See what is new in Version 4.0
Usability
- Many improvements that make XSLfast more user friendly
- 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
- Teamwork support
- New user friendly way to operate with filters (groupings)
New-/Enhanced Functionality
- Pivot tables (horizontal, vertical, multi dimensions,...)
- 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
Supported Standards
- FOP 1.0(0.95) support
- XSLT 2.0 support
- XSL-FO marks support
- Java 1.6 support
- iText Java code generation support
- Support of newest features for RenderX XEP and AntennaHouse XSLFormatter
- PDF v1.4 and PDF/A support
- PDF Bookmarks
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 other features and improvements.