Microsoft Office 2010 support in Xml2PDF

Right after Microsoft Corporation announced the release of its Office 2010, we started working on developing our formatting Xml2PDF engine aiming to meet new demands of our customers. We have achieved this task and now support all of the new Office 2010 features.

Concerning the new Word 2010 functionality, Altsoft Xml2PDF fully converts Word 2010 documents to PDF and XPS. All creative text characters, styled letters, outlined and filled will be reflected correctly.

Relative to Excel 2010 almost nothing has changed due to Excel’s statistical nature. Excel 2010 has expanded with visual elements for better data representation. Numerical data embodied with graphed trends will be converted by Xml2PDF to PDF as easy and effective as it did previously.

PowerPoint 2010 has become more enriched with visualization tools that influence the way presentations are shown. Concerning print-ready versions of PP presentations everything is the same, except for a wide range of designers effects. With Altsoft Xml2PDF you will get an attractive PDF document as an output.

As you can notice Microsoft improved its Office 2010 mostly with visual designers tools and effects. We have successfully redesigned all of these features and are able to convert them to PDF and XPS with the highest quality.

Altsoft FTMaster is a Microsoft .NET Framework based family of products (.NET API library and GUI) for operating with data stored in modern vector fonts. Allows viewing and editing various font data, converting between font formats, editing graphical representation of font glyphs, generating instances of Multiple Master fonts, extracting fonts from PDF files, generating AFM (Adobe Font Metrics) files, creating new font files, generating font preview and renaming fonts.

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Xml2PDF Server is a .NET application for converting XSL-FO, SVG, HTML and Microsoft Office documents into PDF, XPS, SVG and raster graphics (TIFF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WMF). Xml2PDF grants a wide range of features such as:

• PDF output compression;
• PDF/a, PDF/x specifications support;
• Digital signatures in PDF and XPS;
• PDF security and password encryption;
• Font embedding/subsetting;
• Interactivity (hyperlinks to local or external sources, bookmarks, indexes, PDF layers, optional content);
• The possibility to embed any supported format into any other; for example, SVG files can embed now XSL-FO pages;

The usual license is server-based, i.e. allows embedding the engine into any .NET based software on a single local network or webbing server with unlimited number of connections. Altsoft has developed powerful PDF .Net libraries which allow not only converting documents to PDF and creating PDF files from scratch but making different manipulations with ready PDF files as well (for example, adding new pages, creating watermarks, modifying, changing fonts, merging, etc.). Altsoft PDF .Net libraries can be integrated into customer solutions for a wide range of tasks in computer graphics and electronic publishing. Xml2PDF will allow you to enrich your .Net applications with PDF capabilities in no time.

Altsoft team are proud to announce the release of Xml2PDF Server v. 1.2. with Excel to PDF support. Altsoft Xml2PDF Server v. 1.2. supports almost all Excel features. It can be embedded to one's own .Net solution for automatical creation of PDF, XPS, TIFF, and SVG documents from any Excel file (.xlsx).

With this new feature Xml2PDF allows using Excel reports, invoices, price lists, statistical information, etc. when interchanging data over the internet or printing it, without any quality losses. The automated process of Excel to PDF conversion saves time and serves for you businesses.

Among the most typical Excel to PDF business use cases are:

• - automatic invoice generation
• - sending bank statements or any other letters with client-specific information
• - generation of print ready time planners for study process
• - generation of print ready forms of various personalized documents including medical cards, etc.

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Altsoft announces the release of MergeSplit PDF formatting engine. Altsoft MergeSplit PDF family consists of PDF Merge and PDF Split formatting engines. PDF Merge and PDF Split are the engines used to merge several PDF documents or split a PDF document into several parts. Merging or splitting PDF documents allows organizing PDF documents in such a way that their management and application will become easier. Therefore work with PDF documents becomes more productive and efficient with Altsoft easy-to-use formatting engines.

The key features of MergeSplit PDF are the following:

• Efficient and quicker access to electronic data
• Compact data storing
• Merging / splitting PDF documents
• Electronic digital signature
• Setting PDF as background
• Easy document's management
• Supervision of a folder's content
• Friendly user interface

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XSL language family consists of XSLT (XSL Transformations) and XSL-FO. XSL-FO uses CSS attributes for formatting objects. Altsoft XSL-FO formatter provides user friendly interface and reports all errors and warnings occurred during the formatting process. It supports almost all XSL-FO features and as well provides several extensions in order to cover special requirements of real projects. This tutorial gives a quick introduction to XSL-FO and is intended for mastering its semantics in a short period of time. XSL-FO should be easy to learn by HTML developers as it uses CSS attributes.

-Why do so many companies create and store their documents in Microsoft Word format? -It's obvious. It's very convenient. MS Word is one of the most available text document editors in the world. This is why, companies choose MS Word. It allows creating documents with different styles, fonts, embedded images and diagrams. MS Word is developing very fast and today you can even sign your documents created in Word with a digital signature and set a password to open and modify documents. But what if you create documents using new MS Office, and your business partner still uses its old version? Then it will be impossible for a partner to open documents created by you, and they may contain important information such as agreements, products and prices, etc. Therefor Word documents are converted to PDF. PDF is a software and hardware-independent format that means that it is shown on every computer the same way. You can be sure that a business partner receives all the information as it was intended. Moreover PDF documents have stronger protection in comparison to Word. The following options can be specified: 'Can Print', 'Can Modify', 'Can extract', etc. It is also possible to plot watermarks and add digital signatures to documents.

PDF is a standard format for electronic documents and that is why we recommend converting Word documents to PDF. PDF makes document interchanging safer. One more advantage is that PDF document are suitable for long-term storage. Summing up all the above's advantages it's not surprising that PDF documents can be found everywhere - manufacturing, medicine, publishing, IT, education, etc. Our advice - convert your Word documents to PDF!

First of all, could you please answer the question: "In what format do you or your company store business documents?" We are sure that in most cases the answer will be MS Word. No wonder that most of the time companies choose Word to create and store documents. It is the most convenient and available tool for text documents. Using MS Word it is easy to create any document and apply to it different fonts, styles, layout options, etc. Now MS Word allows even to protect documents with digital signatures and passwords. You don't need to possess special knowledge to be able to create documents in Word.

We live in a rapidly changing world and electronic data and information is of extremely large value. Unfortunately MS Word doesn't provide documents with proper protection and security. Thus it is needed to find another format that will be able to protect electronic documents to the best advantage. The Adobe PDF seems to be the best choice.

We recommend converting Word to PDF because PDF is a standard for electronic documents. PDF is print-ready format that allows setting security options to documents thus making them impossible to modify or even to print. PDF documents came solidly into our life, you can find them everywhere. PDF documents are used when creating letters, reports, business documents such as billing accounts, invoices, contracts, etc. PDF are widely used due to its device- and software- independent nature. PDF documents in contrast to those in Word are always shown the same way and are identical to original documents. One more PDF advantage is that it is suitable for long-term storage.

Summing everything up it can be said that Word to PDF conversion provides a user with high protection from copying, allows adding watermarks, electronic digital signature and using other security instruments. Word documents converted to PDF will have smaller size and thus will be exchanged quicker. So if you are going to manage document interchange effectively, be sure that your data won't be lost or damaged it is recommended and reasonable to convert Word documents to PDF.

Altsoft Xml2PDF 2009 formatting engine is one of the best solutions for converting Word documents to PDF. Xml2PDF 2009 in contrast to its previous versions and many other present products supports almost all Microsoft Word 2003 and Word 2007 features. Xml2PDF 2009 can be used manually as a desktop tool (Xml2PDF Workstation) and can be embedded to one's own .Net solution (Xml2PDF Server) for creation PDF, XPS, TIFF, and SVG documents from any Word file (Doc, DocX, WordML). Microsoft Word is the most popular and easy tool for document creation. Thus most office and technical documents are created in accessible Word formats. If a company chooses managing paper document workflow it suits good. But today electronic documents are spread. Therefore it is recommended to convert Word document to PDF. PDF is a standard format for electronic documents. It is hardware- and software-independent. PDF provides security and can be protected with password. PDF suits good for long-term storage and as well allows protecting files with electronic digital signature, Summing up it can be said that Word to PDF conversion has obvious advantages and Altsoft Xml2PDF is the most suitable application for these purposes.

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Altsoft Xml2PDF 2009 is a .NET-based formatting engine for converting various page layout formats into print-ready documents.

The new key features and improvements are:

• Altsoft Xml2PDF SDK
• Altsoft Xml2PDF Commander 2009
• SVGZ input support

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SVG is a platform for two-dimensional graphics. It has two parts: an XML-based file format and a programming API for graphical applications. Key features include shapes, text and embedded raster graphics, with many different painting styles. It supports scripting through languages such as ECMAScript and has comprehensive support for animation.

SVG is used in many business areas including Web graphics, animation, user interfaces, graphics interchange, print and hardcopy output, mobile applications and high-quality design.

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Altsoft Xml2PDF 2009 is a .NET-based formatting engine for converting various page layout formats into print-ready documents.

The new key features and improvements are:

• principal refactoring and optimization.
• essential improvements in XSL-FO, SVG, XTHML and Word 2003, 2007 support (including improved tables and floats formatting algorithms and new fonts support technology);
• complete HTML (including new features of CSS 3.0) support
• DOC input support
• SVG output support
• XAML output support (integration with WPF)
• digital signatures in PDF and XPS

New intermediate AltDOC vector format which allows to:

• edit and merge formatted documents, add new elements to them;
• temporary store the formatted documents ready for saving in any of output formats;
• create PDF, XSP, TIFF from scratch using all power of Xml2PDF formatting engine.

Altsoft Xml2PDF 2009 is a .NET-based formatting engine for converting various page layout formats into print-ready documents.

Xml2PDF Server 2007 v1.2 with the support of Custom XML in Word 2007 source and COM interface is released.

The major new features of Xml2PDF 2007 version 1.2 are:

• custom XML in Word 2007 source support
• COM interface

Custom XML markup provides a facility for embedding customer-defined semantics into the document via the ability to tag the document with XML elements and attributes specified by any valid XML Schema file.

COM interface allows to use Xml2PDF Server 2007 not only with Microsoft .NET applications but also within Delphi, Java, VB, C++.

The free Xml2PDF Workstation 2007, and the trial versions of Xml2PDF Server 2007 and Commander 2007 are available for download at http://www.alt-soft.com/Downloads.aspx.

Feel free to send your comments to support@alt-soft.com.

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Xml2PDF Server 2007 v1.1 with the support of VML for MS Word 2003-2007 input and PDF/A, PDF/X output is released.

The major new features of Xml2PDF 2007 version 1.1 are:

• VML line-art support for Microsoft Word 2003-2007
• Generation of PDF output conforming PDF/A or PDF/X specifications

In addition to new features and enchancements the release includes a new product Xml2PDF Commander 2007 that provides the command line interface to Xml2PDF Server 2007.

The new Xml2PDF Commander 2007 is distributed as a stand-alone command-line application or as a free add-on to Xml2PDF Server 2007. It also provides integration with Gradual SWITCH 07, the document workflow automation solution. Please, visit Gradual Software web site at http://www.gradual.com/ to explore new opportunities in integrating Altsoft Xml2PDF Server 2007 into complex automation workflows.

The free Xml2PDF Workstation 2007, and the trial versions of Xml2PDF Server 2007 and Commander 2007 are available for download at http://www.alt-soft.com/Downloads.aspx.

Feel free to send your comments to support@alt-soft.com.

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Altsoft announces beta release of its Xml2PDF Commander 2007.

Xml2PDF Commander 2007 is a console application for converting Word, XHTML, SVG and XSL-FO files to PDF, XPS, PS or TIFF output.

It supports most of Xml2PDF Server 2007 Professional functionality via the standard input/output of the command line application.

Xml2PDF Commander can be used either as a simple desktop application or called inside third-party applications. Thus, it provides an additional integration interface and may be used as a replacement of the complete Xml2PDF Server API in case when the integration of Xml2PDF .NET assembly to the custom application code is not necessary or not acceptable.

Xml2PDF Commander 2007 is distributed under a stand-alone license without Xml2PDF Server for 699 EUR only. The sever-side use of the Commander with unlimited number of connections is allowed.

Requirements: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

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Altsoft announces the release of its new Xml2PDF 2007 family of products, containing Xml2PDF Server 2007 (.NET API), Xml2PDF Workstation 2007 and AltViewer 2007.

Altsoft Xml2PDF 2007 is a .NET-based formatting engine for converting various page layout formats (XSF-FO, SVG, Word, HTML) into print-ready documents (PDF, PS, XPS, TIFF).

The new key features and improvements are:

• Significant refactoring and optimization. Xml2PDF Server 2007 now works 1.7 times faster (overall) than earlier version 3.0
• Essential improvement of Xml2PDF API interface.
• Improved XSL-FO 1.1 support including bookmarks, multiple flows, and floats.
• XPS output support.
• PostScript output support.
• DocX and Word 2007 Xml input support.
• Significant improvement of graphics (TIFF) output support.
• Direct GDI+ print and preview function.
• Advanced font management options.
• Possibility to merge several documents of different formats into one output document or use any source document as a background.
• Advanced configuration options.

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Microsoft .NET Frameworks is required (versions 2.0 and 1.1 are supported).

Xml2PDF Workstation 2007 is a desktop application for converting XSF-FO, SVG, Word, HTML to print-ready documents. AltViewer 2007 displays documents of any supported XML format on a screen and provides scaling, navigation and printing functionality.

Both products are FREEWARE demonstrating power of Xml2PDF engine on your desktop. Download them now!!!

Xml2PDF Server 2007 is designed for server use inside custom workflows. Light, Standard and Professional editions are available for Xml2PDF Server 2007. The license is server based . Company Wide and OEM (Redistributable) licenses are also available. Find more about Xml2PDF Server 2007 licensing The update to Xml2PDF Server 2007 Standard is free for all current Xml2PDF 3.x users.

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Altsoft announces beta release of its new Xml2PDF 2007 family of products, containing Xml2PDF Server 2007 (.NET API), Xml2PDF Workstation 2007 and AltViewer 2007.

Altsoft Xml2PDF 2007 is a .NET-based formatting engine for converting various page layout formats into print-ready documents.

The new key features and improvements are:

• Significant refactoring and optimization.
• Essential improvement of Xml2PDF API interface.
• Improved XSL-FO 1.1 support including bookmarks, multiple flows, and floats.
• XPS output support.
• PostScript output support.
• DocX and Word 2007 Xml input support.
• Significant improvement of graphics (TIFF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WMF) output support.
• Direct GDI+ print and preview function.
• Advanced font management options.
• Possibility to merge several documents of different formats into one output document or use any source document as a background.
• Advanced configuration options.

The Microsoft frameworks .NET 2.0 and 1.1 are supported.

The commercial release is scheduled for March, 2007. Light, Standard and Professional editions will be available for Xml2PDF Server 2007. All clients who purchase Xml2PDF 3.0 Complete API in January and February 2007 will receive an upgrade to Xml2PDF Server 2007 Professional for FREE!

Altsoft Xml2PDF Server 2007 beta (Professional edition) is available for download. Xml2PDF Workstation 2007 and AltViewer editions will be available for download soon.

The beta version does not require any activation keys, but produces an Altsoft watermark on each page and is valid till March 31, 2007. Please, note that this version is not recommended for use on any production environment.

Feel free to send your comments and bug reports to support@alt-soft.com.

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The major new features of the new version include:

All formats:

• Significant refactoring and optimization which make the new version about 3-4 times faster and 2-3 times less memory consuming than the current 2.x release.
• New output formats: SVG Basic, raster images and GDI output.
• The possibility to embed any supported format into any other; for example, SVG files can embed now XSL-FO pages.
• Improved typography including the support of OpenType fonts with Type1 outlines and kernings.

XSL-FO format:

• The support for MathML as an external graphics format.
• The support for multipage floats.
• Extended XSL-FO 1.1 support.
• New extensions for absolutely positioned floats and tabulation support.

WordML:

• Support for absolutely positioned boxes.
• Tabulation support.
• Overall performance and quality improvements.

XHTML:

• Improved floats support.
• Overall performance and quality improvements.

SVG:

• Overall performance and quality improvements.

CSS:

• Support for paged media module from CSS 3.0.
• Support for different media types.

All together Xml2PDF 3.0 supports the following file formats:

• Input XML formats: XSL-FO, SVG, XHTML, WordML, MathML.
• Output formats: PDF, raster graphics (TIFF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WMF), SVG (Basic profile).

The formatting engine is implemented as a pure managed .NET components and can be easily integrated into any .NET-based solution. It does not use any third-party applications or COM components.

The following Xml2PDF editions are available into Xml2PDF 3.0 Release:

• Xml2PDF Workstation, a dialog-based GUI application that validates and converts any supported format to a number of output formats reporting all errors and warnings
• Xml2PDF Viewer, a rich GUI application that displays any supported XML format on a screen and provides scaling, navigation and printing functionality. It can also save open XML documents to any of the supported output formats.
• Xml2PDF Hotfolder, a hotfolder based formatting engine tracing and processing all incoming files in parallel threads.
• Xml2PDF API, the .NET component providing access to Xml2PDF formatting functionality via the standard .NET interface.

Please visit our web site http://alt-soft.com/ or e-mail to info@alt-soft.com for any additional information required.

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Altsoft NV announces the immediate availability of Xml2PDF 3.0 beta2 (pre-release).

The major changes comparing to beta release from January 9, 2006 include:

• complete support for all features available in the current retail version 2.5 with much better performance;
• hotfolder edition is available now;
• new Xml2Bitmap connector is available in API edition for converting supported XML files to raster graphics;
• floats support is fully functional now. This includes the support of all XSL-FO floats and the improved support for XHTML and WordML floats;
• bug fixes and further performance tuning are included.

The commercial release of Xml2PDF is scheduled for the end of March 2006.

The following four Xml2PDF editions are available for download:

• Xml2PDF Workstation, a dialog-based GUI application that validates and converts any supported format to a number of output formats reporting all errors and warnings;
• Xml2PDF Viewer, a rich GUI application that displays any supported XML format on a screen and provides scaling, navigation and printing functionality. It can also save open XML documents to any of the supported output formats;
• Xml2PDF Hotfolder, either server or client side application for converting XSL-FO, SVG, WordML and XHTML files to PDF. The goal of this program is to trace all incoming XML files to the specified folder (named "hot folder") and convert them to PDF;
• Xml2PDF API, the .NET component providing access to Xml2PDF formatting functionality via the standard .NET interface.

All editions require Microsoft .NET 1.1 framework installed. The Xml2PDF API edition is also available for .NET 2.0 framework.

Feel free to send your comments and bug reports to: support@alt-soft.com..

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Altsoft NV releases Hotfolder Service, a new Xml2PDF edition allowing to use Altsoft Xml2PDF formatting engine as a true Windows service. It can be managed by means of the independent client application via network connection and does not require the user login to the server.

Feel free to send your comments to support@alt-soft.com.

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Altsoft NV is proud to announce the immediate availability of the new update 2.5 of its Xml2PDF formatting engine.

Major features of the new version include:

• The fix of the critical bug in memory management that considerably improves memory usage and efficiency of Xml2PDF API and Hotfolder editions;
• support for CMYK, Gray and spot colors in SVG;
• improved support for JPEG and WMF (EMF) external graphics;
• support for internal image resolution (if this data is available);
• extended set of visibility options for layers in output PDF files;
• performance tuning;

In addition, the support for WordML and XHTML (+CSS) transformations into XSL-FO is included now into Xml2PDF API edition. This functionality is also available in Xml2PDF Workstation edition including the evaluation version.

For evaluation of Xml2PDF .NET API please send the requests to: sales@alt-soft.com.

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Altsoft presents the new version 3.0 of its .NET based Xml2PDF formatting engine. The major new features of the new version include:

• Significant refactoring and optimization that make the new version about 3-4 times faster and 2-3 times less memory consuming than the current commercial 2.x release;
• The support for raster graphics and GDI output;
• The support for MathML as an external graphics format;
• The support for SVG as an output format;
• The possibility to embed any supported format into any other;
• Improved formatting of all currently supported formats (XSL-FO, SVG, WordML, XHTML);
• Advanced Typography including the support of OpenType fonts with PostScript outlines and font kerning.

All together Xml2PDF 3.0 supports the following file formats:

• Input XML formats: XSL-FO, SVG, XHTML, WordML, MathML.
• Output formats: PDF, SVG, raster graphics (BMP, EMF, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WMF).

The formatting engine is implemented as pure managed .NET components and can be easily integrated into any .NET-based solution. It does not use any third-party applications or COM components.

The Xml2PDF 3.0 Beta version does not require any activation keys, but produces an Altsoft watermark on each page. Please, note that this version is not recommended for use on any production computer.

The commercial release of Xml2PDF is scheduled for March 2006 and is free for all current users of Xml2PDF API version 2.x.

The following three Xml2PDF editions are included into Xml2PDF 3.0 beta release:

• Xml2PDF Workstation v.3.0 beta, a dialog-based GUI application that validates and converts any supported format to a number of output formats reporting all errors and warnings.
• XmlViewer v.3.0 beta, a rich GUI application that displays any supported XML format and provides scaling, navigation and printing functionality. It can also save open XML documents to any of the supported output formats.
• Xml2PDF API v.3.0 beta, the .NET component providing access to Xml2PDF formatting functionality via the Microsoft .NET 1.1 interface.

All editions require Microsoft .NET 1.1 framework installed.

Feel free to send your comments and bug reports to support@alt-soft.com.

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Xml2PDF version 2.3.9 with support for spot colors in XSL-FO, SVG and XHTML and automatic bookmarks generation in XHTML is available.

Please do not hesitate to contact us for any additional information at info@alt-soft.com

Altsoft NV announces the release of FTMaster version 1.4, the font editing and conversion tool. Now it is also available as .NET API edition.

This build is mainly focused on fixing the bugs, improving stability and adding a logic for working with incorrect or incomplete fonts.

It is free for all users of versions 1.x.

The retail price of FTMaster is 199$.

For any additional information please visit our web site http://alt-soft.com/ or e-mail to info@alt-soft.com.

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FTMaster .NET API is a managed .NET component for converting all modern vector font formats to each other. It is aimed at providing a fully .NET-compliant solution for automatic conversion of font formats inside your application. It opens the functionality of Altsoft FTMaster, our powerful font converter, to any .NET based products.

Free evaluation is available. Please contact sales@alt-soft.com for the details.

The retail price of FTMaster .NET API is 999$ per-server or $1999 for the redistributable license.

For any additional information please visit our web site http://alt-soft.com/ or e-mail to info@alt-soft.com.

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Xml2PDF version 2.3.9 with support for spot colors (pantones) in XSL-FO, SVG and XHTML and automatic bookmarks generation in XHTML is available.

Please do not hesitate to contact us for any additional information at info@alt-soft.com

The patch for DocBook is updated. This fix is aimed at keeping modified stylesheets semantically identical to original. However, this fix has no affect on .NET XSLT results, so there is no need to patch your DocBook stylesheets again if you have done it earlier.

New features are:

• various bug fixes in all formats;
• improved WordML formatting core;
• bookmarks are automatically produced from WordML now;

Several minor bugs in XSL-FO, SVG and XHTML are fixed. A minor bug with JPEG embedding has also been fixed.

This build includes several minor bug fixes in XSL-FO, SVG and WordML. Several bugs fixed in XSL-FO are produced by DocBook FO stylesheet output. It is recomended to update to this version for all the users who create PDFs using DocBook.

Xml2PDF version 2.3.1 is released. This update includes several bugfixes in XSL-FO and SVG formatters.

Altsoft NV is proud to announce the release of version 2.3 of its Xml2PDF formatting engine.

The update includes:

• WordML as a new input format;
• support for fo:float in XSL-FO;
• improved word and line stacking in all formats;
• side floating is available in XHTML;
• images can be used as a pattern in SVG;

All editions of Xml2PDF formatting engine, which include Workstation, XmlSpy Plug-In, Hotfolder and .NET API, are automatically updated.

Altsoft Xml2PDF is a .NET based formatting engine for converting various XML-based formats to PDF. It supports XSL-FO, SVG, XHTML, WordML and XML+XSLT as an input and generates PDF as an output.

For evaluation of .NET API edition please send the requests to: sales@alt-soft.com.

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FTMaster version 1.3.2 is available online for download. This update includes several bug fixes and an optimiztion in the OpenType font generation. Due to limitations in the Microsoft Windows font management system some correct OpenType fonts might fail to install into the Windows fonts repository. The new version fixes the potential problems in OpenType fonts making them installable in Microsoft Windows.

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Xml2PDF 2.2.1 update is available. This is a bugfixing update. Please, update to this version to be sure that you have the latest release.

FTMaster 1.3.1 update is available.

New Features:

• fsType viewing and editing;
• several bugs are fixed;

Please, update to this version to be sure that you have the latest release.

Altsoft NV announces the release of version 2.2 of its Xml2PDF formatting engine.

New XSL-FO features are:

• complete support for Unicode BiDi algorithm;
• support for soft-hyphen based hyphenation;
• improved performance and memory usage;
• support for PDF and EPS as external graphics formats;
• added control over maximal images resolution (all images above a fixed resolution are downsampled);

New SVG features are:

• support for markers;
• support for symbols;
• improved performance and memory usage;

New XHTML features are:

• SVG can be used as both external and internal graphics;
• support for Flash animation;
• partial form tags support;
• improved support for national character sets;

Starting from version 2.2 Client UI and Command Line editions are combined into Workstation edition available for $49.

All editions of Xml2PDF formatting engine, which include Workstation, Hotfolder, XmlSpy Plug-in and .NET API, are automatically updated.

Altsoft Xml2PDF is a .NET based formatting engine for converting various XML-based formats to PDF. It supports XSL-FO, SVG, XHTML, XML+XSLT as an input and generates PDF as an output.

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Altsoft NV is pleased to announce the immediate availability of XmlSpy plug-in beta edition of its Xml2PDF formatting engine.


Altsoft Xml2PDF is a .NET based formatting engine for converting various XML-based formats to PDF. It supports XSL-FO, SVG and XHTML as an input and generates PDF as an output.

For any additional information please visit our web site http://alt-soft.com/ or e-mail to info@alt-soft.com


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Altsoft team wishes XSL-FO community Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We are proud to announce our new freeware product XSL-FO Debugger as a gift for you.

Sometimes it is not so easy to answer many tricky questions that arise when you create a document with complex structure and thousands of objects. Why are these nested blocks not present on where they should be? What happened to that line? Where on earth is the header? Is it my error or I should send a letter to the producer of my formatter? XSL-FO Debugger helps you to avoid spending precious time on re-calculating object parameters, re-reading specification and revising your code. It introduces the visual representation of all basic document areas, baseline tables and breaks generated by the formatter so that you can find irritating shortcomings as fast as possible.

XSL-FO Debugger is distributed under a free license.

Your comments, ideas and feedback are very important to us. We appreciate and honor all suggestions. Our goal is to make this product useful for you and your ideas. Feature requests are the best way to build the most suitable solution for XSL-FO designers. Please, write us your ideas to support@alt-soft.com

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Best Wishes and Regards,
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Altsoft NV announces the release of version 2.1 of its Xml2PDF formatting engine.

The update includes:

• improved speed and memory management;
• improved font embedding and selection;
• support for patterns in SVG;
• support for XML image embedding based on RFC2397: URL scheme in all formats;
• advanced HTML conflicts resolution in XHTML;
• enhanced UI in client applications.

All editions of Xml2PDF formatting engine, which include Client UI, Command Line, Hotfolder and .NET API, are automatically updated.

Altsoft Xml2PDF is a .NET based formatting engine for converting various XML-based formats to PDF. It supports XSL-FO, SVG, XHTML, XML+XSLT as an input and generates PDF as an output.

For evaluation of API edition please send the requests to: sales@alt-soft.com

For any additional information please visit our web site http://alt-soft.com/ or e-mail to info@alt-soft.com

Altsoft NV announces the beta release of the new HotFolder edition of its Xml2PDF formatting engine.

Xml2PDF Hotfolder is either a server or a client side application for automatic convertion of XSL-FO, XSLT, SVG and XHTML to PDF. It traces all incomming XSL-FO / SVG / XHTML / XML files to the specified folder (named "hot folder") and converts them to PDF. It also provides a user-firendly log interface for all error and warning messages.

Altsoft Xml2PDF is a .NET based formatting engine for converting various XML-based formats to PDF. It supports XSL-FO, SVG, XHTML, XML+XSLT as an input and generates PDF as an output.

For any additional information please visit our web site http://alt-soft.com/ or e-mail to info@alt-soft.com

The update fixes the potential danger of non-authorized font extraction from PDF files. This concerns the fonts which do not contain any embedding rights. Now these fonts are treated as if they where embedded only for Print & Preview. In particular, they can not be saved to a local file, and no data can be copied from them to another font.

The special retail price of 99$ for FTMaster is valid till September 30, 2004.

Altsoft NV announces the beta release of the new version 2.0 of its Xml2PDF formatting engine.

The main new features of Xml2PDF engine are:

• Improved XSL-FO 1.0 recommendation and 1.1 draft support;
• Complete SVG support;
• Support for XHTML as an input format;
• Complete CSS support in SVG and XHTML;
• Improved client UI;

Altsoft Xml2PDF is a .NET based formatting engine for converting various XML-based formats to PDF. It supports XSL-FO, SVG, XHTML, XML+XSLT as an input and generates PDF as an output.

For any additional information please visit our web site http://alt-soft.com/ or e-mail to info@alt-soft.com

Altsoft FTMaster is a .NET based GUI application for viewing, editing and converting fonts. It provides the full access to all data stored in font files including glyph outlines, metrics and name tables.

The functionality of Altsoft FTM includes:

• Support for Type1, Type2, Type42, TrueType, OpenType, CID-based fonts and Multiple Master fonts;
• Retrieving font properties;
• Font metrics generation;
• Font subsetting;
• Generation of instances of multiple master fonts;
• Character outlines editing and glyph copying between fonts;
• Extended encodings support;
• Conversion between various font types: Type1, Type2, TrueType, OpenType, Type42;
• Opening fonts embedded into PDF files;

The retail price of Altsoft FTMaster is 99$ till August 31, 2004, and 199$ starting from September 1, 2004.

For sales inquiries and further requests please e-mail to sales@alt-soft.com
For any additional information please e-mail to info@alt-soft.com

Altsoft NV announces commertial distribution of Xml2PDF familiy of products.

Altsoft Xml2PDF is a .NET based formatting engine for converting XSL-FO and SVG files to PDF. It supports the following formats as an input:

• XSL-FO, a primary input format for Xml2PDF.
• XML and XSL Transform to XSL-FO;
• SVG is supported both as a stand-alone input format and as a part of XSL-FO.

The available licenses include:

• Client UI edition with user-friendly interface (49USD);
• Command line edition for batch formatting and validation (399USD);
• .NET API for embedding Altsoft Xml2PDF formatting engine into custom solutions (799/1599USD for the developer/complete edition);
• Free evaliation versions of both Client GUI and Command Line tool. The only limitation of the evaluation version is that the generated PDF can not be edited and contains a tiny Altsoft logo at the bottom of each page.

For sales inquiries and further requests please e-mail to sales@alt-soft.com
For any additional information please e-mail to info@alt-soft.com

Altsoft NV is proud to announce its new product FTMaster. It is a .NET-based font editor program which allows user opening, editing and creating new fonts.

The main features of FTMaster are:

• Support for Type1, Type2, Type42, TrueType, OpenType, CID-based, Multiple Master fonts;
• Retrieving font properties;
• Font metrics generation;
• Font subsetting;
• Generation of instances of multiple master fonts;
• Character outlines editing and copying between fonts;
• Extended encodings support;
• Opening fonts embedded into PDF files;
• Conversion between various font types: Type 1, Type 2, TrueType, OpenType, Type 42;

Please, visit our site http://www.alt-soft.com/ for more information.

Additional software requirements:

• Microsoft .NET platform

For sales inquiries and further requests please e-mail to sales@alt-soft.com
For any additional information please e-mail to info@alt-soft.com

Changes with respect to the previous version (1.9.0 beta):

• Fixed a critical bug in system fonts access.

Altsoft NV is proud to announce its new product Xml2PDF. It is a .NET-based XSL-FO formatting engine which takes either XSL-FO file or XML-XSLT pair as input and generates PDF file as output.

The main features of Xml2PDF engine are:

• Comprehensive XSL-FO 1.0 recommendation support;
• Partial XSL-FO 1.1 draft support;
• Validation of XSL-FO files;
• User-friendly Windows GUI showing formatting/validation progress and all warnings and error messages;
• Server-side and API editions;
• Support for all encodings and all vector (TrueType, Type1, OpenType) system fonts;
• Support for virtually any raster image format (including TIFF, PNG, GIF, JPEG, etc) as an external graphics;
• Partial Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) support;
• Complete color management compliance;
• Generation of compressed and/or password encrypted PDF files.

Please, visit our site http://www.alt-soft.com/ for more information.

Additional software requirements:

• Microsoft .NET platform

For sales inquiries and further requests please e-mail to sales@alt-soft.com
For any additional information please e-mail to info@alt-soft.com