Saarbrücken RealObjects today announced a new maintenance release of PDFreactor (Version 2.0.1823b).

The new features include:

• Improved image support:
  - Support for TIFF images incl. CMYK
  - TIFF and SVG supported in IMG tags, background and generated content
  - Improved image quality: direct embedding of images without JPEG recompression
• Additional encoding UTF-16LE now supported

The bugfixes include:

• Improved layout of tables spanning multiple pages
• Improved layout of nested tables
• Improved positioning of floats across page breaks
• Fixed handling of the @page:first selector
• Fixed page counter for merged documents
• Fixed support for bottom property of absolutely positioned elements

The maintenance release is a free update for all PDFreactor 2.0 customers or customers with a valid maintenance subscription. We highly recommend to update as soon as possible. The latest installation packages are available within the Downloads area.

About PDFreactor

PDFreactor, the latest product from RealObjects, is a powerful formatting processor for converting XML and XHTML/HTML documents into PDF. It uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to define page layout and styles. The brand new server-side tool enables a great variety of applications in the fields of ERP, eCommerce and Electronic Publishing.

It allows you to dynamically generate PDF documents such as invoices, delivery notes and shipping documents on-the-fly. The integration into business and publishing workflows, multi-channel publishing using CSS (e.g. Web and Print) or the automatic generation of technical manuals, data sheets, reports and product information is also possible.

PDFreactor offers software architects and developers a 100% Java-based, easy to deploy and powerful XML and XHTML/HTML print solution, which is based on W3C standards, but does not require any XSL-FO skills. PDFreactor impresses through its extensive CSS 2.1 and 3 layout capabilities allowing flexible control over pagination and PDF output options. Vector graphics (SVG), Barcodes and XSLT are supported as well.

Besides the Java API for easy integration with Servlets, EJB and Java Web Services PDFreactor also offers a command line interface for batch, script and CGI applications. All common J2EE application servers are supported. Direct integration into automatic build processes using Apache Ant is also possible.

Please see the PDFreactor product pages for more information.

About RealObjects

Headquartered in Saarbrücken, Germany, RealObjects is a manufacturer of standards-oriented, cross-platform software tools for content authoring and electronic publishing. The company ranks as a pioneering developer of easy-to-use, affordable and quick-to-deploy WYSIWYG HTML/XHTML/XML editor solutions, which enable content authoring in Web- and Java-based applications.

The privately-held software company has more than 1500 corporate customers in over 30 countries, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises, educational institutions as well as government and non-profit organizations. RealObjects has a strong network of key business alliances, value added resellers and OEM partners.