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

Bart Terryn

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…
- over 2 years ago
- Contenta Portfolio Ideas
- XPP Ideas
Extend directPDF to allow us to create PDF forms

Bart Terryn

I have a major XPP site that needs to create PDF forms. I would be great if in XPP we could define things like checkboxes, text fields, dropdown boxes, etc.., so that we can automate the production of these forms. I guess that this would only become…
- over 3 years ago
- Contenta Portfolio Ideas
- XPP Ideas
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
- Contenta Portfolio Ideas
- XPP Ideas
Extending/Enhancing XPP frills processing

Bart Terryn

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…
- over 5 years ago
- Contenta Portfolio Ideas
- XPP Ideas
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
- Contenta Portfolio Ideas
- XPP Ideas
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
- Contenta Portfolio Ideas
- XPP Ideas

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

Extend directPDF to allow us to create PDF forms

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

Extending/Enhancing XPP frills processing

Access Named number registers from xyPerl

xyPerl: need a better way to check the current context