FinerEdge Publisher Release Notes
| FinerEdge Publisher 3.7 | November 07, 2011 | Show Details |
- Addition of the FPService service library that allows for the creation of documents from web service consumers. The FPService service library can be hosted from any host provider.
- Addition of the FPServicesApp service application that utilizes the new FPServices service library. The FPServicesApp service application is meant to be hosted by IIS.
- Implemention of SVG attribute parameters that adheres to the W3C recommendation.
- Addition of the SVG tag that enhances SVG image generation with SVG attribute parameters, DPI changes, and image size updates.
- Addition of new CONTENT tag to host inline content such as SVG fragments. Populates simple strings to more involved data structures.
- Enhanced the PLOT tag to support DPI changes (for higher quality images) consistent with other uses of DPI (e.g., CHART and SVG tags).
- Updated absolute positioned elements to handle the transparent background color and image transparent areas.
- Updated absolute positioned elements to handle percentage values for left, top, right, and bottom style properties.
| FinerEdge Publisher 3.6 | July 25, 2011 | Show Details |
- Enhanced Import facility handles full html files with xml-stylesheet and link tag stylesheet specifications (in addition to HTML fragments). This allows for direct HTML to PDF translation using FinerEdge Publisher's rendering engine to handle page-break scenarios to produce professional-looking output documents.
- STYLE tag support for href attribute that optionally refers to external css file or uri.
- Addition of page-break-before and page-break-after styles with optional height condition.
- Addition of rowspan style that compliments colspan style.
- Addition of prescale max-fill style value, which can be used with Scalable Vector Graphics gradients as an example.
- Font names can be specified directly in documents in addition to being registerd in the catalog.
- Enhanced markup editor auto-completion for all tags, attributes, and styles.
| FinerEdge Publisher 3.5 | June 01, 2011 | Show Details |
- Introduction of the multi-threaded server managed assembly FPServerNet. FPServerNet provides an alternative interface to the existing COM-based FPServer component for multi-threaded, server-side document generation.
- Creation of ADO provider type for the query provider type container.
- Introduction of the FPTestBench application for FPServerNet and FPServer multi-threaded document generation. FPTestBench allows multiple test bench profiles to be created, stored, and tested with various types of outputs.
| FinerEdge Publisher 3.4 | May 02, 2011 | Show Details |
- Introduction of an extensible provider container for QueryData that can re-purpose query definitions relative to the selected provider type.
- Created an OLEDB provider type and added support into the extensible provider container.
- Addition of the "colspan" style for embedded elements within parent table elements.
| FinerEdge Publisher 3.3 | March 21, 2011 | Show Details |
- Introduction of a native WPF FinerEdge Publisher Writer to include the complete source for the FPSamplesWPF project.
- A WPF custom control that represents the generated view for a document.
- A WPF user control that contains a generated view for a document and its outline view.
- Support for handling additional types of drawing contexts.
| FinerEdge Publisher 3.2 | January 03, 2011 | Show Details |
- Generation of bookmarks/outline for the on-line viewer, PDF, and XPS outputs.
- New outline panel for the on-line viewer.
- Outline mechanism for easy generation of document outlines such as Table of Contents, Table of Figures, Indexes, etc.
- New Outline, OutlineItem, and OutlineItemClose tags for the outline mechanism.
- Multi-threaded named pipe chart server.
- Multi-dimension arrays.
- Auto-generation of sequential numbers (function "anum") based upon a given mnemonic.
- New "collection" function creates collections of matching symbols for subsequent access.
- New "ref-level" style assigns references to a particular outline level.
- Improved Set tag allows multiple variables to be initialized to the same value.
- Improved pointer-to-string ("^") now handles array elements.
- Enhanced the Plot tag to handle parameter substitution implemented using the same syntax as the Chart tag.
- Additional distribution items including a live demo sampler and a multi-threaded tester.
| FinerEdge Publisher 3.1 | September 26, 2010 | Show Details |
- New IMPORT tag that facilitates translation from external formats into FPML, which is then injected in the document flow. Both string and file input sources are handled.
- New translator from well-formed HTML into FPML, used with the new IMPORT tag.
- New "round" function that handles all common rounding types both by decimal digits and fractional values.
- Additional CSS-compliant font size options including both absolute and relative size values.
- Added support for the CSS "px" (pixel) unit of measurement.
- Enhanced variables to support a "null" state in addition to the practice of default values being supplied in all instances. This allows document author to either ignore nulls (i.e., the default values for the variable types will be used) or account for null states.
| FinerEdge Publisher 3.0 | August 15, 2010 | Show Details |
- New unified installation that includes Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), 2-D and 3-D business charting, and scientific/financial plotting for all versions.
- New software protection that is even more compatible with automated multi-threaded document generation.
- Standard (free) version licensing updates. (Please refer to the FinerEdge Software web site for more information.)
- Adoption of new versioning format, where the third number represents the production build date in yymmdd format.