5-6 Administrators Guide for Dynamic Converter
select a character to be used when a character cannot be found in the output character set unmappable.
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Graphics output - Allows you to specify the format of the graphics produced by
the technology: GIF, JPG, PNG, or none. Other options in this section allow you to specify quality and sizing of the graphic output.
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Link options - This option allows you to specify how the browser should select
which frame or window in which to open source document links. This value is used for the target attribute of the links the technology generates. This target value
will be applied to all such links encountered in the source document.
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Output formatting - This option causes the technology to write new blank lines to
the output strictly to make the generated HTML more readable and visually appealing. While setting this option will make it easier to read the generated
markup in a text editor, it does not affect the browsers rendering of the document. You can also include information about source document style names and how
they are mapped, and the user can see what format has been mapped to a particular paragraph or text sequence by mousing over it.
5.2.6 Adding Output Markup Items
Markup items are HTML fragments that may be inserted directly into the output HTML as part of a page layout see
Adding Output Page Layouts on page 5-8. Each
markup item is a namevalue pair. The name is what will appear in the screens for editing page layouts. The value is a block of HTML that will be inserted into the
output HTML wherever the markup item appears in a page layout.
Click the Add button and specify a Name to use for referencing this piece of markup. Then enter the HTML into the Markup text box.
5.2.7 Adding Output Text Formats
Output text formats define text and formatting attributes of output document text. This allows you to standardize the look of the output despite differing formatting
styles used by the various authors of the source documents. Text formats are only applied to text from word processing files. They cannot be used to change the
formatting of text that is rendered as part of any graphics generated by the conversion. They are also not applied to text inside spreadsheets.
1. Click the Add button to display the Markup tab. Then specify a Name to use for
referencing this format.
2. Under Tag name, enter the HTML paragraph level tag to put around paragraphs
using this format. Note that any tag name may be entered here, whether it is legal or not. Only the tag name should be entered, not the surrounding angle brackets
and . The paragraph tag p is the default.
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Under Custom Attributes, you can enter attributes that apply to the tag whose name was specified by the Tag name option above. To set the name and value of
the new attribute, just click on them in the Custom Attributes table.
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Custom Markup allows you to enter HTML andor regular text that will be inserted before andor after every paragraph using this format.
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Other formatting options on the Markup tab include inserting new lines into the HTML before the paragraph to make it easier to view the HTML of the output of
the conversion only written if the Format HTML source for readability option is set on the Output Pages screen; specifying that a new output page is created
every time this format is applied to a paragraph; and whether or not the first
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instance of this format should start a new page to help avoid empty or mostly empty pages at the beginning of the output.
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On the Formatting tab, you can choose how to specify the formatting for paragraphs. If you click on the Use external CSS class option, a text field becomes
available in which you must enter the name of a class from an external CSS file. The URL of the external CSS file is specified with the External user stylesheet
option set on the Output Pages page.
If you do not specify an external stylesheet, you can choose to format the document by observing the original source document formatting or forcing other
formatting options. Character, Paragraph and Border formatting for an array of options can be set to one of four values:
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Always off - Forces the attribute to always be off when formatting the text.
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Always on - Forces the attribute to always be on when formatting the text.
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Inherit default - Takes the state of the attribute from the source document. In other words, if the source document had the text rendered with bold, then the
technology will create bold text.
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Do not specify - Leave the formatting unspecified.
5.2.8 Adding Format Mapping Rules
