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

    Bart Terryn
    • Idea Delivered Partially
    • 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...

  • Extend XPP REST / XPP Web Services to include ADVP node name in response header

    Thomas Mangan
    • Idea Delivered
    • 0 Comments
    Hello, Could the http response header include the ADVP node name? The case for this is that it would be helpful to know which XPP node serviced a request. Thanks for considering this. - Thomas

  • Support for multi-server licensing

    Thomas Mangan
    • Not Planned
    • 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...

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

    Paul Montgomery
    • Idea Delivered
    • 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...

  • Further customization of PC Override table rules - a request

    Thomas Mangan
    • Under Review
    • 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...

  • Set free our numeric keypad! - take 2

    Bart Terryn
    • Under Review
    • 4 Comments
    First of all: No I am not asking to change the current behavior . I am just asking to add the following selectable feature to the system: please add to the xyview.ini and sdedit.ini a setting that will re-enable the normal numeric keypad functionality...

  • Named text registers

    Bart Terryn
    • Not Considering
    • 1 Comment
    We currently have name number registers which is making things a lot easier for the style developer. It would be great to have also named text registers. I know I have been asking this before but that request was bundled with the request to be able...

  • Ability to set "page labels" with "Direct to PDF"

    Shahnawaz Haider
    • Idea Delivered
    • 4 Comments
    Currently, there is no ability to set the "page labels" with "Direct to PDF".

  • Add better support for the CSS color property

    Bart Terryn
    • Under Review
    • 0 Comments
    In XPP you can use the color property to define the foreground color of the text. You can do something like this: para { color: red; } or you can do something like: para { color: -xppc(19); } The named colors are limited to the 9 main colors that XPP...

  • Direct PDF debugging

    Bart Terryn
    • Not Planned
    • 0 Comments
    Direct PDF (using PDFLib) is playing a more and more important role in XPP. Some new features are only available through the use of Direct PDF. Direct PDF is the preferred future output method for XPP. It is great but not very friendly when you are confronted...