PREFERENCES...
, This window lets you select your preferences for program appearance and functions. Chose one of four tabbed categories: Appearance, Sounds Fonts, File Handling, and Operations.
The default font for most text output is 'Myriad Pro', but this is not found in all OS X systems. If you select Myriad Pro and it isn't present, the program searches for similar common fonts (Tahoma, Lucida Grande, Arial) and defaults to Geneva if none of these are available. You can select Geneva as the main text output font, plus other options for large text sizes.
The embossed text option gives large window labels a '3-D' appearance; the aqua them adds a blue tone, as in early OS X versions. Neither affects program function.
To avoid having to re-set your preferences at every launch, click the ‘Save Current Preferences’ button to store your current settings (including screen colors, current values of FiO2, FiCO2, and RQ, etc.) in a file called ‘LAprefs’. When launched, LabAnalyst looks for this file and reads the preferred settings from it.
Caution: You’ll get unexpected results if you use an ‘LAprefs’ file made with a Power-PC Mac on an Intel Mac, or vice versa. This is because numeric data – such as in the preferences file -- are stored in two formats: ‘big-Endian’ and ‘little-Endian’. Endian-ness is a property of the CPU. Power-PC processors are big-Endian; Intel processors are little-Endian. If you record your preferences on a PPC Mac and then read them on an Intel Mac (or vice versa), you'll get unpredictable results, manifested most obviously as weird screen colors.