XSL Formatter V4.3 offers support for 64 bit Windows Systems, CGM images (as an option), INX output (as an option) Unicode 5.0, PDF Acrobat Forms (AcroForms), PDF Digital Signatures, PDF/A, PostScript� Output (as an option) and numerous other enhancements.

V4 is the fastest XSL formatting software available.In batch mode V4 can start to produce PDF output immediately from the inputted XSL-FO file. Furthermore V4.3 improves the performance on a multi-processor system.

Antenna House Formatter 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.

XSL Formatter V4.3 supports PDF/X. PDF/X is a specification that places much value on exchanging date and defined by ISO for printing purpose. PDF/A is a format for long-term preservation of an electronic document and it is also defined by ISO.

XSL Formatter V4.3 can generate the Tagged PDF for enhancing the accessibility to persons with sight problems. This is a function indispensable to comply with Section 508, the law of the United States enforced on June 21, 2001.

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.

XSL Formatter PostScript Output Option makes PostScript^® output available. With the new SVG Output module it is now possible to create SVG 1.1, SVG Basic, and SVG Tiny files using XSL Formatter V4.3. This function requires XSL Formatter SVG Output Option.

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.

An arbitrary page of other PDF can be embedded into PDF.

XSL Formatter V4.3 implements a lot of Extensions that cannot be achieved with XSL1.0. For instance, the following extensions are provided.

• Outputs PDF in Multi Separate Volume
• Outputs bookmark, link for PDF
• Annotation for PDF
• AcroForm in PDF output
• Printer marks such as a crop mark
• Line numbering
• Footnote numbering
• Footnotes and sidenotes per column
• Columns inside of a block
• Column rule, Diagonal border, Rounding border
• Condensing of the overflowed text
• Trimming and Hanging of punctuation

XSL Formatter Chart Option is a new option for Antenna House XSL Formatter V4.3 providing the ability to draw high quality images of Microsoft® Excel Chart as vector without the degradation caused by scaling, etc.

XSL Formatter V4 provides the ability for more than 1000 PANTONE® Colors to be converted into RGB or CMYK values automatically by using XSL Formatter PANTONE® Option. Possible to specify the PANTONE® colors for separation color (spot color) simply by putting only the name of the PANTONE® colors in FO.

Web Service Interface V2.2 is an option for Antenna House XSL Formatter Server Licenses to further support the use of XSL Formatter V4.3 via the Internet using SOAP/HTTP.

XSL Formatter V4 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.

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.

V4.3 makes it possible to draw high-resolution MathML in PDF by using XSL Formatter MathML Option.

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.

V4.3 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.

The former "Hyphenation Option" is now a standard part of Formatter. The 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.