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Extending/Enhancing XPP frills processing

Bart Terryn
- Accepted, Not Yet Planned on 3 Apr 2024
- 6 Comments
Frills processing has been a long time with us and it has been a very useful 'extension' to XPP. However there are a lot of limitations in the current implementations. If only we would have: Allow for multiple fg macros on the same line each triggering...
- 13 Nov 2019 7:42 PM
Conditional display root handles in Pathfinder

Thomas Mangan
- Under Community Review on 31 Mar 2021
- 2 Comments
Hello, I would like the ability to selectively / conditionally display certain root handles in Pathfinder. My particular use case is that I have a number of items in development that should not be visible to users in production until they're moved...
- 18 Feb 2021 7:02 PM
Need system variables for underline

Bart Terryn
- Under Community Review on 18 Apr 2023
- 4 Comments
Recently I found to my big surprise that there are no system variables to know the underline status. As you can have up to 10 underlines running at the same time, I propose the following: %ul: 1 if any underline style is active, 0 if none %ul1:...
- 7 Apr 2023 8:49 AM
Allow UTF-8 characters in docinfo fields in the PDF Support spec

Thomas Chan
- Accepted, Not Yet Planned on 3 Apr 2024
- 0 Comments
I'd like the option of entering UTF-8 characters in the Title, Subject, and other fields in the PDF Support spec. While I can type in a title such as "Café Français", the accented letters don't come out properly when the PDF is created. Thanks for considering...
- 11 Aug 2023 8:19 PM
In Tabular t4 table, left‐flush and right‐hang character alignment setting are limited to 4 characters, it is needed to be extended to handle more characters.

Simon Tung
- Planned for Future Release on 26 Mar 2025
- 3 Comments
- 8 Dec 2017 8:23 AM
Add new field to Job Ticket so we can stop composition from eating spaces

Bart Terryn
- Under Community Review on 19 Oct 2022
- 0 Comments
Maybe you have fallen in the same very dangerous trap as I did recently. You have a div that is using xyPerl and some functions output text. All is fine. But all your last edit in the xyPerl file introduces a syntax error (easy enough to do) and you do...
- 14 Sep 2022 10:01 AM
Add support for defining color using newer models in the XPP colorspec

Thomas Mangan
- Under Community Review on 2 Jun 2022
- 7 Comments
Historically, defining a spot color in XPP was a two step process of going to Pantone.com and looking up out the CMYK definition for a specific color in their Coated or Uncoated color books; and taking those CMYK values and plugging them into the...
- 3 May 2022 4:43 PM
Access Named Number Registers (counters) from a frill block

Bart Terryn
- Idea Delivered Partially on 21 Jan 2021
- 4 Comments
In order to make named number registers as useful as normal number registers we need the possibility to read out the content of a named number registers from the frills (or other) stream. We would need both a macro (equivalent of the mr macro) and a xyPerl...
- 9 Aug 2019 3:58 PM
Further customization of PC Override table rules - a request

Thomas Mangan
- Under Community Review on 31 Mar 2021
- 4 Comments
The new (to me) functionality in the pc override spec allows me to define a custom width for the first column width. This is extremely useful for the type of work Toppan does, however as is always the case, two styles have come up in the last 2 weeks...
- 25 Mar 2021 3:25 PM
Support for multi-server licensing

Thomas Mangan
- Accepted, Not Yet Planned on 14 Apr 2024
- 1 Comment
As part of a project to streamline the creation of both production and development resources, I would like to be able to automate the creation of XPP servers. Part of this would include validating the installation, which would include having the server...
- 19 Jan 2023 5:05 PM