The Preferences dialog
The Preferences dialog can be reached by choosing Settings DVI Options in the Settings menu.
The dialog consists of two tabs, Fonts and Rendering.

Fonts Options
The following picture shows the options dialog of .
The Fonts dialog
The Fonts dialog
Metafont mode 	 These options specify the fonts which will use for rendering. By carefully optimizing the settings here it is possible to improve on the display. However, unless you are an expert in MetaFont and know what you are doing, it is not a good idea to change these options. You may want to look at the Frequently asked questions section of this manual.
Safe values are 1200 dpi / Lexmark for good quality, or 600 dpi / LaserJet 4 for medium quality and faster display.
Generate missing fonts 	 Check this if you want to call the MetaFont program in the likely case that wants to display documents which use fonts which are not yet readily made. You most certainly want to set this option.

Rendering Options
The following picture shows the second options dialog of .
The Rendering dialog
The Rendering dialog
Show PostScript specials 	 If this options is checked, will display graphics which are embedded into the file. You probably want to set this option.
If an external file could not be found, will draw a red warning box in its place. Unfortunately, rendering graphics is very slow in the current version of . We will improve on the speed in later versions. If this option is off, will either draw a grey box as a placeholder for the graphics, or it will leave the space blank.
There is no standard way to embed graphics into a file. It may therefore happen that cannot properly display a graphic which works fine with other programs. Older versions of xdvi and dvips support the execution of external commands. This is a bad security risk and therefore deliberately not implemented in . Technical information about supported ways to include can be found in the document KDVI-features.dvi.
Show Hyperlinks 	 Check this if you want to display hyperlinks. The appropriate parts of the text will be underlined in blue. You probably want to set this option.
Editor for inverse search 	 If you intend to use inverse search, a very useful feature if you write TeX documents yourself, you have to specify which editor you are going to use, and how this editor can be started by . In the example shown, the user has opted for the NEdit editor. If you use one of the pre-configured editors from the Editor combobox, then you don't have to do anything else. If you whish to use a different editor, chose User defined Editor from the Editor combobox and enter the command line which will be used to start your editor. Use the placeholders %f and %l which will be replaced with the name of the TeX file, and the line of the TeX file, respectively.
If you use an editor which is not supported, please send us an email at kebekus@kde.org and tell us about the command line you use and how you have configured your editor.