Layout

Select which layout to use for this type of document. The layout controls the overall look of the document. Page layouts are defined under Output Page Layouts, and can then be selected from the drop-down menu.

Generate list bullets without <li> tags

Specifies whether lists should be output using HTML list tags (ordered list/unordered list) or as normal paragraphs with the appropriate decoration to indicate the list item. In some cases, greater fidelity to the source document is possible when this option is selected.

Include footnotes and endnotes

If checked, footnotes and endnotes from the input document are included in the output. Footnotes are always placed at the bottom of their respective pages. Endnote placement is determined by the Separate endnotes option.

Separate endnotes

If checked, endnotes are placed on a separate page at the end of the document. Otherwise, they are placed on the last page of output.

Ignore unnamed character styles

If checked, formatting from unnamed character styles in the source document is ignored. This is useful when creating a template that normalizes the formatting of document content, either directly or through external CSS.

Page width and Page margins

Page width and Page margins can be specified, inherited from the source document, or omitted.

Note separator

This allows you to specify markup, such as a <hr> tag, for separating footnotes and endnotes from the document content on a page. If both footnotes and endnotes are output on the same page, there will still be one occurrence of the separator markup between the document content and the first footnote.

Embedded graphics

These options allow you to impose size limits on embedded graphics, by width, height, or total number of pixels. The aspect ratio of the graphic is preserved regardless of the method specified. A value of 0 indicates no limit.

Pagination

These options enable the splitting of the output into multiple files and determine the conditions for creating a new page. Pages can be defined by hard page breaks and/or a word count. Note that tables will never be split across page boundaries.

Layout

Selects which layout to use for image files. The layout controls the overall look of the document. Page layouts are defined under Output Page Layouts, and can then be selected from the drop-down menu.

Section title format

Specifies the format to be applied to the Section Title layout item.

Default section label

Specifies the default label to be used in section-based navigation.

Set exact width (in pixels) to x

Shrinks or enlarges the image so that the width exactly matches the specified value. If Set height to exactly x is not set, then the image will be scaled without altering its original aspect ratio. Setting this option to zero causes it to be ignored.

Set exact height (in pixels) to x

Shrinks or enlarges the image so that the height exactly matches the specified value. If Set width to exactly x is not set, then the image will be scaled without altering its original aspect ratio. Setting this option to zero causes it to be ignored.

Set maximum width (in pixels) to x

Shrinks very large images to no more than this many pixels wide. If size reduction is required, the aspect ratio of the source image is preserved. The default (0) means there is no maximum width.

Set maximum height (in pixels) to x

Shrinks very large images to no more than this many pixels high. If size reduction is required, the aspect ratio of the source image is preserved. The default (0) means there is no maximum height.

Set maximum size (in pixels) to x

Shrinks very large images to no more than this many pixels in area. If size reduction is required, the aspect ratio of the source image is preserved. The default (0) means there is no maximum size.

Split file into multiple pages

If checked, the images in multi-section graphic files such as TIFF or DXF will be output on separate pages.

Layout

Selects which layout to use for presentation files. The layout controls the overall look of the document. Page layouts are defined under Output Page Layouts, and can then be selected from the drop-down menu.

Section title format

Specifies the format to be applied to the Section Title layout item.

Default section label

Specifies the default label to be used in section-based navigation.

Set exact width (in pixels) to x

Shrinks or enlarges the slide so that the width exactly matches the specified value. If Set height to exactly x is not set, then the slide will be scaled without altering its original aspect ratio. Setting this option to zero causes it to be ignored.

Set exact height (in pixels) to x

Shrinks or enlarges the slide so that the height exactly matches the specified value. If Set width to exactly x is not set, then the slide will be scaled without altering its original aspect ratio. Setting this option to zero causes it to be ignored.

Set maximum width (in pixels) to x

Shrinks very large slides to no more than this many pixels wide. If a change is needed, the aspect ratio of the source slide is preserved. The default (0) means there is no maximum width.

Set maximum height (in pixels) to x

Shrinks very large slides to no more than this many pixels high. If a change is needed, the aspect ratio of the source slide is preserved. The default (0) means there is no maximum height.

Set maximum size (in pixels) to x

Shrinks very large slides to no more than this many pixels in area. If a change is needed, the aspect ratio of the source slide is preserved. The default (0) means there is no maximum size.

Split file into multiple pages

If checked, each slide in the document will be output in a separate file.

Layout

Selects which layout to use for this type of document. The layout controls the overall look of the document. Page layouts are defined under Output Page Layouts, and can then be selected from the drop-down menu.

Section title format

Specifies the format to be applied to the Section Title layout item.

Default section label

Specifies the default label to be used in section-based navigation.

Show grid lines

HTML tables are used to render spreadsheets. This option causes the table to be output with the "border" attribute set, so that the cell boundaries are visible. If the option is not set, only borders specified by the document will be output.

Set maximum width (in pixels) to x

Shrinks very large images to no more than this many pixels wide. If a change is needed, the aspect ratio of the source image is preserved. The default (0) means there is no limit.

Set maximum height (in pixels) to x

Shrinks very large images to no more than this many pixels high. If a change is needed, the aspect ratio of the source image is preserved. The default (0) means there is no limit.

Set maximum size (in pixels) to x

Shrinks very large images to no more than this many pixels in area. If a change is needed, the aspect ratio of the source image is preserved. The default (0) means there is no limit.

Split file into multiple pages

Checking this option will cause each sheet in the document to be output on a separate page. Note that tables will never be split across page boundaries.

x rows per page

If the rows per page option is set to a nonzero value, the spreadsheet will be rendered as a series of tables containing up to the specified number of rows on each page.

Layout

Selects which layout to use for this type of document. The layout controls what the overall look of the document. Page layouts are defined under Output Page Layouts, and can then be selected from the drop-down menu.

Section title format

Specifies the format to be applied to the Section Title layout item.

Default section label

Specifies the default label to be used in section-based navigation.

Split file into multiple pages

Setting this option will cause each section of the document to be output on a separate page.

x records per page

If the records per page option is set to a nonzero value, the database will be rendered as a series of tables, each containing up to the specified number of records.

Layout

Selects which layout to use for this type of document. The layout controls the overall look of the document. Page layouts are defined under Output Page Layouts, and can then be selected from the drop-down menu.

Display method

Archive files (for example, ZIP) are rendered as a series of tables representing the file hierarchy of the archive. The default display method is file names, in which only the file list will be output. If the display method is set to decompressed files, each file in the archive will also be rendered based on the appropriate template settings for that document type. The file listing will contain links to the rendered files.

Add

Click this button to add a new document property.

Remove

Select a defined document property from the list and click this button to remove it. A property may not be removed if it is used by a page layout.

Predefined

Predefined properties are metadata fields stored in many file formats. An example of this is the Primary author, which is the author of the input document. Exactly which properties are available is highly dependent on the input file format and in most cases it is also dependent on whether or not the author provided this information.

Custom

Custom properties are defined by the author. These can be used to insert arbitrary text and HTML markup into the output files.

By default, no document properties are defined. In order to include them in the output from the conversion, each desired document property must first be defined here. They must then be added to the output from the conversion by inserting them into page layouts defined under Output Page Layouts.

Default value

The default value to use if the property is not found in the input document being converted. This is also used as the value for custom properties. Providing a default value is optional.

Meta tag name

If the property is to appear in an HTML meta tag, then this is the value of the "name" attribute to use in the meta tag. The value of the "content" attribute will be taken from the source document or the Default value option set above, as appropriate.

If there is no author specified in the input document, then the meta tag generated will be as follows:

<meta name="author" content="Unknown">

While providing a meta tag name is optional, it must be specified if the property is to be included with the rest of the meta tags in the <head> of the output files.

Output format

Name of the output paragraph format to use to format the property when including the property's value in the output as visible text.

Add

Click this button to display the Text Element page to add a new text element.

Remove

Select a defined text element from the list and click this button to remove it. An element may not be removed if it is used by a page layout.

Name

The name by which this text element will be referred when creating/editing page layouts. This field is required.

Value

The value to insert into the output when this text element is used in a page layout. By default, this is left blank.

Use output format

The name of the output format. This will be used to format the text element when including its value in the output as visible text.

navigation by ...

Click the drop-down box next to the Add button to select whether a document navigation, page navigation, or section navigation element will be added.

Add

Click this button to display the document navigation, page navigation, or section navigation page to define the element.

Remove

Highlight a navigational item and click this button to remove navigational elements that are no longer needed. A navigational element may not be removed if it is used by a page layout.

Name

Name by which the page layouts will refer to this navigation element. Required.

Link tag

Specifies whether to use <a> or <option> to enclose the links in this element.

Generate parent levels when "orphan" levels are encountered

This option causes missing link levels to be added so that the link hierarchy starts at level 1.

Only include links to targets on the same page

This is used to generate a small set of links to targets that all appear in the same output HTML page. An example of this would be to break a document up so there is one outline level 1 paragraph in each output HTML page. You could then set this option as part of creating a line of links across the top of the page that go to all the outline level 2's that appear on the page.

If this option is not set (the default), then links to targets across the entire document are generated.

Word limit for labels

The link's label is taken from the text of the document element. Some target elements may contain large amounts of text. This can cause problems in the formatting of the list of links. Setting this option truncates the label after the specified number of words, in which case an ellipsis will be output to indicate the truncation.

Setting this option to 0, the default, causes the entire target element's text to be used as the link label.

Link Sets

The Link Sets section has four tabs:

• The Mapping Rules tab allows the template author to define the target of the navigation, either by outline level or (case-sensitive) style name.

• The Custom Attributes tab allows custom attributes to be applied to the links.

• On the Markup tab, the tags or other markup for rendering the link set are defined.

• Finally, the Formatting tab allows the template author to apply styling to the link labels, either directly or via an external CSS class.

Levels

Once link sets have been added, their order may be arranged by using these up/down arrows. The order that link sets appear in the window establishes navigation hierarchy. When a link set is moved up or down, its name changes accordingly; for example, if two link sets are defined (Level 1 and Level 2) and the second one is selected and moved up, it becomes the Level 1 link set.

Remove

Highlight a link set and click this button to remove it.

Name

Name by which the page layouts will refer to this navigation element. Required.

Link tag

Specifies whether to use <a> or <option> to enclose the links in this element.

Use DOCTYPE

Check this option to have the technology insert a DOCTYPE statement at the top of each output file. If CSS is enabled, the HTML generated conforms to the XHTML 1.0 Transitional DTD. If CSS is disabled, HTML 4.0 Transitional-conformant HTML is output. This option is enabled by default.

Language string

Specifies the value of the "lang" attribute of the <html> tag. This indicates the primary natural language of the document.

CSS generation

CSS enables Dynamic Converter to create output with higher fidelity with respect to the source document. Please note that CSS support varies from browser to browser.

This option can be set to the following values:

• embedded - CSS styles will be included in the head of each output file.

• external - CSS styles will be output in a separate file, which is referenced by all output files generated during the conversion.

By default, the CSS is embedded in the HTML of each output file. This reduces the total number of files generated by the conversion, as there is no need to create a separate CSS file. Note that if a style is needed anywhere in the final output of the conversion, it will appear in the style definitions of every HTML file.

External user stylesheet

Specifies the URI of a stylesheet to be referenced by the output. This is used in conjunction with the Use external CSS class option in the Character and Paragraph Formatting tabs to allow the template author to control the formatting of the document content.

Output character set

This option allows you to specify which character set should be used in the output file. The technology then translates or "maps" characters from the input document's character set to the output character set as needed.

Value for unmappable characters

This option specifies the character used when a character cannot be found in the output character set. This option takes the Unicode value for the replacement character specified in hexadecimal (the default value of 2A corresponds to the asterisk ("*") character). You must ensure that the selected replacement character is available in the output character set.

Graphics format

This option allows the developer to specify the format of the graphics produced by the technology. The following values are allowed:

• GIF

• JPEG

• PNG

• None

Interlaced GIF

This item is available if you have selected GIF as the Graphics format. Check this box if the output graphic is to be an interlaced GIF.

Output DPI

This option allows you to specify the output graphics device's resolution in DPI and only applies to objects whose size is specified in physical units (in/cm). For example, consider a 1" square, 100 DPI graphic that is to be rendered on a 50 DPI device ("Output DPI" option set to 50). In this case, the size of the resulting JPEG, GIF, or PNG will be 50 x 50 pixels.

JPEG Quality

If the format selected is JPEG, this allows you to set the quality (1-100) of the JPEGs created by the technology.

Image sizing method

This option determines the method used to size graphics. You can choose among three methods, each of which involves some degree of trade off between the quality of the resulting image and speed of conversion:

• quick

• smooth (default)

• grayscale

Custom target attribute

Some input documents contain hyperlinks. Template authors may have a preference for the frame or window in which the browser opens the source document links. This option allows the template author to specify a value to use for the "target" attribute of the hyperlinks generated by the technology, and will override any target information from the source document. It does not affect hyperlinks in navigation layout items or markup. If this option is left blank, the "target" attribute will only be set if the source document provides a value for it.

The following are valid values for the "target" attribute in HTML:

• _blank - The user agent should load the designated document in a new, unnamed window.

• _self - The user agent should load the document in the same frame as the element that refers to this target.

• _parent - The user agent should load the document into the immediate FRAMESET parent of the current frame. This value is equivalent to _self if the current frame has no parent.

• _top - The user agent should load the document into the full, original window (thus canceling all other frames). This value is equivalent to _self if the current frame has no parent.

Format HTML source for readability

Checking this option causes the technology to write newlines to the output strictly to make the generated HTML more readable and visually appealing. These newlines only appear in the places where you have set Add a newline before this paragraph.

It is important to note the things that setting this option does not do:

• While setting this option will make it easier for a human to read the generated markup in a text editor, it does not affect the browser's rendering of the document.

• This option does not affect the contents of the .css files since they do not contain any text from the source document.

• The option does not affect spaces or newlines copied from the template as the contents of the template are already under user control.

Show style information

Checking this box will cause Dynamic Converter to include information about source document style names and how they are mapped. You can see what format has been mapped to a particular paragraph or text sequence by mousing over it.

Add

Click the Add button to add a new output text format. The newly added item will appear in the left side tree view and you will be taken to that item for editing. The Default Paragraph format is always available. It essentially instructs the technology to leave the formatting in the output the same way it was in the input documents.

Remove

Select an output text format in the table and click Remove to delete it.

Add Format Mapping Rule

Click this button to add a new format mapping rule.

Move Up and Move Down

Once mapping rules have been added, their order may be arranged by using these buttons. The mapping rules are ordered so that the first rule that matches is the one, and only one, that is applied.

For example, a rule may be created for mapping paragraphs in the "My Style" style. Below that rule, another rule may exist for mapping paragraphs with "outline level 1" applied. An input document may have one or more paragraphs in the "My Style" style that also have "outline level 1" applied. In this example the technology will only apply the "My Style" formatting to such paragraphs and ignore the "outline level 1" rule for them.

Remove

Highlight a mapping rule and click this button to remove it.

Format

Choose one of the defined formats to apply when this mapping rule is in effect. The Default Paragraph format is always available and is always the default.

Match on

Defines the paragraph formatting information to have the rule check.

• outline level - Match the outline level specified in the source document. Application-predefined heading styles typically have corresponding outline levels applied as part of the style definition.

• style - Match the paragraph or character style name.

• footnote - Match any footnote.

• endnote - Match any endnote.

• header - Match any document header text.

• footer - Match any document footer text.

Value

If Match on above is set to Outline level, then this defines which outline level to match.

If Match on above is set to Style name, then this defines which source document paragraph or character style name to match. When matching on style names, the author is required to supply a style name here and no default value is provided. The name must exactly match the style name from the source document. Style name matching is done in a case-sensitive manner.

Add

This button allows you to add a break or another markup item to an output page. Click the button to add an element of this type.

Remove

Highlight an output markup item and click this button to remove markup items that are no longer needed.

Name

The name to use for referencing this piece of markup. This field is required.

Markup

Enter the HTML to be inserted into the Markup text entry field.

OK/Cancel

Save this item by clicking OK, or click Cancel to quit.

Add

Click this button to add a new layout. The newly added layout will appear on the left side navigation pane and you will be auto-navigated to the new layout for editing.

Remove

Select a layout from the list and click this button to remove it. At least one layout must be defined in the template. To ensure this, the default layout cannot be deleted. You may redefine and/or rename the default layout as desired.

Name

Fill in the name to use to refer to this layout (required). Once this has been done, click on the Plus sign on the left side of the name ("default" in this example) to expand the levels underneath this one.

Include navigation layout

This allows you to create a Table of Contents page as a separate file containing markup and links to the document content specified in the page layout. Use of a navigation layout is optional. If you place a check in the box in front of this item, the Navigation Layout tab will become available.

Source/Name

Click this to add places to search for the title. The following sources may be examined:

• format - Use text mapped to an output paragraph format already defined under the Output Text Formats. Perhaps, for example, from a format created for text in the "Title" style, although any format may be used. The first non-empty instance of a paragraph in this format is used.

• text element - Use a text element already defined under Text Element. Using a text element for the title makes a good fail-safe entry at the bottom of the list just in case all other title sources are undefined/unavailable.

• property - Use a document property already defined under Document Property; for example, from the "Title" document property, although any property may be used.

• section title - Use the title for the current document section. Section titles are not available in all document formats; for example, they are not used in word processing files. Taking the title from the section name is very useful in presentations (the slide title), and spreadsheets and database files (the sheet name). Using the section name works well with output layouts that place one slide/sheet in each output HTML page. In this situation, each page would have a title that matches the title of its contents. If the page layout does not break the document by sections, the name of the first section will be used as the title text.

Move Up and Move Down

The order that the items are listed in the box matches the search order that Dynamic Converter will use to find the title. If no title is available from the first source on the list, then the next source is checked and so on down the list. Use these two buttons to adjust the order as needed.

Head

This page defines the content that will be placed in the HTML <head> of all of the output files this layout applies to. The technology automatically places the following in the head:

• A <meta> tag stating the character set in which the HTML file is encoded.

• A <title> tag, the contents of which are defined under Title Source.

• A <meta> tag stating that the HTML was generated.

• <meta> tags for all document properties defined under Document Property that specify a Meta tag name.

• If the CSS generation option was selected under Output Pages, then CSS style definitions generated by the technology are included.

• If the External CSS stylesheet option was selected under Output Pages, then an HTML <link> tag to the user-specified CSS file is included.

• All markup items listed on this page. Markup items must first be defined under Output Markup Items before they will be available to be inserted here. The markup items specified on this page will appear in the head after all of the auto-generated items listed above. By default, there is nothing listed here.

Body

This page defines the content that will be placed in the body of the navigation page created by this layout.

Move Up and Move Down

The order that the items are listed in the box matches the order that they will appear at the top of each page. Use these two buttons to adjust the order as needed.

Remove

Highlight an entry and click this button to remove entries that are not wanted. This only removes the entry from inclusion at the top of each page, the definition of the entry is NOT removed by clicking this button.

Add

Click this to add entries to the top of each page in the layout. The following items may be placed in the top:

• Markup Item - A text and HTML markup item defined under Output Markup Items.

• Navigation Element - A navigation element defined under Add Navigation Element.

Head

Allows you to add markup items to be placed in the HTML <head> of each output file.

Page Top

Allows you to specify items to be placed at the top of each output page. The following items may be placed:

• Header - The header from the input document.

• Navigation Item - A navigation item defined under Add Navigation Element.

• Document Property - A document property defined under Document Property.

• Markup Item - A text and HTML markup item defined under Output Markup Items.

• Text Element - A text element defined under Text Element.

Before Content

Allows you to specify markup items to be output before the document content. The following items may be placed:

• Document Property - A document property defined under Document Property.

• Markup Item - A text and HTML markup item defined under Output Markup Items.

• Text Element - A text element defined under Text Element.

Before Section

Allows you to specify items to be inserted before each section of a multi-section document. Note that this is not applicable to word-processing documents. The following items may be placed:

• Section Name - The Section name from the input document.

• Document Property - A document property defined under Document Property.

• Markup Item - A text and HTML markup item defined under Output Markup Items.

• Text Element - A text element defined under Text Element.

After Content

Allows you to specify items to be output after the document content. The following items may be placed:

• Header - The header from the input document.

• Footer - The footer from the input document.

• Document Property - A document property defined under Document Property.

• Markup Item - A text and HTML markup item defined under Output Markup Items.

• Text Element - A text element defined under Text Element.

Page Bottom

Allows you to specify items to be placed at the bottom of each output page, for example, a copyright notice. The following items may be placed:

• Footer - The footer from the input document.

• Navigation Item - A navigation item defined under Add Navigation Element.

• Document Property - A document property defined under Document Property.

• Markup Item - A text and HTML markup item defined under Output Markup Items.

• Text Element - A text element defined under Text Element.