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  • Support for multi-server licensing

    Thomas Mangan
    • Accepted, Not Yet Planned on
    • 1 Comment
    As part of a project to streamline the creation of both production and development resources, I would like to be able to automate the creation of XPP servers. Part of this would include validating the installation, which would include having the server...

  • Direct PDF debugging

    Bart Terryn
    • Accepted, Not Yet Planned on
    • 0 Comments
    Direct PDF (using PDFLib) is playing a more and more important role in XPP. Some new features are only available through the use of Direct PDF. Direct PDF is the preferred future output method for XPP. It is great but not very friendly when you are confronted...

  • Add better support for the CSS color property

    Bart Terryn
    • Under Community Review on
    • 0 Comments
    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...

  • Enable access to ALL system and frill variables

    Mark Hutchinson
    • Idea Delivered Partially on
    • 15 Comments
    While there are pages and pages of system and frills variables, there are still many missing. When viewing the Status Window, there are many attributes and dimension values that are not accessible via the % or ! variables. E.g. !tbcypos - tabular...

  • Set free our numeric keypad! - take 2

    Bart Terryn
    • Under Community Review on
    • 4 Comments
    First of all: No I am not asking to change the current behavior . I am just asking to add the following selectable feature to the system: please add to the xyview.ini and sdedit.ini a setting that will re-enable the normal numeric keypad functionality...

  • field 'xymacro spec' in job ticket should be named 'Main macro spec'

    Bart Terryn
    • Under Community Review on
    • 0 Comments
    I was training an XPP newbie this week and while explaining how and where the system tracks down a macro, it suddenly occurred to me that the ' xymacro spec ' field in the job ticket has a confusing name. In the pathfinder interface the mx macro spec...

  • 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...

  • PathFinder: Bookmark your favourite locations for super-quick access

    Paul Montgomery
    • Under Community Review on
    • 0 Comments
    The aim of this idea is to try and minimise the amount of scrolling that you have to do through a deep PathFinder structure. My proposed solution is to enhance the PathFinder interface so as to allow the user to Bookmark locations. The idea is that...

  • Direct to PDF: to meet final output requirement we need to be able to select what type of PDF will be created (PDF/A, PDF/X,...)

    Bart Terryn
    • Under Community Review on
    • 3 Comments
    When we need to create a PDF for final output, many of us need to target a very specific PDF output format (like PDF/X or PDF/A) in order to adhere to standards imposed by the receiving party (like a web or offset printer or website). In order to make...

  • 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...