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Here is the list of new features of Leaflet 9.0:
We are integrating the OpenOffice hyphenation dictionaries into Leaflet. There is a very broad set of languages available and they evolve as fast as the community supporting them, so up to date hyphenation rules are available for German or French for example. The latest versions of the hyphenation dictionaries can be downloaded from the Internet. Inline objects have been available in HTML text for a long time, but they were limited to pictures. A few tags were available for object control (about resolution and size). Example of an inline picture: <html><IMG src="/1.eps" USEMAXQUALITY height=2500µm> Hello World The new "YOffset" tag attribute defines the offset related to the baseline. With LL9 all existing shapes can also be used inline. Additional tags and attributes have been defined for this purpose: Example of an inline shape: With these additional features calculated fields can render sophisticated text as a combination of (composed) html text with inline pictures and inline shapes while mixing at the same time standard and specific fonts containing pictos. It should be noted that the data used for the sample table below is not formatted anyway in the database to become this result. All formatting occurs in the template and the calculated field that contains the logic of the assembled html text.
Specific care has been taken to have an intelligent export to Indesign. The text above is automatically rendered as text cells in a table. In Indesign all text and graphical objects are still editable with outstanding productivity. It is now possible to cipher PDF files with a password. With this additional capability you will be able to protect the PDFs that you are making from unauthorised usage (like viewing, editing, extracting pictures, printing etc…). It is password protected and ciphered, so the efforts needed to circumvent the protection lay beyond the skills of most users. This protection follows standard Adobe guidelines and uses Adobe technology and is therefore totally compatible with other PDF related applications. The Leaflet engine has got a rework to achieve another global performance gain. When the user generates a document, it is most of the time to display it directly afterwards. Through additional buffers, Leaflet 9.0 is able to create most of the computations needed for display at generation time. This produces a slightly faster generation time, but mainly a much faster first display time. Documents that made use of those new buffers showed a performance gain up to 15%.
It is possible to define margins in the Indesign output profile. Those margins will be active at document level and will dynamically be applied to all Master Pages and Pages of the Indesign document. While it was possible to do an update of an Indesign file with the "XML from Indesign" export, we found that this approach had some drawbacks, so a new update workflow is in the works. It has the following characteristics:
In a second stage, the update will work in both directions:
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