TouchPro V6.0.1

The requests that I’d received to have multiple saved settings in TouchPro looked a really good idea to me because it fitted perfectly with my own usage of TouchPro. It seemed like a no-brainer to have them incorporated as the core modus operandi for V6.0; but I was wrong!

TouchPro V6 Changes

Although there are few core changes to TouchPro for this version, some parts of the UI and its functionality have changed considerably. I’ll try to explain my rationale for the changes…

Hard link facility in ExpPrint

With the release of ExpPrint 6.3 it now has the ability to identify hard linked files.

A key point to know about the operating system’s implementation of hard links is that there isn’t really an original file with others that link to it.

There’s a good explanation of hard links on Wikipedia here, but in brief, the idea that a file is contained insider a folder isn’t the full story…

ExpPrint 6.3 Release

While this is only a minor release, there are a few additions that may benefit from some additional background information.

Changes resulting from the new EUVAT rules on 1 Jan 2015 (VATMOSS)

On the 1 Jan 2015 new EU VAT rules come into force that require anyone in the world selling “digital services” to consumers in the EU to charge VAT on the sale regardless of any national VAT exemption status for low turnover businesses.

Folders First!

I was recently asked whether it was possible to have ExpPrint list sub-folders before the file items in a folder. I had to admit that it wasn’t something I remember considering and so it wasn’t currently an option. However, with a bit of editing of the XSLT it is achievable.

Inside ExpPrint 6.2 Changes

A customer recently suggested that it’d be much better if ExpPrint could produce stand-alone HTML files so that anyone with a suitable modern web browser could see the same presentation without needing ExpPrint installed. Since this was something I’d always intended to have (but hadn’t found how to do it), I thought I’d have another look into it.