Easy to Use Interface
Basic editing actions include changing the font, text and background colors, control
alignment and indentation, resize page margins, resize table columns, insert or
delete table rows, resize images and graphics and more.
For the advanced users, the Properties dialog bar
allows complete control of hundreds of properties for each object.
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Drag and Drop
The user has a drag and drop interface for defining the output.
It is very comfortable to use because all you have to do is
to open an existing XML document containing data and drag and drop fields onto the design
surface.
To define templates, XF Designer can work with both simple XML files or
with complex data sources defined
in Ecrion Data Architect.
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Multilanguage Interface
XF Designer is available in English, French and German. Adding other languages is
very easy! The user interface is also very customizable with support for several
color schemes.
Spell-checking support for 17 languages is also provided.
OEM Partners have also access to a wide set of branding options including the ability
to customize the look and feel, set predefined locations for loading and saving
reports and more.
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Rich Set of Features
XF Designer provides support for using charts, images, tables, barcodes, geolocation maps,
3D objects and rich media (such as Flash) in your templates.
Documents can also contain Forms.
Although it contains top of the line features, XF Designer
continues to be easy to use for both technical and non-technical users.
XF Designer is an easy to use, WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) environment!
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XML Editing
The XML Editor implements full undo/redo support, syntax highlighting, autocomplete
and autofill for XSL-FO and XSL. It also includes menu commands to verify the XML
syntax, assign XSL stylesheets and run XSL transformations, pretty print, one step
PDF generation, etc.
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XML Tree and XPath
Based on the XPath language, XF Designer is able to perform structure-aware searches
and replacements of certain patterns of elements inside the document.
Advanced programmers can decide to use any XSLT parser they prefer including
parsers with support for XSLT 2.0 (such as Saxon).
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