Object tree

There are many special objects. You can specify which of them to display and which not. And whether crucial objects should be locked to changes. In menu click Tools->Options and select Editor tab. In order to take effect reload the object tree.

Object tree

Editor options

In menu click Tools->Options and select Object tree tab. In order to take effect reload the object tree.

Object tree

Object tree display options

Many pdf objects are compulsory or must contain required entries or have specified values. Incompetent manipulation with these objects can result in invalid pdf files or non predictable output. Therefore a mode is assigned to every property which indicates the importance of the property. There are

  • Unknown - mode not known

  • Normal - normal property, editing should not harm

  • Hidden - not crucial property, editing should not harm

  • Read only - not property, manual editing does not make sense

  • Advanced - crucial property, incompetent editing can make harm

When mouse cursor is over a property the property mode is displayed as text in the status bar. Hidden, read only and advanced tincture property colour to blue, gray and red. It depends on the theme used.

Property mode

Visualization of object mode

These settings are stored in mode.conf file which can be easily modified to match user own pdf skills.

Adding and deleting objects in the object tree is possible. There are two keyboard shortcuts for this, Insert of adding, Delete for deleting