Display Preferences
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This panel allows you to select which fonts Wordz can use. Hit the 'refresh' button to list all the fonts on your system. To add a font, select it in the 'available fonts' list then press the 'add' button. To remove a font, select it's name in the 'fonts to use' list and press 'remove'. If you do not check the 'use selected font only' box, Wordz will pick a font at random from it's list.
Double-click on a colour to change it. Unless the 'Use selected colour only' box is checked, Wordz will pick colours at random from your text and background palettes.
Wordz can display pictures behind the text it generates as long as they are JPG, GIF or BMP files.
Use Pictures
If this is checked, Wordz will pick a random picture from the 'Pictures to use' list and display it behind text. If you have no other data such as word banks or sentences, Wordz will only show pictures, as long as you have some in the list.Use selected picture only
If this is checked, Wordz will use the selected picture from the 'Pictures to use' list and display it behind text.
Add
This shows you a file dialogue box which allows you to select a picture file to add to the pictures to use list.Remove
This removes the selected picture from the list of pictures to use
If you check the 'Use this picture only' box, Wordz will use only the selected picture.Words per minute
This value determines how quickly Wordz generates each page. Wordz counts the words in each page of output, then determines how long you need to read it based on your preferred speed.Words per page
Setting this value to 1 would produce a stream of single words one after another. Setting it to 500 would fill each screen with text, if the sentence Wordz was currently generating had that many possible words from it. If the sentence is longer than this value, it will produce multiple pages of this maximum value.Frames per second
When Wordz is performing graphical transitions such as fades, scrolls or crawls, it animates over a series of frames each second. Higher numbers produce smoother transitions, but require more processing power, so lower numbers can prevent transitions from becoming tediously slow on older machines.Cut On/Off
This sets the transition to 'Cut', meaning one screen of text will be immediately replaced by another once it has been displayed sufficiently long.Fade In/Out
This sets the transition to 'Fade', meaning that the text will appear dissolving out of the background then dissolving back into it.Horizontal Crawl
This sets the transition to 'Crawl', which causes the text to be displayed on a single line which moves from right to left across the screen. The height at which the line crosses is set by the Crawl Line value.Vertical Scroll
This sets the transition to 'Scroll', causing the words to scroll up the screen one page at a time, rather like movie end credits.Wait for keypress
This overrides reading speed so that you can control how often a page changes by pressing any key on the keyboard.Shadow Angle
click one of these to select the angle of the shadow on the text. Click the centre to disable shadows.Drop Shadow
If this is selected, the shadow looks like it is cast by a light source, otherwise it looks like a solid edge to the letters.Colour
Double-click to change the shadow colour.Depth
Enter the number of pixels of shadow depth.Text Alignment
This determines how the text will be justified within the output area of the full-screen or resizeable output windows. The output area is a rectangle centred in the window with an area determined by the maximum output rectangle value.Preserve image aspect ratio
Wordz will preserve the normal aspect ratio of background pictures if this box is checked. Otherwise the images will be stretched to fill the maximum output rectangle.Maximum output rectangle
You can get Wordz to use a particular sized area of the screen, a rectangle centred in either of the output windows into which the background picture will be stretched, by entering pixel values for height and width then checking the box.
