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AH Formatter improves Compatibility

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:53:30 GMT

Format documents using AH Formatter.

Support for Windows 8, Oracle Solaris 11 (Sparc version) and Mac OS X Version 10.8 (Intel version).

AH Formatter supports page layouts specified in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) or XSL-FO (Extensible Stylesheet Language - Formatting Objects) to format documents for PDF and print.

AH CSS Formatter builds on the strengths of the CSS3 specification and Antenna House XSL Formatter, enabling Web designers to add print and PDF output to their systems via CSS.

AH XSL Formatter offers GUI, support for over 50 languages, PDF generation, W3C compliance, extensions, EMF and WMF vector support, MathML native drawing and XSL Report Designer integration.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V6.1 R1

The following languages (scripts) are now supported, Bengali (Beng), Panjabi (Guru), Gujarati (Gujr), Oriya (Orya), Tamil (Taml), Telugu (Telu), Kannada (Knda), Malayalam (Mlym), Khmer (Khmr) and Lao (Laoo).
Fonts outside the font folder, can now be displayed in the GUI.
Support for PDF/X-4.
Support for embedding multimedia files in PDFs.
Support for gradient functions.
Support for Windows 8, Oracle Solaris 11 (Sparc version) and Mac OS X Version 10.8 (Intel version).

About Antenna House

Antenna House has been developing computer software since 1984. The company offers advanced document conversion and file viewing software. They currently operate out of 4 international locations and welcome new partners from around the globe.

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Did you know that you can also buy Microsoft Visual Studio along with an MSDN Subscription from us? Or that in Europe and Japan we also have all the Embarcadero products available to purchase, such as Delphi, C++ Builder and RAD Studio!

Rainbow PDF Converter widens Compatibility

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:54:04 GMT

Convert documents using Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter.

Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter converts your files on demand or in a batch at high speed whether used in a Web environment or called from an internal server. It can convert documents in environments where Microsoft Office is not installed and all file conversions are performed entirely within Antenna House's direct creation engine.

Updates in v5.0

Support for Smart Art.
Convert encrypted Microsoft Office files.
Support for Microsoft Office 2013 files.

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AH Formatter V6.0 MR8 released

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:13:25 GMT

Format documents using AH Formatter.

AH Formatter supports page layouts specified in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) or XSL-FO (Extensible Stylesheet Language - Formatting Objects) to format documents for PDF and print.

AH CSS Formatter builds on the strengths of the CSS3 specification and Antenna House XSL Formatter, enabling Web designers to add print and PDF output to their systems via CSS.

AH XSL Formatter offers GUI, support for over 50 languages, PDF generation, W3C compliance, extensions, EMF and WMF vector support, MathML native drawing and XSL Report Designer integration.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V6.0 MR8

The following bugs have been fixed:

Page breaks did not occur in specific data.
@font-face generated an error.
axf:overflow-condense="font-stretch" did not work correctly when there was a space between Japanese and European typography.
axf:overflow-condense="font-stretch" did not work correctly when axf:text-justify-trim="auto" or "punctuation" was specified.
The line number was outputted in PDFs when font-size was specified as zero.
Floats using extended properties were placed in the wrong order.
Hebrew text was outputted incorrectly.
Unexpected page breaking occurred when there wasn't enough room for a single line on a page.
Table headers with rotated content behaved unexpectedly after a page break.
Cell content generated twice after the page breaks.
Trimming adjustments of characters has been improved.
SVG ellipse was not placed as expected.
When an EMF was rendered some content was missing.
When defining the alias in the font-config file, the text direction was inaccurate in vertical writing mode.
The thickness of text differed when printed directly from the printer or outputted to PDF and printed by Acrobat.

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AH Formatter updated

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:18:41 GMT

Format documents using AH Formatter.

AH Formatter supports page layouts specified in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) or XSL-FO (Extensible Stylesheet Language - Formatting Objects) to format documents for PDF and print.

AH CSS Formatter builds on the strengths of the CSS3 specification and Antenna House XSL Formatter, enabling Web designers to add print and PDF output to their systems via CSS.

AH XSL Formatter offers GUI, support for over 50 languages, PDF generation, W3C compliance, extensions, EMF and WMF vector support, MathML native drawing and XSL Report Designer integration.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V6.0 MR7

The following bugs have been fixed:

When both -ah-float:footnote and @footnote{-ah-float:page bottom} were specified, footnotes overlapped each other in vertical writing.
Contents were not correctly arranged in the column document.
When string-set and display:none were both specified, the content was not correctly formatted.
Formatter hangs when attempting to generate a PDF with an embedded 3d PDF.
A document which embedded several PDFs was not correctly formatted.
Floats caused odd page breaking.
Columns were not balancing when floating content was on the same page.
The fo:retrieve-marker was not outputted correctly.
German hyphenation exceptions were not honored.
An extra space was added between numbers and Korean glyphs.
Some characters were missing in the GUI dialog.
The axf:document-info was not correctly reflected when outputting a PDF in Fast Web view.

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Antenna House Formatter V6.0 MR6 released

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:30:12 GMT

Format documents using AH Formatter.

AH Formatter supports page layouts specified using either CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) or XSL-FO (Extensible Stylesheet Language - Formatting Objects) for formatting documents for PDF and print.

AH CSS Formatter builds on the strengths of the CSS3 specification and Antenna House XSL Formatter, enabling Web designers to add print and PDF output to their systems via CSS.

AH XSL Formatter offers GUI, support for over 50 languages, PDF generation, W3C compliance, extensions, EMF and WMF vector support, MathML native drawing and XSL Report Designer integration.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V6.0 MR6

The following issues have been fixed:

Linux version removing certain content from documents.
Floating objects causing page overflow.
Footnotes generating in middle of columns.
Hexadecimal forms unable to be specified in leader function.
Separator attribute not working correctly in MathML.
Blankets not correctly positioned in MathML.
SVG not appearing in GUI or output document.
SVG not rendering correctly.
SVG colors defined as CMYK appearing black in the GUI.
A warning is now given if External Editor does not exist.

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Antenna House Formatter updated

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:58:59 GMT

Formatting a document using AH Formatter.

AH Formatter supports page layouts specified using either CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) or XSL-FO (Extensible Stylesheet Language - Formatting Objects) for formatting documents for PDF and print.

AH CSS Formatter builds on the strengths of the CSS3 specification and Antenna House XSL Formatter, enabling Web designers to add print and PDF output to their systems via CSS.

AH XSL Formatter offers GUI, support for over 50 languages, PDF generation, W3C compliance, extensions, EMF and WMF vector support, MathML native drawing and XSL Report Designer integration.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V6.0 MR4

An error message will be displayed when PDF form field names clash.
A warning message will be displayed when a character does not exist in a PDFs encodings.
The following bugs were fixed

Tables formatted incorrectly.
The table footer height not calculated correctly.
The table bottom border disappeared when there was a bottom float.
Lines with break options not breaking.
V6.0 MR3 failed to output PDF files on Mac OS X.
Hebrew output was incorrect.
Glyph not displayed correctly when small-caps was applied.
Character strings in text fields not correctly outputted.
A font in a PDF form was not processed correctly.
White space garbled when printing PS file.
Type1 font was not processed correctly.

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Antenna House Formatter updated

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:04:15 GMT

Creating PDF files using AH Formatter.

AH Formatter supports page layouts specified using either CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) or XSL-FO (Extensible Stylesheet Language - Formatting Objects) for formatting documents for PDF and print.

AH CSS Formatter builds on the strengths of the CSS3 specification and Antenna House XSL Formatter, enabling Web designers to add print and PDF output to their systems via CSS.

AH XSL Formatter offers GUI, support for over 50 languages, PDF generation, W3C compliance, extensions, EMF and WMF vector support, MathML native drawing and XSL Report Designer integration.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V6.0 MR3

Specify text field format and default value in PDF forms
Fixed - where processing might be inaccurate when right-to-left direction specified
Fixed - where Arabic used, page numbers were not put correctly in HTML files
Fixed - where footnotes in a table-footer cell were not arranged accurately
Fixed - where size % was specified in a margin-box, value would overlap
Fixed - where grayscale PNG was rendered incorrectly
Fixed - where hyphenation did not work on a specific words
Fixed - where gray-scale TIFFs were recognized as a color image
Fixed - where MathML brackets were positioned incorrectly

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XSL Report Designer updated

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:08:49 GMT

Create XSL-FO files.

XSL Report Designer is a design program that simplifies the creation of complex XML reports and forms which can merge layout information and XML data to produce XSL-FO files. You can easily map relationships between each element and how they should be formatted and processed on the final report or form.

Updates in V2.5

Works with AH Formatter V4, V5 and V6
Support for Windows 7
Use PDF as a rough background image for form design
Output data on top of the PDF used as a rough background image for design
Dynamically change format of an object (text, color, etc.) based on the data value
Additional string related functions added

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Rainbow PDF Converter adds 64-bit support

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:28:47 GMT

Convert documents using Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter.

Rainbow PDF Converter converts your files on demand or in a batch at high speed whether used in a Web environment or called from an internal server. It can convert documents in environments where Microsoft Office is not installed and all file conversions are performed entirely within Antenna House's direct creation engine.

Updates in V4.0

PDF library enhancements
Support for Windows 64-bit version module
Support for reading RTF files
Optimized error message processing for Office open passwords
Support for reading Office 2007/2010 password protected files

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Antenna House Formatter supports page floats

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:07:24 GMT

Creating PDF files using AH Formatter.

Version 6.0 lets you float content to arbitrary places on a page across any number of columns.

AH Formatter supports page layouts specified using either CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) or XSL-FO (Extensible Stylesheet Language - Formatting Objects) for formatting documents for PDF and print.

AH CSS Formatter builds on the strengths of the CSS3 specification and Antenna House XSL Formatter. AH CSS Formatter has the capability to enable web designers to use CSS to add print and PDF output to their systems.

AH XSL Formatter offers GUI, support for over 50 languages, PDF generation, W3C compliance, extensions, vector support for EMF and WMF, MathML native drawing and XSL Report Designer integration.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V6.0

It's now possible to arrange content in any arbitrary place on the page or column, arranging the floating content on top, bottom or a specified corner in multi-column layout with column spanning
A Ruby extension makes it possible to specify advanced settings
Extension properties for emphasis marks have been added. It's now available to specify types or fonts for emphasis marks
The following element is extended - ochange-bar-begin
The following properties are extended - oaxf:auto-letter-spacing, oaxf:letter-spacing-side and oaxf:indent-here
The following units are extended - olh, orlh and ogr
Fillable PDF forms by AcroForms can now be embedded
Support for .NET Framework 4.0 with .NET Interface

About Antenna House

Antenna House, Inc. (Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan) has been developing computer software since 1984 under the slogan of 'data usability.' In addition to providing proven software for formatting XML to PDF, print and screen (XSL Formatter) Antenna House also offers advanced document conversion and file viewing software. Antenna House XSL Formatter is the most compliant software available and is used in hundreds of installations worldwide. PDF output, multilingual support (including Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic Thai), SVG support and much more are all standard features of Antenna House XSL Formatter.

Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter 3.1 MR1 updated

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:49:14 GMT

Converting documents using Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter.

Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter will convert your files on demand or in a batch operation at high speed whether used in a Web environment or called from an internal company server. Shortened development time makes it the favored solution of Network application service providers. Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter converts documents even in environments where Microsoft Office is not installed or operating. As all file conversions are performed entirely within Antenna House's direct creation engine, there is no need for Adobe or Microsoft licenses.

Updates in V3.1 MR1

Corrections: Conversion from Word

When the header or footer contained a tab, text decorations were not processed.
Images in the header were not output correctly.
When page breaks were inserted continuously, some pages were not outputted.
When a bookmark's starting position was set outside a table and ended inside a table, hyperlinks were not converted correctly.
Center aligned or right aligned auto shapes were not placed correctly.
Flame layouts with no text wrapping were not processed correctly.
When the table style was specified, the conversion finished by outputting only the first single character.
When the border was arranged in the layout frame, the left end of the border inside the frame was hidden.
The underline was not converted when it was specified to the page break code.
Line numbers set to the captions were not outputted correctly.
Text with a hyperlink in the hierarchical table was not converted.
When the paragraph style was specified, the font specification did not convert correctly.

Corrections: Conversion from Excel

When only the cell field with valid data was specified as the print range and fit-to-page option was selected, the layout collapsed.
When specifying fit-to-option and using the default print scaling ratio, the same content was extended over two pages depending on the environment.
The gradation of the text box did not convert correctly.
The space between dots differed from the original file.
The text in the shape was displayed with zero width.
When slicers were added in Excel 2010, the figure displayed was all black.

Corrections: Conversion from PowerPoint

When the OLE data was arranged as an object in Powerpoint 2010, it was not converted and was missing.
When there was white space at the end of a line, the layout collapsed.
The arrangement and the margin in a cell were not correctly processed.
When a line break occurred, the layout of the border collapsed.
When the figure was arranged just before the end of the page, it was not converted correctly.
The layout of the vertical writing text in the text box collapsed.

Corrections: Conversion from PDF

Failing to read the font information, font sizes were increased.
Images in the file were not converted and were missing.
The conversion failed when JBIG2 images were included in the file.
The color space was not processed correctly and it failed to display.

Corrections: Conversion to Flash

Bold and italic specifications were not outputted correctly.
A white border, which was not in the original layout, was outputted.

Corrections: Conversion to images

The background color became black after converting to TIFF.
JPEG compression was invalid when outputting to CMYK TIFF.
The file was outputted in reverse when converting from EMF.

Corrections: Conversion to INX

The stream output failed.

Corrections: Other

The conversion from the text file failed.
When deleted data in the graph was read, a memory shortage occurred.
When # was included in the file name, the conversion failed.

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Antenna House Formatter products updated

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:46:00 GMT

Creating PDF files using AH Formatter.

AH Formatter supports page layouts specified using either CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) or XSL-FO (Extensible Stylesheet Language - Formatting Objects) for formatting documents for PDF and print.

AH XSL Formatter offers GUI, support for over 50 languages, PDF generation, W3C compliance, extensions, vector support for EMF and WMF, MathML native drawing and XSL Report Designer integration.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V5.3 MR2

When outputting the standard output intent to PDF/X, you can specify whether the color profile is to be embedded or not.

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Create PDFs with AES-128bit/AES-256bit encryption

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:49:24 GMT

Converting documents using Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter.

Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter V3.1 MR1 also adds PDF/A-1b:2005 output support.

Updates in V3.1 MR1

PDF Output: AES-128bit/AES-256bit encryption output
PDF Output: PDF/A-1b:2005 output
Supports MS Word 2010 conversions
Supports MS Excel 2010 conversions
Supports MS PowerPoint 2010 conversions
Progressive JPEG output
Interlace PNG output
256 tone grayscale output
256 color output
GdiPlus smoothing
TIFF/CMYK output
TIFF Compression output with the following: LZW, JPEG, DEFLATE, RUNLENGTH, CCITT Group 4, CCITT Group 3
Allows users to use ActionScript 1.0 to stop random pages, disable page navigation button or links etc.
Each individual page from the original file can be outputted to a separate file
Allows users to downsample raster images with arbitrary sizes
Enhanced text manipulation including search, select or reverse display etc. through the text output method

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AH CSS Formatter patched

Tue, 17 May 2011 11:15:26 GMT

Using AH CSS Formatter to create documents.

AH CSS Formatter builds on the strengths of the CSS3 specification and Antenna House XSL Formatter. AH CSS Formatter has the capability to enable Web designers to use CSS to add print and PDF output to their systems. AH CSS Formatter is available in the following editions:

Updates in V5.3 R1

The following issues have been corrected:

Even if the same text and header, the output result was different.
An exception error occasionally occurred by specific CSS data.
When a page break occurred in a floating page, the content was not outputted to the next page.
The font that has only the SpecificID=5 entry in the name table became eligible.
When specifying PDF/A-1b:2005, PDF/A-1a:2005, PDF/X-3:2003, and PDF/X-3:2002 to FO without the fo:color-profile specification and outputting PDF, segmentation fault was generated in Unix system platform.
An exception error occurred with specific data.
CGM was not drawn nor outputted to PDF correctly.
When tagged PDF was generated, program lagged.
The PDF tag when generating PDF/A produced an error with Acrobat9 or later.
The image that could not be embedded in Linux version was made available by converting into the bit map as well as Windows version.
When data that used the non-CID OpenType font was outputted to PDF/A, an preflight error was generated.
A fatal error occurred when outputting PDF/X-1a:2001 from specific data.
In drawing SVG, the position of characters was not correct.
When embedding the same PDF file, multiple PDF files were occasionally embedded.
When outputting PDF/A and PDF/X by using data without fo:declarations in Mac and Linux version, the segmentation fault occurred.
A specific CGM was not drawn nor outputted.
When turning on (true) the image-color-profile output in the PDF Output Option, "(3346) Unsupported ICC Color Profile Version Error" was produced.
Some characters in the specific PDF were not displayed in the GUI.
The block-container with the reference-orientation="90" specification overflowed.

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AH Formatter V5.3 R1 adds barcode generation

Tue, 17 May 2011 11:15:00 GMT

Creating PDF files using AH Formatter.

Fonts can also be embedded in PostScript by using the Option Setting File.

AH Formatter supports page layouts specified using either CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) or XSL-FO (Extensible Stylesheet Language - Formatting Objects) for formatting documents for PDF and print. With AH Formatter users can now select the stylesheet language and content strategy that best suits their business needs. XSL-FO has long been recognized as a standard for formatting XML for print and PDF and CSS as the standard for displaying HTML on the Web. The missing piece for web developers has always been how to go from Web/HTML to print and PDF with properly formatted pages and documents. AH Formatter is the answer. AH Formatter is available in the following editions:

Updates in V5.3 R1

The following feature has been added to all AH Formatter editions

Barcode Generator Option

The following features have been added to the PostScript Option:

Fonts can now be embedded in PostScript by a noembed-font using the Option Setting File.
External links specified by a relative address can now be converted to PDF link properties.

The following elements have been added:

axf:formatter-config
axf:hyphenation-info

The following properties have been added:

axf:line-number-orientation
axf:abbreviation-character-count
axf:suppress-folio-prefix
axf:suppress-folio-suffix
axf:hyphenate-hyphenated-word

The following issues have been corrected:

A font that has only SpecificID=5 entry in the name table became eligible.
When specifying PDF/A-1b:2005, PDF/A-1a:2005, PDF/X-3:2003, and PDF/X-3:2002 to FO without the fo:color-profile specification and outputting PDF, a segmentation fault was generated in Unix system platform.
An exception error occurred with specific data.
CGM was not drawn nor outputted to PDF correctly.
A PDF tag when generating PDF/A produced an error with Acrobat9 or later.
An image that could not be embedded in the Linux version was made available by converting into a bitmap.
When data that used the non-CID OpenType font was outputted to PDF/A, an preflight error was generated.
A fatal error occurred when outputting PDF/X-1a:2001 from specific data.
In drawing SVG, the position of characters was not correct.
When embedding the same PDF file, multiple PDF files were occasionally embedded.
When outputting PDF/A and PDF/X by using data without fo:declarations in Mac and Linux version, the segmentation fault occurred.
A specific CGM was not drawn nor outputted.
When turning on (true) the image-color-profile output in the PDF Output Option, "(3346) Unsupported ICC Color Profile Version Error" was produced.
Some characters in the specific PDF were not displayed in the GUI.
The block-container with the reference-orientation="90" specification overflowed.

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AH XSL Formatter updated

Tue, 17 May 2011 11:14:55 GMT

Selecting PDF options.

AH XSL Formatter offers a GUI, support for over 50 languages, PDF generation, W3C compliance, extensions, significantly enhanced performance, vector support for EMF and WMF, new output capabilities through the new INX Creator Option and CGM Option, MathML native drawing, XSL Report Designer integration and more. AH XSL Formatter is available in the following editions:

Updates in V5.3 R1

The following issues have been corrected:

Justify specified to inline-container was occasionally not correctly processed.
When there was a U+200F, the line break was not correctly processed.
The Japanese font was selected to a Roman character space at the top of the block when XML:lang="ja" was specified.
The page overflowed when the page break occurred in the middle of the table in block-container due to the change of the page master and page size.
When axf:overflow-replace was specified to the vertical-written block-container, it produced horizontal writing.
The 'CELL ARRAY' instruction was processed incorrectly and did not display when drawing CGM.
The column document was not processed when there was a footnote.
When overflow="repeat" was specified to the vertical-written block-container, a column break or a page break occurred.
The page overflowed when the page master was switched in order to break a page in the nested table and change the column.
When text-align="justify" was specified to the block in the two-column document, the block overflowed.
When axf:punctuation-trim="all" was specified, single-byte parentheses occasionally overlapped.
The specification of the hyphenation exception dictionary was not correctly processed.
When PDF file was made from the area tree, the annotation was not correctly outputted.
When two-pass formatting was done, the size of the PDF became larger than ordinal.
The exception handling of the Hungarian hyphenation was not correctly produced.
The specification of SVG:font-weight was not effective.
The position of the revision bar was incorrect.
The axf:text-align-string specification was not effective.
An error occurred with PDF output when the field value was specified to the invalid axf:form-field-option.
Table cells overflowed with specific data.
When background-color is specified to fo:table-header, the PDF tag was incorrect.
The table overflow was not detected.
When rounding the corner of the table with the footer by specifying axf:border-radius, it also affected the cell that was not the corner.
An error was not outputted even if the overflow occurred in the block with span="all" in the column document.
When there was U+200B at the end of fo:block and it was located at the end of line, it was sent to the next line and white space was generated.
When PDF/A was generated from the area tree, an error occurred because color-profile-name was not reflected on the area tree.
An empty page was outputted without generating an error when incorrect size was specified.
When PDF was outputted from specific data in Mac version, "20294 Floating point exception error" occasionally occurred.
Even if break-before="page" was specified with specific data, the page did not break.
The float in the list overlapped with contents below.
The page break was not correctly produced in the block-container in the column document when padding-after was specified.
The footnote number was not correct.
The footnote number in the table was correct.
The font that has only the SpecificID=5 entry in the name table became eligible.
When specifying PDF/A-1b:2005, PDF/A-1a:2005, PDF/X-3:2003, and PDF/X-3:2002 to FO without the fo:color-profile specification and outputting PDF, segmentation fault was generated in Unix system platform.
An exception error occurred with specific data.
CGM was not drawn nor outputted to PDF correctly.
When tagged PDF was generated, program lagged.
The PDF tag when generating PDF/A produced an error with Acrobat9 or later.
The image that could not be embedded in Linux version was made available by converting into the bit map as well as Windows version.
When data that used the non-CID OpenType font was outputted to PDF/A, an preflight error was generated.
A fatal error occurred when outputting PDF/X-1a:2001 from specific data.
In drawing SVG, the position of characters was not correct.
When embedding the same PDF file, multiple PDF files were occasionally embedded.
When outputting PDF/A and PDF/X by using data without fo:declarations in Mac and Linux version, the segmentation fault occurred.
A specific CGM was not drawn nor outputted.
When turning on (true) the image-color-profile output in the PDF Output Option, "(3346) Unsupported ICC Color Profile Version Error" was produced.
Some characters in the specific PDF were not displayed in the GUI.
The block-container with the reference-orientation="90" specification overflowed.

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Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter updated

Tue, 17 May 2011 11:14:30 GMT

Converting documents using Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter.

Updates in V3.0 MR5

Conversion from Word Corrections

The text box in an anchored paragraph in the table cell was not correctly arranged or dropped with Word 2007/2010 conversions.
The height of the margin was not correctly reflected even if the output position was specified to the figure or the text box with Word 2007/2010 conversions.
Figures with insufficient attribute information were not outputted correctly with Word 2007/2010 conversions.
When the text was added between parentheses, it overlapped with Word 2007/2010 conversions.
Grouped shapes in header/footer were not always positioned correctly with Word 97-2003 conversions.
When there was a problem in the calculation of the number of lines in one page, the page position would shift with Word 97-2003 conversions.
Table titles were not effective with Word 97-2003 conversions.
Unnecessary work files were created with Word 97-2003 conversions.
Tab positions in header/footer were not correctly positioned with Word 97-2003 conversions.
Problems with processing occurred when the minimum value was specified for line spacing, which resulted in wide spaces between lines with Word 97-2003 conversions.
Characters were squeezed together and overlapped with Word 97-2003 conversions.
When problems with the character-code output for symbol fonts occurred, it resulted in garbled numbers and circles with Word 97-2003 conversions.
The space between lines changed when the OLE object had been inserted with Word 97-2003 conversions.
The table of contents was not outputted with Word 97-2003 conversions.
When multiple bookmarks were set to the same position their hyperlinks were lost with Word 97-2003 conversions.
The position of ruled lines around characters in a table shifted with Word 97-2003 conversions.
The character attribute settings in Style was not correctly reflected with Word 97-2003 conversions.
Problems with the default table border occurred so borders were not correctly outputted with Word 97-2003 conversions.
The header and the body text overlapped with Word 97-2003 conversions.

Conversion from Excel Corrections

Unnecessary text box background was outputted.
The magnification of the worksheet display in print settings was not reflected, the stroke width was not correctly outputted.
The magnification of the worksheet display in print settings was not reflected when the font size in header/footer was changed.
When the number of pages for either width or height were specified, Fit to Page settings in Page Setup were ignored, but now it outputs with the specified page number.
When the number of pages for both width and height were not specified, Fit to Page settings in the Scale in Page Setup were ignored. Therefore, the width and height values for only the first page was outputted by default.
The cell border specified to the row title was outputted to the cell below it.

Conversion from PowerPoint Corrections

Support for the setting of the slide beginning number with PowerPoint 2007/2010.
Vertical writing in the text box did not rotate when it was specified to rotate by certain degrees.
When symbols were specified for the bullets in a list, it would result in garble.
Figures and text with a hidden attribute were outputted and shown.
The fixed-pitch font was allocated to the alternative font of the variable-pitch font which increased the width of the text.
Some figures were not able to correspond to the vertical and horizontal flips.
If the system color was set to a fill color, an invalid color would be outputted. It can now be outputted by setting the color value with the fixed table.
There was a problem in calculation of the distance between text area and images causing the text to shift.

Other Corrections

The conversion terminated abruptly when -GDI Smooth was specified with the image output.
There was a problem in detecting file formats, causing text file conversions to fail.
Sometimes font sizes decreased because the selector of the tagname.classname was not supported with SVG conversions.
XPS would not convert with the NET Interface. It is fixed now. (XPS output is only available for SBC Plus)
The conversion failed if # was included in the target file name.
The default value of 100% when neither width nor height were specified in SVG was applied to the default A4 size with the conversion from SVG. Now it is made available to output the % size as the height and width of viewBox if viewBox is effective when directly converting SVG.

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AH Formatter updated to V5.2 MR1

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:18:00 GMT

Converting an XSL-FO document to PDF with AH Formatter.

AH Formatter lets you format documents for print and PDF using CSS or XSL-FO. Antenna House Formatter supports page layouts specified using either CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) or XSL-FO (Extensible Stylesheet Language - Formatting Objects) for formatting documents for PDF and print. With AH Formatter users can now select the stylesheet language and content strategy that best suits their business needs. XSL-FO has long been recognized as a standard for formatting XML for print and PDF and CSS as the standard for displaying HTML on the Web. The missing piece for web developers has always been how to go from Web/HTML to print and PDF with properly formatted pages and documents. AH Formatter V5.0 is the answer.

The following AH Formatter editions are available (CSS and XSL-FO):

The following AH CSS Formatter editions are available (CSS only):

The following AH XSL Formatter editions are available (XSL-FO only):

Updates in V5.2 MR1

Enhancements:

The following new MIF output features have been added:

Image files can now be selected whether embedded or external links.
Basic-link is made available to convert into FrameMaker hypertext.

The following option settings can now be canceled:

Child elements of <formatter-settings>
<list-style-type>
<script-chars>
<space-after-punctuation>
<space-before-punctuation>
<space-between-digit-and-punctuation>
<space-between-punctuation-and-digit>

Optional character strings can now be specified to axf:punctuation-trim.

When multiple applicable page masters are found, level 2 warning is now outputted.

XSL - The following issues have been corrected:

change-bar in fo:table generates an error.
An exception error occasionally occurs by specific data.
UNC path specified to external-destination was not correctly
converted when outputting to PDF.
The position of side-float and block in fo:table might not be correct.
The linefeed position was not correct when justify was specified.
The table border occasionally shifted.
When the Arabic document was outputted to distiller, the character position was not correct.
The table cell occasionally collapsed when <fo:table-row> was omitted.
The footnote disappeared when page master was specified to the last page and the footnote went to the subsequent page.
When the FO data was specified as the document, and XSL was specified as the stylesheet, the stylesheet was not applied.
The font selected by axf:text-justify-trim="Kana" occasionally changed.
When HyphenationOption is "false", even if the exception with upper case was registered in <exceptions>, it was not effective.
When HyphenationOption is "true", even if the exception was registered, it was not effective.
There was float in fo:list-item-label and writing-mode is "rl-tb", the indent of list-item-body might not be correct.
When a space was included in master-name, the (2803) error was outputted.
Even if axf:suppress-duplicate-footnote = "true was specified, it was not effective.
default-font-family specified in the Option Setting was not effective.
line-height.conditionality="discard" was not effective.
The last page occasionally overflowed with data where the last page was set.
The page break occurred on the way even if keep-together.within-page="always" was specified.
The color or background-color properties were not effective when there was U+200F.
Extension properties for European typography was not effective.
The position of the text block (space-before) occasionally changed depending on the height of float.
The overflow was occasionally generated by specific data.
The output position of the character was not correct without correctly processing the width of the character when trimming the space between characters.
An exception error occasionally occurred when formatting the specific data repeatedly.
The character overflowed the end of line because processing of adding the white space between Japanese characters to the adjoining area was not correctly done.
The link did not become effective by the character type of id.
axf:footnote-number-reset did not occasionally function correctly when axf:footnote-position was "column"
The position of block in the table cell with display-align="center" occasionally shifted.

Common - The following issues have been corrected:

A system error occurred due to the memory shortage when outputting PDF.
When rtl (Arabic language) document was outputted to distiller, the character position was occasionally not correct.
An exception error occurred when the mtable element of MathML was illegal.
A part of the character in CGM was placed upside down.
The pattern of the background was not correctly outputted in CGM.
The dotted line was not drawn in CGM.
Circular form was not correctly outputted in CGM.
An exception error occurred when formatting by GUI due to the memory shortage.
When <tspan style ="Font-family:Arial"> was specified it was not effective in the SVG drawing.
When outputting SVG to PDF, the background was not correctly outputted.
The layout of the text in the table was not correct with INX output.
The glyph of U+0027 (quotesingle) occasionally changed.
An error occurred when embedding a specific jpeg image with non-Windows platform.

Other:

When creating a PDF with the owner password specified by Option Setting File, an error occurred when opening PDF.
The file opening error occurred when formatting XML+XSL, and then outputting XSL-FO and PDF repeatedly with Solaris (sparc) version.
A specific EMF was not correctly outputted.

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Rainbow PDF SBC V3.0 patched to MR3

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:20:00 GMT

A PDF converted from an Excel file with Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter.

Fixes in V3.0 MR3

Conversion from PDF

An encrypted file may fail in decoding
Single byte symbols may be garbled with MR2
Characters were garbled when converting PDF with incorrect font information
Support for ZapfDingbats character sets. (When it is not embedded, it will be garbled in the environment without ZapfDingbats.)
When the glyph of an embedded font could not be acquired, extra text was generated and garbled
Some fonts failed to acquire the width of characters correctly
The width of characters was inaccurate, failing in reading font information
The font for the charmap of LATIN_1 was missing with MR2
The WINANSI_ENCODING font might be garbled with MR2
Unnecessary color fills occurred with R1
The jbig2 file failed in reading and images occasionally collapsed

Conversion from Word

The "Unknown document type" error occurred failing in distinguishing the 97-2003 file format
Parentheses and circular arcs were occasionally color filled
An image pasted to a rotating figure did not rotate with the 97-2003 Word format file
A conversion terminated abnormally with a Word file with incorrect contents and could not open with Microsoft Word
A text box within a table was arranged incorrectly
Conversions terminated abnormally with files saved with Fast Save in 97-2003 format
The reference method of the width of a cell in a table and the table occasionally collapsed with the 2007 file format
Conversion occasionally failed when reading figures
Unnecessary line numbers were occasionally outputted
Horizontal borders were not outputted
Figures in the header were not correctly arranged
When a rotation was specified to a grouped figure, the rotation was done incorrectly
Text boxes for vertical text were not arranged correctly
The size of text in a list differed from the original
When there was a Symbol font in a table, characters were not arranged correctly
Images were doubly outputted

Conversion from Excel

Rotating character strings cut off in the cell boundary
Text added to a check box was not arranged correctly
Unnecessary characters were added to an image

Conversion from PowerPoint

The "Unknown document type" error occurred failing in distinguishing the file format
Calculation of the transformation of WordArt that was not correctly outputted with 97-2003 format file
An image pasted to a rotating figure did not rotate with the 97-2003 format file
The size of circular arcs in the 2007 format file were outputted larger than the original
The PersistDirectory error occurred failing in reading a large file size
Only a part of an image was outputted
Support for outputting the transparent images with the 97-2003 file format

Conversion to Flash

Figures with color fill might not be reproduced correctly
When expanded small figures were arranged, space was occasionally generated

Other

The default font-config.xml attached to the program was not correct with MR2
When outputting figures to PDF, the "PDF Output Error" occurred with MR2

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Embed 3D objects in PDF files

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:11:00 GMT

Converting an XSL-FO document to PDF with AH Formatter.

AH Formatter Standard V5.2 R1 improves performance and features automatic conversion from RGB to CMYK.

AH Formatter lets you format documents for print and PDF using CSS or XSL-FO. It supports page layouts specified using either CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) or XSL-FO (Extensible Stylesheet Language - Formatting Objects) for formatting documents for PDF and print. With AH Formatter users can now select the stylesheet language and content strategy that best suits their business needs. XSL-FO has long been recognized as a standard for formatting XML for print and PDF and CSS as the standard for displaying HTML on the Web.

The following AH Formatter editions are available (CSS and XSL-FO):

The following AH CSS Formatter editions are available (CSS only):

The following AH XSL Formatter editions are available (XSL-FO only):

Updates in V5.2 R1

The following new PDF output features have been added:

Entire fonts can now be embedded in the PDF, not just a subset of the font.
RGB images can be automatically converted to CMYK when outputting to PDF/X and PDF/A. (not available with AH Formatter Lite)
3D objects can now be embedded in PDF. (not available with AH Formatter Lite)
PDF pages can be output in reverse order.
Encryption key length can now be specified using 128AES/256AES.
Tag names for Tagged PDF can now be customized with the pdftag extension property. (not available with AH Formatter Lite)

The following properties have been added or extended:

axf:overflow-align
axf:line-number-prefix (not available with AH Formatter Lite)

Values for the following properties have been extended:

Justify is added to display-align
Support for BIDI with the following scripts when rendering SVG data.
Arab : Arabic
Hebr : Hebrew
Thai : Thai
Deva : Devalagari

The following attributes have been added to the Font Configuration File:

Ability to specify the Unicode range to a font with Unicode-range.
The font size of a specific font can now be adjusted with font-size-adjust.
The base line of a specific font can now be adjusted with baseline-adjust.

The following features have been added to the CGM Option:

Support for the Character Orientation attribute.
Support for Compression Type of CGM 6 and 9.
Support for all the notation attributes that belong to the <menclose> property of General Layout with MathML rendering.

The following CSS elements and properties are newly implemented:

CSS2.1

:first-line pseudo-element
'display' property
'float' property
'content' property
'quotes' property
'empty-cells< /a>' property

CSS3

'background-size' property
box-decoration-break' property

Note: V5.2 contains a beta version of the MO:DCA Output Option.

CSS - The following issues have been corrected:

When converting HTML data to INX, the page layout was not correctly outputted.
When target-counter(attr(href, url), page) was used, the page number became zero.
When formatting specific HTML data that included float data, an exception error occurred.

XSL - The following issues have been corrected:

A list that came next to the float was not positioned correctly.
When "None axf:japanese-glyph =" was specified, the "Invalid property value" an error occurred.
When axf:leader-expansion was used, the length of leader was not correct.
When outputting specific data to PDF with solaris (sparc), core dumps occurred.
When outputting specific date to PDF with Windows, an exception error occurred.
When the column break was inserted within the revision bar, an error occurred.
The border of the table overflowed.
When there was a float in fo:list-item-label and writing-mode="rl-tb"
was specified, the indent in list-item-body was not processed correctly.
The block with keep-together.within-page="always" in the two column document overflowed.
The position of a character shifted incorrectly in the horizontal dimension with specific data.
The force page break or column break did not work in a multicolumn document and the page overflowed.
fo:leader overflowed.
When formatting FO that embedded specific PDF file, the Imported Page Contents Error occurred.
When axf:column-fill="auto" was specified, axf:overflow-condense specified in fo:block-container did not become effective.

Common - The following issues have been corrected:

Background images were not outputted to INX and MIF.
The text in the table cell and the border in the empty cell were missing when outputting to MIF.
The position of the image in the table shifted when outputting to MIF.
The size of SVG was not correct with SVG rendering.
Some characters were not outputted when *.afm was used.
When a specific font was specified, the "Create font error" occurred with Mac.
When outputting specific data with a table to MIF, an exception error occurred.
The "Because the depth of state nesting is over the limit" error occasionally occurred with specific SVG data.
When formatting specific SVG data, the text overlapped or the text was not put in a table correctly.
U+25CF caused the 'Missing glyph U+25CF in 'ZapfDingbats' error.
When outputting specific data to MIF and opened it with FrameMaker, only 1 blank page displayed.
When rendering SVG with polygon without points, an exception error occurred.

The following limitations have been removed:

The integer value applied to the keep attribute is now available between multi column and span block.
Font alias is now available to define for the font family which consists of multiple files.

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Rainbow PDF SBC now for Windows/Linux

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:34:00 GMT

A PDF converted from an Excel file with Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter.

Rainbow PDF Server Based Converter V3.0 MR2 offers new editions to suit your business needs.

Updates in V3.0 MR2

Server Based Converter V3.0 MR2 is now available for Windows and Linux*

Now you can choose the conversion option that best suits your business needs, Standard PDF Conversion, Standard Flash Conversion or the Plus Version with PDF and Flash Conversion capabilities plus CGM Renderer, XPS and INX Output

No need for installation of MS Office or Adobe products on the server for creating PDF
Easy integration with web, document management and content applications using Java, Command line, COM, C/C++ or .NET API's
Support for Office 2007
Convert documents to JPEG/PNG
Convert PDF and MS Office documents to Adobe Flash format
Convert images and text to PDF, SVG, TIFF, JPEG/PNG
Generate thumbnail images for reduced file size and instant user recognition

*The Solaris platform is still available as V2.0

What's New V3.0 MR2 Windows/Linux

Bug Fixes

Conversion from PDF

GIF images were not correctly extracted while converting from PDF

Conversion from Word

A memory leak occasionally occurred while reading figures.
The paragraph in a cell was not correctly aligned when there was an anchor in the figure in the table cell.
Anchor types in the shape in the cell were not correctly detected in Word97 or earlier.
The margin of a cell was not considered when putting figures in position.

Conversion from Excel

Support for dropdown and checkboxes in Excel 97-2003. (They are outputted only when the image for the display is included in the file.)
When the color specification of a pattern was omitted, it occasionally became black in Excel2007.
The attribute was not outputted when the cell did not exist but there was only a line or a row attribute.
The text occasionally shifted when Centered on a page - Vertically was specified in Margins settings in Header/Footer.
Invalid figures with height and width of 0 are now skipped to avoid an error.
When memory shortage occurs, an error is now returned.
The text was not correctly arranged because the fixed-width font was replaced by the proportional font.
The content of the cell was not displayed due to the unexpected number format of an Excel file made with Open Office.

Conversion from PowerPoint

Page numbers embedded in the text box were not displayed when converting from PowerPoint 97-2003.
The MSSymbol character was not treated as Symbol and occasionally not displayed when converting from PowerPoint 97-2003.
ClipPath on the image side became undefined when the background had been added to PictureFrame and not outputted correctly when converting from PowerPoint 97-2003.

Other

There was a problem in the processing of Base64 and the memory leak occasionally occurred while outputting to SVG.
There was a problem in the reading processing of TIFF tags and failed to convert from TIFF.
The smallest value that can be specified with rasdpi is now changed to 1dpi.
A margin of error occasionally occurred in the dpi value set in the image when outputting to images.
When the image pasted on the original document was JPEG format called Exif, it was not displayed.
When JFXX (JFIF Extension Format) was included in the original document, it was not possible to output it to SVG, XPS, and Flash