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Tutorial 1: Getting Ready to Work
T
O
C
HANGE THE
D
EFAULT
S
ETTINGS OF THE
O
ASIS MONTAJ
E
NVIRONMENT
1.
On the
GX
menu, select
Global Settings|General
. The
Default Oasis montaj
settings
dialog is displayed.
2.
Select the desired choices from the available selections. You need not change any
selections at this time. Once you are more familiar with Geosoft, you may come
back to alter the settings.
The following list summarizes the default
Oasis montaj
Viewer
settings:
Default grid colour table
Select the default colour table to use for displaying grids
Print memory
(megabytes)
Select the amount of RAM you would like the Geosoft print
driver to use when printing. This only effects print
configurations that use the Geosoft drivers. Enter 0 to use the
default, which is 33% of the total physical RAM available on
the system.
The Geosoft print driver will slice each print job into bands of
this size. The more RAM you use for printing, the faster
printing will be. If you specify too much RAM, it is possible
to significantly diminish the performance of other tasks on the
computer. This amount should normally not exceed 50% of
the installed RAM on your system, although we will allow the
value to be up to 75% of the available RAM.
This setting is not used by the Windows driver. If you use the
Windows print driver, the printing process will use virtual
memory up to the size required by the print. This can be up to
600 MB for A0 (E) size plots. We recommend that you use
the Geosoft drivers when working with large plotters.
