The scale to fit property will determine if an image is scaled down to fit onto the canvas when opened. If not selected, images that exceed the width and/or height of the canvas will not be fully visible.

The image resolution can be 72, 144 or 200 dpi (dots per inch). The default value is 72. Increasing this value will not increase the amount of pixel data saved. It only determines the density of the pixel output. For example, the 800 x 606 pixel canvas at 200 pixels per inch will produce 4 x 3 inch output. At 72 dpi, the same canvas would be approximately 11 x 8.5 inches. A 200 dpi setting would produce a sharper, smaller image.

The write scale property will determine how much image data (pixels) is written to a file. The default value (1X) will write data based on the 800 x 606 pixel Paintlet canvas. For 2X, 1600 x 1212 pixels are written when saving the entire canvas. At 3X, 2400 x 1818 pixels are saved to file (and print) output. One caveat, however. This increased data output is produced by scaling up the standard 800 x 606 pixel canvas. The quality of the image output at 2X and 3X may, or may not be acceptable for a particular purpose. Experiment.

The width and height of the canvas can be changed. Enter the desired values in the text fields, and hit enter. To reset back to the default 800 x 606 pixels, click the icon at the left.

The color theme can be changed from the default aqua green and coral. Select from the list of color themes supplied with Paintlet. Additional color themes can be downloaded from the website. Be sure the downloaded color theme file (name$theme.psl) is in the same directory (folder) as the Paintler.jar file.