Appearance

Select Tools > FME Options and click the Appearance icon.

Fonts

Canvas Font

Sets the default font to be used on the workspace canvas.

Log Font

Sets the default font to be used in the translation log.

Canvas

Current Theme

You can change the appearance of the Workbench canvas from the default theme to Deuteranopia, which is designed to assist persons with this form of color blindness.

Truncate Names On

Allows you to specify how object names are truncated: from the left, right, or center.

For example, if object names consist of frequently occurring prefixes, you may want to truncate the text from either the center or the left so you can see more descriptive text at a glance.

This option affects reader, writer, and transformer object names.

Workspace Search Options

By default, the Workspace Search appears as a link in the Navigator. When you click the link, the Workspace Search dialog appears:

You can change the way the Workspace Search appears in Workbench. Check Search bar embedded in Navigator window to change the link in the Navigator to an embedded search bar at the bottom of the Navigator window.

Detailed information on using Workspace Search

Sound Options

You can adjust FME sound events using the Windows Sound and Audio Devices Properties. You can set Workbench to make a distinctive sound whenever an object is copied, cut, pasted, connected, and deleted. It will also tell you when a translation is successful or has failed. You can also set two events in the FME Data Inspector: when a data load is complete, and when a redraw is performed (but only if the redraw is longer than 3 seconds).

Note that by default all the sounds are set to Off. Follow these steps to enable them:

• Click the Configure Sound Events button.
• Scroll through the Program Events until you find FME Workbench or FME View.
• Select the sound to associate with the applicable event.
• Click OK.

Rendering Options

Enable automatic scaling for High DPI Displays

This setting applies to systems that use high DPI displays (3840 × 2160 pixels or more). If checked, all FME graphical applications, including FME Workbench, FME Data Inspector, FME Quick Translator, and the FME Help viewer, scale the interface so that fonts and icons do not render too small.

WARNING: This setting may cause problems on displays with resolutions lower than 4K, such as 1980 X 1020, and a scale factor set to higher than 100%.

Use system OpenGL for Web View

Check to use the OpenGL Graphics Library (OpenGL) for web-based views in FME. Doing so may solve display problems in viewers such as the FME Workbench Start page, FME Help viewer, or FME Hub viewer.

Note: To use this setting, your system must support OpenGL version 2.1 or later.

Restore Defaults

Click the Restore Defaults button at the bottom of the dialog to revert this page to FME installation defaults. You will be prompted to confirm your selection.