XSL Formatter V4.2 Lite formats an XML documents/data/forms with high speed and lower priceWhat is V4.2 Lite?
XSL Formatter V4.2 Lite is a popular version of XSL Formatter V4.2, it deletes some of the professional
functions of V4.2 (hereafter Standard) and is a lower-cost alternative to
V4.2 Standard. V4.2 Lite is suitable for customers who don't need the
multilingual function, formatting a great deal of pages, etc. But it's
still full of many other attractive functions.
What is the difference?
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XSL Formatter V4.2 Lite |
XSL Formatter V4.2 Standard |
| Price |
Server |
$1,500.00 excluding 90day warranty |
$5,000.00 including 90day warranty |
Additional
prosessor |
$1,200.00 excluding 90day warranty | $4,000.00 including 90day warranty |
| Developer |
$900.00 excluding 90day warranty | $3,000.00 including 90day warranty |
| Standalone |
$300.00 excluding 90day warranty | $1,250.00 including 90day warranty |
| Formatted page number |
Total page number of the formatted pages are limited to 300 per 1 document.
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Standard can format a document of virtually any size whether it is a publication, tens of thousands of invoices, reports or personalized one to one documents.
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| Multilingual support |
Arabic, Hebrew and Thai are not supported.
Japanese, Chinese and Korean are not supported. Though the characters are displayed, the vertical writing mode, adjustment of punctuation, etc., are not performed.
fo:bidi-override, unicode-bidi, direction and writing-mode are not supported.
| Supports almost any language which is supported by Unicode including Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana), Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Hangul, Arabic, Hebrew and Thai. It offers the abilities to write in vertical mode, to run the text from right to left as in Arabic and Hebrew and also to create multilingual documents with language mixtures on the same page and even on the same line.
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| FO and properties |
Some of the FO properties, AXF extesions, FO encodings regarding CJK HAT languages are not supported.
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Supports FO properties, AXF extensions and FO encodidngs regarding CJK HAT languages.
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| Auto layout of the table |
The auto layout of the table is not supported. Table-layout="auto"is invalid. Be sure to use the fixed layout when creating a table.
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Supports table-layout="auto." in the XSL-FO specification, which is not supported by many of the formatting software. This function arranges the table layout suitably without specifying the width of a cell. It's suitable for almost all tables which do not require the strict value of the width, and is very convenient. When the formatting speed poses a problem, please specify table-layout="fixed" instead and specify fixed width in all cells.
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| Text output |
Not supported.
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Supports to output text.
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| Area tree |
Impossible to input/output the area tree.
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Possible to input/output the area tree.
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| XSL Report Designer |
Impossible to format by setting the Project file of Antenna House XSL Report Designer.
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Possible to format by setting the Project file of Antenna House XSL Report Designer.
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| Chart Option |
Impossible to use Chart Option to draw Microsoft® Excel Chart.
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Possible to draw Microsoft® Excel Chart as a vector image by specifying the target sheet and the chart of the Excel file in FO.
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| Tagged PDF, PDF X, PDF Forms |
Not supported.
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Supports PDF/X that places much value on exchange data, PDF/A, AcroForms and Tagged PDF.
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| PDF Digital Signature |
Not supported.
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Possible to apply PDF Digital Signature by utilizing Antenna House Digital Signature Module.
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| PANTONE® colors |
Impossible to specify the PANTONE® colors.
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Supports PANTONE® colors by PANTONE® Option. It's now possible to specify the PANTONE® colors for separation color (spot color) simply by putting only the name of the PANTONE® colors in FO.
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| WordML |
Impossible to format WordML without specifying a stylesheet.
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Possible to format WordML without specifying a stylesheet.
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What can we do with V4.2 Lite?
XSL Formatter V4.2 Lite has lots of attractive high-quality functions. V4.2 Lite provides customers with lots of capabilities retaining the same abilities as V4.2 Standard. These functions shown below are provided as well as V4.2 Standard.
| PDF output on a server with PDF direct creation module |
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PDF output is a standard function of V4.2 Lite. An unlimited number of users can now convert XML to PDF on a web server by utilizing our PDF direct creation engine. Antenna House has added numerous extensions to provide for document information in the PDF, security and many other functions.
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| Integration Interface |
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Antenna House provides Command line interface, .NET interface, COM interface, Java interface and C++/C interface. The various interfaces make for easy system integration of Formatter with web applications, content management systems, and other software products.
The .NET interface and the COM interface are available for Windows only.
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With the new SVG Output module it is now possible to create SVG 1.1, SVG Basic, and SVG Tiny files using XSL Formatter V4.2. This function requires XSL Formatter SVG Output Option.
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| High quality PDF for SVG, MathML, EMF and WMF |
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Vector information for SVG, MathML, EMF and WMF is retained in PDF, thus enhancing the quality of output images and meeting the increasing demand for delivery of vectors in the output.
V4.2 Lite makes it possible to draw high-resolution MathML in PDF by using XSL Formatter MathML Option.
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| Searching on a screen |
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On a screen, it's possible to search a sequence of characters or a property in the formatted result.
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| High speed |
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V4 Lite is the fastest XSL formatting software available and is significantly faster then XSL Formatter V2. In batch mode V4 Lite can start to produce PDF output immediately from the inputted XSL-FO file.
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| Possible to get the .NET native parser output |
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With the .NET Interface when XSL-FO is generated from XML and XSL using an
XSLT processor that transformation can now be passed directly and seamlessly
to Formatter without passing it through a temporary file first.
The .NET and the COM interfaces can now also get the DOM directly without
passing through a temporary file. This has the effect of slightly improving
performance.
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| Possible to hyphenate over 40 or more languages |
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The former "Hyphenation Option" is now a standard part of Formatter.he Hyphenation function integrates the very powerful hyphenation algorithms from Computer Hyphenation Ltd., which enhances the quality of hyphenation and greatly simplifies setting up Formatter to hyphenate over 40 different languages.
For additional information please visit Computer Hyphenation's website.
| | Direct Printer output |
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In Windows version, it's possible to output the formatted result directly to the printer without passing through PDF. It's also possible to get the formatted result and print it immediately by using GUI.
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The Evaluation version
The Evaluation version of XSL Formatter V4 Lite is not provided. Please download the evaluation version of V4.2 standard and choose whether you purchase V4.2 Standard or V4.2 Lite after the evaluation.
XSL Formatter V4.2 Lite has some limited functions. When you purcase XSL Formatter Lite after the evaluation, some of the functions of this evaluation version are not available.
Maintenance Service Key
When a customer purchases Antenna House XSL Formatter V4.2 Lite they receive a Product Key and a Maintenance Service Key. These keys which are copied into the directory where the evaluation software has been installed removes all restrictions from the evaluation version of XSL Formatter V4.2 Lite . Without the Keys Formatter can be used for evaluation purposes only.
Support
XSL Formatter V4.2 Lite is not provided with a 90 days warranty. Customer must purchase an Annual Maintenance Contract to receive maintenance releases and upgrade versions.
Without maintenance contract, one to one support is not provided with XSL Formatter V4.2 Lite. Support is provided only with XSL Formatter Mailing List.
For subscribing please see:
For further information, please refer to Q&A Page on our web site.
Antenna House provides numerous XSL-FO samples for testing and learning purpose. Please see:
For more information, maintenance contract and service needs, please contact us by e-mail.
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