Hidden Preferences in Acorn

Opening the secret "Advanced" preferences

Really, it's just a panel of things that are a little odd-ball. But to open it up, hold down the option key when choosing "Preferences…" from the Acorn menu.

With this you can change the full screen background color, the brush step percentage, the size of the layer rows, stop the warning about saving images with layers to a flat file, and you can turn off the thumbnail icon when saving a file (thus reducing the file size)

Adding a "Save a Copy" menu item

The Apple HIG discourages a "Save a Copy" menu item for some reason, so it isn't included by default in Acorn. But it is really useful for some folks, so here's how to turn it on using the defaults command line tool. Quit Acorn, and paste this in the terminal:

Then launch Acorn, and it should be there in the File menu now.

Hiding or showing the font face in the font popup

If opening up the font list is a little slow, you can disable the rendering of the font face preview in the list which will speed things up considerably. Quit Acorn, and then paste this in the terminal:

If you would like to enable the font faces in the popup, use this:

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