The Preferences

Mail Factory has settings which are applied by default every time you run the application. Changing them by using Preferences dialog you can control progam's behaviour. To open the Preferences dialog, choose Mail Factory/Preferences menu or press Cmd+","

This dialog controls application-wide settings.

The General tab:

Open on Start-Up - here you can specify what to do when the program is launched - open the Assistant, create a blank Label, Envelope or Postcard document.
Snap - enables or disables the Snap mode - the mode, when objects are aligned to other objects when you carry them with the mouse. You can also temporarily disable the Snap mode if you press and hold the Cmd key when you move the objects.
Font - sets default font for new texts.

The Address Panel tab:

Default address format - allows you to choose the default formatting for Address Panels which will be applied when the program can't set the address format automatically.
Capitalize address panel automatically - transforms the address to all caps. The default setting is off.
Make address format country-sensitive - if this option is enabled, Mail Factory will automatically format the address according to the postal standards of the country in the address. If the country is not specified, the address will be formatted according to the Default Country setting.
Set street field in a line - enables converting multi-line addresses to a single line.

The Printing tab:

Print document as raster image - send the document to the printer as a raster image, rather than vector. Enable this option if you have problems with printing your document - it makes printing slower, but more accurate.
Suppress Country Field - enable this option if your correspondence is mostly within your own country, and you don't need the country in the address.
Hide Separating Commas - hides commas within address panels (if they were). The default setting is off.
Address AutoResize - automatically reduces the address panel's size if it is out of the label's or envelope's edges.

The Address Importing tab:

The default location of the data source applications. Mail Factory uses Apple Script for data conversion. Setting the exact path to the application helps to choose the correct application if there are several of them or they are incorrectly registered in the system.