Ibex .NET Downloads

[Released 18 December 2011]

Changes the font size in svg images when using "pt" units;

Fixes a problem when using pdfa and fo:page-number-citation;

Adds printing the namespace to the unhandled element error message;

Fixes a null pointer caused by the natual language change in 4.7.5.0;

Changes the interaction of fo:wrapper when inside an fo:inline;

Fixes an issue with inheriting the fill attribute in SVG;

Implements SVG radial gradients;

Adjusts the gradient center point for linear SVG gradients;

Fixes a memory usage error;

Adds support for DOCTYPEs on SVG images loaded from memory;

The decode array for CMYK JPEG images had an additonal number which has now been removed;

Sets the minimum left side bearing on fixed width TrueType fonts which do not have hmtx entries for all glyphs.

[Released 21 July 2011]

Improves the appearance of double leaders;

Fixes an issue when using footnotes and multiple columns;

Reduces memory requirements when using multiple columns;

keep-together is now correctly inherited;

Improved the functionality of fo:character when used in conjunction with suppress-at-line-break="retain";

Changes the process of positioning text on a line to try and keep together text elements which are in adjacent fo:inline elements and are not separated by white space.

Fixes an issue with clipping non-body regions when overflow="hidden" on the region;

Fixes an issue with borders and backgrounds on fo:leader elements.

Corrects a problem which occurs when cells have number-rows-spanned > 1 and there is a large number (~2k+) of cells on the page.

Corrects a problem with roman numerals;

Allow negative space-before on blocks which are the first child of a reference area;

Supports clipping for all block-containers with overflow="hidden". Previously only block-containers which had position="absolute" or position="fixed" supported clipping.

fo:float should now inherit properties from fo:flow and fo:region- not just fo:region-;

Added PDF_VERSION value to FODocument.Settings, this is inserted when creating a PDF/X file and defaults to "PDF/X-3:2002";

Fixed an issue when column widths are calculated from cell widths which are then respecified in the next row.

Fixes a problem which occurs only in Acrobat 7 when using SVG images.

Makes a minor change to table cell rendering so that when the bottom border of a cell is rendered at the same time as the top border of the following cell, this occurs after the contents of the following cell has been rendered;

Fixes a problem relating to using margin="auto auto auto auto".

Retains bold and italic settings when falling back to the default font;

Fixes a problem which occurred when the FO for a footnote was not properly formed;

SVG images with width and height properties set to percentages will try to get these dimensions from the containing fo:external-graphic or fo:instream-foreign-object;

Fixes a problem with missing leaders in Chinese text.

Fixes a null pointer exception.

SVG: Fixes a problem with SVG images in regions where the decimal separator is not '.';

SVG: If the outer <svg> element has width or height properties specified without units (i.e width="300") these are now correctly treated as pixels whereas they were being treated as points. This will affect the size of such images.

A page break on an fo:block inside an fo:inline at the start of a page no longer causes a loop;

Fixes an exception which occurred when using automatic column width calculation on an fo:table which contained an fo:table-and-caption;

Added support for soft hyphens;

SVG: added stop ranges to linear gradients;

SVG: added radial gradient support.

Processing of CSS styles in svg images is improved.

The body and label of a list item will be displayed with the label to the right of the body when the writing direction is right to left;

baseline-shift is now supported in SVG images;

XML namespaces declared at the start of an FO file are now inherited by inline SVG images;

Empty fo:wrapper elements with id attributes are again supported.

Fixed an issue with mutiple threads when a compiled XSL transform was reused.

Adds support for underlining svg text

Fixed an issue with backgrounds on mixed English and Arabic text in fo:inline elements. Currently the use of borders on fo:inline elements on lines which contains mixed left to right and right to left text is not supported.

Added line number information when line height exceeds region height

Fixed an issue when the same image was used in svg:image and fo:external-graphic

Fixes an issue where transparency works in Acrobat 9.x but not in 10.x;

Changed text-align='.' to align lines with no '.' as if they had a trailing '.';

Fixed a image offset problem where an svg image used more than one svg:image element;

Fixed a problem with control codes appearing in SVG text;

Fixed a problem where transparent backgrounds where not working correctly.

SVG: added support for text-anchor="end";

SVG: added the transform property to the path element;

SVG: added text normalisation;

When an fo:block had text-indent the indent should not apply after the block is split by a page break.

Changed pixels per inch from 90 to 96 for consistency with other formatters. We recommend that you never use pixels as units but instead use pt, in, cm etc;

Changed the HTML color "darkgrey" from rgb(64,64,64) to rgb(192,192,192);

Fixed a problem matching color expressions like rgb(192,192,192);

Changed the default size of an SVG image from 600x600pts to w=425 h=538 or 15cmx19xm;

Changed to new SVG engine to provide identical SVG support in .Net and Java versions of Ibex;

Fixed a problem where margin values were conflicting with inherited start-indent values.

Fixes a problem with collapsed cell borders not being repeated at page breaks

Made inline start markers use the BIDI type of the preceeding letter so that background colors and borders on fo:inline elements behave better when the inline contains mixed Arabic and English text.

Improved the processing of non-spacing marks in Arabic text

Changed the justification code to consider lines ending in linefeeds

Fixed a problem splitting a table with variable headers when the first row was larger than page the size

Changed line spacing to enforce line-height being the minimum line height regardless of leading

Fixed an endless loop caused by having keep-with-next="always" and break-before="always" at the same place in the document

Fixed a problem with the use of < in strings in svg images

Fixed a problem where a space after an fo:inline was sometimes suppressed

Fixed a problem with number-columns-spanned when writing-mode was right to left

Fixed the size of the after region being calculated from precedence setting for the before region

Fixed a problem with layout when an fo:block-container had a top property which was larger than the containing region height

Fixed a problem on .NET 4.0 with SVG images which had embedded DTD references

Recoded inline support

Added new assemblies compiled with .NET 4.0, see the Installation chapter of the manual for specific details

If the Unicode paragraph separator &#2029; is used this is treated as a line break

Fixed display-align="after" sometimes overwriting space from space-after

Fixed incorrect placement of annotation click box for rotated annotations

Fixed a problem where start-ident was not correctly inherited through reference areas and deleted Settings.InheritIndentsThroughReferenceAreas

fo:list-item-label and fo:list-item-body no longer generate areas so don't have a border or background

Fixed a problem loading CMYK images on Windows 7 where the images load correctly on Windows XP

Fixed a problem when using page breaks on table rows and on the block immediately after the table

Fixed fo:basic-link not working correctly if the fo:basic-link contained an fo:block

Fixed scientific notation values from SVG being copied to the PDF file (error 110)

Improved the parsing of complex expressions

Added the Flags value to PDF/A files

Improved column balancing code

Fixed the overstrike color used to create bold text from normal fonts always being black

Fixed promoting a break-after property from a child to its parent and deleting it when the parent has not been fully loaded

Implemented text-align="."

Added a progress callback function, described here

Modified the layout of cells which have height specified regarding whether this implies keep-together.

Fixed a conflict if z-index and overflow were used together on block container

Fixed a problem with escaped XML inside XML in PDF/A files

Fixed a problem with precedence on before and after regions

Fixed a problem with table headers and Bidirectional text

Fixed a problem with space-start and -end on inline elements

Corrected the behaviour of the width attribute on fo:block elements (it should be ignored)

Fixed a licensing problem using Turkish regional settings

Fixed a crash when using a corrupted TrueType font file

Fixed a problem formatting a table which has a header but no rows

Fixed a problem with space-after on an fo:block

Improved the behaviour of keeps across span reference areas

Changed the size of SVG images to be correct

If block-progression-dimension.optimium and .maxiumum are specified on a block container and content height is greater than block-progression-dimension.optiumum and block-progression-dimension.maxiumum is greater than block-progression-dimension.optimum then block-progression-dimension.maxiumum will be used

Improves memory use for large files (more than 40,000 pages)

Added reporting on overflowing fo:block-containers

Improved performance

Fixed a problem with colorspaces in PDF/A files

Improved balancing of content in two columns when the page is not filled

Improved border appearance when border-collapse="collapse" is used

Remove transparency support from the PDF if no transparent images were used

Changed proportional-width() to support non-integer values

Fixed a problem with Arabic text if Arabic and English words were not separated by spaces

Added support for TrueType collection files

Improved handling of Unicode characters in Type 1 fonts

Improved handling of Unicode characters > 0x20000

Improved implementation of border-style="double"

Adds C# and COM examples to the installer

Fixed keep-with-previous on fo:table-row not working in some circumstances

Fixed a problem with footnotes when used in conjunction with page-position="last"

Fixed an issue with retrieved markers affecting the borders on tables

Fixed an problem recalculating table column widths when splitting a table over pages which had a different number of columns

Added normalization to the XML text reader to get \n instead of \r\n to produce identical results to the Java Ibex version

Changed whitespace-collapse so it will now not remove a single space at start of line if whitespace-treatment="preserve"

Fixed a problem where an image inside an fo:inline with no specified size was getting zero width

Fixed splitting an inline element which contained a block level element which had break-before set

Made column-number a calculated value, so column-number="12-2" now works

Fixed a problem with borders and backgrounds on inline elements

Fixed a problem with padding at the bottom of the page

Fixed a problem with all text not appearing if a static content region was too small

Corrected a problem with clipping in block-container

Fixed missing bottom border on rowspan greater than 1 cell at end of table

Fixed a problem with position="relative"

Stopped the height attribute having any effect where it is not allowed by the specification, such as on an fo:block element

Fixed a problem when combining text-align="justify" and text-indent

Fixed a problem with ibex:custom elements

Implemented index-page-citation-list-separator and index-page-citation-range-separator

Improved image sizing functionality

Improved rotation support

Changed SVG code to work if using a DTD and not connected to internet

Changed BIDI formatting to fill more of paragraph width

Improved support for from-parent()

Added the image file name to image exception messages

Added support for in-memory SVG images

Added PDF/A-1b support

Added the viewer-preferences element as described in the manual

Added 128 bit encryption

Fixed various minor bugs relating to image sizing, rotation and absolute positioning.

Fixed an issue with vertial-align="middle" when aligning images

Fixed a problem with break-after on last element

Fixed a problem with floats aligned horizontally

Removed period compression at end of line if wrap-option="no-wrap"

Fixed a problem with wrapper element inheritance failing after a number of pages

Fixed link to root element in bookmarks

Fixed problem with page-position="last" after page-position="rest"

Fixed bug in splitting a list block

Fixed an issue with PDF/Sigq compliance

Added Arabic support

Fixed a problem with <ibex:security> not working

Fixed using exponents like M -2.3848177e-016,953.74872 in SVG

Fixed an exception in automatic table layout with list items

Fixed a problem with using non-bold Type 1 fonts with font-weight="bold"

Added support for maximum-repeats on repeatable-page-master-alternatives

Fixed a problem with cumulative rotation

Fixed a problem with letter spacing

Fixed a null pointer exception using list items

Changed the rendering of borders to use lines rather than shapes to look better in Acrobat 8.x

Fixes an issue where using table-and-caption was using too much memory

Adds additional attributes to the ibex:mask element to support color masking in CMYK images

Fixed a problem with rendering backgrounds over cell contents

Added an sRGB color profile to all non PDF/X PDF files. This is required to correct text colors which were becoming bolder when a transparent image was used

Fixes a bug with text-align="outside"

Fixed absolute-position="fixed" to be from the page viewport area, not the page reference area, so margins on the page are not considered

Improved conformance for floats stacking horizontally

Fixed hanging on badly formed footnote

Fixed too-wide dashed borders when number-columns-spanned > 1

Changed Settings.LeaderDotSpacing from 1.6 to 1.0 to make does closer together in leaders

Fixed a problem with space-start and -end on leaders

Fixed centering of text followed by spaces

Fixed float=inside/outside problems

Added support for float="inside" and float="outside"

Fixed some issues with rotated content

Fixed non-repetition of table headers and footers with multiple columns