An XML/XHTML/CSS 2.1 Renderer

Release 8 – Final (R8)

April 18, 2009: We are proud to present our R8 release. This release includes no changes since R8 release candidate 2.

Our R8 release includes a number of improvements over R7, as well as bug fixes. You can read the complete list of changes on our news page; here are some
highlights about what you'll find in R8:

• PDF
  • Upgrade to use iText 2.0.8
  • Support adding custom header properties on PDF output
  • Add ability to set PDF version programmatically
  • Add ability to manipulate PDF output document before it's closed
  • Add ability to have different starting page number for first document in multiple documents
  • Add API to retrieve PDF page and coordinates for boxes with an ID attribute
  • Implement CMYK color support for PDF output
  • Support encryption of PDF output
• Swing
  • Basic support for selection, highlighting and copying
• General
  • Expose copy of parsed entities from catalog.
  • Preliminary support for data URLs
  • Support True Type Collection (.ttc) files
  • Preliminary support for Type 1 fonts
  • Support logging via Log4J as an alternative to JDK logging (requires recompile)
  • Handle hidden form elements
  • Rudimentary support for JavaScript links (from Dan Kaplan)
  • Support for callback on form submission
• CSS
• Prelimary support for @font-face rules
• Implement partial support for leader and target-counter (patch from Karl Tauber)
• Table pagination. When turned on (by setting the -fs-table-pagination property to paginate vs. a default of auto ), tables and table cells will be closed (with appropriate borders and padding) when a page ends and reopened when a page starts. Additionally, a table's thead and tfoot will be repeated on each page.
• CSS3 margin boxes
• Named pages
• Running elements
• Namespace-aware CSS matching, for example, with attributes [although this also applies to elements]
• Pseudo-elements may now be specified with a double colon
• Substring selectors
• The background property can now be used in a @page context – CSS 3 spec
• Custom property to limit the scope of the page and pages counters to a portion of the document
• Custom property that instructs FS to try to avoid breaking a box so that only borders and padding appear on a page

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