Setting Hidden Parameters

To set a hidden parameter, you treat it like any other parameter for that specific import or export filter as outlined in the upCast Manual for either the upCast API or the BCF language.

To set a hidden parameter in the UI version, you need to edit the upCast configuration file. Do not edit preferences.plist while upCast is running, since it will be rewritten with the then current internal upCast parameter pool on application exit. You need to add a key/value pair at the appropriate structure level like

<key>HiddenKeyName</key>
<integer>23</integer>

with the second element's tag name corresponding to the given datatype in the tables below. For more details, see the configuration file format documentation.

RTF Import Filter

Name	IncludeCharStyleInlines
Type	boolean
Values	true \| false
Default	false
Description	By default, CSS properties that compose a character style which is active at a certain document position do not get repeated as explicit properties in the element's `style` attribute. However, if you do not parse character style information from the document's stylesheet, it may be useful to also have the actual properties of the character style in effect repeated explicitly on an element. This can be achieved by setting this parameter to `true`.

Name	InlineResolutionAlgorithm
Type	string
Values	'preferBiggestRange' \| 'preferSameRange'
Default	'preferBiggestRange'
Description	This parameter determines which algorithm should be used to condense and minimize inlines when using the default InlineProcessorClass setting. Currently, only '`preferBiggestRange`' is implemented and that algorithm is always used, regardless of the setting of this parameter. '`preferBiggestRange`' sorts active inline character properties at every character position in paragraph content by the number of contigously spanned characters. Those character properties that span the most characters contiguously are sorted into the direction of the document root so they are first entered in a final document's depth first traversal.

XML (upCast DTD)

Name	CSSRef
Type	string
Values	`name of CSS file to link to (absolute or relative)`
Default	(undefined)
Description	When using the XML export filter and you have set the `IncludeVisual` proprty to `true`, you must set this property explicitly to a valid value. This is the literal text that will be inserted in the <?xml-stylesheet ... ?> processing instruction: `<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="value"?>`

Global

Name	DeleteTemporaryFile
Type	boolean
Values	true \| false
Default	true
Description	When this is false, temporary .rtf files generated by WordLink are not deleted automatically after a conversion. This may be useful for debugging. You should leave this at 'true' as otherwise, temporary and probably big files will be left over and fill your storage device(s).