Overview of FinerEdge Publisher Features
- Utilizes well known HTML and CSS standards-based definitions
- Reusable document elements that are dynamically assembled to streamline the document creation process
- Adherance to CSS supported style properties and style definitions also encourages reuse
- Page areas for header, footer, left and right along with customizable paper sizes, gutters, and page offsets
- Separately defined page areas for odd/even pages, title pages, per page basis, or groups of pages
- Page breaks automatically performed with respect to the nesting level of all elements currently being processed
- Create TOCs, indexes, outlines of all types and at all levels
- Cross-references both within the document body and all page areas
- Floating (flow around), absolute, relative and normal flow elements
- Advanced logical page breaks with page-break tags and styles such as page-break-inside
- Composited block element headers that are automatically repeated over page breaks (i.e., elements with headers can also contain child elements with headers)
- Both table row and column spanning, even over page breaks
- Both scaling of images in the native output format and pre-scaling for size adjustments during document generation
- Rotation of entire element blocks including all embedded child elements
- Import full HTML documents with all styles or just HTML fragments into the document flow (even over page breaks)
- Utilize commonly known conditional and looping elements
- Robust expressions with a rich set of functions
- Client support for WPF, DirectX, GDI+, and more
- Multi-threaded architecture for server deployments
- Wide variety of application interfaces such as WPF, .Net, COM, C++, Java, Web Services, and more
- Simultaneously utilize multiple data sources such as ADO, OLEDB, ODBC, XML, HTML, and more
- Generate multi-channel output to PDF, PostScript, XPS, viewing with WPF, DirectX, and more
- Hyperlinks automatically generated when publishing to applicable outputs
- Built-in support for TIFF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, and BMP image formats
- RGB and CMYK support for element colors as well as applicable image formats (including transparency)
- Integrated support for the W3C's Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format
- Support for both embedded and external SVG fragments, along with SVG parameters
- Built-in business charting facility with a primary interface to MSChart
- Built-in scientific plotting facility with a primary interface to GnuPlot
- IDE for contributing authors with various responsibilities for document composition, which includes synchronized visual designer and markup views, built-in query designer, and more
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