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HexWeb XT Preferences

HexWebXT has many advanced HTML features.
Here is an overview of the user-definable preferences:

Preferences Dialog:

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Categories:

In this dialog you can create your individual Categories as appropriate to your publication or project. These Categories appear in the HexWeb Export palette as a pop-up menu. When you are exporting HTML files, folders with these category names are automatically created to expedite the creation of a Web server's file structure.

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Export Mode:

Selecting the Text only radio button means that only the contents of selected QuarkXPress text boxes will be exported to HTML files.

Selecting the Text and pictures radio button means that the contents of both text and picture boxes will be exported as HTML files.

Selecting the Text/pictures/goodies radio button means that advanced typographical features like left indents and drop caps can be used.

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Filenames and Formats:

In this Preference, the user has the option to automatically add suffixes to exported HTML-files. If you are exporting directly to a UNIX-based system, it is recommended that you add a suffix, because of the non-graphical interface. The user has the option of selecting no automatic suffix (No ending), Ending .html, Ending .htm, and a check box for the use of DOS filenames. If the DOS filenames radio button is selected, all names of the HTML documents and images are automatically truncated to 8+3 character format.

Here you can also choose the default graphic export format: GIF, Interlaced GIF, JPEG, or the new powerful Progressive JPEG, which is the best format for colour images! The Progressive JPEG quality can also be set here by entering a value between 5 and 95, higher is better. The suffix for the progressive JPEG files can also be defined here. The selected default image format is valid for images on all the pages, the image formats for individual images can be set in the Image Scaling Dialog in the HexWeb Tools palette.

By selecting the HTML Editor you can define the file type, which will be given to the HTML files. Default is SimpleText.

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NOTE: Not all browsers support progressive JPEG format yet so use it carefully. At the moment, Netscape 2.0 and Spyglass Mosaic can view Progressive JPEGs. Also, current image editors do not yet support Progressive JPEG, although, there are some third party filters for Photoshop available.

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Headline sizes:

HexWeb XT controls all the font sizes and HTML style mapping automatically. For example, if a font name used in a QuarkXPress text attribute is Futura Bold, the output will be automatically specified as Bold in the HTML code generated by HexWeb XT. This Preference allows the user to define the minimum sizes of the fonts to be translated to their desired HTML headline equivalents.

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Header/ Footer:

This Preference allows users to define static elements for all pages such as company logos, background colors, background GIFs, home buttons, author links, etc.

All the elements defined in HTML code here are automatically inserted into your HTML pages during export. As long as HTML files are saved somewhere within the root folder, HexWeb XT always finds the static elements!

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HexWeb XT also gives you a set of VARIABLES to ease the handling of PATHS of Static elements, TITLES and DATE STAMPS in your Headers and Footers, automatically calculated by HexWeb XT.

When you use this variable in the Header, either in the Header preference or in the external header files, HexWeb XT will replace the variable with the Headline you have created in the export dialog. If you have not given a headline for the TOC, the file name will be added instead.

This variable is used in Headers and Footers to calculate the PATH depth from the exported file to static elements like homebuttons and header images. When you have exported your file, the variable will be replaced with the right relational path.

The DATE variable is used to set the creation date of the document in the header or footer automatically, either visible or invisible as a comment. Just type the right syntax in the header or footer, and HexWeb XT takes care of the rest!.


Separators:

This Preference allows the user to define the HTML separators between QuarkXPress text and picture boxes.

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Load chartables:

This Preference allows the user to load different character translation tables in the resources of HexWeb XT so that inappropriate ASCII characters are automatically mapped to their appropriate HTML counterparts.

Load dropcaps:

This Preference allows the user to specify a different set of drop cap GIFs in the resources of HexWeb XT. One set is already defined upon installation, so no adjustment is needed unless the user wishes to customize the appearance of the drop caps.

Left indent:

This is the pathname to the Left Indent-GIF.
It is already predefined, and will always be found.

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