View Properties

The schema pml-viewProperties.xsd defines the properties on all of the views found in the implementation.

MS’s implementation currently supports the following views:

Additionally, the default view, Normal View, is a composite view that pulls from three multiple view property sets.

In general, there is a significant amount of commonality among views. For example, each view contains four common components:

Scale	The zoom scale for the view
Origin	The origin of the view
Variable Scaling	A special zoom scale that configures the application to fit the content of the view into whatever view size is provided
Draft Mode	Controls whether or not a view is in draft mode which is a mode designed to provide the fastest editing/redraw possible by dropping properties like font face, certain colors, pictures, etc.

For those views based on a slide (e.g., slide master view) there are additional common components:

Guide List	Represents the list of drawing guides for this view
Guide Properties	Represents guide properties like direction and position of each guide in the view
Guide Settings	Determines if guides should be shown for this view
Snap Settings	Determines if shapes should be snapped to the grid and/or snapped to other shapes for this view