News 2017

RenderX has released XEP 4.28. This major release brings new features and improvements:

• Improvements in Section 508 accessibility:
• Added tagging (alt-description attribute) for PDF Form Fields.
• PDF Form Fields: Added new field type: Digital Signature.
• Improved Checkmark Position for Checkbox and Radio PDF Form Fields.
• Added the Adobe-style Cross Checkmark for Checkbox PDF Form Fields (see documentation for details).
• Added XMP Metadata injection.
• Bug fixes:
• New log warning: Tab Order field is a feature of PDF Version 1.5+; If the output document is generated for PDF 1.4, Acrobat 7 and 8 would report "page(s) with tab order that may be inconsistent with the structure order"; added a runtime warning about use it against PDF 1.4;
• Fixed a problem when the continued table headers and table footers in case of static-content were not marked as Pagination artifacts.
• Fixed wrong PDF tag order (TBody before THead) caused by background image in certain cases.
• Cliser HttpControl: fixed a potential vulnerability to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS 404).
• AFP backend: Fixed broken output stream caused by not 8 bytes long codepage name specifying in config.
• Fixed a bug that prevented embedded JavaScript from working in PDF.

RenderX has released EnMasse 3.2. This release comes with platform-independent and Windows specific distributions. The release features a multi-service mode, improved performance and security, and simplified config format. The full list of improvements is:

• Added multi-service mode - Fork. See EnMasse User Guide for details on using it.
• Increase in formatting speed: Test results showed up to 53% in certain configurations.
• Improved Cliser logs.
• Major refactoring and improvement of the Sample Client: It can be used for performance testing now.
• Simplified config format: Triple quoting is no longer necessary.
• Bugfixes: Fixed WinMasse service stop command on Windows systems.
• Actinia hanging when active folder becomes unreachable.
• Fixed Cliser HTTP control potential vulnerability.

RenderX has released XEP 4.27. This major release brings new features and improvements:

• New way of specifying the Date fields in PDF Forms allows for format validation and dropdown calendar.
• Improved kerning for OTF (OpenType) fonts. Both KERN and GPOS tables are supported.
• PDF embedded attachments improved:
• Embedding PDF attachments in PDF/A-3 implemented.
• Added rx:insert-document-position option to specify place of insertion, such as before or after page-sequence.
• Extended set of PDF Document Security Permissions implemented.
• Bug fixes:
• Wrong position of background image in embedded PDF when xep-pdf-page-scaling is used
• Regression with PDF Document Security
• Regression with broken footnotes in certain cases
• NPE on table with changebar outside of table-cell and with footnote with list-block
• Incorrect wrapping of fo:float