• Is there any workaround or method to overcome or increase the 64k character limit when 'printing' back to XPP?

    I'm using Perl to gather data from composed pages and append to a file. At the </root> tag, I'm calling a Perl routine that reads, deduplicates, sorts etc the gathered data in the file, format PDF macros around the data, calculating the 'count' field…
  • Introducing Our Latest eLearning Course: XPP Tabular Essentials!

    Introducing Our Latest eLearning Course: XPP Tabular Essentials!

    Are you ready to master tables in XPP? We're thrilled to announce our latest eLearning course, XPP Tabular Essentials , designed to provide you with a solid foundation in understanding and working with tables in XML Professional Publisher (XPP). What…

  • XPP 2025 roadmap

    Did I miss the XPP 2025 roadmap presentation/blog? It was supposed to be presented in the September October timeframe. And can we still expect XPP 9.8 in November? Just wondering... Bart

  • Are XPP 9.8 and Contenta 5.13 in the plan for release in 2025?

    HI All, Looking for any news about upgrades for 2025 as our team in planning stages for our 2025 projects. Last I heard - Contenta 5.13 was loosely planned for February 2025 with the possibility of Oracle 23c support? Appreciate any info!…

  • Contenta XPP Publish to PDF with no Graphics

    Hello, After I tried publish to PDF using XPP in Contenta, it published a PDF but there are no graphic in it. I checked the log and everything seems fine. Also checked the graphics folder and the graphic is there, but in the PDF it showing no graphic…

  • XPP 9.6.3 Released!

    We are pleased to release this new Service Pack for XPP 9.6.3. Complete Product Announcement is attached here.
    • XPP_9.6.3_Release_Announcement-2024June7.pdf
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  • XPP SOAP Web Services - Retirement date set

    We are moving the legacy XPP SOAP based Web Services API into deprecated status. This SOAP implementation of Web Services will be retired on September 30, 2024. XPP RESTful Web Services was introduced in July 2020 as part of our XPP modernization strategy…
    • XPP Web Services - SOAP - End of Life announcement - 2024Feb23.pdf
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  • Introducing Our Latest eLearning Course: Mastering XPP Administration

    Introducing Our Latest eLearning Course: Mastering XPP Administration

    Are you prepared to delve into the world of XPP Administration? We're thrilled to unveil our newest eLearning course designed to equip you with comprehensive knowledge and skills in XPP Administration. This in-depth course, spanning 2 hours and 45 minutes…

  • How to find out when content flows from previous page to next page?

    Added more content in one page at top of the page, the content below from the page moved to the next page when do the composition as per page layout & styles. Here in next page we dnt have any change in existing content but some content flows from…

  • XPP alignment issue

    As per mention below i have two elements p1 & p2 <root> <p1>ABC ABCDEFGHIJKLM AOWER switch Ohigh</p1> <p2>AA</p2> </root> If p1 exceeds 15 pica width it should wrap to next line & content is left justified p2 content should but right justified…

  • Auto Compose and revision field in JT?

    XPP version 9.4.1 - using xml specs - Hi ... I have a looseleaf product that restarts at update1 each year which poses a problem when update number starts to repeat and using auto-compose there is no way to tell it to only compose the current year's update…

  • XPP 9.6.2, Navigation in window

    The "Arrow Button" at the top/bottom of the slider bar for large windows is no longer there. Is there a way to activate that in the config file? The slider, at times moves the window too much.

  • Draw Vertical line using frill which will grow with the content dynamically.

    Needs to add vertical line which will grow according to the content even in next page it will only come up to the content . Somehow i am able to add the line by using rum macro and frill processing but as i know frill processing will reflect same in…

  • How to add line according to block in frill processing

    I need to add vertical line which will grow according to the content even in next page it will only come up to the content . Somehow i am able to add the line by using rum macro and frill processing but as i know frill processing will reflect same in…

  • How to generate the bottom rule for a specific column which is coming in the last row of the table?

    I need to generate the bottom rule for a specific column (for example, only for 2nd column) which is the last row of the table. I tried " <?xpp hrule;1 ?> " and other macros but unable to generate it. As this is the last row of the table, so none of…

  • NEW! eLearning – XPP Fundamentals

    The training team is pleased to introduce you to a brand new XPP Fundamentals course in eLearning format. This 3.5 hours eLearning course provides users with an overview of the operational aspects of XPP and is foundational learning for any new XPP user…

  • H&J rules and url's

    I am a bit confused on what is supported by XPP and what not. You have a text with long url's in it and you don't want the url's to be hyphenated in the normal way but only at the forward slashes. You set up a h&j table - lets say nr 2 - that handles…

  • XPP CSS Style Development e-learning updated and available now for latest XPP versions!

    This e-learning course has been updated to include information on the management and use of the XPP Page Sequence and Page Layout specs that were added in XPP 9.4. Further, a new module has been added for creating boxes with CSS. Your developers can leverage…

  • compose -tj mode?

    I was looking into the compose switches today using xyhelp when I noticed the -tj option and the -j options which I assume go with it. From the description I gather that doing a compose -tj will only result in doing VJ on a block by block base (could…

  • Named Number Registers: PART 2 - CSS counter

    This is part 2 of our series of articles on Named Number Registers. In this article we talk about the CSS counters We will also have a look at lists and the use of CSS counters in ordered lists. We will use lists as an example to demonstrate how multi…

  • Named Number Registers: PART 1 - Of streams, compose and registers

    XPP registers The implementation of the CSS counters in XPP is build on top of number registers. In this first part of this series of articles, we will give an overview of the different registers that are available in XPP and how compose interacts with…

  • PostScript points or pica points: afterthought

    Just a little afterthought... When you want you XPP page sizes to match exactly when viewed in Acrobat, you can always enter things in inches. To take the same example of 51 picas x 66 picas, just divide by 6 and enter things as 8.5 inch x 11 inch and…

  • PostScript points or pica points

    PostScript points or pica points You have probably seen this yourself. XPP pica points do not correspond to Adobe (or Acrobat) pica points. Lets take a very simple XPP job with a page size of 51 picas x 66 picas. But when you create a PDF and you…

  • Monthly XPP knowledge article

    Since we did not had a conference last year, I am missing our yearly opportunity talking about XPP. (you can not imagine how much I have learned about XPP preparing/researching the many talks I have given over the years) So I came up with the idea of…

  • generating nested bookmarks

    I'm adding macros (in Classic, v9.4) to generate bookmarks, with a Document Assembly Ticket and PDF bookmark tags. The bookmarks are generated, but the nesting is not working as described in the spec. The first screen shot shows the tag in the "parent…
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