Preferences

— Customize PageEdit —

The Preferences dialog gives you control over many settings in PageEdit.

Select the menu item File→Preferences to open the Preferences dialog:

You can change the following settings (see below for details):

Appearance
General Settings

Once the Preferences window is open, you can choose the area you want to modify by clicking on the entry on the left. Selecting OK or closing the window will save the current settings.

Appearance

Appearance settings do not affect how your HTML file is displayed to the user!

You can modify the fonts and colors that PageEdit uses to display your XHTML file while editing:

The settings that can be changed include:

Preview: You can independently set the font family/size for serif fonts and sans-serif fonts.
Insert Special Characters: You can set the font family/size of characters in the Special Characters dialog.

The default fonts are Arial and Times New Roman. If these are not available on your system, the preferences will default to the first available font.

Icon Size: This slider changes the size of the icons in the main menu.

General Settings

The settings that can be changed include:

User Interface Language: Select the PageEdit user interface language.
Spellcheck Dictionary: Select the default spellcheck dictionary.
Control Access by HMTL files to non-multimedia remote resources: Enable this option to allow XHTML files to access non-multimedia remote resources.
Control use of JavaScript by HMTL files: Enable this option to allow XHTML files to run JavaScript.
Handle multiple whitespace layout using: Select the desired whitespace handling option.
Use prettify to reformat xhtml when saving: Enable this option to reformat XHTML files when saving.

If you change the user interface language, you must restart PageEdit in order for the new user interface language to take effect.

(If a translation is not available for specific words then they will be shown in English.)

Spellcheck Dictionary

PageEdit includes several standard dictionaries: US English, British English, French, German and Spanish. You can select one using the Spellcheck Dictionary drop-down menu.

You can download additional .bdic dictionaries from the Chromium Hunspell website and install them by copying them to the qtwebengine_dictionaries folder.

For example, if you want to install an Italian dictionary, download it-IT-3-0.bdic and copy it to the qtwebengine_dictionaries folder.

Advanced users can also convert their Hunspell dictionaries with qwebengine_convert_dict.

Open Preferences Location

The Open Preferences Location button on all the Preferences screens can be used to open the directory containing all of your preference files. You can copy the files for backup or for sharing with others.

The preferences location will likely be in the following locations:

Windows:

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\sigil-ebook\pageedit

MAC:

~/Library/Application\ Support/sigil-ebook/pageedit

Linux:

$HOME/.local/share/sigil-ebook/pageedit

And the files you are likely to see will include:

pageedit.ini: General configuration information for Sigil.

If you delete pageedit.ini, PageEdit will reset all preferences.

Change the Font Size Of GUI Controls

Since PageEdit is a Qt app, you can customize the font size of some GUI controls with a qt_styles.qss style sheet file in the PageEdit preferences folder. (qt_styles.qss needs to contain valid Qt style sheet declarations.)

For example, the following styles will increase the font size of the fields in the Find toolbar:

QLabel { font-size: 16pt }
QLineEdit { font-size: 16pt }
QComboBox { font-size: 16pt }