1.7
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PlanetPress Connect 1.7.1
- 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
- The Importance of User Credentials on Installing and Running PlanetPress Connect
- Installing PlanetPress Connect on Machines without Internet Access
- Installation Wizard
- Running connect installer in Silent Mode
- Activating a License
- Migrating to a new workstation
- Information about PlanetPress Workflow 8
- Upgrading from PlanetPress Suite 7.6
- What do I gain by upgrading to PlanetPress Connect?
- Server Configuration Settings
- Uninstalling
- The DataMapper Module
- The Designer
- Basic Steps
- Web
- Capture OnTheGo
- Content elements
- Snippets
- Styling and formatting
- Personalizing Content
- Writing your own scripts
- Designer User Interface
- Script API
- Designer Scripts API
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Examples
- Example
- Example
- Example
- Example
- Example
- 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
- Control Script API
- 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
- General Information
- Release Notes
- Overview
- Connect 1.7.1 General Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.7.1 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.7.1 DataMapping Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.7.1 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Workflow 8.7 Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Previous Releases
- Overview
- OL Connect Send
- Connect 1.6.1 General Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.6.1 Designer Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.6.1 DataMapping Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.6.1 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect Workflow 8.6 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 DataMapping Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 1.4.1 Output Enhancements and Fixes
- Connect 8.4.1 Workflow Enhancements and Fixes
- Known Issues
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgments
Defining a tint
A tint is a transparent color, based on another color in the template. To define a tint:
1.
Select Edit > Colors on the menu.
2.
Click the New button (the green plus) to add the tint.
3.
Click the Type drop-down and select Tint.
4. In the Edit color dialog, type a name for the color (or let the Designer create a name based
on the values that you select). The color’s name can be used in style sheets. This name
should not contain spaces or special characters.
5.
Select one of the existing colors in the template as t the Source of the color. The tint or
opacity will be applied to this color.
6.
Check Use opacity if you want to set the Tint slider to use Opacity instead.
7. Use the slider to set the percentage of the tint or opacity, or type the percentage directly in
the input box and finally click OK.
Applying a color
Colors can be applied to elements in your templates locally or through style sheets.
Using colors in style sheets
It is highly recommended to use style sheets in templates right from the start. Even more so if
the communications are going to be output to different output channels, or if they consist of
different sections (for example, a covering letter followed by a policy). Using CSS with
templates allows a consistent look and feel to be applied. A style sheet can change the look of
multiple elements, making it unnecessary to format each and every element in the template,
time and again, when the company's layout preferences change. See "Styling templates with
CSS files" on page490.
In style sheets, you can color every type of element that has a CSS color property, such as
color, background-color or border-color. Use the color's name as it is defined in the
Designer, or any legal color value: a valid color name (see color names on w3schools),
hexadecimal color code (see w3school's color picker), RGB color value, for example rgb
(216,255,170) or CMYK color value, for example cmyk(15%, 0%, 33%, 0%).
The following CSS rule applies MyColor, which is a custom color (see "Defining colors, spot
colors and tints" on page514), to the text of all paragraphs:
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