# Document Properties

A document's properties specify how to create the document. Some of the most common properties include the source of the content, the destination for the converted document, and image conversion options.

## Property Categories

The document properties include the following categories of information:

- Source: A document is created from content contained in one or more source files and the files to which they link.
- Destination: The converted document may be automatically queued for the next HotSync® or it may be written as a file on your hard drive for later use such as for posting to a web site.
- Links: Hyperlinked documents require you to specify how you want hyperlinks handled, for example, to what depth to follow hyperlinks.
- Images: Images are often integral to a document's presentation, but they can also occupy a large amount of space, and so you may want to place limits on the size of images.
- Tables: Tables, originally designed for presenting tabular data, are often used to layout the content of a page. If the layout was designed for a screen size other than the one you use, you may want to exclude some levels of table formatting to improve the presentation.
- Color: Combinations of background and foreground colors may sometimes make content hard to read on certain screens, so you may want to ignore either or both types of color.
- Margins: Sometimes authors of content add margins to pages to give them a printed look, but on a small screen, the margins may create too much white space, leaving little space for content, so you may want to ignore left and right margins.
- Security: Depending on the document, you may want to impose restrictions on the document such as not allowing copying or beaming of the document.
- Text: When the source consists of one or more text files, you can control how the text is processed.
- Document: Miscellaneous options for the document.
- Access: For web sites requiring authentication, you can provide a user name and password.
- Bookmarks: You can specify settings for adding predefined bookmarks to a document.
- Messages: You can specify textual messages for aspects of the document that are not part of the document content itself.
- Cookies: You can selectively enable sending and receiving of cookies.
- Scheduling: You can assign schedules for conversion.
- Targets: To enable a document to be the target of a link from another document, also known as external document linking, you need to set one or more options for conversion of the target document.

iSiloX allows you to specify these properties individually for each document as well as to specify a set of default properties to give to new documents you add to your document list.

## Modifying a Document's Properties

To modify a document's properties, you access its Properties sheet dialog, which is a dialog with tabbed sheets, one for each property category. To access a document's properties, do one of the following:

- Hold down the control key, click the document's entry in the document list, and then click Properties on the shortcut menu.
- Select the document's entry in the document list and then click Properties... on the Document menu.