Setting Contribute Preferences - Adobe 65015459 - Contribute CS4 User Manual

Setting Contribute preferences

You use the Preferences dialog box to set your user preferences for Contribute. You can set preferences for blog
defaults, general editing, file editors, proxy settings, invisible elements, inserting Microsoft Office documents, PDF
documents, the servers to ping when a blog entry is posted, password security, and blog entry tags.
To edit user preferences:
Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Contribute > Preferences (Macintosh).
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The Preferences dialog box appears.
Select an option from the list on the left:
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• Select Blog Defaults to set options for the default blog in which a blog entry is created, to connect to, whether to
create a blog entry when you click the New button, and whether comments and trackbacks are allowed by default
for blog entries.
• Select Editing to set general editing options, such as how Contribute handles table editing, or to select a spelling
dictionary.
• Select File Editors to select primary application editors by file type.
• Select FTP Proxy to add or change settings for your FTP proxy server.
• Select Invisible Elements to hide or show invisible elements.
• (Windows only) Select Microsoft Office Documents to determine how Contribute handles Office documents
• Select PDF Documents to configure the way Contribute handles insertion of PDF documents in draft web pages
or blog entries.
• Select Ping Servers to add or remove the ping server URLs you want Contribute to notify when you post a new
blog entry using Contribute. You can also view a list of the most recent failed ping server log entries, up to a
specified number of entries.
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