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FinerEdge Publisher Release Notes

• Implemented charting facility including a new CHART tag and associated IDE editor using the Microsoft .NET chart control as the initial charting engine. Includes an extensible charting engine adapter, an external XML chart definition format, a built-in chart execution logging facility, and FinerEdge Publisher chart definition reference manual and IDE help documentation.
  
  
• Updated SERIESDATA as the preferred common tag that is utilized by both the CHART and PLOT tags.
  
  
• Added a "path" function that returns various path information relative to the document being processed.
  
  
• Implemented Window 7 compatible MSI installer.

• Upgraded IDE (and applicable components) to new look and feel with adjustable themes.

• Created a seamless interface to the standard gnuplot engine for scientific plotting and business charting.
  
  
• Implemented the new PLOT and PLOTDATA tags and associated IDE editors for the gnuplot interface. The PLOTDATA tag allows plotting datasets to be easily created from recordset data in a single tag.
  
  
• Implemented the new FOREACH tag, which makes it much easier to quickly iterate recordsets.
  
  
• Enhanced the FILE tag for the "New" action. Added a "temp" attribute to the FILE tag to automatically discard any temporary files created during document processing.
  
  
• Enhanced the "format" function to easily allow a string to be constructed given positional parameters and literal text from a single invocation.
  
  
• Added a "temp" function that returns a temporary file path name, a temporary simple file name, or the temporary directory of the machine.
  
  
• Added a "mode" function that returns the document creation operation currently being performed.
  
  
• Deprecated the HTML and HTMLELSE tags, which were replaced by the more flexible "mode" function.

• Implementation of new FinerEdge Publisher licensing options.

• Incorporation of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) XML standard. This includes a FinerEdge Publisher redistributable package containing the Librsvg and Cairo object libraries as an optional and separate free installation available from the FinerEdge Software web site. When the FinerEdge Librsvg and Cairo restributable package is installed on a machine with FinerEdge Publisher, SVG can be utilized just like any other supported image type.
  
  
• Edit buttons can now be used with the background image styles in the style editor. When the visual designer is being used and an image is edited, the updated image will be refreshed after the style editor is exited.
  
  
• Multiple open entities of a document can now separately select either the visual designer view or the markup editor view. In addition, each document entity can also indicate its preferred view when opened.
  
  
• The style "page-break-inside: avoidrow" now supports an optional <number> much like "page-break-inside: avoid". When present for "avoidrow", the <number> specifies the minimum height that must remain on a page when starting a new table (otherwise, a logical page break occurs).

• Table or Div BlockHeaders can be embedded to any level desired.
  
  
• Additional BlockHeaders can be specified for subsequent page display within the initial BlockHeader definition.
  
  
• BlockHeader options to include/exclude block header text along with adjustable column measurements and to format the block header according to the column's format or using normal formatting.
  
  
• The style property page-break-inside: avoid supports an optional ceiling measurement (when no page-break-inside action is performed).
  
  
• PAGEBR can be utilized within Table and Div elements that also use the style property page-break-inside: avoid.
  
  
• Number and float constants and variables are implicitly formatted when used within string expressions.
  
  
• The FinerEdge Publisher IDE views are depicted as a set of tabs under the main menu and toolbar.
  
  
• The FinerEdge Publisher IDE's built-in database Query Designer supports an alternative image type field, which specifies another field that contains the type of the image.

• Inclusion of float style that allows elements to be floated either to the left or right of their parent element. Subsequent text and elements are formatted (wrap-around) the floated element.
  
  
• Addition of rotate style that can rotate whole elements, including all text, images, and child elements of the rotated element.
  
  
• Inclusion of position, left, top, right, bottom styles and support for both relative and absolute positioning in all output formats.
  
  
• Updated border-style property to handle all CSS 2 border style values for all output formats.
  
  
• Addition of cvt (convert) function to assist with absolute positioning of elements.
  
  
• Creation of the "Features" document to show a number of separate feature style categories.
  
  
• Added link history buttons into the FinerEdge Publisher IDE Generate View and Writer Control to emulate a web browser's link history functionality.

• Generation of a valid and self-contained Active Server Pages .NET (ASPX) process along with an embedded XHTML form and C# code-behind file. The process will automatically create the necessary document variables from the applicable control fields and subsequently initiate all document processing.
  
  
• Support for enhanced FinerEdge Publisher licensing options to include both new non-OEM and OEM licenses. In addition, support for new production licenses that provide for an unlimited number of applications on the licensed production machine, a greater number of concurrent publishing sessions, and unlimited document sizes (e.g., large catalogs, manuals, etc.).

• Additional table types and corresponding column options were added to support inner element horizontal alignment within table cells. For example, decimal numbers or currency can be right aligned within the inner element with respect to the widest number seen for the column, while the inner element itself is left aligned with respect to its table cell width.
  
  
• The CSS style "text-indent" is now supported along with the CSS 3 keyword "hanging" functionality. (Note: When generating XHTML, the "hanging" functionality may be ignored by non-CSS 3 compatible browsers.)
  
  
• The style editor has an additional tab containing the "reference" properties. In addition, a number of other properties were rearranged for better accessibility.
  
  
• When selecting tables or views from the Query Editor, the dialog now displays radio buttons that show the accessible table names versus view names.
  
  
• The IDE now supports a new global find and replace facility in the markup view that allows text to be found or replaced within all entities of a document or just entities that have been opened. All global find and replace results are shown in a new "search results" window and any lines of an entity that have been found or replaced can be immediately navigated to by double-clicking on the applicable search window result.
  
  
• The IDE's now supports a visual designer find facility that allows searching for optional method names, element names, and attribute text (existing with an element's attributes). The visual find dialog operates in a modeless manner for better accessibility.
  
  
• The IDE's find and replace facility was enhanced to handle wrapping around within document entities (i.e., transitioning from the end of the document to the start). In addition, the find and replace dialogs were allowed to operate in a modeless manner for better accessibility.
  
  
• The IDE's entities pane (normally positioned on the right side) and bottom-area tabs have both been updated and synchronized for better accessibility and overall presentation.
  
  
• Images that are prescaled and/or scaled are now processed when the containing element has variable box heights or widths.
  
  
• The RTF output format was updated to support both prescaling and scaling.
  
  
• The IDE was enhanced to support a "Close all except" functionality for open entities of a document.