See what is new in Version 5.0

Usability

• Improved user interface: New skin and more classic look with improved functions
• Now XSLfast is able to work with many layouts at one time
• Every layout can handle as many page sequences as you need, with custom regions for each sequence
• Support of multiple monitors: Simplifies and accelerates layout creation
• Teamwork support
• Improved grouping functions
• Code completions and highlightning
• New view of page sequences and regions
• New zooming functions
• Comparisons of layouts
• New dialogs
• Search everywhere

New-/Enhanced Functionality

• Massive enhancements for pivot tables (horizontal, vertical, multi dimensions,...)
• Completely new table wizard: The refined table wizard simplifies and accelerates the layout creation
• Images in Internet links
• Auto-simplification of expressions while converting elements
• Charts (Pie and Bar graphs)
• New bar codes (EAN-128, Codabar, etc)
• Conditions for styles, colors and fonts
• Layout version control
• Embedded support of most popular XSLT functions from www.exslt.org
• Suppress empty table rows support
• Automatic re-calculation of XPath's while outer filters are changed
• Additional functions: Side floats, more IF-clauses for table columns, support of fo:marker, managed backgrounds, support of DTD external entities, layout comparisons and much more...

Supported Standards

• FOP 1.0(0.95) support
• XSLT 2.0 support
• XSL-FO marks support
• Java 1.6 support
• Support of HTML conversions
• iText Java code generation support
• Support of newest features for RenderX XEP and AntennaHouse XSLFormatter
• PDF v1.4 and PDF/A support
• PDF Bookmarks
• MS XML/XSLT support
• Image support: JPEG/JPG, PNG, TIFF, SVG

Additional features

• CSV support/import as well as XML
• XSL-FO to XSLfast converter (now part of XSLfast 4.0 installation)
• WebStart support (on-demand)
• New tool to merge XML files (now part of XSLfast 4.0 installation)
• Scripting support (now part of XSLfast 4.0 installation)

Other major improvements

• Auto save
• "If" clauses now applicable for every element
• Font sizes now supports floating points
• Undo actions preview
• Elements can be grouped visually (or ungrouped) now
• New unified image element instead of two different ones
• New improvements for tables (double click on empty cell causes new text added on the fly)
• New zooming
• Massive performance improvements
• Line can be used as template
• Template creation now more simplified
• Line styles
• Permanent element groups
• New visual filtering
• New hints (balloons)
• Highlighting mark while walking on XML tree to see where elements are used
• Templates now updated automatically after changes
• Elements may not be generated if it is empty
• If clause is applicable for every table row
• Overlapped elements now can be selected easy
• Page backgrounds
• Point of origin
• New indications of overflows
• Layout templates
• New wizard to make tables easy
• New preferences
• Big changes to support FOP 0.20.5, 0.9x, XEP and XSLFormatter precisely
• MS Vista ready
• 64bit ready
• More robust conversions of elements
• New examples

And many more features and improvements.