“I can’t believe how well the design tool is designed. There is almost no learning curve… overflow… positions… everything! All those little things that used to be workarounds or multiple steps are now check boxes and options. It’s flowing like butter… like I’ve been using the app all along.”

Universal Template

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”-Albert Einstein

Our product development is not only driven by customer feedback” and our “Universal Template” strategy. The approach examines all variables that impact an organization, such as company acquisitions, international coverage, and regulatory changes. Although most of these changes are good, indicating company growth, they also come at the cost of time, financial investment, and personnel resources. At Eclipse, we believe you should not have to rely on your Information Technology team to make content changes. Instead, design a single, intelligent, universal template that defines a placeholder for variable information. As a result, content changes remain in the hands of the owner, who provides the updated resource(s).

XML Structured Templates

DocOrigin Design template files (.xatw) are structured XML files. This structure mirrors the final output document structure generated by DocOrigin Merge. The Form Explorer window displays this structure as an additional view to the normal drawing canvas. Within the Form Explorer, the designer can select, modify, reorder or rename objects.

Unicode Compliant Text

All text handling in the DocOrigin product uses standard Unicode character encoding including appropriate support for UTF-16 handling of conjugate pairs. This means there is no need to manage 8-bit symbolset switching. All text and field objects include handling of typeface, size, style (bold, italic), color, and underlining. As well, automatic conversion of RTF encoded text enables convenient cut/paste from external word processors.

Dynamic Multi-Page Documents

DocOrigin Design can create static or dynamic documents with any number of pages. Tables and panes are “dynamic” objects that adapt to the runtime (DocOrigin Merge) data requirements. This means that a document will contain repeating table rows, and headers and footers, as required. Design allows the setting of page sizes, orientation, duplexing and number of print copies on a page-by-page basis easily and directly, with no complicated script or “preamble.”

Object Fragment Libraries

With DocOrigin Design you can create libraries of standard Fields, Address blocks, or other structures that you commonly need in multiple forms. Objects from these Fragment Libraries can be linked or embedded into a new form quickly and easily. Linked objected are automatically updated across all form templates when the master library is updated.

Sample Data View

The Data Explorer window may be used to display the structure of a target or sample data file that will be merged with the template. Simple drag-and-drop techniques create fields and tables quickly and accurately, thus streamlining and simplifying the template creation process, and ensuring templates correctly match the data stream.

Table Handling

Tables can easily be created with repeating rows, column spanning, row spanning, and header and footer rows. Table attributes can enable splitting across pages when necessary, with full control on repeated headers and footers.