copy as, pack table, update friendly name, or update metadata, use the UTF-8 encoding. The !charset in the .tab file remains the same – it represents the data in the table and not the charset of the .tab file itself. MapInfo Pro writes a UTF-8 Byte Order Mark (BOM) at the beginning of the file, so that other applications recognize the encoding.
When Encode Workspaces and Tab Files is enabled and you are opening an Excel or Access file for import into MapInfo native TAB format, the resulting tables (TAB files) are in UTF-8 format. When opening an instance of an Excel, ASCII, CSV, or Lotus 1-2-3 data type and Create Copy in MapInfo Format is checked on the Open Table dialog, the resulting table is in MapInfo Extended format with a default character set (charset) preference set to NativeX (MapInfo Extended). When reading from or writing to a .QRY file, the file opens using the UTF-8 character set.
Enable True Color Cursors
Check to display 32-bit per pixel cursors. This is the default setting, which displays visually optimal cursors.
Clear to display 1-bit per pixel cursors, which display in black and white. You would do this when working in a Citrix XenApp environment, so that there is no delay rendering cursors.
Date Window for 2-Digit Years
MapInfo Pro includes a date window that converts two-digit input into four digit years. It also allows you to change the default to one that best suits your data. The default is to have date windowing turned off. This section was created to handle Year2000 concerns about two-digit year entries. Here you can specify the century used or the pivot year below which to use the previous century.
Turn date windowing off (use current century)
Use the current century; if you choose this option the Set date window to option is disabled.
Set date window to
You need to use this setting if your data uses dates in the 1900s. Enter a number from 0-99. The number you enter displays in the statements below the prompt that indicate whether the date will display with the prefix 19 or 20.
For example if you enter the number 50, the statements will indicate that:
Years entered as 00-49 become 2000-2049.
Years entered as 50-99 become 1950-1999.
Copy to Clipboard
Copy to Clipboard controls what information is transferred to other applications through the clipboard. By default, when an object is cut or copied to the clipboard, both the text and the graphics are copied. You can specify any combination of text or graphics that you want copied to the clipboard.
Copy Text to clipboard
Check to specify that you only want text copied to the clipboard. Clear to specify that you do not want text copied to the clipboard.
Copy Bitmap to clipboard
Check to specify that you only want Bitmaps copied to the clipboard. Clear to specify that you do not want bitmaps copied to the clipboard.
Copy Windows Metafile (WMF) to clipboard
Check to specify that you only want metafiles copied to the clipboard. Clear to specify that you do not want metafiles copied to the clipboard.
Copy MapInfo Map Object to Clipboard
Available with the 32-bit release of MapInfo Pro.
Copy Enhanced Metafile (EMF) to Clipboard
Check to copy a map to the clipboard and then past it in to a Microsoft Office document, such as Word, Excel or PowerPoint. Then select from the types of metafiles to copy to the clipboard.
For Enhanced Windows:
Copy EMF to Clipboard
Choose this if you expect to bring your maps into an application that supports only EMF, such as Microsoft's Office 2003.
Copy EMF+ to Clipboard
Choose this if you expect to bring your maps into an application that supports EMF+, such as Microsoft Office 2007.
Copy EMF+ Dual to Clipboard
Choose (a combination of EMF and EMF+) if your maps may be used in applications that may or may not support EMF+, such as Microsoft's Office 2003 and Office 2007.
Windows Settings
Window Export and Clipboard Resolution
Use this setting for controlling the resolution of a window when exporting to metafile and raster formats and when copying to the Clipboard. The default is 96 dpi, which is the screen resolution.
Display Pre-Version 4 Symbols Using TrueType Font
Select this check box to indicate how you want to draw symbols from early versions of MapInfo Pro (before 4.0). Check this to draw vector symbols with characters from the MapInfo Symbols font. Clear this check box to draw vector symbols (default).
Display Vertical Mapper GRD files as
Available with the 32-bit release of MapInfo Pro.
Touch Screen Settings
Use this setting to enable or disable the multi-touch functionality on your touch screen device. The multi-touch is enabled by default, clear Enable Multi-touch check box to disable it.
New Tables
Format
Select the file format to use as the default when creating new tables via the Create New Table Dialog Box or the Save Copy of Table as Dialog Box. The two choices are MapInfo (*.tab) and MapInfo Extended (*.tab). MapInfo (*.tab) is the initial default.
When working with files that have more than 2GB of data, select MapInfo Extended (*.tab), which is the enhanced version of the native MapInfo TAB file format. The extended format expands record and field lengths along with the number of fields per table, so that you can work with more data without using seamless tables.
Charset
This only applies to MapInfo Extended (*.tab) files. Select the default character set, such as UTF-8 or UTF-16, to apply when creating a new table via the Create New Table Dialog Box, the Save Copy of Table as Dialog Box, or the Save Objects to Table Dialog Box (Save Cosmetic Objects Dialog Box). The UTF-16 character set is the default.
Navigation Buttons
OK
Click OK to save the current settings.
Cancel
Click Cancel to revert to previously saved settings and close this dialog box.