Most recent edit on 2008-05-06 16:13:12 by BradEllis

Additions:

Always Show Rulers

If you want all the pages to have rulers on them, instead of having to turn them on one at a time, type this into terminal:
defaults write com.flyingmeat.VoodooPad_Pro alwaysShowRuler 1
defaults write com.flyingmeat.VoodooPad VPPrintMarginHack -string "{{0.25, 0.25}, {0.25, 0.25}}"

Deletions:
defaults write com.flyingmeat.VoodooPad VPPrintMarginHack -string "Unknown action; the action name must not contain special characters."

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Oldest known version of this page was edited on 2007-09-13 22:47:02 by GusMueller []

Hidden Preferences in VoodooPad

Sometimes preferences will be built into VoodooPad without an interface to set them. Usually these are turned on and off via the command line, invoked from within one of Terminal.app's windows. Here are a few of them:

(If you are using VoodooPad Pro instead of VoodooPad, substitute com.flyingmeat.VoodooPad_Pro for com.flyingmeat.VoodooPad below.)

Print Margins

If you want to set the margins to 1/4 inch all around, open up the terminal and type this:
defaults write com.flyingmeat.VoodooPad VPPrintMarginHack -string "Unknown action; the action name must not contain special characters."

The values are for left, right, top, bottom
To remove the margin, type:
defaults delete com.flyingmeat.VoodooPad VPPrintMarginHack

Setting an external editor that is not BBEdit (VP 2.1+ only)

To use SubEthaEdit type this in the terminal:
defaults write com.flyingmeat.VoodooPad odbeditor de.codingmonkeys.SubEthaEdit

To use TextMate type:
defaults write com.flyingmeat.VoodooPad odbeditor com.macromates.textmate

Single click to open a page from the drawer (2.1.2+ only)

Quit VoodooPad, and type this in the terminal:
defaults write com.flyingmeat.VoodooPad singleClickBacklinksToOpen -bool YES

Then relaunch and you should be good to go.

Keep VoodooPad from opening a new document on launch (2.5+ only)

In some cases, for example when you quit VoodooPad without an open document, VP will try to create a blank document on relaunch. Use this hidden pref to change the behavior.

Quit VoodooPad, and type this in Terminal.app:

defaults write com.flyingmeat.VoodooPad noNewDocumentOnStartup -bool YES

Show the old "Export As HTML…" menu option (2.5+ only)

VoodooPad 2.5 has a new "Web Export" engine, replacing the older HTML export options. However, if still want to use the older export options, you can bring them back with the following command:

defaults write com.flyingmeat.VoodooPad showTwoOhHTMLExportMenu -bool YES

Requiring a prefix for AddressBook links. (VoodooPad 3.1+ only)

If you don't like that the AddressBook links names automagically, you can make it so it only links up when a prefix is given, such as "ab:". For example, say I would like to link to the AddressBook entry "Gus Mueller", but I wanted to have to type "ab:Gus Mueller" for the link to show up, this is what I would enter in the terminal:

defaults write com.flyingmeat.VoodooPad ABPrefix "ab:"