AH Formatter (XSL + CSS) Releases

Antenna HousePDF Tools
Version V7.5 MR6 (Sep 17, 2026)

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AH Formatter V7.5 MR6Sep 17, 2026
Fixes
  • XSL-FO Revisions:
    • A link in a footnote was not working correctly.
    • Some data failed to format.
  • CSS / HTML Revisions:
    • A float has overflowed.
    • In BIDI footnote, -ah-suppress-duplicate-footnote processing was incorrect.
    • In footnotes to which text-transform etc. were applied, the processing of -ah-suppress-duplicate-footnote was incorrect.
    • The height calculation specified by % was incorrect.
  • Other:
    • In PDF files, the result of copying strings containing characters composed of multiple glyphs was incorrect.
    • In some PDF viewers, strings containing ligatures were not copied correctly.
    • The tagging of the Tagged PDF was incorrect.
    • Some data with Tagged PDF failed to format.
    • Improved the font fallback process.
    • The text in the SVG was garbled.
    • The SVG rendering was incorrect.
    • Improved the "Recent File" display in GUI.
    • The search function in the GUI was incorrect.
AH Formatter V7.5 MR5Jul 30, 2026
Fixes
  • XSL-FO Revisions:
    • When a page break occurred in the middle of a table, a border that should not have been rendered displayed.
    • When breaking columns or pages in a table, the cell heights within the same row would not align.
    • In tables within columns, the page page break position of fo:table-cell with specified heights was incorrect.
    • retrieve-table-marker overflow in nested table.
    • axf:repeat-footnote-in-table-header="false" not working if there is a retrieve-table-marker in the header.
    • Premature break after span="all".
    • axf:normalize not working with Thai document.
    • Extra empty border box on bordered fo:inline in fo:bidi-override.
    • Some data could not be formatted.
  • CSS / HTML Revisions:
    • HTML mode accepts literal U+000C but rejects character reference.
  • Other:
    • Invalid Myanmar rendering with Paduak font.
    • Annotations repeat after page break.
    • Crash during tagged PDF output with EB Garamond font.
    • Crash with Noto Serif Telugu font.
    • JPEG rejected with 18950 error.
    • SVG linear gradients are not rendered in Microsoft Edge's Adobe-powered PDF viewer.
    • SVG background image positioned incorrectly.
    • Broken links for numeric IDs in PDF created from an Area Tree with HTML source.
    • The PDF output from AreaTree contained invalid content.
    • Format failed, when opening a link with an invalid URL in the GUI.
    • High memory usage with 2pass.
AH Formatter V7.5 MR4Jun 11, 2026
Fixes
  • XSL-FO Revisions:
    • Column-fill differs in absolute multicol block-container.
    • Overflow in spread page region with span="all".
    • Some data failed to format.
  • CSS / HTML Revisions:
    • When a height is specified for <body>, the content was sent to the next page even though there was sufficient space.
    • Leader error in Mac OS and Linux.
    • Some data failed to format.
  • Other:
    • @pdftag overrides and new-tagging-mode not applied when rendering from AreaTree XML.
    • Some data with tagged PDF failed to format.
    • In the PDF generated via the Command-line, unlike in the GUI, the bottom row of the table was missing.
    • Crash with ignore-rasterize-properties="true".
    • JPEG fails PDF output.
AH Formatter V7.5 MR3Apr 23, 2026
Fixes
  • XSL-FO Revisions:
    • When a page break occurs in the middle of a table, the table is not split properly and extends beyond the page.
    • Incorrect page number citation for float.
    • Extra spacing with axf:initial-letters and float on the same page.
    • An overflow occurred due to an incorrect processing of keep-together.within-page.
    • Text transparency lost after image.
    • Page counter hang.
    • 2pass exception.
  • CSS / HTML Revisions:
    • Overflow with -ah-keep-together-within-dimension.
    • Incorrect page header when using CSS Flexbox (display: flex;).
    • span at the beginning of block missing background color.
    • Some data failed to format.
  • Other:
    • Acrobat 9 error with zero-size SVG image.
    • Unlike in the GUI, the bottom row of tables was missing in PDFs generated with the command line.
    • Updated the libpng library used in Formatter to version 1.6.56.
AH Formatter Lite V7.5 MR3Apr 23, 2026
Fixes
  • XSL-FO Revisions:
    • When a page break occurs in the middle of a table, the table is not split properly and extends beyond the page.
    • Incorrect page number citation for float.
    • Extra spacing with axf:initial-letters and float on the same page.
    • An overflow occurred due to an incorrect processing of keep-together.within-page.
    • Text transparency lost after image.
    • Page counter hang.
    • 2pass exception.
  • CSS / HTML Revisions:
    • Overflow with -ah-keep-together-within-dimension.
    • Incorrect page header when using CSS Flexbox (display: flex;).
    • span at the beginning of block missing background color.
    • Some data failed to format.
  • Other:
    • Acrobat 9 error with zero-size SVG image.
    • Unlike in the GUI, the bottom row of tables was missing in PDFs generated with the command line.
    • Updated the libpng library used in Formatter to version 1.6.56.
AH Formatter V7.5 MR2Mar 12, 2026
Fixes
  • XSL-FO Revisions:
    • Column would overflow when the table row has a column break.
    • Float would drop content.
    • Extra line breaks around floats.
    • axf:float-y="bottom" was not working as expected.
    • In documents with language="ja" and hyphenate="true", when a non-end-of-line-character and a U+0020 (space) appear at the end of a line, the subsequent string may not break onto the next line and overflow the line.
    • Some data failed to format.
  • CSS / HTML Revisions:
    • Underline text-decoration was not appearing on <u> tag with nbsp content.
    • Overflow occurred due to the incorrect float processing.
    • RTL Flexbox: Justify-Content: Space-between fails to distribute items correctly.
    • When using CSS Flexbox (display: flex;), overflow occurred when a page break occurred in the middle of an item.
    • break-before:right renders background and borders from the second column in the first column.
    • Incorrect page selector before dir="rtl" block.
    • Percent encoding processing was incorrect.
    • Some data could not be formatted.
  • Other:
    • The tagging of the Tagged PDF was incorrect.
    • font-stretch was not applied to fonts defined with font-face.
AH Formatter Lite V7.5 MR2Mar 12, 2026
Fixes
  • XSL-FO Revisions:
    • Column would overflow when the table row has a column break.
    • Float would drop content.
    • Extra line breaks around floats.
    • axf:float-y="bottom" was not working as expected.
    • In documents with language="ja" and hyphenate="true", when a non-end-of-line-character and a U+0020 (space) appear at the end of a line, the subsequent string may not break onto the next line and overflow the line.
    • Some data failed to format.
  • CSS / HTML Revisions:
    • Underline text-decoration was not appearing on <u> tag with nbsp content.
    • Overflow occurred due to the incorrect float processing.
    • RTL Flexbox: Justify-Content: Space-between fails to distribute items correctly.
    • When using CSS Flexbox (display: flex;), overflow occurred when a page break occurred in the middle of an item.
    • break-before:right renders background and borders from the second column in the first column.
    • Incorrect page selector before dir="rtl" block.
    • Percent encoding processing was incorrect.
    • Some data could not be formatted.
  • Other:
    • The tagging of the Tagged PDF was incorrect.
    • font-stretch was not applied to fonts defined with font-face.
AH Formatter V7.5 MR1Jan 22, 2026
Fixes
  • XSL-FO Revisions:
    • The row break position was incorrect due to invalid processing of strings containing footnotes within table cells.
    • line-height.conditionality="discard" creates blank lines around floats.
    • The quotation marks were displayed twice due to invalid processing of the quotation marks specified in the character property of fo:character.
    • baseline-grid not working correctly at the top of a new column.
    • Some data failed to format properly.
  • CSS Revisions
    • Spanning table with footnotes causes extra page break and content displacement.
    • Table overflow even with -ah-keep-together-within-dimension.
    • footnote call duplicated in table.
    • The hyphenation was incorrect due to invalid processing of -ah-hanging-punctuation: allow-end;.
    • Crash with position:fixed in running header.
    • The format result of CSS Flexbox (display: flex;) was incorrect.
    • justify-content not working as expected.
  • Common
    • The punctuation overlapped due to incorrect processing when "<string> adjacent" was specified for axf:punctuation-trim / CSS (-ah-)punctuation-trim.
  • Other
    • Performance problem with embedded PDF in a table cell.
    • PDF/UA corruption with absolutely positioned element in flex container.
    • SVG rendering was invalid.
    • Enabled Control Flow Guard (CFG) function in Windows version.
AH Formatter Lite V7.5 MR1Jan 22, 2026
Fixes
  • CSS Revisions
    • Spanning table with footnotes causes extra page break and content displacement.
    • Table overflow even with -ah-keep-together-within-dimension.
    • footnote call duplicated in table.
    • The hyphenation was incorrect due to invalid processing of -ah-hanging-punctuation: allow-end;.
    • Crash with position:fixed in running header.
    • The format result of CSS Flexbox (display: flex;) was incorrect.
    • justify-content not working as expected.
  • XSL-FO Revisions:
    • The row break position was incorrect due to invalid processing of strings containing footnotes within table cells.
    • line-height.conditionality="discard" creates blank lines around floats.
    • The quotation marks were displayed twice due to invalid processing of the quotation marks specified in the character property of fo:character.
    • baseline-grid not working correctly at the top of a new column.
    • Some data failed to format properly.
  • Common
    • The punctuation overlapped due to incorrect processing when "<string> adjacent" was specified for axf:punctuation-trim / CSS (-ah-)punctuation-trim.
  • Other
    • Performance problem with embedded PDF in a table cell.
    • PDF/UA corruption with absolutely positioned element in flex container.
    • SVG rendering was invalid.
    • Enabled Control Flow Guard (CFG) function in Windows version.