ANN: New layer capabilities with Presentation Asst v3 (TimeSavers add-on)

The Layer Assistant was recently integrated into the Presentation Assistant (v.3), offering the following capabilities:
Text/Symbol Layer shortcuts
Add the specified string, associated with a layer (with control over font, size and color; horizontal/vertical location adjustment)
Shape Layer shortcuts
(rectangle, rounded rectangle, shaded rectangle and circle; can control fill/border color, line width)
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-- optionally specify that the shape border is visible at all times, regardless of the layer and its visibility
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Specific layers can be set as initially hidden or as non-printing (through the settings files or through shortcuts)
Support for transparency of shapes and JPEG images
Visit http://www.microtype.com/showcasePresentAsst.html for PDFs demonstrating the new capabilities
[ FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers v5.5 required ]
Shlomo Perets
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Tuesday, August 18: Enhancing PDFs with Form Fields (with FM-to-Acrobat TimeSavers + Form Asst)
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Thursday, Sept. 10: Liven up your PDFs with FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers/Assistants
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Thanks gimbal2
but I am using the standard TopLink JPA provider shipped with Glassfish. The Eclipse code is called from the standard Glassfish v3 setup. The eclipse code below Here is my persistence domain descriptor:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="1.0">
<persistence-unit name="persistence_sbss">
<provider>oracle.toplink.essentials.ejb.cmp3.EntityManagerFactoryProvider</provider>
<jta-data-source>sbssJdbcResource</jta-data-source>
<non-jta-data-source>sbssJdbcResource</non-jta-data-source>
<properties>
<property name="toplink.ddl-generation" value="drop-and-create-tables"/>

</properties>
</persistence-unit>
</persistence>
I will try and find the source code though.
Edited by: FritzSolmsA on Mar 10, 2010 11:45 AMg
Edited by: FritzSolmsA on Mar 10, 2010 12:40 PM

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