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  <title translate="true">General options</title>
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    <a-keyword>Window Interface Program Options General</a-keyword>
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      <para styleclass="Heading1"><text styleclass="Heading1" translate="true">General options</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Heading3"><text styleclass="Heading3" translate="true">Multithreading</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Normal"><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">You can specify the amount of threads Apophysis uses during rendering both - previews and final images - here. You may set this field to the amount of cores your processor has or to &quot;off&quot; if you have a single-core processor. If other applications run very slow or lock up, decrease the value of this field.</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Heading3"><text styleclass="Heading3" translate="true">JPEG Quality</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Normal"><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">The JPEG quality in percent used for the output images. It is recommended to leave this at 100.</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Heading3"><text styleclass="Heading3" translate="true">PNG Transparency</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Normal"><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">Enables or disables the transparency for PNG-formatted output images.</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Heading3"><text styleclass="Heading3" translate="true">Play sound</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Normal"><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">You can specify a sound file to play when a rendering job has been completed here.</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Heading3"><text styleclass="Heading3" translate="true">Extended render statistics</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Normal"><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">If enabled, detailed render statistics will be shown at the &quot;output&quot;-tab in the rendering window after a render job completed.</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Heading3"><text styleclass="Heading3" translate="true">Confirm delete</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Normal"><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">Shows a confirmation dialog when you delete a flame from a batch if enabled.</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Heading3"><text styleclass="Heading3" translate="true">Confirm exit</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Normal"><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">Shows a confirmation dialog when you close Apophysis without saving your last changes to a flame if enabled.</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Heading3"><text styleclass="Heading3" translate="true">Confirm stop render</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Normal"><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">Shows a confirmation dialog when you cancel the rendering job if enabled.</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Heading3"><text styleclass="Heading3" translate="true">Save gradients in old format</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Normal"><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">Saves gradients in a format which was used by previous versions of Apophysis. (prior to 2.05) This option is there for compatibility reasons.</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Heading3"><text styleclass="Heading3" translate="true">Always create blank flame</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Normal"><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">Disables the template window and always creates a blank flame when clicking the &quot;New&quot; button in the main window menu or the toolbar if enabled.</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Heading3"><text styleclass="Heading3" translate="true">Internal buffer depth</text></para>
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          <para styleclass="Normal"><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">This sets the buffer depth for all previews. (main preview and mini previews)</text></para>
          <para styleclass="Normal"><text styleclass="Normal" translate="true">You may only want to change it from 32bit if you know what you do.</text></para>
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    <para styleclass="Image Caption"><text styleclass="Image Caption" translate="true">See also: </text><link displaytype="text" defaultstyle="true" type="topiclink" href="General" styleclass="Image Caption" translate="true">General</link><text styleclass="Image Caption" translate="true"> - </text><link displaytype="text" defaultstyle="true" type="topiclink" href="Editor2" styleclass="Image Caption" translate="true">Editor</link><text styleclass="Image Caption" translate="true"> - </text><link displaytype="text" defaultstyle="true" type="topiclink" href="Display" styleclass="Image Caption" translate="true">Display</link><text styleclass="Image Caption" translate="true"> - </text><link displaytype="text" defaultstyle="true" type="topiclink" href="Random" styleclass="Image Caption" translate="true">Random</link><text styleclass="Image Caption" translate="true"> - </text><link displaytype="text" defaultstyle="true" type="topiclink" href="Variations2" styleclass="Image Caption" translate="true">Variations</link><text styleclass="Image Caption" translate="true"> - </text><link displaytype="text" defaultstyle="true" type="topiclink" href="Gradient" styleclass="Image Caption" translate="true">Gradient</link><text styleclass="Image Caption" translate="true"> - </text><link displaytype="text" defaultstyle="true" type="topiclink" href="UPR" styleclass="Image Caption" translate="true">UPR</link><text styleclass="Image Caption" translate="true"> - </text><link displaytype="text" defaultstyle="true" type="topiclink" href="Paths" styleclass="Image Caption" translate="true">Paths</link><text styleclass="Image Caption" translate="true"> - </text><link displaytype="text" defaultstyle="true" type="topiclink" href="Autosave" styleclass="Image Caption" translate="true">Autosave</link></para>
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