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  • New CSS page media helper file (at_xxxx.map) needs to be visible within the pathfinder.

    Bart Terryn
    • Idea Delivered
    • 0 Comments
    When you use the CSS paged media feature to create the PL and PS specs, you do not only need the usual PL and PS files but also the at_xxxx.css and the at_xxxxx.map files in order for things to work correctly. Pathfinder currently does not give you any...

  • update xpp command update_JT

    John Hoffman
    • Not Planned
    • 6 Comments
    The command use to update the job ticket update_JT is useful for many purposes, but as of xpp 9.3.1 it does not update the field in the job ticket sessions saved . Our site has thousands of archived documents that it republishes weekly, and most of...

  • define default values for new style file fields

    Bart Terryn
    • Under Review
    • 1 Comment
    When there is a new fields added to a style file, the XPP automatic style upgrade process will set this field to a value so the system keeps behaving like it did before. For SDL engineering and some customers this makes sense. As they do not want the...

  • Pathfinder: recent files - add right click = scroll to job/library

    Bart Terryn
    • Under Review
    • 3 Comments
    In the pathfinder interface you have under the 'File' a list of the last 9 divisions or specs that you have opened. If you just click on one of these entries the system will just open that division or spec...great. But the left hand window does not get...

  • CSS page sequences and layouts

    Chris Leggett
    • Idea Delivered
    • 4 Comments
    Currently when layouts and sequences are defined in the CSS the @import (at_sdl.css); is required. One down side of this is the that whenever the CSS is altered, even if its nothing to do with the layouts, the ps and pl files are rewritten because there...

  • Direct PDF: add option to create pdf with bookmark and links only

    Bart Terryn
    • Idea Delivered
    • 4 Comments
    In the PDF/UA effort CSS properties for creating bookmarks and links. This makes creating bookmarks and links a lot easier than through the old pdfmarks. Unfortunately you can only create a pdf with those bookmarks and links active when using the -pdfua...

  • XML needs a better way to enter the equivalent of a [SHIFT][RETURN]

    Bart Terryn
    • Idea Delivered
    • 0 Comments
    XPP users know that there is a way to split a title in 2 lines and still have that same text come out in 1 line when it is called out in a folio. You can do so by entering a [SHIFT][RETURN] and setting the appropriate quad mode. But do you know how...

  • Access Named number registers from xyPerl

    Bart Terryn
    • Idea Delivered
    • 6 Comments
    The value of number registers can be read directly from xyPerl using the $X->get_reg(#NUMBER) function. But for named number registers there is no equivalent function. It would be nice if there would be a $X->get_named_reg(NAME, LEVEL) function (or...

  • Modifying the XSLT by clicking from the XPP Editor window similar to “Mod This Rule” in accessing various specs

    Denise Reid
    • Under Review
    • 1 Comment
    “Mod This Rule” is a menu option that will navigate to the particular style under the respective specification. When we want to update the formatting of the particular paragraph style in a single click (without using multiple navigations), we have to...

  • Update xychange default message

    Clifton Parsons
    • Idea Delivered
    • 2 Comments
    I dea Details: Whenever xychange uses default trans tables found in Lsysib (because it is unable to locate job ticket specified tables in the local JOB or the master xychange library), I'd like to see the message reported for logging to be changed so...