1.5
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Connect 1.5
- Setup And Configuration
- System and Hardware Considerations
- Installation and Activation
- Installation Pre-Requisites
- User accounts and security
- The Importance of User Credentials on Installing and Running PlanetPress Connect
- Installing PlanetPress Connect on Machines without Internet Access
- Installation Wizard
- How to Run Connect Installer in Silent Mode
- Activating a License
- Migrating to a new computer
- Information about PlanetPress Workflow 8
- Upgrading from PlanetPress Suite 7.6
- What do I gain by upgrading to PlanetPress Connect?
- Server Settings
- Uninstalling
- The DataMapper Module
- Basics
- Data Mapping Configuration
- Data Mapping Workflow
- The Data Model
- Data Source (Settings)
- DataMapper User Interface
- Defining Boolean Values
- Defining String Values
- Building String Values
- Defining Integer Values
- Building Integer Values
- Defining Float Values
- Building Float Values
- Defining Currency Values
- Building Currency Values
- Extracting dates
- Entering a date using JavaScript
- Defining Object Values
- DataMapper Scripts API
- The Designer
- Generating output
- Print output
- Email output
- Web output
- Optimizing a template
- Generating Print output
- Saving Printing options in Printing Presets.
- Connect Printing options that cannot be changed from within the Printer Wizard.
- Print Using Standard Print Output Settings
- Print Using Advanced Printer Wizard
- Adding print output models to the Print Wizard
- Splitting printing into more than one file
- Variables available in the Output
- Generating Fax output
- Generating Tags for Image Output
- Generating Email output
- Generating Web output
- Release Notes
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgments
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Url lists image files from a specific web address. Select the protocol (http or https),
and then enter a web address (for example,
http://www.mysite.com/images/image.jpg).
4.
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 not saved with the template, the image will remain external. Note that external images
need to be available when the template is merged with a record set to generate output,
and that their location should be accessible from the machine on which the template's
output is produced. External images are updated (retrieved) at the time the output is
generated.
5. Select the image from the list.
6. If the image is a PDF file that consists of more than one page, select the desired page.
7.
Click Finish. The image will be inserted at the position of the cursor.
Using one file that contains a collection of images
When a template that contains lots of images is merged with a large record set, the many file
requests may slow down the process of output generation. The solution is simple: combine the
images into a single image file and display the part that holds the image. This reduces the
number of file requests and can improve the output speed significantly.
For an explanation of how to do this, see "Optimizing a template" on page799.
Styling an image
Images can be styled using the Format > Image menu item. They have a border, margin and
padding; see "Border" on page469 and "Spacing" on page478. Images can also be left-
aligned or right-aligned, just like boxes.
Resizing an image
There are three ways to resize an image after inserting it in the content of a template.
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Click the image and drag the handles to resize it. Press the Shift key while dragging, to
scale the image proportionally.
l Select the image (see "Selecting an element" on page377) and type the desired width
and height in the respective fields on the Attributes pane.
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