Preferences
Screen Setup
These are recommendations only, your preferred working screen may be very different.
Toolbars
Toolbars is on the View area of the top toolbar, and opens to allow selection (by ticking) of these five options:
Status Bar is the bottom left
display which shows like this for (data) ...
... or like this when creating a data
field - where length follows the mouse ...
... and this for (form),
for the current object, also showing mouse location.
Ticking the other choices (Document in the example) opens the Document
window, which we will place as below:
This shows dragging and dropping the Document window to the
Project display (left of screen).
Document is added, showing these choices 
at the bottom of the of the window.
The other Toolbars are included in the choices as they are opened.
Alignment Tools
Alignment tools are exceptionally useful as icons for direct
selection. The icons are used to align and to stretch lines and
rectangles (and other shapes) to other items on the page. From the
top left icon, press Mouse Right and select as shown.
Select Tools, and individually select and move all of the
arrow-head icons. The order shown is ideal.
Preferences
Preferences is the right-most tab on the top menu line of
FTForm Plus and presents the options shown in the second line menu.
Measurement Units
The measurement pull-down offers a selection of measurement units,
the selection here reflects in the pre-set "nudge" increments (see Nudge).
Folders
This 
opens the Folders window.
| Projects | Holds projects (including XML and Form definitions), as "ProjectName.ftxml" files |
| Pictures | Holds picture files, .jpg, .gif, .bmp and .png files, (.png recommended), at least 300 dpi resolution at the correct size is highly recommended for fast non-scaled output. Pictures are commonly held with Substitutions (see later). |
| .jpg are handled but produce inferior quality images when
scaled from "typical" web format of 72 dpi. |
|
| Output | Files produced by Build ("ProjectName.ftzip"). These are loaded by FormTrap Spooler. |
| Data file | This is the file formatted by the form definition, either a text file or an input XML file. |
| Substitutions | This holds the Lookup Table (lookup.xml) (and obsolete FTDesign substitution files). For QDE, also holds "Select from List" choices as text files. |
| This folder also holds files added to output via Print and Email delivery using the Delivery Tag names PrintDoc and EmailDoc, as well as HTML fragments and files for HTML output. |
Options
This 
opens the Options window.
Always suggest target version when saving the file is
redundant unless saving files created pre-version 11 when ticking
this will produce a version question when saving files.
Fast loading ..., is standard.
If (and only if) input is in different language than your computer
is set for, untick Fast loading ...
See HERE
for foreign language forms.
From FTForm Plus Version 8.13, Options expands to include user-set highlights and transparency controls, per the diagram below:
PostScript Bins
PostScript bins are provided by the printer driver, hence the
correct printer driver must be selected to provide the bin
selections for this form or set of forms on this printer or
printers.
Postscript Bins 
has symbols for the input and output bins, each
opening this window:
PCL Bins
PCL bins are selected using fixed values, hence these can be
recorded by referencing the printer manual for the printers in your
network.
PCL Bins 
has symbols for the input and output bins, each opening this window:
Add and edit bin selections, PCL6 Bin Selections are normally the set below, however please check your printer manual. Names may vary, for example, Lower Cassette may be called "Tray 2" by some manufacturers.
Input Bins
| Auto Select | 1 |
| Manual Feed | 2 |
| Multi-Purpose Tray | 3 |
| Upper Cassette | 4 |
| Lower Cassette | 5 |
| Envelope Tray | 6 |
| Third Cassette | 7 |
| External Tray 1 | 8 (External Tray 2 is value 9 and so on). |
Output Bins
| Face Down | 1 |
| Face Up | 2 |
| Job Offset | 3 |
| External Bin 1 | 5 (External Bin 2 is value 6 and so on). |