Hi,
RenderX XSL Formatting Engine XEP version 3
(http://www.renderx.com/FO2PDF.html)
is commercially available from the xAttic shop,
http://shop.xattic.com/
.
The new version is offered through a number of licensing schemes,
ranging from a single user to a developer and corporate server.
From now on, updates and addtional components will eventually be
made available through the updates' page,
http://shop.xattic.com/extras.cgi
.
Licensed users of XEP v2 for XML Spy may download maitnenance
release 2.78 from that location .
We at RenderX are committed to providing XEP's users with convenient
and powerful tools for integration of RenderX XEP into various
production and development environments. As a first step, XEP v3
connector for XML Spy has been published as a freely downloadable
component for commercial users of RenderX XEP version 3. Please
visit
http://shop.xattic.com/extras.cgi
to download the component.
Version 3 offers a number of improvements over the previous one,
including (but not limited to) the following:
- support for right-to-left writing mode (including a preliminary
implementation of bidirectionality);
- support for rotated text;
- support for side floats;
- support for blocks spanning multiple columns;
- support for page-position="last" in conditional page masters;
- support for horizontal text scaling (via font-stretch attribute);
- support for from-table-column() function;
- a number of useful extensions to XSL spec:
* support for building page number lists in indexes;
* support for areas with different column counts on the same page;
- a completely new validation mechanism that checks XSL FO data
from any source and eliminates namespace problems;
- optimized graphics, using "lazy" algorithms to greatly improve
preformance and reduce memory consumption;
- SAX 2 interfaces for both input and output;
- JAXP integration classes, and a command-line interface to perform
direct XML+XSL->PDF/PostScript transformation;
- and more...
RenderX XEP 3 consumes less memory than XEP 2.x and runs faster, especially
on long tables. Many parts have been rewritten from scratch; results
are quite encouraging.
Sincerely,
David Tolpin
CTO
RenderX
http://www.renderx.com/