2018.2
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PrintShop Mail Connect 2018.2
- Setup And Configuration
- System and Hardware Considerations
- Installation and Activation
- Where to obtain the installers
- Installation - important information
- Installation - How to guides
- Activation
- Installation Prerequisites
- User accounts and security
- Installing PrintShop Mail Connect on Machines without Internet Access
- Installation Wizard
- Running Connect installer in Silent Mode
- Activating a License
- Migrating to a new workstation
- Preferences
- Connect: a peek under the hood
- Known Issues
- Job Creation Presets: External Sorting
- Business Graphics: Backward Compatibility Issues
- Known Font issues
- Minor differences in PCL, AFPDS and IPDS output introduced in 2018.1
- Windows Server 2016 issue
- Limit of 100MB of image files within a single job
- Print Output: Booklet Impositioning changes introduced in 2018.1
- Installation Paths with Multi-Byte Characters
- Switching Languages
- GoDaddy Certificates
- MySQL Compatibility
- Available Printer Models
- Color Model in Style Sheets
- Image Preview in Designer
- VIPP Output
- Magic Number changes when installing Docker
- Uninstalling
- Connect: a peek under the hood
- Connect File Types
- The Designer
- Australia Post 4 State Settings
- Codabar Settings
- Code 128 Settings
- Code 39 Settings
- Datamatrix Settings
- EAN-128 Settings
- EAN-13 Settings
- EAN-8 Settings
- Interleaved 2 of 5 Settings
- KIX Code (Dutch Post) Settings
- PDF417 Settings
- QR Code Settings
- Royal Mail 4 State Settings
- Royal Mail 2D Settings
- UPC-A Settings
- UPC-E Settings
- US Postal Service IMB Settings
- US Postal Service IMPB Settings
- Designer Script API
- Standard Script API
- Examples
- Examples
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- Examples
- Creating a table of contents
- Example
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Replace elements with a snippet
- Replace elements with a set of snippets
- Example
- Example
- Creating a Date object from a string
- Control Script API
- Examples
- Post Pagination Script API
- Designer Script API
- Generating output
- Print Manager
- Print Manager Introduction Video
- Print Manager usage
- Print Manager Interface
- Overview
- Connect 2018.2 Enhancements
- Connect 2018.2 Designer Updates
- JSON support added to the Data Model Panel
- Minimum Pages option added to Print Sections
- Color Output option added to Print Contexts
- Breadcrumb Improvements
- Paste as Plain Text option added
- Scripting Improvements
- Post Pagination Improvements
- Barcode Improvements
- Business Graphics Improvements
- General Designer Improvements
- Connect 2018.2 Output updates
- Print Wizard and Preset Wizard Improvements
- Connect 2018.2 Print Manager updates
- Known Issues
- Overview
- Connect 2018.2.1 Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.2 Enhancements
- Connect 2018.2 Designer Updates
- JSON support added to the Data Model Panel
- Minimum Pages option added to Print Sections
- Color Output option added to Print Contexts
- Breadcrumb Improvements
- Paste as Plain Text option added
- Scripting Improvements
- Post Pagination Improvements
- Barcode Improvements
- Business Graphics Improvements
- General Designer Improvements
- Connect 2018.2 Output updates
- Print Wizard and Preset Wizard Improvements
- Connect 2018.2 Print Manager updates
- Known Issues
- Previous Releases
- Overview
- Connect 2018.1.6 Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.1.5 Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.1.4 Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.1.3 Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.1.2 Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.1.1 Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.1 General Enhancements
- Connect 2018.1 Designer Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.1 Output Enhancements/Fixes
- Connect 2018.1 Print Manager Enhancements/Fixes
- Known Issues
- Overview
- Connect 1.8 General Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.8 Performance Related Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.8 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.8 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.8 Print Manager Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Overview
- Connect 1.7.1 General Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.7.1 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.7.1 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Overview
- Connect 1.6.1 General Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.6.1 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.6.1 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Overview
- Connect 1.5 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.5 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.5 General Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Overview
- Connect 1.4.2 Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.4.1 New Features and Enhancements
- Connect 1.4.1 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.4.1 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
The MediaBox contains the Master Page objects and section backgrounds. This means that
these classes can only be used to format a Master Page and section background. They do not
let you change the formatting of elements residing in the main text flow (e.g. a <h1> element on
page 3).
Conditionally formatting Master Page objects
The following CSS rule sets the color of <h1> elements on a Master Page when that Master
Page is present on the front of a sheet.
.frontside h1 {
color: green;
}
The next style rule is a bit more specific: it colors <h1> elements on a Master Page when that
Master Page is applied to the front of a sheet in Section 1:
[section='Section 1'] .frontside h1 {
color: green;
}
The following rule hides <h1> elements on the back of a sheet on which no content (from the
main text) is allowed.
.backside.nocontentpage .h1 {
display: none;
}
Print section background selector
When you inspect a Print section in a browser, you will see that it has a <div id="pages">
element as the first child of the <body> element. Inside this <div> there are one or more
MediaBoxes: elements with the class page_mediabox. Each MediaBox contains the Media,
section background and Master Page that apply to one page (see "Media" on page139,
"Master Pages" on page136 and "Using a PDF file as background image" on page123).
In the MediaBox, a Print section background is an <img> element with the ol_pdf_datamapper_
input class. Its src attribute references the PDF file that contains the image and its page
attribute is used to select a specific page in that PDF (as a PDF can contain more than one
page). For example:
<img src="file:/C:/Users/MyUser/Pictures/mixed.pdf?page=1" class="ol_pdf_datamapper_
input">.
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