upCast 5.4.4 review
DownloadupCast enables you to use Microsoft Word as an authoring application for XML documents.
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upCast enables you to use Microsoft Word as an authoring application for XML documents.
Take advantage of the widespread availability and familiar user interface of Word or any other RTF savvy office application for structured document authoring.
upCast offers a cost-effective way to reuse existing tools for gaining all the benefits of a standardized markup language: XML.
Here are some key features of "upCast":
fully recreates the document structure with automatic section nesting (customizable) and support for Word sections
supports paragraph and character styles
powerful table translation (HTML 4 or Oasis Exchange Table model - CALS), incl. nested tables, row/column spans, cell properties, borders and backgrounds
processes footnotes, hyperlinks, references, forms, index entries, annotations, page headers and footers
supports any combination of nested lists, tables and combination of layout elements possible in RTF documents
support for document properties (incl. user properties), document template reference and document variables
Unicode and many two-byte encodings supported
includes a WMF renderer and image rewriting capabilities
API for creating custom export filters
new inline nesting optimization with intelligent, customizable property hoisting to surrounding container element
translation of most style and layout information into CSS2
highlighting and support for non properly nested target regions
pass-through import filter
extracting embedded object binary data
handles large files (only subject to available memory)
improved support for textbox, image, TOC and fields
upCast enables you to use Microsoft Word as an authoring application for XML documents. Take advantage of the widespread availability and familiar user interface of Word or any other RTF savvy office application for structured document authoring. upCast offers a cost-effective way to reuse existing tools for gaining all the benefits of a standardized markup language: XML.
You can convert almost any document instantly without any time-consuming configuration. Yet, you'll still get highest conversion quality – it's really just a click on a button. Built-in customizations for specific DTDs like DocBook 4.2 help you use the product right out of the box.
upCast features a powerful, configurable batch conversion language. Select documents based on their name or extension, sort the resulting documents into specific folders and set filters and filter parameters.
A useful pre-scan feature tells you immediately which files are affected by your batch, so you can see at a glance if everything works as expected or if you're bound for trouble at some time in the conversion process. A detailed log file tells you about the progress of the conversion as well as any errors that might have occurred. Combined with external commands and the built-in XML Validator and XSLT processor upCast turns into a flexible workflow automation tool.
With upCast, you get the best of both worlds: excellent structural markup in XML and corresponding style information separated out in a CSS2 stylesheet. Proven upCast technology with built-in structure recognition heuristics preserves the document structure to an extent you won't be able to find anywhere else – instantly.
upCast has a built-in slim, but efficient application programming interface (API). You can program against this API and thus include the complete functionality of our upCast Technology into your own applications.
By writing only a few lines of Java, C/C++ or VB code, you gain complete control over the document conversion process the same way as you would using the GUI. You can even create your own export filters in Java.
Limitations:
30 days evaluation.
With this evaluation version, the document text output will contain interspersed random characters.
What's New:
Added new option "Repeat class CSS properties on inline element" to XML Raw export filter. Needed for easier XSL-FO generation. Default is off to remain compatible with existing stylesheets.
Improvements & Changes
Show DLL version (if installed) even when WordLink is not active
Change license file handling and binary distribution as follows:
1. Every jar contains an evaluation license for each product bundled, named "downcast-eval.license" resp. "upcast-eval.license". This is a standard evaluation license with random character replacements. It is reasonably time-bombed, i.e. has an expiration date by which there definitely will be a new release.
2. On startup, the license manager looks for external licenses. If it finds at least one, it does not offer the internal evaluation license as choice. (It does, however, offer a jar-bundled "upcast.license" or "downcast.license", if a user packaged it there!).
3. All evaluation licenses show the character replacement warning dialog on startup. To use these licenses from the API, use: downCast: DowncastEngine.setLicense( "jar:file:!/de/infinityloop/downcast/resources/licenses/downcast- eval.license" ); upCast: UpcastEngine.setLicense( "jar:file:!/de/infinityloop/upcast/resources/licenses/upcast-eval.license" );
Update saxon to version 8.7.
Do not try to load MSVB5 DLL, but rely on CreateProcess failing. We may not be able to load the library in an application server environment, but still be able to use it.
/@page margin values are not written when they are
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