Reply To: Error in Document Type Declaration in the document

[Derek Read]

Actually, you can add options to the following file and they should override (cumulatively) settings inside the copy installed next to XMetaL60.exe:

%appdata%SoftQuadXMetaL6.0xmetal60.ini

Having said that, I suspect your issue is that you have removed the following setting that tells XMetaL you are running as a user with less than full permission to write files anywhere you like (the default behavior of Windows XP):

user_setting_mode=per_user

This is set by default and will be required on almost any version of Windows 7 (where people are usually “limited users”). If you log in as a local admin and turn UAC off you can get away without having it installed. With this setting enabled XMetaL writes any files it would otherwise write to a read only location (such as C:Program Files) into the following “per user” location instead (which is what you want): %appdata%SoftQuadXMetaL6.0gen

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