Embed 3D objects in PDF files

Released: Aug 18, 2010

Updates in this release

Updates in V5.2 R1

The following new PDF output features have been added:

  • Entire fonts can now be embedded in the PDF, not just a subset of the font.
  • RGB images can be automatically converted to CMYK when outputting to PDF/X and PDF/A. (not available with AH Formatter Lite)
  • 3D objects can now be embedded in PDF. (not available with AH Formatter Lite)
  • PDF pages can be output in reverse order.
  • Encryption key length can now be specified using 128AES/256AES.
  • Tag names for Tagged PDF can now be customized with the pdftag extension property. (not available with AH Formatter Lite)

The following properties have been added or extended:

  • axf:overflow-align
  • axf:line-number-prefix (not available with AH Formatter Lite)

Values for the following properties have been extended:

  • Justify is added to display-align
  • Support for BIDI with the following scripts when rendering SVG data.
  • Arab : Arabic
  • Hebr : Hebrew
  • Thai : Thai
  • Deva : Devalagari

The following attributes have been added to the Font Configuration File:

  • Ability to specify the Unicode range to a font with Unicode-range.
  • The font size of a specific font can now be adjusted with font-size-adjust.
  • The base line of a specific font can now be adjusted with baseline-adjust.

The following features have been added to the CGM Option:

  • Support for the Character Orientation attribute.
  • Support for Compression Type of CGM 6 and 9.
  • Support for all the notation attributes that belong to the <menclose> property of General Layout with MathML rendering.

The following CSS elements and properties are newly implemented:

CSS2.1

  • :first-line pseudo-element
  • 'display' property
  • 'float' property
  • 'content' property
  • 'quotes' property
  • 'empty-cells< /a>' property

CSS3

  • 'background-size' property
  • box-decoration-break' property

Note: V5.2 contains a beta version of the MO:DCA Output Option.

CSS - The following issues have been corrected:

  • When converting HTML data to INX, the page layout was not correctly outputted.
  • When target-counter(attr(href, url), page) was used, the page number became zero.
  • When formatting specific HTML data that included float data, an exception error occurred.

XSL - The following issues have been corrected:

  • A list that came next to the float was not positioned correctly.
  • When "None axf:japanese-glyph =" was specified, the "Invalid property value" an error occurred.
  • When axf:leader-expansion was used, the length of leader was not correct.
  • When outputting specific data to PDF with solaris (sparc), core dumps occurred.
  • When outputting specific date to PDF with Windows, an exception error occurred.
  • When the column break was inserted within the revision bar, an error occurred.
  • The border of the table overflowed.
  • When there was a float in fo:list-item-label and writing-mode="rl-tb"
    was specified, the indent in list-item-body was not processed correctly.
  • The block with keep-together.within-page="always" in the two column document overflowed.
  • The position of a character shifted incorrectly in the horizontal dimension with specific data.
  • The force page break or column break did not work in a multicolumn document and the page overflowed.
  • fo:leader overflowed.
  • When formatting FO that embedded specific PDF file, the Imported Page Contents Error occurred.
  • When axf:column-fill="auto" was specified, axf:overflow-condense specified in fo:block-container did not become effective.

Common - The following issues have been corrected:

  • Background images were not outputted to INX and MIF.
  • The text in the table cell and the border in the empty cell were missing when outputting to MIF.
  • The position of the image in the table shifted when outputting to MIF.
  • The size of SVG was not correct with SVG rendering.
  • Some characters were not outputted when *.afm was used.
  • When a specific font was specified, the "Create font error" occurred with Mac.
  • When outputting specific data with a table to MIF, an exception error occurred.
  • The "Because the depth of state nesting is over the limit" error occasionally occurred with specific SVG data.
  • When formatting specific SVG data, the text overlapped or the text was not put in a table correctly.
  • U+25CF caused the 'Missing glyph U+25CF in 'ZapfDingbats' error.
  • When outputting specific data to MIF and opened it with FrameMaker, only 1 blank page displayed.
  • When rendering SVG with polygon without points, an exception error occurred.

The following limitations have been removed:

  • The integer value applied to the keep attribute is now available between multi column and span block.
  • Font alias is now available to define for the font family which consists of multiple files.