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Saarbrücken RealObjects today announced the official release of edit-on NG 2.0. The new major release edit-on NG 2.0 is available from the RealObjects website for immediate download.

RealObjects edit-on NG 2.0 offers exciting new features. The highlights of the new version include a major facelift for the user interface and extensive access to specific elements using the new XPath-API.

Among the new features are:

User interface:

• Support for tool bar icons with text.
• A new icon size (tiny) allows having 3 rows in a pane/subpanel.
• A "Page of Pages" counter in the status bar display the current position in the document.
• Easy access to the document or fragment language by a new area in the status bar.
• A new structural element (subpanel) in the tool bar allows to mix different icons sizes in one pane.
• Style Template Groups in Style Template Panel are now collapsible.
• Action icons are now displayed in the context menu.

Special Character Dialog:

• The dialog is now completely Java based.
• Adds the possibility to limit fonts by configuring a global font list for all font selection Userinterface elements.
• Adds the possibility to configure default Unicode Character Sets (Subsets of the Unicode character range)
• Adds the possibility to configure Custom Character Sets.

XPath Support:

• Select all elements matching an XPath expression.
• Place the caret at the start or at the end of the first element matching an XPath expresion.
• Retrieve or manipulate the attributes of elements using XPath expressions.

Additional Features

• Improved filtering of documents imported from MS Office products. edit-on NG 2.0 now offers new methods to import MS Office documents.
• Added new event handler that fires when content is pasted into the editor. This event handler allows integrators to manipulate the pasted content before it actually inserted.
• Instead of uploading images to a repository, it is now possible to automatically convert all images to base 64 encoded data URIs.

For more information please see the readme.txt.

See also the edit-on NG online demos.

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 2000 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.