Options
Comic Life's Options (View > Options...) let you specify some preferences that you might like in Comic Life — giving you greater control and customization over the application. These include, the ability to set:
- Default Page Format — set that preferred page size of your comic projects
- Custom Size (in points) — use this if the page size you need isn't included in the drop-down menu
- Orientation — choose from either Landscape or Portrait page orientation for new comics
- Default Stylesheet — choose from one of the built-in Stylesheets or one of your own (if you have created any) for new comics
- 'Built-in: plasq-intl' is the pre-defined Stylesheet for new Comics, which uses the 'Lint McCree Intl BB' font — this font has the ability to display accents.
- 'Built-in: plasq' uses the 'DigitalStrip' font as its default — this font cannot display accents, but resembles the more traditional comic book font.
- 'Default' is the basic Stylesheet that does not have any extra Styles apart from the standard default vanilla styles. You can use this if you want to create all your own styles
- Clip new non-image elements to panels — normally, non-image elements overlap edges of panels. By checking this, you can make all non-image elements clip to stay inside the panels by default, which is the more 'traditional' approach
- WYSIWYG image filtering — when this option is turned on it preserves what you see when you apply the effects with Comic Life - in other words, it is What You See Is What You Get when you export your comic. It keeps your filtered images at a 72 dpi regardless of your export settings that you have applied. This is why at the larger dpi export settings your normal photos will look fine, but the photos with filters will look pixelated. Remove the tick if you do not want the pixelation. Please note: removing the tick will cause the filter to look less pronounced
- Play sounds while editing — want to make comics but need to be quiet? You can turn of the infectious sounds by checking this option
- Check for newer version at launch — you can also choose whether Comic Life checks for new versions when it is launched