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.
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.
