Formatter V7.0 R1

Antenna House announces the release of Formatter 7.0

New Features

• BPIL: The method of line breaking has been improved with Knuth Plass' Breaking Paragraphs Into Lines algorithm
• *Drop caps: The ability to add initial capital letters of any font, size, and drop to any specified number of lines ☞ Drop Capitals
• BIDI: Bidirectional text formatting has been improved ☞ Difference in Formatting with AH Formatter V6.6
• The behavior of suppress-if-first-on-page has been improved ☞ Difference in Formatting with AH Formatter V6.6
• *Now able to specify the text-indent of a block at the top of the page or column ☞ axf:text-indent-if-first-on-page / CSS -ah-text-indent-if-first-on-page
• *Now able to adjust the space at the end of the last line ☞ axf:flush-zone / CSS -ah-flush-zone
• The avoid-widow-words extension property has been enhanced ☞ axf:avoid-widow-words / CSS -ah-avoid-widow-words
• *Now able to specify the number of table rows that must remain at the top or bottom of a page or column ☞ axf:table-row-widows / CSS -ah-table-row-widows, axf:table-row-orphans / CSS -ah-table-row-orphans
• *Prevent line breaks and hyphenating specific unbreakable words, such as brand names (ie. Antenna House) ☞ unbreakable-words
• Hyphenation exceptions that allow separate rules for words with upper case letters ☞ axf:hyphenate-caps-word / CSS -ah-hyphenate-caps-word
• Languages that do not place single-letter words at the end of a line can now be specified ☞ avoid-orphan-single-word
• Languages that start with a hyphen and do not break lines immediately after the first hyphen can now be specified ☞ avoid-orphan-hyphen
• *Now able to specify whether to process the ligature of Hangul Jamo ☞ jamo-ligature
• *The value of text-orientation-mode has been extended
• *Now able to specify the removal of duplicate marker references ☞ axf:suppress-duplicate-marker-contents
• Support links to specific page numbers in HTML ☞ href-page-link
• PDF 2.0 and *PDF/X-4p can now be outputted ☞
• Role-map property support can now be specified ☞
• Createdate and modifydate in PDF properties can now be specified in HTML/CSS documents ☞ <axf:document-info> / HTML <meta>
• *Named Action in PDFs can now be specified for internal links ☞ internal-destination / CSS -ah-internal-destination
• *bookmark-include property has been enhanced ☞ axf:bookmark-include
• *Now able to specify whether to lock the document at the time of signing with a digital signature field ☞ axf:field-lock-document / CSS -ah-field-lock-document
• Support for Adobe Creative Cloud fonts
• Support for WebP
• Now able to specify whether to display the alternate text of an image if the image is missing ☞ axf:display-alttext / CSS -ah-display-alttext
• Now able to reference external CSS information in SVG ☞ SVG Conformance
• *Now able to specify whether the size matches the viewBox setting when the width and height of the root element are omitted in SVG ☞ responsive-svg-size
• The default value of display in <math> can now be changed ☞ mathDisplay
• *In XSL-FO, “merge-f” and “merge-ff” can now be specified with merge-sequential-page-numbers ☞ merge-sequential-page-numbers
• In CSS, the following features are now possible:
  • *Specify box-decoration-break property
  • Arrange a footnote and an anchor on the same page or column ☞ CSS -ah-footnote-keep
  • Specify the layout of a footnote ☞ CSS -ah-footnote-keep
  • *Specify internal-destination ☞ CSS -ah-internal-destination
  • *Custom metadata properties can now be set in PDFs ☞ <axf:custom-property> / HTML <meta>
• Command-line enhancements:
  • *Automatically detect a range of typographic problems in the formatted Area Tree ☞ Automated Analysis
  • *Output error messages in XML format ☞ -xmlerr
  • *Suppress Error Messages ☞ no-disp-warnings
• GUI enhancements:
  • The display method of Log Window can now be specified ☞
  • Links can now be added to the document displayed in the Log Window
  • *Suppress Error Messages ☞ no-disp-warnings
  • Font configuration files can now be edited ☞ Edit Font Configuration File
  • Full screen mode option
  • Increase the size of toolbar icons ☞ Large Tool Bar Icon

FO – The following issues have been corrected:

• The line break position was inaccurate due to the incorrect processing of axf:keep-together-within-dimension.
• Crash due to incorrect column processing. RT#22843, RT#22787

CSS – The following issues have been corrected:

• Titles were rendered in different locations due to incorrect processing of margin: auto; RT#22123
• -ah-replace-text inside a table cell duplicated lines. RT#22842

Other:

• PDF corruption with SF-Mono.ttc font. RT#22813
• SVG gradient with more than one color lost the transparency in PDF output. RT#22848
• SVG output did not preserve the superscript and subscript font size. RT#22884

*Not available for Lite Version of AH Formatter