AH XSL Formatter V3.1 R1 is now available.

March 24, 2004

 

Enhancements
XSL-FO Specifications

  • fo:bidi-override
  • fo:float
  • fo:footnote
  • fo:footnote-body
  • fo:marker
  • fo:retrieve-marker
  • fo:title

Properties

  • source-document
  • role
  • font-stretch
  • relative-align
  • text-transform
  • clear
  • float
  • intrusion-displace
  • overflow
  • span
  • marker-class-name
  • retrieve-class-name
  • retrieve-position
  • retrieve-boundary
  • direction
  • unicode-bidi
  • z-index

CMYK color is newly supported
Extensions are newly implemented

  • axf:document-info

The following axf properties are implemented

  • axf:append-non-end-of-line-characters
  • axf:append-non-starter-characters
  • axf:background-color
  • axf:background-image
  • axf:column-rule-align
  • axf:column-rule-color
  • axf:column-rule-length
  • axf:column-rule-style
  • axf:column-rule-width
  • axf:except-non-end-of-line-characters
  • axf:except-non-starter-characters
  • axf:footnote-position
  • axf:hanging-punctuation
  • axf:justify-nbsp
  • axf:line-break
  • axf:line-break-at-punctuation-in-word
  • axf:origin-id
  • axf:overflow-condense
  • axf:overflow-replace
  • axf:page-number-prefix
  • axf:physical-page-number
  • axf:revision-bar-color
  • axf:revision-bar-offset
  • axf:revision-bar-position
  • axf:revision-bar-style
  • axf:revision-bar-width
  • axf:suppress-duplicate-page-number
  • axf:text-kashida-space

The following values of the XSL-FO properties are extended

  • clear
  • float
  • overflow
  • font-stretch

Supports Arabic, Hebrew and Thai

It's now available to output these languages to PDF with not only Windows but also XSL Formatter Solaris/Linux version.

Enables to output PDF 1.4, 1.5

Based on this, now it's possible to control the functions with PDF1.4, 1.5. The following PDF settings are newly added.

  • pdf-version : Specifies the PDF version to output. It's possible to specify 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5.
  • encryption-level : Specifies the encryption level. It's possible to specify 40bit and 128bit.
  • no-fill-form : Prohibits filling in of form field and signing of the PDF file.
  • no-accessibility : Prohibits the text access for screen reader devices.
  • no-assemble-doc : Prohibits inserting, deleting and rotating of pages.

Other enhancements

  • SVG functions are enhanced.
  • The image reader of WMF/EMF is newly developed. Now it's possible to embed WMF/EMF drawing as vector in PDF. This function is available with XSL Formatter Windows/Solaris/Linux version.
  • Function of setting transparent color PNG, GIF, and setting Alpha channel PNG, TIFF in PDF are added. (Transparent color is available with PDF 1.3, setting of Alpha channel is available with PDF 1.4 or more.)
  • Function of decompressing ZIP compressed TIFF files (Photoshop extension) is added.
  • Function of getting a preview image in EPS with XSL Formatter Solaris/Linux version is added.
  • GUI is provided. (Windows version only)
  • Properties and methods are newly added to the COM Interface and the .NET Interface. For example, the Render method enables to get the .NET native parser output (XML, XSLT output). (Windows version only)
  • Function to input DOM seamlessly by the .NET Interface is added. (Windows version only)
  • Discloses the function of the text output.
  • Limits the period of evaluation version XSL Formatter to 90 days.
  • It's now possible to create PDF by specifying DeviceGray when the Grayscale color is specified.
  • It's now possible to format the high-quality FO layout.
    e.g.
    • Possible to break pages in the block-container which has no setting of height.
    • Possible to break pages in the cell within the nested table.