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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>Andy:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>Well it does go without saying that Java is required. We
could bundle Java with the application but why bundle a 50MB download with 2MB
one? I would say 95% of people who download XEP already have Java installed and
certainly want to use their version and not one we specify in the downloader.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>If you are on Windows and Java is installed, you can just
double-click the setup*.jar. It is a self-extracting installer and would run.
On Windows, double clicking a JAR file will run the Java client which is
automatically associated with *.jar files.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>So, just unzip and double click "</span><tt><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>setup-4.15-20090409-personal.jar"
... it will run.<o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><tt><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></tt></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><tt><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:windowtext'>Kevin</span></tt><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> owner-xep-support@renderx.com
[mailto:owner-xep-support@renderx.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Andy Black<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 24, 2009 4:26 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> xep-support@renderx.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [xep-support] Requests for version 4.17<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On 6/24/2009 2:54 PM, Kevin Brown wrote: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Andy:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>1) I'm not sure which version you are talking about XEP or
XEPWin. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><br>
XEP.<br>
<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>But either have installers that run just by double clicking
them. You must mean post-install configuration or something. Please expand (or
email me directly at <a href="mailto:kevin@renderx.com">kevin@renderx.com</a>)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><br>
I'm delighted to hear that you have such installers, but I have yet to see
them. Please tell me what I am missing.<br>
<br>
I just went to the RenderX site and asked for a trial license. It says
I'll get an email.<br>
<br>
When the email comes, it says<br>
<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<pre><tt>"Thank you for requesting a download of RenderX software. Your trial license key is attached to this e-mail. <o:p></o:p></tt></pre><pre><tt><o:p> </o:p></tt></pre><pre><tt>1) Save this file to your hard drive <o:p></o:p></tt></pre><pre><tt>2) Visit <a
href="http://www.renderx.com/download/updates.html">http://www.renderx.com/download/updates.html</a> <o:p></o:p></tt></pre><pre><tt>3) Using the top form on this page, click the "browse" button and find the license key file you saved in step (1) <o:p></o:p></tt></pre><pre><tt>4) Click the "update" button and a new browser window will open with links to download the requested software <o:p></o:p></tt></pre><pre><tt>5) Download the appropriate zip files and unzip to a temporary location <o:p></o:p></tt></pre><pre><tt>6) Installation instructions are included in each zip file "<o:p></o:p></tt></pre>
<p class=MsoNormal><br>
Please note that this is now at least eight steps.<br>
<br>
And, after downloading and unzipping, when one opens the readme.txt file, the
instructions say:<br>
<br>
<tt><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>"...</span></tt><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
<tt>2. Installation</tt><br>
<br>
<tt> A. Ensure you have a Java VM installed. If you have
multiple VMs </tt><br>
<tt> on your computer, pick one of them.
The installation wizard </tt><br>
<tt> configures XEP to run on the
same Java VM that was used for </tt><br>
<tt> setup; you can change this later. </tt><br>
<tt> </tt><br>
<tt> B. Run the setup from the jar file, using a Java VM of your choice.</tt><br>
<tt> You can run the jar by typing
the following command on the</tt><br>
<tt> prompt:</tt><br>
<tt> </tt><br>
<tt> java -jar setup-4.15-20090409-personal.jar</tt><br>
<tt> </tt><br>
<tt> You will be prompted for the target
directory name. Type the </tt><br>
<tt> path in the edit box, or choose a directory by pressing
"Browse" </tt><br>
<tt> button. You can also
automatically activate XEP by pointing</tt><br>
<tt> installer to your license file (you can perform
activation later</tt><br>
<tt> if you don't have your license file at hand during
setup).</tt><br>
<tt> You can also run setup in console mode by adding
'-c' switch to</tt><br>
<tt> the command line:</tt><br>
<br>
<tt> java -jar setup-4.15-20090409-personal.jar
-c</tt><br>
<tt> </tt><br>
<tt> During the installation system copies all files to the
specified</tt><br>
<tt> location and sets up necessary configuration
files. "</tt><br>
<br>
</span><br>
Note that this makes it appear (to me at least) that there are several more
steps:<br>
1. Make sure you have a Java VM (my users will not have any idea what this
means)<br>
2. Open up a Windows console window (some of my users will know what this is)<br>
3. Type in the "<tt><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>java -jar
setup-4.15-20090409-personal.jar" </span></tt>command (or one can copy and
paste if one knows how to do that in a Windows console window).<br>
<br>
Once one does all these, the installer is indeed running.<br>
<br>
Unfortunately, I fail to see where in all of this process it is possible to
double-click on an installer. In my experience, a typical installer on
Windows has a file extension of either .msi or .exe, so maybe that's is part of
what I am missing. Please help me understand what you are referring
to. Thanks.<br>
<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>2) XEP (Java) includes XEP Assistant which can be used to
directly edit the fonts configuration through a GUI. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><br>
Yes, this is what I was trying to refer to in my original message (point 2
below). When I've tried to do this, I can browse to where my fonts are
(C:\Windows\Fonts), but no font files show at all in the dialog. I tried
looking at the help file for XEP Assistant, but did not find anything (maybe
it's there and I just missed it, though).<br>
<br>
--Andy<br>
<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>We can add such things to XEPWin either in the assistant or an
separate application maybe.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Kevin</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> <a
href="mailto:owner-xep-support@renderx.com">owner-xep-support@renderx.com</a> [<a
href="mailto:owner-xep-support@renderx.com">mailto:owner-xep-support@renderx.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Andy Black<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 24, 2009 9:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:xep-support@renderx.com">xep-support@renderx.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [xep-support] Requests for version 4.17</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>(Starting a new thread with appropriate title)<br>
<br>
I have two requests:<br>
<br>
1. An installer that is quick and easy to use. Currently, one needs
someone who is computer-savvy in order to install XEP. It really bothers
me that when I want to tell someone about the abilities of XEP I always have to
provide a caveat that it is really hard to install (something like 22 steps on
a Windows system).<br>
<br>
2. Related to this would be an ability to easily add fonts to XEP's
configuration file (just navigate to where the font files are located, say, and
select the ones you want). Now one has to write XML or figure out how to
use the Fonts section of the Edit Options in XEP Assistant (something I have
yet to succeed in doing).<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
<br>
--Andy<br>
<br>
On 24 Jun 2009, at 15:47, Kevin Brown wrote: <br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Daniel: <br>
<br>
Yes we have had a few requests for two-up continuous. It is on our product
marketing requirements list for a future release. XEP 4.16 will be released
shortly and after that we will begin the process of deciding which
functionality makes it into 4.17. <br>
<br>
I would welcome an open discussion on this forum if you like ... kind of a
virtual product management meeting. We weigh the time to develop along with the
demand and marketplace <br>
<br>
Other items that have been offered in no particular order include: <br>
<br>
PDF Annotations <br>
Extended "graphic" support in PDF to include multimedia types (of
course only valid for PDF Formats): <br>
Flash <br>
MPEG <br>
Other video <br>
SVG enhancements <br>
svg:feOffset <br>
svg:feBlend <br>
svg:TextPath <br>
Table markers <br>
XPS Output <br>
XPS Input as a image (actually this is already done at customers as they do
XPS->XEPOUT and that is supported as an image) <br>
PPML Output <br>
XForms Output <br>
Native support for charts or incorporation of a Chart Server component <br>
Support for Indic languages <br>
<br>
Of course, this is not a list of all things in 4.17, this is a list of
candidate functionality. Certainly major features like table markers or a new
backend one would find one, maybe two in a release that takes place every 4 to
5 months. <br>
<br>
The disscussion is open to all. Please chime in with your own desired features,
All these requirements are managed on an internal Wiki and I am the gatekeeper.
<br>
<br>
Kevin Brown <br>
Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing <br>
RenderX, Inc. <br>
(650) 327-1000 Direct <br>
(650) 328-8008 Fax <br>
(925) 395-1772 Mobile <br>
<a href="skype:kbrown01">skype:kbrown01</a> <br>
<a href="mailto:kevin@renderx.com">kevin@renderx.com</a> <br>
<a href="mailto:sales@renderx.com">sales@renderx.com</a> <br>
<a href="http://www.renderx.com">http://www.renderx.com</a> <br>
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