1.8
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PrintShop Mail Connect 1.8
- 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 PrintShop Mail C...
- 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
- Known Issues
- Uninstalling
- Connect: a peek under the hood
- Connect File Types
- The Designer
- Designer basics
- Content elements
- Snippets
- Styling and formatting
- Personalizing Content
- Writing your own scripts
- Designer User Interface
- Designer Script API
- Designer Script 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
- Creating a Date object from a string
- Control Script API
- Examples
- Generating output
- Print output
- Email output
- Optimizing a template
- Generating Print output
- Saving Printing options in Print 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
- Print output variables
- Generating Email output
- Print Manager
- Print Manager Introduction Video
- Print Manager usage
- Print Manager Interface
- 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
- Previous Releases
- 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
Email enhancements
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User-definable SMTP settings. New defaults are added for Sendgrid and Mailgun (in
addition to Mandrill). (SHARED-43897)
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The standard New email wizard has been replaced with the new Basic Email template
wizard. The new wizard has improved HTML structure. (SHARED-43338)
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Sending a test email no longer requires data. (SHARED-41889)
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Tighter compression for PDF attachments that are based on a print section. (SHARED-
38575)
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Colour picker support added to the Email template wizards. (SHARED-33561)
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Added support for PNG barcode images in email messages. (SHARED-43787)
Barcode enhancements
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Improved Barcode creation with improved dialogs, better data validation and better
error messaging. (SHARED-39295/42879)
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Font controls added to the Barcode Properties dialogs. (SHARED-22722/43659)
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Barcode improvements made in Preview mode. Support added for resizing and dragging
of absolute positioned barcode objects, as well as resizing of inline barcode objects.
(SHARED-43641)
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Barcodes can now have transparent backgrounds. (SHARED-43659)
Scripting improvements
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New closest() command added to the Scripting API, to locate closest matching element
above it in the Document Object Model (DOM) tree. (SHARED-41789)
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Script editing improved. Line numbering now available within the editor, support for
code completion and syntax highlighting added, as well as support for various ECMA6
commands. (SHARED-42768/43696)
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Support added for cloning Sections in a Control Script to allow a document to have a
dynamic number of Sections. (SHARED-43683)
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Improved Scripts tool tip warning and error messaging. (SHARED-42550/43758)
Improvements include:
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