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AH Formatter V6.1 R1 Lite for Windows (32-bit)  

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AH Formatter V6.1 R1 Lite for Windows (64-bit)  

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AH Formatter V6.1 R1 Lite for Solaris x86  

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AH Formatter V6.1 R1 Lite for Solaris SPARC  

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AH Formatter V6.1 R1 Lite for Linux (32-bit)  

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AH Formatter V6.1 R1 Lite for Linux (64-bit)  

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AH Formatter V6.1 R1 Lite for Macintosh  

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AH Formatter - Annual Maintenance  

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Our prices include ComponentSource technical support and, for most downloadable products, an online backup and a FREE upgrade to the new version if it is released within 30 days of your purchase.  All sales are made on our standard Terms and Conditions and subject to our Return Policy. Please contact us if you require any licensing option not listed, including volume licensing and previous versions.

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What's New in AH Formatter V6.1 R1

Enhancements:

• The following languages (scripts) are supported.
• Bengali (Beng)
• Panjabi (Guru)
• Gujarati (Gujr)
• Oriya (Orya)
• Tamil (Taml)
• Telugu (Telu)
• Kannada (Knda)
• Malayalam (Mlym)
• Khmer (Khmr)
• Lao (Laoo)
• Fonts outside the font folder, like fonts specified in the Font Configuration File or fonts specified by <axf:font-face> / @font-face can now be displayed in GUI.
• The default parameter of the Command-line Interface can now be specified by the environment variable.
• Support for PDF/X-4.
• Support for embedding multimedia such as video in PDF.
• Metadata that can be specified to PDF has been added. It's also possible to specify XMP directly.
• It's now available to control whether metadata is outputted to all the separate volumes.
• The block area can now be transformed.
• Support for gradient functions.
• The interpretation of the vw and vh unit have been changed, vmin, vmax, etc. are newly added.
• The information on font-stretch is now taken into consideration for the font selection.
• <axf:font-face> / @font-face has been extended and the format() and local() functions are now supported. WOFF (Web Open Font Format) is also available.
• In vertical writing mode, it's now available to control the rendering of characters to be upright meticulously.
• In vertical writing mode, it's now available to specify the horizontal-in-vertical composition automatically.
• Unicode normalization forms can now be specified.
• The treatment of the ideographic space has been somewhat changed.
• It's now possible to specify MSXML 6 for the XSLT processor.
• It's now possible to reload hyphenation dictionaries without shutting down the Formatter GUI.
• It's now possible to reset the option settings to the default in GUI.
• The option to batch print without interrupting a job for printing is added.
• Support for Windows 8, Windows 8 x64 Edition, Oracle Solaris 11 (Sparc version), Mac OS X Version 10.8 (Intel version).

XSL - The following issues have been corrected:

• Images were duplicated and overflowed when spanned block breaks across pages.
• The list label disappear when intrusion-displace="block" was specified.
• The float and the following content overlapped within a block-container.

Common - The following issues have been corrected:

• Numerous enhancements and modifications are added to MathML.
• When letter-spacing is specified, -ah-punctuation-trim or -ah-text-autospace did not work.

Other - The following issues have been corrected:

• The float caused the area tree output to be different than the direct pdf output.
• The svg outputted without setting font sizes correctly.
• Output failed when the file name of HTML included Chinese or Spanish.

What's New in AH Formatter V6.0 MR8

CSS - The following issues have been corrected:

• Page breaks did not occur with specific data.
• @font-face generated an error.

XSL - The following issues have been corrected:

• 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" specified.
• The line number was outputted in PDF even if font-size is specified as zero.
• Floats using extended properties were placed in wrong order.
• Hebrew text was outputted incorrectly.
• Unexpected page breaking occurred when there wasn't enough room for a single line on a page.
• A table header with a rotated content behaved unexpectedly after a page break.
• The content of the cell was generated twice after the page break.
• The trimming adjustment of characters has been improved.

Other - The following issues have been corrected:

• The "PDF reading error: Missing startxref" error ocurred with an input PDF.
• The "Graphic file is broken" error occurred with a TIFF image.
• SVG ellipse was not placed as expected.
• When the EMF was rendered with Formatter some contents were missing.
• Fonts were not found by Formatter v6, which was found by v4.
• 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, outputted to PDF and printed by Acrobat.
• PDF generated from Area Tree left the "open to page" property blank.
• The exception dictionary for Czech returned an invalid word unexpectedly.

What's New in AH Formatter V6.0 MR67

CSS - The following issues have been corrected:

• 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

XSL - The following issues have been corrected:

• Formatter hanged 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.
• Table footer height was not correctly calculated when the row broke across pages.
• The keep-with-next property did not appear to be honored.
• fo:retrieve-marker was not outputted correctly.
• The conditional page master selection changed unexpectedly.

Common - The following issues have been corrected:

• German hyphenation exceptions were not honored.
• An extra space was added between number and Korean glyph.

Other - The following issues have been corrected:

• Some characters were missing in the GUI dialog.
• axf:document-info was not correctly reflected when outputting PDF with Fast Web view.

What's New in AH Formatter V6.0 MR6

CSS - The following issues have been corrected:

• Linux version of Formatter lost the content with some documents.
• Floating objects overflowed the page.
• Footnotes are generated in the middle of a column due to the float issue.
• The hexadecimal form could not be specified in the leader function.

XSL - The following issues have been corrected:

• Text in vertical writing was displayed incorrectly.
• The tooltip was not showing up when the form checkbox is hovered over.
• Some data caused Formatter to crash.
• Keep properties behaved inconsistently when applied to spanned blocks.
• The leader alignment property sometimes had no effect.
• The table header cell did not line break as expected.
• The index range begin element created an extra line.
• The line breaking differed between the older and the newer Formatter versions.
• An unnecessary line break occurred.
• When reference-orientation="90" was specified, block-container did not function correctly.

Common - The following issues have been corrected:

• The separator attribute specified to the mfenced property did not work correctly in MathML.
• Blankets were not correctly positioned in MathML.

Other - The following issues have been corrected:

• SVG did not appear in GUI or the output document.
• SVG did not render correctly.
• SVG nested objects with the opacity property did not operate according to the standard.
• SVG colors defined as CMYK appeared black in the GUI.
• Downsampling grayscale svg graphics produced bad results.
• SVG preserveAspectRatio property is now supported.
• A warning is now given if External Editor does not exist.
• The processing of the name table of fonts was changed.
• The BIDI was not correctly processed for the space.

What's New in AH Formatter V6.0 MR5

Enhancements:

• rgb-icc can now be specified to mathcolor.

CSS - The following issues have been corrected:

• The chapter counter in the footer (chapter No) returned the incorrect result.
• Cross references could not break generated text across lines.
• -ah-overflow-condense:font-stretch; was not processed correctly.

XSL - The following issues have been corrected:

• file crashed before rendering output.
• A file hanged without an error message.
• axf:printer-duplex did not function correctly.
• letter-spacing did not function correctly.
• The sidenote or footnote content had the incorrect text alignment of "inside" after the page break.
• The exception dictionary returned an invalid word unexpectedly.
• A hyphen appeared as lozenge in the result document.
• hyphenate="false" did not work.
• The marker for running header retrieved on page before reference was rendered.
• The region body overflowed after the spanned block in the multi-column area.
• Text did not fit in the text field with the default display.
• The width of the table with column span was not correct.

Common - The following issues have been corrected:

• The page float influenced the position of table cell content.
• The float on page caused unrelated table to have different width.
• The float influenced the missing content in Linux.
• An extra page and ragged columns after the float broke to the next page.
• A single line was placed after a rotated table.

Other - The following issues have been corrected:

• "Import Option Setting" did not function correctly.
• Some characters caused an error when generated with Barcode Generator Option.
• Embedded EPS generated errors when generating PostScript output.
• The specification of double angle quotation marks in Polish has been modified.
• IRS - table overflow
• reported page number for overflow needs to include folio prefix and also physical page number
• float taking up extra space when text to table
• # in path name causes strange behavior on Windows
• exception dictionary for serbian returning invalid word unexpectedly

What's New in AH Formatter V6.0 MR4

Enhancements:

• An error message will be displayed when a different PDF form with the same field name exists.
• A warning message will appear when a character specified within Acroform does not exist in the supported encodings in the PDF specification

CSS - The following issues have been corrected:

• -ah-float-move:keep caused float to overlap text.
• -ah-overflow-condense:font-size was not effective.

XSL - The following issues have been corrected:

• A specific file caused Formatter to crash with no error message.
• Tables were formatted incorrectly.
• The table footer height was not calculated correctly.
• The table bottom border disappeared when there was a bottom float.
• Lines with break opportunity were not breaking.

Common - The following issues have been corrected:

• V6.0MR3 failed to output PDF file with Mac OS X.
• Hebrew output was incorrect, did not match Word.
• The glyph was not displayed correctly when small-caps was applied.
• The TOC reference pages broke across lines when the page number format differed between the TOC page and the reference destination page.

Other - The following issues have been corrected:

• Character strings in the text field were not correctly outputted.
• A font in PDF form was not processed correctly.
• 2pass caused incorrect last page reference.
• The processing of [Error on Missing Glyph] was not correctly determined.
• The white space might be garbled when printing the PS file outputted by "PostScript Output Option" using PS printer.
• Type1 font was not processed correctly with "PostScript output option".

What's New in AH Formatter V6.0 MR3

Enhancements:

• Specify the format of the text field in PDF form and the default value of the text field.

CSS - The following issues have been corrected:

• In the block with the maximum width specified, the line overflowed by just the amount of the specified indent.
• The bidi processing might be inaccurate when direction:rtl was specified to the inline.
• When Arabic was used, page numbers were not put correctly in some html file.
• Footnotes in a table-footer cell might be arranged inaccurately.
• When a size with % value was specified to margin-box, it might overlap with its neighboring margin-box.

Common - The following issues have been corrected:

• Grayscale PNG was rendered incorrectly.
• Hyphenation did not work on a specific word.

Other - The following issues have been corrected:

• A gray-scale TIFF might be recognized as a color image with PS output.
• Calling each URL in a document caused delays and potentially failure to complete the document.
• MathML brackets were positioned incorrectly.

What's New in AH Formatter V6.0 MR2

Enhancements:

• Added support for .Net 3.5.
• Upgraded the open source. iFreeType 2.4.8 Alibpng 1.5.10 Alibtiff 3.9.j
• use-preferred-family can be specified in the font configuration file. Now you can specify nameID=16 as font-family.
• Line numbers can be reset and configured on individual blocks with axf:line-number-reset.
• Added support for the wbr tag in HTML5.
• Added the zwsp-mode property so that leading and trailing ZERO WIDTH SPACE U+200BiZWSPjin the block are not expanded.
• -ah-suppress-duplicate-page-number also works with CSS formatting.

CSS - The following issues have been corrected:

• The header was not shown.
• The specification of -ah-text-line-color was ignored.
• -ah-text-combine might become inaccurate under the influence of inheriting properties, such as text-indent.
• The rendering specification of option was changed.
• The float was not correctly outputted.
• Some specific data caused Formatter to crash.

XSL - The following issues have been corrected:

• The interpretation of the fragment in URI could not be performed.
• float: start before auto-move did not correctly work in vertical writing.
• The calculation for the height of FloatArea was incorrect.
• The scaling of images became non-uniform with small height difference.
• Absolute positioned fo:block-container was not outputted.
• An unnecessary one-line space was generated in the column document.
• fo:marker was not outputted.
• The specification of the intrusion-displace property might be applied to the unexpected float object.
• Unresolved ID and internal destination errors occurred for existing
• The processing was incorrect when table-header of outside table had fo:retrieve-marker, and inside table had fo:marker in the nested table.
• An unnecessary space might be generated when there was an empty element.
• The priority order of the border shorthand property was inaccurate.
• The formatting result of a superscript or a subscript was not correct.
• Text overlapped when suppress-if-first-on-page was used.
• The extension property display-align="justify" was applied to wrong page.
• The span="all" property caused long processing time, overlapping text.
• Some specific data caused Formatter to crash.

Common - The following issues have been corrected:

• Hamzah under Arif might overlap with Waw in Arabic.
• The radio button was not correctly outputted in PDF.
• Margins (space-before/space-after) might not be processed correctly and the page did not break at the appropriate point.
• Floated figures overlapped.
• The absolutely positioned block container on the last page did not appear.
• The space between blocks was not collapsed.
• The setting of the row width in the table of the column document was not effective.
• axf:punctuation-trim="all" specified to the footnote was not effective.
• The glyph overlapped.
• Some specific data caused Formatter to crash.

Other - The following issues have been corrected:

• The processing of the character string of the name starting with "/" in PDF was incorrect.
• Tagging of the outputted Tagged PDF was incorrect.
• The searching of the tagged PDF did not work correctly.
• The specific character of the spot color name might not be encoded when outputting to PDF.
• When optimization for web display and user password were specified at the same time, "PDFLinearizer error" occurred.
• The output result of data with tables was incorrect.
• produced an exception error with the Windows 64bit version.
• Font-strecthed="condensed" did not work as expected when creating an area tree xml.
• The area tree did not retain PDF bookmarks.
• Distiller PDF output generated lower quality EPS graphics.
• Japanese characters in the form of the text field might not be displayed correctly.
• When multiple text fields of a same name exist in one file, the output of the text field was incorrect.
• The output of specific barcode data failed.
• The processing of the printer with the name of 31 or more Byte was inaccurate with AHFDev.exe.

What's New in AH Formatter V6.0 MR1:

• It's now possible to set the "none" value to axf:overflow-condense
• It's now possible to use math and svg in HTML5. It's no longer necessary to specify the namespace of MathML and SVG
• Support for the "switch "element for SVG
• It's now possible to embed tagged PDF in PDF
• Support for ruby in tagged PDF
• It's now possible to edit the Table Summary text in tagged PDF using axf:table-summary
• It's now possible to embed a PDF that contains Highlight, Underline, Squiggly and StrikeOut annotations
• It's now possible to see the total number of pages formatted with the command-line interface
• Support for optimizing PDF file size

What's New in AH Formatter V6.0:

• By implementing the advanced float features, it's now possible to arrange the float content in an arbitrary place of the page or column, arranging the float content on top, bottom or specified corner in multi-column layout with column spanning of the float
• Ruby extension makes it possible to specify advanced settings of ruby
• Extension properties for emphasis marks are 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

What is Lite?
AH Formatter Lite is a lower priced version for those customers who produce smaller documents (under 300 pages) and don't need all the advanced features of the standard version. Lite offers the same GUI, speed, interfaces and graphic support but for less than one-third of the price. The Standalone and Server versions of Lite fits many of today's production requirements.

Limitations of Lite

• Total page number of the formatted pages are limited to 300 per 1 document. The watermark that shows the limited version is displayed and the URL of our Website is displayed at the bottom of the pages which exceed 300.
• PDF/X, PDF/A and Tagged PDF are not supported.
• Cannot linearize PDF for Fast Web View.
• Cannot use the PDF Digital Signature Module.
• Cannot perform 2-pass format.
• Cannot save and load the area tree.
• Cannot output TEXT.
• Cannot format by setting the Project file of Antenna House XSL Report Designer.
• MathML drawing is not supported. In order to use the function of MathML, you will have to purchase the AH Formatter MathML Option separately.
• The following extensions are not supported. (When there is no specification written, they are common for XSL extension and CSS extension.
  • Printer marks such as a crop mark
  • Dynamic addition of a font
  • Bookmarks (If a bookmark is basic, it's available.)
  • PDF Forms
  • PDF annotation
  • Specify the page number of the link destination
  • PDF output in multi separate volume
  • Line continued marks
  • Line numbers
  • Foot note numbers
  • Printer control
  • Leader expansion
  • Repeat page sequence
  • Suppress a block on the first page
  • Character string conversion such as Japanese numerals.
• Lite doesn't include 90 day warranty. Customers may purchase an annual maintenance agreement to get the customer service.

The following description is for the Standard version; if considering the Lite version please take into account the restrictions mentioned above

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. Users can select the stylesheet language and content strategy that best suits their business needs.

XSL-FO has long been recognized as the 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 had always been how to go from web/HTML to print and PDF with properly formatted pages and documents. AH Formatter is the answer.

Building on the strengths of the CSS3 specification and Antenna House XSL Formatter, Antenna House Formatter has the capability which enables web designers to use CSS to add print and PDF output to their systems by using all the features and functionality that Antenna House has developed over the years as the supplier of the most powerful XSL-FO formatting software available.

• XSL-FO:Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1 recommended from the W3C. See also "XSL-FO 1.1 Conformance".
• CSS:Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Revision 1, CSS3 Working Draft

In addition to the powerful formatting functions by using XSL-FO available with the V4.3, Antenna House has added the ability for formatting HTML and XML with CSS.

Antenna House Formatter offers all the features (GUI, support for over 50 languages, PDF generation), W3C compliance, extensions, the significantly enhanced performance, unlimited document size and SVG support, 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, support for SVG output by SVG Output Option, PANTONE color support by PANTONE Option and Web Service Interface to support the use of XSL Formatter via the Internet, the two-pass formatting that makes it possible to format huge documents, high quality EPS embedding in PDF, the enhanced PDF features, AcroForms, PDF/A, PDF1.7, PostScript output, PDF Digital Signature and numerous other enhancements by AXF extension. New to AH Formatter is the XPS Output Option that enables the output of XPS (XML Paper Specification) files.

AH Formatter is available in 6 variations:

• AH Formatter - Full support for the layouts specified by both XSL-FO and CSS
• AH XSL Formatter - Full support for the layouts specified by only XSL-FO
• AH CSS Formatter - Full support for the layouts specified by only CSS
• AH Formatter Lite - Support for the layouts specified by both XSL-FO and CSS with restrictions
• AH XSL Formatter Lite - Support for the layouts specified by only XSL-FO with restrictions
• AH CSS Formatter Lite - Support for the layouts specified by only CSS with restrictions

Highlights:

Compliant with XSL 1.1
Corresponds to XSL 1.1 which is a XSL-FO specification. AH Formatter V5.0 faithfully implements quite almost elements of the XSL specification and properties.

Compliant with CSS
Supports CSS2.1 and CSS3. Page models of CSS3 is also supported, now that high-quality page formatting will be available.

High speed
V5 is the fastest formatting software available.In batch mode V5 can start to produce PDF output immediately from the inputted file. Furthermore V5 improves the performance on a multi-processor system.

Passes Acid2
AH Formatter V5.0 has passed the Acid2 test published by "The Web Standards Project (WaSP)" that measures the conforming level to CSS.

Format virtually any size document
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.

PANTONE Color Support
AH Formatter V5 provides the ability for more than 1000 PANTONE Colors to be converted into RGB or CMYK values automatically by using AH 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.

Supports PDF/X and PDF/A
AH Formatter V5.0 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.

Web Service Interface
Web Service Interface V2.3 is an option for Antenna House AH Formatter Server Licenses to further support the use of AH Formatter V5.0 via the Internet using SOAP/HTTP.

Accessible PDF
AH Formatter V5.0 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.

Table Auto Layout
AH Formatter V5 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.

Integration Interface
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.

High quality PDF for SVG, MathML, EMF and WMF
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.

AH Formatter makes it possible to draw high-resolution MathML in PDF. Lite is available to use with AH Formatter MathML Option.

PostScript output and SVG output
AH 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 AH Formatter V5.0. This function requires AH Formatter SVG Output Option.

Possible to get the .NET native parser output
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.

Direct Printer output
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.

Multilingual Language
V5.0 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.

Supports the embedding of PDF into PDF
An arbitrary page of other PDF can be embedded into PDF.

Possible to hyphenate over 40 or more languages
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.

AH Formatter support for DITA
AH Formatter V5.0 has a new set of DITAtoFO Stylesheets for the DITA Open Toolkit 1.4 that supports bookmarks, table of contents, indexes and several other features has been made public.

DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) is an XML-based architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical information. The architecture and a related DTD was developed by IBM. DITA is organized around the principle of the topic as the highest level structure and is intended to support the reusability of content. It has been developed especially for managing a large set of documentation to be distributed in multiple channels.

DITA has grown well and its specification has been defined by the OASIS DITA Technical Committee since 2004. DITA version 1.0 was approved as an OASIS Standard on May 3rd, 2005.

Features of DITA

• The topic as an organizing principle
• Reuse of whole topics, as well as reuse of partial topics through the use of content references
• Specialization of elements to provide
• Property-based processing that makes topics easier to find
• Making use of existing tagsets and tools

Antenna House DITAtoFO Stylesheet
The DITA Open Toolkit is an implementation of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee's specification for Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) DTDs and Schemas. DITA-OT (DITA Open Toolkit) transforms DITA content (maps and topics) into deliverable formats such as HTML, DocBook, and PDF.

Antenna House provides a stylesheet that transforms DITA into XSL-FO so that you can format and print through the DITA Open Toolkit using AH Formatter. This kit is composed of the batch file, the shell script file and the ant build file.

Support

Maintenance Service

Warranty:
AH Formatter V5 standard is provided with a 90 day warranty. AH Formatter V5 Lite doesn't include a 90 day warranty.

Who is entitled to receive the maintenance service?

• AH Formatter V5 Standard customers with 90 day warranty. Customers who subscribe to the Annual Maintenance Service per one year after 90 day warranty
• AH Formatter V5 Lite customers who subscribe to the Annual Maintenance Service per one year

If the warranty or annual maintenance period has expired customers may purchase an annual maintenance agreement by paying the retroactive maintenance to when their warranty or previous annual maintenance agreement ended. The customer is then entitled to continued support, the latest version of AH Formatter and all upgrades that become available during the period of the new agreement.

Service Provided:

• If the license is within the maintenance period, all the Customer Services are available
• Bug reports and Requirements
• Upgrade to all major V5 and V5 Lite releases and Maintenance releases of AH Formatter
• One to one technical support
• Mailing list
• Q&A on the Web
• After the maintenance period, only the following services are available
  • Mailing list
  • Q&A on the Web