downCast 1.7.5 review
DownloaddownCast 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.
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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.
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
downCast 1.7.5 keywords