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Reduced Memory Version
ItispossibletoinstallPlanetPressConnectonamachinewithaminimumof2GBofRAM.ThePlan-
etPressConnectDesignerwillautomaticallydetectwhetherithasbeeninstalledonamachinewith
lessthan4GBofRAManddefaulttoonlyusingoneinternalWeaverandoneinternalmergeengineon
thatsystem.TheServerwillalsorunusinginternalengines.
NOTE: This is not recommended for production.
Connect1.8GeneralEnhancementsandFixes
Native support for Microsoft Excel spreadsheet files
TheConnectDataMappercannowhandleMicrosoftExcelfilesnatively.TheCSVdatatypehasbeen
enhancedtoautomaticallyrecognize*.XLSand*.XLSXfilesandusethemdirectlywithoutanyaddi-
tionalsteps.BoththeCSV WizardandtheAdd Dataoptionsnowallowyoutopickthesefiletypes.You
canevenusedifferenttypesofsamplefilesregardlessoftheirextension,aslongastheirformats
matchthedatamapperconfiguration.(SHARED-58610)
Conditional Print Sections Wizard
Awizardhasbeencreatedtosimplifytheprocessofcreatingconditionalprintsections.Simplyright
mouseclickaprintsectionintheResourcepanelandchooseMake Conditional…
Thewizardallowsyoutoenterabasicconditionbasedonadatafieldvalueandeitherskiporprintthe
section.WhenthespecifiedconditionistruetheselectedActionisapplied(whichcanbePrintorSkip)
otherwisetheoppositeisineffect.TheiconofthesectionintheResourcespanelidentifiesifthesec-
tionisprintedorskipped.UsetheExpandoptiontorevealtheunderlyingControlScript.(SHARED-
47661)
Simplified Web Font support
Onlinefontresources(suchasGoogleFonts)allowyoutousetheirfontsforbothcommercialandnon-
commercialprojects.UsingtheseonlinefontsinyourdocumentsisamatteroflinkingtotheStylesheet
filehostedbytheseservices.SimplycreateaRemote Stylesheetentryandpastethelocationof
StylesheetfileintheURLfield.Thiswillmakethefontavailabletotheapplication.Itwillbeaddedtothe
FontsmenuandcanbeusedinyourcustomCSSStylesheets,viathefont-familyproperty.
(SHARED-56637).
Dynamically set Media Background Images
Supporthasbeenaddedfordynamicallysettingthepathofmediabackgroundsatruntime(akaVirtual
Stationery).ThisisachievedviatheControlScriptAPI.ThepathcanbesettoanimageintheImages
folderbutalsotoafileondisk(thehttp://andhttps://protocolsarenotcurrentlysupported).This
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