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XSL-FO Tutorial |
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XSL-FO Tutorial |
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This document is designed to help XML programmers develop XSL-FO documents that can be rendered using XF Rendering Server.
About XF Rendering Server:
XF Rendering Server is a highly scalable, enterprise class rendering product. It can be used to automate the creation of electronic documents like technical manuals, brochures, proposals, business reports containing charts and graphs, by dynamically generating them from an XML Data Source.
XF Rendering Server supports two major industry standards: XSL-FO (Extensible Style Language Formatting Objects) describing how an XML document should be formatted for various of media, as well as SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) used to describe bidimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML.
Product Features:
| · | Supports XSL, XSL-FO, SVG and SVG Zipped, XPS, XChart, XML, HTML, XHTML formats, Microsoft Office 2003 and Word 2010 documents as input. |
| · | Produces PDF, AFP, PostScript, HTML, WordML, DOCX, PPTX, EPUB, XPS, Image Files (TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PNG), IOCA, PRN, SVG and Text Files. |
| · | The first XSL-FO formatter in the world able to generate XML Paper Specification (XPS) documents. |
| · | Supports partial document rendering. |
| · | Supports Type1, Type 1 with Postscript Glyphs (OTF), TrueType, AFM font embedding and private fonts. |
| · | Scalable server architecture that can run across multiple CPUs, meeting the high performance needs of the user's applications. |
| · | It is accessible from a multitude of development environments: C++, VB, ASP and ASPX, .NET and Java Application Programming Interfaces(API's). |
| · | Multiprocessor/Multithreaded (multiple documents can be processed at the same time; threads can be processed on different CPUs, if available). |
| · | It is available in 32 bit and 64 bit editions. |
| · | Supports 128 bit strength encryption for generated PDF files. |
| · | Has advanced pagination and layout capabilities. |
| · | Advanced SVG support, with additional support for charts and barcodes. |
| · | Can achieve significant speed improvements by enabling the use of additional system memory. |
| · | Generates print-ready PDF documents, compliant with PDF/X standards and with full color management support (ICC profiles). |
| · | Includes XF Designer XSL-FO authoring tool. |
IMPORTANT: For the latest features and updates, please visit the Ecrion website.
Feedback and Support:
The users can send error reports, feature requests and comments about the XF documentation or samples directly to the Technical Support team.
Further information about support options can be found on the Ecrion website.
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