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  • SKU: XFDESIGNER


Layout editor that handles the complex parameters required for professional publishing. Templates created in XF Designer are based on open standards such us XSL-FO and SVG and can be used at runtime to format XML data.

XF Designer is an advanced, operational template design tool. It is a highly comprehensive application for designing complex, rich templates to drive the dynamic and mission critical documents your organisation produces. With this visual design tool and its unparalleled features, your users can develop designs with efficiency and precision that will really speak to your customers. Its intuitive platform makes the creation of highly intricate and content rich documents rife with 100% dynamic text, tables, sections, charts, graphs, media objects and 3D graphics faster and easier than ever.

Key Features

  • Based On Open-Standards: Provides the peace of mind to know that you are not being locked into a proprietary solution and will be able to adapt as your needs change
  • Visual Design Interface: Provides an intuitive interface for designing templates that can be effectively accessed by non-technical users
  • Drag and Drop Functionality: Makes the design of highly stimulating and comprehensive templates easy because you can simply drag items to where you want them
  • Text/Code Editing Capabilities: Provides functionality so that more technologically advanced users can easily access the Designer via the code view if they prefer
  • Allows For XSL/XSL-FO Exporting: Users can easily populate the templates you design with dynamic data for document production
  • Forms: Create compelling interactive documents that your users can populate, and you can record usage
  • Repeating Content: Saves tremendous amounts of time and resources by allowing users to save and reuse content across templates for sections that occur often
  • Charting and Graphing: Provide graphical representations of data to better inform customers and produce more valuable communications
  • Advanced Imaging: Produces the most compelling documents by accommodating rich imaging into documents
  • 3D Objects: Support for 3D objects in PDF output for compelling document creation
  • Customised Headers and Footers: Makes it easy to include consistent branding, logos, and page numbering, etc across the document
  • Barcodes, QR Codes: Can implement tracking and promotional coding directly into templates. Also really helpful for relaying information to printers and sorting machines
  • Cascading Style Sheets: Simplifies the creation of consistent formatting, layouts and more
  • Translations: Easily set up translations of your document to accommodate multi-lingual versions of static content
  • Comprehensive Logic Features: Allows designers to create conditions within the template so certain sections display only when dictated by the data
  • Advanced Publishing Capabilities: Provides the ability to create rich magazines, brochures, etc and have images, tables, titles or content blocks span several pages
  • Advanced Printing: Incorporate advanced printing options such as postscript, duplex, and more.
  • Document Protection: Include security features to ensure password protection for entire document or lock down sections to disable user editing.