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  • Extending/Enhancing XPP frills processing

    Bart Terryn
    • Under Community Review on
    • 3 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...

  • Pathfinder: Job and Div delete need confirmation before deletion

    Bart Terryn
    • Idea Delivered on
    • 5 Comments
    In pathfinder you can delete a division and even a whole job (including all divisions) with a single right mouse click + delete. This gets executed immediately. No questions asked. There should be an additional confirmation that asks you that this...

  • Method for accessing characters in an OTF font not bound to a Unicode value

    Thomas Mangan
    • Planned for Future Release on
    • 3 Comments
    XPP is able to access any glyph in an OTF font that is bound to a Unicode value. However important character sets that may be included in a font such as Old Style Figures, Small caps or (tabular/lining/proportional) figures that do not have a corresponding...

  • Allow UTF-8 characters in docinfo fields in the PDF Support spec

    Thomas Chan
    • New on
    • 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...

  • Need system variables for underline

    Bart Terryn
    • Under Community Review on
    • 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:...

  • Access Named Number Registers (counters) from a frill block

    Bart Terryn
    • Idea Delivered Partially on
    • 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...

  • Add support for defining color using newer models in the XPP colorspec

    Thomas Mangan
    • Under Community Review on
    • 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...

  • Add new field to Job Ticket so we can stop composition from eating spaces

    Bart Terryn
    • Under Community Review on
    • 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...

  • Conditional display root handles in Pathfinder

    Thomas Mangan
    • Under Community Review on
    • 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...

  • XPP Documentation - requesting a single zip of all latest manuals

    Paul Montgomery
    • Idea Delivered on
    • 1 Comment
    It seems that XPP documentation is only available as individual PDFs that can be downloaded one by one OR as a single zip file containing all the PDFs. However that single zip archive contains only the PDF documents that were available " on the...