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  • System and frill variable to determine whether in header row or body

    Mark Hutchinson
    • Under Community Review on
    • 2 Comments
    >>> Copied from a reply in a different (but related idea). A system(%)/frill(!) variable that identifies whether the current row is in a header row or not (and therefore implies in a body row). This is not the same as the current variable that indicates...

  • Ability to use font sizes above 186 points.

    Thomas Mangan
    • Under Community Review on
    • 1 Comment
    Certain documents that are delivered to shareholders by publicly traded companies continue to integrate more and more styled content. While content that used large type sizes was often static, designs are now incorporating content that needs to be edited...

  • Method for adjusting the background opacity for dotted dashed tabular rules

    Thomas Mangan
    • Under Community Review on
    • 0 Comments
    I'm making request to control the background opacity of the dotted and dashed tabular rules in order to handle client styles that use these rule types with shaded cells (fmcolor, fpat, fcell). The attached image shows the current functionality when...

  • XPP Pathfinder - travel tree using right hand window

    Bart Terryn
    • Under Community Review on
    • 2 Comments
    In the XPP Pathfinder you can use the right hand window to travel through your job tree. You can rearrange things based on date, name but once you found what you are looking for, you can not drill down. You can only do that in the left hand window (where...

  • CSS: make all PDF tagging features (bookmarks, annotation,...) available through XyPerl

    Bart Terryn
    • Accepted, Not Yet Planned on
    • 0 Comments
    With PDF Direct we have a very nice and easy way of adding bookmarks and annotations to our PDF using the -xpp-pdf-.... properties. The attr() function adds some flexibility to those. But sometimes that is not enough. Sometimes you just that extra thing...

  • CSS Paged Media: return to PS sequence previously in use

    Bart Terryn
    • Under Community Review on
    • 3 Comments
    A bit difficult to explain this one, so stay with me... In CSS and using the Paged Media way of setting up PS/PL spec, the way to call in PS sequence is by using the 'page' property. So something like: page: standard; will call in the PS sequence called...

  • Addition of a CLS job ticket

    Thomas Mangan
    • Under Community Review on
    • 0 Comments
    A need for a job ticket at the CLS level has come up. Would the following be an enhancement that SDL would consider? Store a job ticket at the CLS level. When creating a new job in a given CLS - use the CLS level job ticket only if a GRP job ticket...

  • need for new CALS Inter-Tgroup Rule setting

    Bart Terryn
    • Under Community Review on
    • 0 Comments
    When you are using multiple Tgroup tables in order to create tables in which the number of columns (or the widths of the columns) change in the middle, you would like to the row rule and row gutter to be consistent when going from tgroup 1 to tgroup with...

  • Switch for the listgr utility to generate XML output

    Thomas Mangan
    • Under Community Review on
    • 0 Comments
    Hello, I would like to request an enhancement (switch) to the listgr utility that would allow the utility to generate structured output. Parsing the ascii report that this generates can be done, it would be much more efficient if the utility had the...

  • Direct PDF - add GhostScript post processing step

    Bart Terryn
    • Idea Delivered Partially on
    • 7 Comments
    The new Direct PDF option is great. It allows you to create UA pdfs, create bookmarks in a much simpler way, bypasses the sometimes gigantic PS files and it is quick. However is does have a downside as well. You have no control over the created PDF. You...