SOL palette gets visible when you select the menu "Utilities-Show Special Object Library". After this you get a new palette, which looks like this:

The palette has one PopUp for selecting the library catalog you want to browse, and three alignment buttons for aligning the elements, after exported to html. A preview, if available is shown in the preview window, when an item is selected.

How to put elements in the Special Object Library:

All elements, which will be visible in the SOL palette, have to be put in the Standard folder in your selected "MainPath" folder. In this example, it is located in the "Archive" folder.

All folders in the Standards folder will be shown in the SOL PopUp. In these folders you keep the elements you might want to use for your pages.

There is no limitation of how many folders you keep in the Special Object library, you can add new elements as you want.

How to select Items from the SOL Palette:

In the beginning of this manual you have learned how to Shift-Select items from the Quark page in the order you want and then convert them to HTML. The SOL items can be added to the pages just like all other elements.

Here is an example: We want to add an image from outside between the subheadline and the main text.

Just select the main Headline "HexMac Presents", select the subheadline box, go to the SOL palette, select the "Images" PopUp, select the "cd3.gif" by double-clicking it, click the left align button and go back to the page and select the main text box. Now you are ready for export.

Note: The red checkmark indicates, that the image is selected for output.

As you see, the image from Special Object Library is mixed to the HTML page we just created!

How to use different formats with SOL:

Here we explain, how you should put your elements in the folders, to make it possible for SOL to use them.

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1. GIF or JPEG images:

Just put the images in the folders. A preview can be shown in the preview window. The HSPACE and VSPACE values are automatically added to the images.

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2. QuickTime movies:

Just put the movies in the folders, be sure that they have the suffix .mov.
If the movies have a preview, it will be shown.
NOTE: You need to set the MIME type in your Web Server right to let movies be loaded.

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3. SHOCKWAVE Animations:

Because SHOCKWAVE Animations are EMBEDDED to the pages, you need to set up a text document, which contains only the EMBED tagging, for each SHOCKWAVE Animation, give it the name of the animation like shock.html, and put the .DCR file in a subfolder, so that it will not directly be shown in the palette.

Here is an example of the content for the Shockwave anomation called shock.dcr:

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4. JAVA Applets:

JAVA Applets are also embedded to the HTML pages, so they also be set up the same way as SHOCKWAVE.

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5. Any HTML or TEXT documents:

It is very powerful to use SOL for storing of often used tags or HTML parts.

You can for example create several special tags like Font colour start and Font colour end, Forms, Database queries, a.s.o.

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TIP1: If you want to export articles from XPress into tables, just create the table document, cut it to a header and a footer and use SOL to connest the parts with the Text in the middle. All you have to do is to set up the tags in a text file and call it "xxxname".html.

TIP2: If you click the option key and double click an item in SOL, it will be opened with the original editor. If you double click an item with the control key down, Netscape preview of that item is shown.

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