elements may cause layouts to produce undesirable results especially when using Foundation templates. l l Enable for Print Context: Check to enable
resizing in the Print contexts.
l Output style: This setting determines the use of spaces and indentation in the compiled CSS file. For examples of the available output styles, see: https://sass-lang.com/documentation/file.SASS_REFERENCE.html#output_style. l Compact: Each CSS rule takes up only one line, with every property defined on that line. Nested rules are placed next to each other with no new line, while separate groups of rules have new lines between them. l Compressed: This output style minifies the output.
l Box Objects: This color highlights positioned boxes, inline boxes and Div elements; see "Boxes" on page 226. l Table: This color highlights tables, and the rows and columns in tables; see "Table" on page 244. l Resizable Table: This color highlights tables for which the option Allow resizing has been checked when adding the table; see "Table" on page 244. l Forms: This color highlights forms; see Forms.
Email preferences Email (General) preferences l Default From Group: l Name: Enter the name that is set by default in the "From name" field in the Send Email and Send Test Email dialogs ("Send (Test) Email" on page 486). l Email Address: Enter the email that is set by default in the "From Email" field in the Send Email and Send Test Email dialogs ("Send (Test) Email" on page 486).
l Send STARTTLS: Enabled if authentication is checked. With STARTTLS the client negotiates with the mail server to use some form of encryption, usually a version of Transport Layer Security (TLS). Since this improves security it is recommend to enable this option if you use port 25 (the default port), 2525, or 587. Note that the email will not be sent if the SMTP server does not support TLS or SSL (an older encryption type). This option is ignored when port 465 is used.
Common Emmet preferences l Expand abbreviations by Tab key: Check to enable the Expand Abbreviation function. l ... in files with extension: Enter a comma-separated list of all file extensions in which expand abbreviation will work. l Upgrade web editors: This Emmet option doesn't affect how Emmet works in Connect Designer. l Extensions Path: Choose a folder where to put json and js files to extend Emmet. This includes custom snippets, preferences and syntax profiles.
l To temporarily disable an abbreviation, uncheck the checkbox next to the name of the abbreviation in the list. Emmet Output preferences The Output Preferences dialog is used to control how the expanded (output) code behaves when expanding abbreviations and snippets. There are 6 different dialogs to control output and, while they all have identical options, they control different output types: CSS, HAML, HTML, XML, XSL and the "Default" one controlling the rest of the types.
In the example above, ${lang} is used to refer lang variable defined in variables below. If your primary language is, for example, Russian, you can simply override lang variable with ru value and keep the original snippets. Also, you can override variable values with inline abbreviation attributes: html:5[langg=ru]. l Name: The name of the variable. This should be a single alphanumeric string with no spaces or special characters. For example, the myVar name is referred to as ${myVar}.
Connect. Hardware devices can be added, modified or deleted from the table using the following buttons: l Add: Add a new hardware device to the list. This launches the Add PKCS#11 Module dialog. l Edit: Edit that information relating to an existing hardware device. This launches the Edit PKCS#11 Module dialog. l Delete: Remove an existing hardware device from the list. The Hardware for Digital Signing preferences also provides you with buttons to : l Restore Defaults.
Logging preferences PrintShop Mail Connect logs the activities it undertakes whilst running. New Connect logs are created daily and are held for a period before they are automatically deleted. The settings on this page determine the level of logging and how long the log files should be retained. These log files can be an essential resource when diagnosing issues with OL Support.
effectively allows a hard disk space usage limitation to be placed upon the logging process. l Maximum size for log file: This sets the maximum size a log file can reach before the logging system creates a new file. l Number of files to keep:This sets the maximum number of log files kept in the log folder. The default value is set to 50 for a new Connect installation and 99, 999 for an existing installation (to preserve backward compatibility).
Parallel Processing preferences See "Parallel Processing preferences" on page 79. Print preferences Available Printers preferences The Available Printers preferences control which printer definitions are available when generating print output or creating Output Presets. Any printer that is unchecked in this dialog will not be visible in the "Model" drop-down of the Print Options dialog; see "Print options" on page 630 and "Adding print output Models to the Print Wizard" on page 867.
Sample Projects preferences Sample Project deployment settings l Workflow Configurations l Encoding: By default, Sample Projects set the encoding of the Workflow configuration that they create to the encoding of the system on which the Designer runs (system default). If Workflow runs on another machine, and that system has a different active code page, Workflow may be unable to correctly interpret all the characters that are used in the configuration file (in path or file names, for example).
The Save preferences also provides you with buttons to : l Restore Defaults. This option restores the preferences to Defaults. This applies to the current Preferences page only, but not other Preferences. l Apply: This option applies the settings made within the current Preferences page, but does not close the Preferences dialog. Scripting preferences The Scripting preferences define different options related to scripting within PrintShop Mail Connect. See also: "Testing scripts" on page 376.
l Remote repository: OL Connect needs this information to access versioned projects in the cloud. l Username: The user name of an account with a Git repository hosting service like GitHub or BitBucket. l Password: The password (also called a personal access token or an app password) created for OL Connect by a Git repository hosting service. This password is to be used by OL Connect together with the user name to get access to remote repositories.
Number of engines This group is only available if Engines were selected as the processing architecture . l Merge Engines selection: Select the desired amount of Merge Engines. A Merge engine merges the template and the data to create Email output, or to create an intermediary file for Printed output. The intermediary file is in turn used by a Weaver engine to prepare the Print output.
A Merge engine merges the template and the data to create Email output, or to create an intermediary file for Printed output. The intermediary file is in turn used by a Weaver engine to prepare the Print output. Adding extra Weaver (Output) engine(s) might be useful when large Print jobs are to be run simultaneously with smaller Print jobs. However, too many running engines will waste precious RAM and CPU cycles to idle processes, whilst too few could create a bottleneck.
l Merge Engines (MB) selection: Select the desired amount of Merge Engine memory. For complex templates with a lot of pages per document, there is a chance that Merge engines will run better with more memory. l Weaver Engine (MB) selection: Select the desired amount of Weaver (Output) Engine memory. When running really large jobs, it often pays to increase Weaver memory allocation, even if only for the duration of the production job(s).
Buttons The Engines preferences also provides you with buttons to : l Restore Defaults. This option restores the preferences to Defaults. This applies to the current Preferences page only, but not other Preferences. l Apply: This option applies the settings made within the current Preferences page, but does not close the Preferences dialog. Parallel Processing preferences The parallel processing preferences (previously referred to as Scheduling preferences, prior to 2019.
Content Creation Tab The options are: l Total Merge engines configured read only display: This is a read only entry that shows the total number of Merge engines available. To change this value, you must update the Merge Engines in the "Engines preferences" on page 75 page. l Multi tasking group: When starting a new Content Creation task, the task will immediately commence if there is a Merge engine available. How many Merge engines to use is based on the number of records in the input data.
JDBC connection issue In OL Connect version 2022.2, the SQL Server driver has been updated to version 10.2.0.jre11. As opposed to preceding versions, this driver by default attempts to connect to a JDBC database with encryption enabled if the encrypt parameter is missing from the connection string. This might break existing JDBC connections, particularly those defined in scripts and in the Database Wizard's 'Advanced Mode'.
l page-break-after:always combined with page-break-before:avoid on the next sibling TR (or similar combinations) These issues will be addressed in a later PrintShop Mail Connect release. DataMapper: Automatic Date/Time does not work with certain negative UTC time zone offsets The new "Automatic" date parsing option in the DataMapper cannot parse dates with negative UTC time zone offsets of non-zero minutes. For example: 2021-03-01T10:00-03:00 will work, but 2021-03-01T10:00-03:30 will not.
Print Wizard Preview showing some Landscape mode jobs in Portrait mode Print jobs featuring an associated Connect "Output Creation Presets" on page 864 which have "Imposition options" on page 690 set to Landscape will not Preview in Landscape, but rather in Portrait mode. The printout is unaffected, however. Issues associating PDF files with Connect Under certain circumstances, Connect Setups prior to 2019.2 would fail when attempting to add the "Enhance with Connect" association with PDF files.
location are a known criteria. Minor differences in AFP and IPDS output introduced in 2019.1 Connect 2019.1 now defaults to "Scale to Fit" for both IPDS and AFP output. Please note that this may have an impact when printing pre-existing Connect jobs (made in Connect versions predating 2019.1) on older printer models that do not support "Scale to Fit". Issue with image placement in 2019.1 when using some customized AFP and IPDS Printer Definitions An issue with image placement in Connect 2019.
set @a=null,@c=null,@b=concat("show tables where",ifnull(concat(" `Tables_in_ ",database(),"` like '",@c,"' and"),'')," (@a:=concat_ws(',',@a,`Tables_in_ ",database(),"`))"); Prepare `bd` from @b; EXECUTE `bd`; DEALLOCATE PREPARE `bd`; set @a:=concat('optimize table ',@a); PREPARE `sql` FROM @a; EXECUTE `sql`; DEALLOCATE PREPARE `sql`; set @a=null,@b=null,@c=null; If using Microsoft SQL Server run the following command in a query window: sp_updatestats Windows 10 Search service impacting Connect The Window
All charts l Legend position: The position of the legend is not converted. It defaults to 'left' in a converted chart. l NOTE: Expanded custom chart scripts cannot be converted. Pie charts l Default colors: The default colors (used when no pie chart colors are specified) have changed. Known Font issues The following font(s) are known to have issues in PrintShop Mail Connect 2022.2: l Benton Sans CFF font Minor differences in PCL, AFP and IPDS output introduced in 2018.
Print Output: Booklet Impositioning changes introduced in 2018.1 When Booklet Impositioning is enabled, all pages within a document need to be changed to duplex prior to Impositioning . The method for duplexing jobs has been changed to now always combine existing pages into the front and backsides of sheets, rather than adding empty backsides to any simplex pages. The result is that now every document in the job becomes a booklet without any empty pages between the first page and the last page.
reason those users should activate Place all certificates in the following store and then select the Trusted Root Certification Authorities as the target certificate store. MySQL Compatibility The minimum supported MySQL version is MySQL 5.6. Available Printer Models Note that only the single Printer Model (Generic PDF) will appear on the Advanced page of the Print Wizard by default. To add additional printer models click on the settings button next to the Model selection entry box.
To uninstall PrintShop Mail Connect select the application from within the Add/Remove programs option under the Control Panel. This will start the PrintShop Mail Connect Setup Wizard in uninstall mode. Note: The PrintShop Mail Connect Setup Wizard might take some seconds to appear. Important: Stop any active Anti-Virus software before uninstalling Connect backend database.
General information Connect consists of visible and invisible parts. The invisible parts process the Connect job to provide the actual output. They are introduced to you in the topic: "Connect: a peek under the hood" below. For information about Connect logging, see "Log files" on the next page. For a list of all file types used in Connect, see: "Connect file types" on page 92.
Note: Email content items are not stored in the Connect database. A clean-up of the database is performed at regular intervals in accordance with the settings (see "Clean-up Service preferences" on page 347). The File Store Connect has its own File Store which it uses for transient files. The Clean-up service takes care of removing obsolete files when those files are not marked as permanent (see "Clean-up Service preferences" on page 347). The engines DataMapper engine.
l Merge engines write to the logs/Mergeengine folder l Weaver engines to the logs/Weaverengine folder Note that actions of the Cleanup service are only logged in the Server's log file. (See also: "Clean-up Service preferences" on page 347.) Tip: For more information about Connect's architecture, see: "Connect: a peek under the hood" on page 90. Name The name of a log file consists of the component's name, a time stamp and the Windows process ID.
that override the template's Media and Section settings. (See "Job Creation Presets" on page 863.) l .OL-outputpreset: An Output Creation Preset file is used to generate the actual print output in the appropriate format (pcl, pdf, etc). It includes print settings such as impositioning (N-up, cut & stack), inserter marks, tray settings, separation etc. (See "Output Creation Presets" on page 864.) l .
This is how you create a new local project: 1. Select Project > New from the menu at the top of the screen. The first time you create a project you may be prompted to enter in your name and email address. This information is required by Git, and your name is used to identify changes in the project history. Via the menu: Window > Preferences > Versioning, you can change this information at any time. 2. Each versioned project needs to be stored in its own folder.
tory. Once created or opened, a versioned project remains open until it is closed via the menu: Project > Close, or until (a file from) another project is opened. As long as a project is open, the software will open the project folder every time you want to open or save a file. Note: Versioned projects have a hidden .git folder. Do not remove this folder. It contains the version history and, in the case of an online versioned project, information about the remote repository.
1. With the project open in Designer, select Project > Versioning history from the menu bar. 2. The history displays in the Versioning History tab. You can select a version from the list to display more information about the changes made in that version. Restoring a version To restore a previous version, select the version, then select the Restore icon. The project is reset to the state it was in when that version was committed.
Using tags The Tag functionality allows any commit to be identified with a user-defined label. Think of it as setting a flag on your versioning history whenever you want to highlight that, at that specific stage, something is more remarkable than on other commits. For instance, you can mark the latest commit with a tag named Version_1, thereby indicating that this is the first version of the entire project that goes into production.
Note: Options to upload a local project to a new or existing online repository, and to branch (fork) and merge cloud-based versioned projects in OL Connect will be added in a later release. Before you start Before you can start working with versioned projects in the cloud, there are a couple of things you need to do. These steps are only needed once. Create an account OL Connect integrates with Git to maintain the history of a versioned project.
Here are the steps to create and clone a cloud-based versioned project: 1. Log on to your Git repository hosting service and create a new project that will host the files for a new project. In BitBucket, for example, it looks like this: 2. Make sure that the remote repository contains at least one file. If it is completely empty, add one file to it. This could be an empty readme.txt or .gitignore file. With BitBucket this isn't necessary; a new Bitbucket repository always has a .gitignore file.
The first time you create a project you may be prompted to enter in your name and email address. This is required by Git. Your name is used to identify changes in the project history. This setting is also accessible via the menu: Window > Preferences > Versioning. 5. Enter in the URL of the remote repository. 6. In the Destination field, enter the name of the folder where the local copy of the versioned project should be stored.
Publishing changes Publishing the local changes to your online repository is done via the Publish Commits… option in the Project menu. A confirmation dialog is displayed, stating that the changes have been published, or, if there are new changes in the remote repository, that you have to download the changed files first. Note: The .gitignore file in the project folder tells Git which subfolders and files should not be committed.
in sync. A full circle before the message means the local and remote versions of that commit are in sync. Half a circle on the left hand side of the axis indicates the commit was made locally but has yet to be published to the online repository. If someone were to make changes to the online version that the local version doesn’t have yet, then that half circle would be on the right hand side of the axis. See also: "Viewing project history" on page 95.
l Forum: Browse the forum and feel free to ask questions about the use of Connect software Designer basics With the Designer you can create templates for personalized letters and emails, and generate output from them. These are the basic steps for creating and developing a template: 1. Create a template Create a template, using one of the Template Wizards. See "Creating a template" on the facing page. 2. Fill the template Add text, images and other elements to the template and style them.
"Personalizing content" on page 297. Personalize your customer communications using variable data. "Writing your own scripts" on page 368. Scripting can take personalization much further. Learn how to script via this topic. "Generating output" on page 857. Learn the ins and outs of generating output from each of the contexts. Templates The Designer is a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) tool to create templates. This topic gets you started.
Then select the template file. A template file has the extension .OL-template. The most recently opened templates and data mapping configurations are listed on the Welcome screen and in the menu: File > Open Recent. To clear these lists, select Window > Clear Recent Files Lists. Caution: A template created in an older version of the software can be opened in a newer version. However, opening and saving it in a newer version of the software will convert the template to the newest file format.
Read-only templates A lock icon displayed next to the file name indicates that the file is read-only. Saving a read-only file opens the Save as dialog, allowing you to save the file under a different name. The new file is then opened and can be edited in the Designer. Auto Save After a template has been saved for the first time, Connect Designer can auto save the template with a regular interval. To configure Auto Save: 1. Select the menu option Window > Preferences > Save. 2.
that you may restore a template that was accidentally opened and saved in a newer version, or share a template with users of a previous version of Connect. Note that it may not always be possible to down-save a template. If a template uses a feature that did not exist in a certain older version, it won't be possible to down-save it to that older version. To down-save a template, select File > Save a Copy, from the menu. Select the software version and click OK.
To create a custom template report, you need two files: A template design with the desired layout and variable data. This .OL-template file has to be made in the Designer. A data mapping configuration provides the variable data. You could use the data mapping configuration made for the standard template report, or create another one in the DataMapper module, using the standard XML template report as data sample.The DataMapper is included only in PlanetPress Connect and PReS Connect.
When refering to them, normally you would simply use the path directly with the file name. The structure within those folders is maintained, so if you create a "signatures" folder within the "Images" folder, you need to use that structure, for example in HTML: 
. In scripts, you can refer to them in the same way, for example: results.loadhtml("snippets/en/navbar.
Web resources Web resources are simply accessed using a full URL. This URL needs to be publicly accessible: if you type in that URL in a browser on the server, it needs to be visible. Authentication is possible only through URL Parameters: (http://www.example.com/data.json?user=username&password=password) or through HTTP Basic Auth: (http://username:password@www.example.com/data.json). Contexts Contexts are parts of a template that are each used to generate a specific type of output: Email or Print.
of each type can be present in a template. Each context, however, can hold more than one section; see "Sections" below. Importing a context To import a context, click File > Import Resources... in the menu. See: "Import Resources dialog" on page 448. Deleting a context To delete a context, right-click the context on the Resources pane and click Delete.
Editing a section To open a section, expand the Contexts folder on the Resources pane, expand the respective context (Print or Email) and double-click a section to open it. Each section can contain text, images and many other elements (see "Content elements" on page 170), including variable data and other dynamic elements (see "Personalizing content" on page 297). To preview a section, open the Preview tab in the Workspace (see "Workspace" on page 531). Copying a section To copy a section: 1.
last saved state (click File > Revert, on the menu). After closing and reopening the template it is no longer possible to restore the deleted context this way. Renaming a section To rename a section: l On the Resources pane, expand the Contexts folder, expand the folder of the respective context, right-click the name of the section, and then click Rename. Section properties Which properties apply to a section, depends on the context it is part of.
Note: Style sheets are applied in the order in which they are included in a section. The styles in each following style sheet add up to the styles found in previously read style sheets. When style sheets have a conflicting rule for the same element, class or ID, the last style sheet ‘wins’ and overrides the rule found in the previous style sheet. Note: Style sheets that are linked to (i.e. included in) a section show a chain icon in the Resources pane (see "Resources pane" on page 521).
l PCL l PDF l PostScript (including the PPML, VIPP and VPS variants) With the Designer you can create one or more Print templates and merge the template with a data set to generate personal letters, invoices, policies, or any other type of letter you can think of. The Print context is the folder in the Designer that can contain one or more Print sections. Print templates (also called Print sections), are part of the Print context.
the first and the last page, or only on the last page. Examples are a different header on the first page, and a tear-off slip that should show up on the last page. This is what Master Pages are used for. Master Pages can only be used in the Print context. See "Master Pages" on page 141 for an explanation of how to fill them and how to apply them to different pages.
In the Welcome screen that appears after startup: l Choose Template Wizards and scroll down until you see the Basic Print templates or ERP templates and select one of them. l Or choose New Template and select Print, PDF-based Print, or Microsoft Word-based Print. Alternatively, on the menu select File > New, expand the Template folder, and then: l Select PDF-based Print or Microsoft Word-based Print. l Or expand the Basic Print templates or ERP templates folder, select a template type and click Next.
page in the Print section. See "Master Pages" on page 141. l Scripts and selectors for variable data. The Scripts pane shows, for example, a script called "first_name". This script replaces the text "@first_name@" on the front of the postcard by the value of a field called "first_name" when you open a data set that has a field with that name. See "Variable data in the text" on page 297. l A script called Dynamic Front Image Sample. This script shows how to toggle the image on the front page dynamically.
l A Print context with one section in it; see "Print context" on page 122 and "Print sections" on page 126. l One empty Master Page. Master Pages are used for headers and footers, for images and other elements that have to appear on more than one page, and for special elements like tear-offs. See "Master Pages" on page 141. l One Media. You can see this on the Resources pane: expand the Media folder. Media 1 is the Virtual Stationery that you have selected in the Wizard.
After clicking Next, you can change the settings for the page. The initial page size and bleed area are taken from the selected PDF. When you click Finish, the Wizard creates: l A Print context with one section in it; see "Print context" on page 122 and "Print sections" on page 126. The selected PDF is used as the background of the Print section; see "Using a PDF file or other image as background" on page 130. For each page in the PDF one page is created in the Print section. l One empty Master Page.
l The brackets from the mail merge fields are converted to the @ character. l The variable is wrapped with a span element. l A user script is created for each data field. l The mail merge fields are added to the Data Model of the OL Connect template. Select File > Add data > From File Data Source to import the corresponding data. ERP templates The ERP template wizard creates a business document.
l A Print context with one section in it; see "Print context" below and "Print sections" on page 126. l One Master Page. Master Pages are used for headers and footers, for images and other elements that have to appear on more than one page, and for special elements like tear-offs. See "Master Pages" on page 141. l One Media. You can see this on the Resources pane: expand the Media folder. Media 1 is the Virtual Stationery that you have selected in the Wizard.
l The Print context is created and one Print section is added to it. You can see this on the Resources pane: expand the Contexts folder, and then expand the Print folder. The Print context can contain multiple sections: a covering letter and a policy, for example, or one section that is meant to be attached to an email as a PDF file and another one that is going to be printed out on paper.
each record. The sections are added to the output in the order in which they appear on the Resources pane. This order can be changed; see "Print sections" on page 126. It is also possible to exclude sections from the output, or to include a section only on a certain condition that depends on a value in the data; see "Conditional Print sections" on page 322. This can also be done using a Control Script; see "Control Scripts" on page 398.
Setting the bleed The bleed is the printable space around a page. It can be used on some printers to ensure that no unprinted edges occur in the final trimmed document. The bleed is one of the settings for a section. See "Page settings: size, margins and bleed" on page 135. Overprint and black overprint Normally, when two colors overlap in Print output, the underlying color is not printed.
Print sections Print templates (also called Print sections), are part of the Print context. They are meant to be printed directly to a printer or a printer stream/spool file, or to a PDF file (see "Generating Print output" on page 858). The Print context can also be added to Email output as a PDF attachment; see "Generating Email output" on page 876. When generating output from the Print context, each of the Print sections is added to the output document, one after the other in sequence, for each record.
Note: When both Media and a Master Page are used on a certain page, they will both be displayed on the Preview tab of the workspace, the Master Page being 'in front' of the Media and the Print section on top. To open the Preview tab, click it at the bottom of the Workspace or select View > Preview View on the menu. See "Media" on page 144 for a further explanation about how to add Media and how to apply them to different pages.
Windows Explorer and select Enhance with Connect. Alternatively, start creating a new Print template with a Wizard, using the PDF-based Print template (see "Creating a Print template with a Wizard" on page 116). To use a PDF file as background image for an existing section, see "Using a PDF file or other image as background" on page 130. Via a Control Script, sections can be added to a Print context dynamically; see "Dynamically adding sections (cloning)" on page 406.
order in which they appear on the Resources pane, so changing the order of the sections in the Print context changes the order in which they are outputted to the final document. To rearrange sections in a context: l On the Resources pane, expand the Print context and drag and drop sections to change the order they are in. l Alternatively, on the Resources pane, right-click a section in the Print context and click Arrange.
Note: Style sheets that are linked to (i.e. included in) a section show a chain icon in the Resources pane (see "Resources pane" on page 521). Using a PDF file or other image as background In the Print context, a PDF file can be used as a section's background. It is different from the Media in that the section considers the PDF to be content, so the number of pages in the section will be the same as the number of pages taken from the PDF file.
parameter) or &filetype=pdf). The filetype, page and nopreview parameters are not sent to the host; they are used internally. Therefore, URLs that rely on one of these parameters cannot be used. l With an external image, you can check the option Save with template. If this option is checked, the file will be inserted in the Images folder on the Resources pane at the top left. If it isn't saved with the template, the image remains external.
Dynamic backgrounds To make the background change based on the value of a data field, you may use the Dynamic Background Script Wizard; see "Dynamic Print section backgrounds" on page 325. Alternatively you could write your own Control Script to set the background; see "Control Script: Setting a Print section's background" on page 404. The settings in a script take precedence over the settings made in the Print Section Properties dialog.
3. When Duplex printing is enabled, further options become available. l Check Omit empty back side for Last or Single sheet to reset a page to Simplex if it has an empty back side. This changes the Duplex job into a Mixplex job. Thus changing a Duplex job into a Mixplex job may reduce volume printing costs as omitted back sides aren't included in the number of printed pages. On the other hand, depending on the printer type it may reduce the print speed as well.
job can then be "mixed plex"; in that contains both simplex and duplex pages. The omitted back side isn't sent to the printer, so it doesn't count as a print click. If a page is empty, but not omitted (the Omit empty back side option is not checked) it will still be sent to the printer and may count as a print click. Page numbers An empty back side that is omitted from the output does not count in the page numbers either.
can be used as a whitespace element; see "Whitespace elements: using optional space at the end of the last page" below. l Dynamic Tables can be used in all contexts, but transport lines are only useful in a Print context; see Dynamic Table. Positioning and aligning elements Sometimes, in a Print template, you don't want content to move up or down with the text flow. To prevent that, put that content in a Positioned Box. See "Content elements" on page 170.
1. Import the promotional image or snippet; see "Images" on page 239 and "Snippets" on page 250. 2. Insert the promotional image or snippet in the content. Note: l Only a top-level element (for example, a paragraph that is not inside a table or div) can function as a whitespace element. l Do not place the promotional image or snippet inside an absolute positioned box. Whitespacing only works for elements that are part of the text flow, not for absolutepositioned boxes. 3.
l Content page count: This is the total number of pages in the current document that have contents, supplied by the Print section. A page that has a Master Page but no contents, is not included in the Content page count. l Sheet number: The current sheet number in the document. A sheet is a physical piece of paper, with two sides (or pages). This is equivalent to half the page number, for example if there are 10 pages, there will be 5 sheets.
on a disabled section, the page numbering will be restarted on the next section. Disabling a section can only be done in a Control Script (see "Control Scripts" on page 398). Control Scripts can also change where page numbers restart. 3. Use the Format drop-down to select uppercase or lowercase letters or Roman numerals instead of Arabic numerals. 4. In Leading Zeros, type zeros to indicate how many digits the page numbers should have. Any page number that has fewer digits will be preceded by leading zeros.
1. Open the style sheet for the Print context: on the Resources pane, expand the Styles folder and double-click context_print_styles.css. 2. Add a CSS rule, like the following: p { widows: 4; orphans: 3 } Per paragraph To change the widow or orphan setting for one paragraph only: 1. Open the Formatting dialog. To do this, you can: l Select the paragraph using the breadcrumbs or the Outline pane (next to the Resources pane) and then select Format > Paragraph in the menu.
Inserting a page break To insert a page break before or after a certain element, set the page-break-before property or the page-break-after property of that element (a paragraph for example; see also "Styling text and paragraphs" on page 271): 1. Select the element (see "Selecting an element" on page 174). 2. On the Format menu select the respective element to open the Formatting dialog. 3. In the Breaks group, set the before or after property.
Master Pages In Print sections, there are often elements that need to be repeated across pages, like headers, footers and logos. In addition, some elements should appear only on specific pages, such as only the first page, or the last page, or only on pages in-between. Examples are a different header on the first page, and a tear-off slip that shows up on the last page. This is what Master Pages are used for. Master Pages can only be used in the Print context (see "Print context" on page 122).
Editing a Master Page Master Pages are edited just like sections, in the workspace. To open a Master Page, expand the Master pages folder on the Resources pane, and double-click the Master Page to open it. The drop-downs at the top of the Workspace let you select a Section and a Media (front or back) that will serve as a background to your Master Page design.
3. Finally, apply the master page to a specific page in a print section. See "Applying a Master Page to a page in a Print section" below. Applying a Master Page to a page in a Print section Every sheet in a Print section has a natural position: it can be the first, the last, one of the sheets in between ('middle'), or a single sheet. For each of these positions, you can set a different Master Page and Media (see "Media" on the facing page).
Note: Master Pages, Media and Duplex printing options can also be set in a Control Script (see "Control Scripts" on page 398 and "Control Script API" on page 815). This is especially useful when you need identical sections with different settings. Deleting a Master Page To delete a Master Page, expand the Master pages folder on the Resources pane, right-click the master page, and click Delete. Note that one Master Page as well as one Media must always exist in a Print template.
template if you want to insert the image into the Images folder on the Resources pane. (For PDF files selected by URL this option is always checked.) Alternatively you could first import the PDF file to the Images folder on the Resources pane (using drag & drop) and drag it from there on one of the Media in the Media folder. Either way, you cannot set any options.
and then enter a web address (for example, http://www.mysite.com/images/image.jpg). Note: If a URL doesn't have a file extension, and the option Save with template is not selected, the Select Image dialog automatically adds the filetype parameter with the file extension as its value (for example: ?filetype=pdf (if it is the first parameter) or &filetype=pdf). The filetype, page and nopreview parameters are not sent to the host; they are used internally.
1. On the Resources pane, expand the Contexts folder, expand the Media folder, and right-click the Media. Click Characteristics. 2. Specify the paper's characteristics: l Media Type: The type of paper, such as Plain, Continuous, Envelope, Labels, Stationery, etc. l Weight: The intended weight of the media in grammage (g/m2). l Front Coating: The pre-process coating applied to the front surface of the media, such as Glossy, High Gloss, Matte, Satin, etc.
duplex pages as in a calendar, and Facing pages to have the margins of the section switch alternately, so that pages are printed as if in a magazine or book. 3. If the option Same for all positions is checked, the same Media will be applied to every page in the print section. Uncheck this option. 4. Decide which Media should be linked to each sheet position: click the downward pointing arrow after Media and select a Media. 5.
The field Selector in the Script Wizard contains the name of the section and the sheet position that you have chosen. 4. Change the script so that on a certain condition, another media will be selected for the content. For instance: if(record.fields.GENDER === 'M') { results.attr("content","Media 2"); } This script changes the media to Media 2 for male customers. See "Writing your own scripts" on page 368 if you are not familiar with how scripts are written. 5.
1. Create a job creation preset that indicates that Media has to be printed: select File > Presets and see "Output Creation Presets Wizard" on page 626 for more details. 2. Select that job creation preset in the Print Wizard; see "Generating Print output" on page 858. Email With the Designer you can create one or more Email templates and merge the template with a data set to generate personalized emails.
See "Email attachments" on page 167 and "Generating Email output" on page 876. Designing an Email template With the Designer you can design Email templates. It is strongly recommended to start creating an Email template with an Email Template Wizard, because it is challenging to design HTML email that looks good on all email clients, devices and screen sizes that customers use when they are reading their email.
Tip: Click the Edges button on the toolbar to make borders of elements visible on the Design tab. The borders will not be visible on the Preview tab or in the output. Litmus There are several tools to preview how email will be rendered on a variety of clients. We recommend using Litmus. Support for Litmus is integrated into the Designer; the Send Test Email dialog has an option to "Send to Litmus".
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