downCast 1.7.5 review (mac)

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downCast converts XML documents valid according to the upCast DTD (and, in fact, any XML document whose DTD can be mapped into the upCast DTD) linked with an external stylesheet to Word and Rich Text Format (RTF) for editing and printing.

License: Demo
OS: Mac OS X
File size: 8744K
Developer: infinity-loop GmbH      
Price: $120.00
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downCast 1.7.5 is utilities software developed by infinity-loop GmbH.
downCast converts XML documents valid according to the upCast DTD (and, in fact, any XML document whose DTD can be mapped into the upCast DTD) linked with an external stylesheet to Word and Rich Text Format (RTF) for editing and printing.

Combine it with upCast, and you have a combo that offers a unique, streamlined, roundtrip-capable and integrated XML editing and publishing solution based on the open standards XML, XLink, XSLT and CSS2.

Here are some key features of "downCast":
Conversion Features

  • creates fully editable Word documents, conforming to the RTF 1.7 specification (Word 97 and later)
  • uses structuring RTF constructs wherever possible
  • supports paragraph and character styles
  • support for many CSS2 properties, incl. custom extensions
  • offers powerful table translation, incl. nested tables, row/column spans, cell properties
  • support for the Oasis Exchange Table Model (subset of CALS)
  • processes footnotes, hyperlinks and references (XLink), fields, annotations, index entries, bookmarks, page headers and footers
  • supports any combination of nested lists, tables and layout elements
  • support for standard and user-defined document properties, document variables
  • Unicode capable
  • two-byte encoding support
  • on-the-fly generation of style table, list table, color table
  • intelligent font handling using extensible default properties for standard fonts and support for custom font encodings

    Import Formats
  • XML documents valid against upCast DTD (version 4 & 5); support for custom DTDs via pre-conversion step
  • external style sheet based on CSS2 + inline style information
  • external images (WMF, PNG, JPEG, GIF)

    Export Formats
  • RTF 1.7, Word 97 and later
  • embedded images
  • Built-in pre-Processors
  • XSLT Processor
  • Java native API (incl. C/C++/VB bindings)
  • slim Java API
  • complete control over conversion process
  • C/C++ language binding available (Windows only)
  • VisualBasic language binding available (Windows only)
  • sample code, step-by-step guide and javadoc documentation available

    User Interface
  • intuitive, uncluttered, yet powerful graphical user interface
  • based on Swing.

    Limitations:
  • 30 days evaluation version
  • With this evaluation version, the document text output will contain interspersed random characters.
  • The evaluation version only converts one document at a time then quits.

    What's New:
  • Updated Windows installers to work also on Windows 2003.
  • add check so that malformed input documents with too deep a list nesting do not cause a runtime error.

    Requirements:
  • JDK 1.3.1 or higher
  • 512 MB RAM (recommended)
  • platform-independent due to Java technology
  • installers for Windows 95/98/2/NT/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux/UNIX available
    mac software is demo, which means you can download and use this limited edition of downCast 1.7.5 for free. To use full version of downCast 1.7.5 you have to buy the utilities product for $120.00. downCast 1.7.5 is available at regnow and infinity-loop GmbH website. downCast 1.7.5 supports english interface languages and works with Mac OS X.

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