Last Wednesday, Tony Graham presented Accessibility Matters, an educational webinar hosted by Xplor International. We had many Antenna House customers and partners in attendance as well Xplor members interested in this topic. It was a great opportunity for people to learn about how and why accessibility matters in the digital world. For those that missed […]

Antenna House will be exhibiting at the annual TCWorld/tekom conference in Stuttgart, Germany on November 12-14, 2019. Meet us at Booth 2/F22! At TCWorld, we will be showing the latest version of Antenna House Formatter along with PDF5-ML (a PDF transformation plugin that works with the DITA-OT), the AH Regression Testing System for a visual PDF […]

Antenna House will be exhibiting and presenting at DITA Europe 2019 on November 7-8 in Brussels, Belgium. Join colleagues from around the world for two days of career-empowering knowledge, practices, networking, and practical solutions. With insights from nearly 50 presenters, 17 Sessions in the Technology Test Kitchen, an exhibit hall packed with the best content […]

Antenna House will be exhibiting at S1000D User Forum & ILS Specification Day on October 14-17 in London, UK. Through a mix of tutorials, product demonstrations and keynotes from senior industry figures, including Nigel Whitehead, Chief Technology Officer, BAE Systems, the event will bring together some 300 aerospace & defence professionals. This presents the ideal […]

Join us for Accessibility Matters hosted by Xplor and presented by Tony Graham on Wednesday, October 16, at 1:00 PM EDT. XML, by itself, does not have any support for accessibility. XML is extremely flexible, but it needs to flex in the right directions if it is going to support the information necessary to make […]

December 19, 2019 Enhancements: When the rounded corner is specified, the rounded corner is applied even when the border-style is dotted, dashed, dotted-dash or dot-dot-dash. RT#19410 FO – The following issues have been corrected: span=”all” block caused text to overflow under the float in the second column. RT#22269 fo:initial-property-set caused a letter to be dropped […]

November 7, 2019 FO – The following issues have been corrected: Floats with axf:float-y=”after”, axf:float-reference=”page” specified were sent to the next page. The table overflowed to the right instead of continuing below. #21771 The baseline changed when there was a float. #21780 CSS – The following issues have been corrected: span=”all”, forced page break, and […]

September 26, 2019 FO – The following issues have been corrected: axf:float-y=”after”, axf:float-reference=”page” might cause the floats to overlap without moving to the next page. A float pushed down when neighbor margin exactly filled the space in between. #21281 break-after=”page” was only breaking the column. #21277 A line break position of Khmer list block in […]

August 1, 2019 V6.6 MR7 Release FO – The following issues have been corrected: Removing revision bar made other revision bars disappear. #17188Background PDF image with background-position-vertical led to corrupt PDF output. #21081column even though axf:footnote-position=”column” was specified. #20273 CSS – The following issues have been corrected: The page break caused the float overflow. #20829The […]

Antenna House is now offering Subscription Licenses for all AH Formatter products. The Subscription License requires a 12-month* commitment and the customer cannot opt out until the subscription period ends. The Subscription License includes maintenance and support for the duration of the subscription. For pricing information, check out our Subscription page or download the Subscription […]

June 20, 2019 V6.6 MR6 Release FO – The following issues have been corrected: Unexpected column break before block with keep-together.within-column=”always”. #20659 axf:suppress-duplicate-footnote=”true” was being applied to the next column even though axf:footnote-position=”column” was specified. #20273 axf:abbreviation-character-count did not work. When axf:text-justify=”inter-character” was specified, a half-width white space was too big. axf:line-number caused Formatter to […]

V6.6 MR5 Release April 25, 2019 Enhancements – Formatter is able to specify ‘createdate' and ‘modifydate' to <axf:document-info> / HTML <meta>. XSL-FO – The following issues have been corrected: Formatter would crash with axf:line-number and floats. The keep-together in a row spanned cell overflowed.The axf:word-break=”break-all” caused an overflow. The letter-spacing.maximum affected the Arabic rendering. Formatter […]

March 14, 2019 -V6.6 MR4 Release Enhancements: Now able to specify “merge-f” or “merge-ff” for merge-sequential-page-numbers in FO. #19338Now able to specify whether to match the setting of the size of viewBox or not when the width and height of the root element are omitted in SVG. #18234 FO – The following issues have been […]

Here's is how you can use a two-pass Formatter method to create a ‘2up' PDF with two document pages rendered on one PDF page. 1) Create the document as you normally would (with one document page per PDF page). ahfcmd -d sample.fo -o sample.pdf -x 4 2) Create a new .fo document (sample-2up.fo) that uses […]

January 24, 2019 – V6.6 MR3 Release FO – The following issues have been corrected: Incorrect value of fo:page-number-citation-last referencing fo:flow. #18965 Incorrect change bar y offset. #18966 Document could not be processed normally because of the processing of table. #19120 number-rows-spanned led to a table overflow. #19204 Page float and span=”all” block caused a […]