Disable Hyphenation by Default?

[Developer]

The User Guide explains how to turn off hyphenation for individual paragraphs, but is there a way to disable hyphenation by default?

 

Our marketing department has specified we are never to hyphenate lines. It would be much more efficient to disable hyphenation by default rather than turn off individually by paragraph with each new document that is created.

 

I am running FusionPro VDP Designer version 8.2.7, with Adobe Acrobat 10.0.0, on Windows 7 64-bit.

 

Thank you in advance for your help!

[ThomasLewis]

I don't know of any preference to globally turn it off (I would vote for it be added too) however you could try adding this to OnRecordStart:

for (var f in FusionPro.Fields)
{
   var text = '<p br="false" hyphenate="false">' + FusionPro.Fields[f];
   FusionPro.Composition.AddVariable(f, text, true)
}

 

Check out this post here though first http://forums.pti.com/showthread.php?p=10590

The fields have to be called into the frames directly for this to work so you will likely still have to manually set them in areas. It's worth a try though.

[Dan Korn]

On the Advanced tab of the Composition Settings dialog, change the Hypenation Ruleset to something obscure, such as Finnish. It's unlikely that FusionPro will hyphenate much English text with that setting.

[Developer]

Thank you Thomas and Dan for your replies! I will have to experiment with both the AddVariable method and the changing the dictionary method.