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

Bart Terryn

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…
- over 1 year ago
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Add better support for the CSS color property

Bart Terryn

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…
- over 2 years ago
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H&J table needs to restored at the end of a tag

Bart Terryn

Currently the XPP system restores the hyphenation language setting at the end of a tag, but not the h&j table. As the h&j table contains settings about min/max characters in the hyphenated word and these settings vary according to the language you are…
- over 4 years ago
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Status Window: Change display when using CSS

Chris Leggett

Something that had not occurred to me until someone (from SDL!) mentioned it. In the item format world we have font heights such as 10q and widths as 46p etc and these then display as such in the Status Window. However when using CSS-XML we need to enter…
- over 4 years ago
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CSS: make all PDF tagging features (bookmarks, annotation,...) available through XyPerl

Bart Terryn

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…
- over 5 years ago
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CSS Paged Media: return to PS sequence previously in use

Bart Terryn

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…
- over 5 years ago
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CSS page sequences and layouts

Chris Leggett

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…
- over 5 years ago
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Direct PDF: create bookmark to a named destination

Bart Terryn

Currently you can not create a bookmark that points to a named destination . In some publications though it is necessary to create a bookmark at a spot in document that is destination of the bookmark, but the bookmark needs to bring you to a totally different…
- over 6 years ago
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CSS: display property needs an -xpp-page-balance and -xpp-page-align value

Bart Terryn

In CSS you have currently only the -xpp-page value in the display property to end a page. But in a 2 column job, in most cases (if not in all cases) that will not give you the desired result as it will leave the columns on the current page unbalanced…
- over 6 years ago
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Access Named number registers from xyPerl

Bart Terryn

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…
- over 6 years ago
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xyPerl: need a better way to check the current context

Bart Terryn

In xyPerl you can easily check for the presence or get the value of an attribute from a specific ancestor using the rather elegant syntax provided (@name, ../@name, ../../@name, ancestor::element/@name, etc...) But checking if you are in a certain context…
- over 6 years ago
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