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Publishing Concurrent Requests With XML Publisher

whitepaper At runtime, the concurrent manager's output post processor calls XML Publisher to merge your designed template files with the report data to create rich, published documents in PDF that can support colors, images, font styles, headers and footers...

Tags: files, xml, output, publisher

[16 May 2008]

Install a New Font on Your Computer

whitepaper Many font packages one downloads from the Internet may be contained in compressed .zip files to reduce file size and make downloading faster. If one has downloaded a font that is saved in .zip format, one can "Unzip" it by double-clicking the icon...

Tags: word processing

[15 May 2008]

Photos: Babbage's Difference masterpiece in action

Photo The machine was sophisticated enough to be programmed with two different font sizes, various margin settings and other formatting options. Charles Babbage's Difference Engine number 2 is making its US debut at the Computer History Museum in...

Tags: history museum, babbage

[12 May 2008]

Insert a Symbol or Special Character

whitepaper The types of symbols and characters that one can insert depend on the font that one chooses. The built-in Symbol font includes arrows, bullets, and scientific symbols. The user can use the Symbol dialog box to insert symbols, such as ΒΌ and, or...

Tags: word processing

[03 May 2008]

Preview Formats, Fonts, and Styles Before You Apply Them

whitepaper For example, if the user is trying to choose a font in Microsoft Office Word, just move the pointer down the font list to see the effect of each font on any text that one has selected. The user can quickly see how formatting options like fonts and...

Tags: business management

[11 Apr 2008]

Customize Keyboard Shortcuts

whitepaper The user can customize keyboard shortcuts by assigning keyboard shortcuts (or shortcut keys) to a command, macro, font, style, or commonly used symbol. The user can also remove keyboard shortcuts. Reassigning a combination of keys means that one...

Tags: business management

[11 Apr 2008]

Accessibility Features in Word

whitepaper The user can assign keyboard shortcuts (or shortcut keys) to a command, macro, font, style, or commonly used symbol. Microsoft Office Word 2007 includes features that make the software accessible to a wider range of users, including those who have...

Tags: business management

[11 Apr 2008]

Publisher purges thousands of unlicensed fonts

Case Study It wasn't the case that staff didn't care about font licensing. Fontwise gives a snapshot of which font is in which directory or drive across the company. Publishing giant Faber & Faber is wiping away the chance of costly law suits by using...

Tags: bsa, unlicensed, font, publishing

[22 Feb 2008]

Norwich Union goes Exstream to descramble customer documents

News We can then still be sending out letters in some 1970s Russian typewriter font. Financial services heavyweight Norwich Union has implemented a document automation project to make its communications with customers more understandable.

Tags: norwich union, crm, document, automation

[14 Jan 2008]

Visual Studio Hacks: Launch Visual Studio From the Command Prompt

whitepaper One of the simplest, but very useful, things the user can accomplish using command-line switches is setting the font and font size for the IDE. The Visual Studio IDE executable is called devenv.exe and includes a number of command-line switches...

Tags: programming languages, switches, command, command line

[24 Oct 2007]

PowerPoint 2007: Formatting and Laying Out Your Slides

whitepaper This paper shows the user how to format slide using layouts, and how to reapply a theme or color scheme (a list of coordinating font colors). Finally - and most important when the user is in a time crunch - he or she will learn how to turn on...

Tags: data visualization, format, automatic, scheme

[17 Oct 2007]

Programming Windows Presentation Foundation: Styles and Control Templates

whitepaper A style can be used to set properties on an existing visual element, such as setting the font weight of a Button control, or it can be used to define the way an object looks, such as showing the name and age from a Person object.

Tags: windows xp, object, rendering, behavior

[17 Oct 2007]

Yahoo! Hacks: Visualize Your Music Collection

whitepaper This paper helps to visualize the virtual music collection by showing a list of artists in different font sizes: the larger the font, the more tracks one has by that artist. Visualizing an entire music collection has never been easy.

Tags: html, collection, music, artists

[10 Oct 2007]

Greasemonkey Hacks: Make Pop-Up Titles Prettier

whitepaper The font and color of the tool tip are determined by the theme settings of the underlying operating system. Many web pages include title attributes on links. When one hovers over the link, the browser displays a tool tip that gives more information...

Tags: web browsers, link, tool, title

[10 Oct 2007]

The Missing Manual: Themes and Templates

whitepaper Even if one doesn't know a font from a fondue, one can crank out professional looking business proposals, resumes, and more. While themes are all about style and appearance, templates are about content.

Tags: word processing, fill, themes, documents

[10 Oct 2007]

Yahoo! Hacks: Visualize News Topics as Tags

whitepaper A popular way to visualize tag usage is in the form of a tag map that displays more popular tags in a larger font. With digital information, it's possible to track exactly which words are used more frequently than others.

[10 Oct 2007]

Yahoo! Hacks: Visualize News Topics as Tags

whitepaper A popular way to visualize tag usage is in the form of a tag map that displays more popular tags in a larger font. With digital information, it's possible to track exactly which words are used more frequently than others.

Tags: search strategies, tags, map, tag

[10 Oct 2007]

XSL-FO: Inline Elements

whitepaper Other visual forms of emphasis include font changes and nontext output, such as inline graphics, horizontal lines, or dot leaders. This paper covers what is perhaps the simplest area of XSL-FO: styling the inline content.

Tags: web content management, output, formatted, inline

[10 Oct 2007]

Work With e-Mail Signatures, Plain or Fancy: Create a Plain Signature

whitepaper Select the font, color, size and style, and specify the results as the default signature. In Outlook 2003, it's simple to create a signature that's automatically added to the messages. The user can create a signature and include information such as...

Tags: email, signature, messages, message

[05 Oct 2007]

Create a Set of Labels With Mail Merge: Preview and Print the Labels

whitepaper The user can use other features in Word 2007 to adjust the font size and color to better match the size and style of the label chosen. Mail merge is used to create a set of documents, such as a form letter that is sent to many customers or a sheet...

Tags: word processing, learn, word, labels

[05 Oct 2007]

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