2022.2
Table Of Contents
- Welcome to PrintShop Mail Connect 2022.2
- Setup And Configuration
- System and Hardware Considerations
- Installation and Activation
- Preferences
- Clean-up Service preferences
- Database Connection preferences
- Editing preferences
- Email preferences
- Emmet preferences
- Engines preferences
- Hardware for Digital Signing preferences
- Language preferences
- Logging preferences
- Parallel Processing preferences
- Print preferences
- Sample Projects preferences
- Save preferences
- Scripting preferences
- Versioning preferences
- Engines preferences
- Parallel Processing preferences
- Known Issues
- Uninstalling
- General information
- Versioned projects
- The Designer
- Designer basics
- Content elements
- Snippets
- Styling and formatting
- Personalizing content
- Variable data in the text
- Conditional content
- Dynamic images and Print section backgrounds
- Snippets
- Scripts
- Loading data
- Variable data in text: expressions
- Variable data in text: scripts and placeholders
- Formatting variable data
- Showing content conditionally
- Conditional Print sections
- Dynamic images
- Dynamic Print section backgrounds
- Handlebars in OL Connect
- Preferences
- Clean-up Service preferences
- Database Connection preferences
- Editing preferences
- Email preferences
- Emmet preferences
- Engines preferences
- Hardware for Digital Signing preferences
- Language preferences
- Logging preferences
- Parallel Processing preferences
- Print preferences
- Sample Projects preferences
- Save preferences
- Scripting preferences
- Versioning preferences
- Writing your own scripts
- Script types
- Creating a new Standard Script
- Writing a script
- Setting the scope of a script
- Managing scripts
- Testing scripts
- Optimizing scripts
- The script flow: when scripts run
- Selectors in OL Connect
- Loading a snippet via a script
- Loading content using a server's API
- Using scripts in Dynamic Tables
- Control Scripts
- Post Pagination Scripts
- Translating templates
- Designer User Interface
- Designer Script API
- Generating output
- Print Manager
- PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes
- OL PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 2022.2.3
- Previous Releases
- OL PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 2022.1.5
- OL PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 2021.2.1
- OL PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 2021.1
- OL PrintShop Mail ConnectRelease Notes 2020.2.1
- OL PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 2020.1
- OL PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 2019.2
- OL PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 2019.1
- PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 2018.2.1
- PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 2018.1.6
- PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 1.8
- PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 1.7.1
- PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 1.6.1
- PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 1.5
- PrintShop Mail Connect Release Notes 1.4.2
- Knowledge Base
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
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Use a fast network and internet connectionoravoidloadingexternalorinternetresources.
Usingimages,JavaScriptorCSSresourceslocatedonaslownetworkoronaslowinternetcon-
nectionwillobviouslyleadtoalossofspeed.Whilewedoourbestforcaching,adocumentwith
5,000recordswhichqueriesapagethattakes1secondtoreturnadifferentimageeachtimewill,
naturally,slowoutputgenerationdownbyupto83minutes.
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Makesuretouseoptimized graphic resources.Forinstance,avoidusingimageswithtrans-
parencywherenotransparencyisneeded.
Images
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Makesuretouseoptimized graphic resources.Forinstance,avoidusingimageswithtrans-
parencywherenotransparencyisneeded.
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Whenatemplatethatcontainslotsofimagesismergedwithalargerecordset,themanyfile
requestsmayslowdowntheprocessofoutputgeneration.Onesolutionistocombinetheimages
intoasingleimagefile(an'imagesprite')anddisplaythepartthatholdstheimage.Thisreduces
thenumberoffilerequestsandcanimprovetheoutputspeedsignificantly.
Creatingandusingimagesprites
Step 1. Create a file that contains a collection of images.
Staticimagesmaygoinanytypeofimagefile.Storeimagesthatneedbeaddeddynamicallytothetem-
plate,inonePDFfile,oneimageperpage.
ThereareseveraltoolstocombineimagefilesintoasingePDF.ImageMagickisoneofthem.You
couldusetheconvertcommandoftheImageMagicklibrary:
convert C:/myimages/*.jpg C:/myimages/image-collection.pdf
YoucouldalsouseConnect Designeritself:createaprinttemplatewiththesizeofyourimagesand
setthepagemarginsto0.Createascriptthatloopsoveryourimagesandaddsthemtothetextflowof
thetemplate.SubsequentlygeneratePDFoutputandusetheresultingfileasyourcollectionfile.
Step 2. Add the file that contains the collection of images to the template's Resources (see "Adding images" on
page240).
Step 3. Display part of the collection file as an image in the template.
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Static imagesthatarepartofanimagefilecanbedisplayedviaCascadingStyleSheets(CSS).
Thistechniqueismuchusedinwebdesign.Inthistechnique,thefilethatcontainsacollectionof
imagesiscalledanimage sprite.ThetrickistocreateaBox(orDiv)foreachimageandgive
thatboxanID(see"Boxes"onpage226).ThenusetheIDinastylesheettoselecttheBoxand
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