[xep-support] Re: Since there is life out there

XEP is good that we haven't needed much support with it. So the
announcements and future plans are welcome :)

On 15/08/14 06:31, Kevin Brown wrote:
> As I see some activity in the group, I thought I would do a mini-update for
> you.
> We recently released 4.23 and will soon put out another release with a few
> additions in functionality.
>
> 4.23 addressed some big improvements in Section 508/tagged PDF. We added the
> ability to link table cells to header cells by ID so that screen readers can
> navigate/read/understand what headers apply to cells based on the ID
> reference. Section 508 has become an important part of RenderX installations
> because of all the mandated requirements for Health Care exchanges. RenderX
> XEP now has complete 100% dynamic creation of simplified/508 tagging
> structures within the output PDF. After all, we are the rendering engine
> used with the US H&HS web site as well as several others.
>
> In our soon to be released version 4.24, we just added a new PI-based
> transformation that can scale the resulting page. This was added because of
> the HTML5+CSS to PDF project we are building. While you can put in about any
> dimension you wish in CSS (in, mm, ...), browsers all report sizing
> information in pixels. And pixels to the browser are 96/inch, RenderX
> internals are 120px/inch. So we added an auto-scale PI where you can scale
> up or down the "composed" parts of the document. In the above case, adding
> <?xep-pdf-pdf-scaling 1.25?> results in a page scaled perfectly up. This
> scaling bypasses two things:
>
> 1) PDFs used as background image for a page.
> 2) Entire documents inserted via the extension rx:insert-document which
> allows you to insert an existing multi-page PDF in front of any
> page-sequence.
>
> If you haven't poked around the HTML conversion, it's posted for all to
> examine. The Javascript is being put into GitHub for all to enhance along
> with the XSL that does conversion of the (modified/cleaned) HTML5 input with
> CSS to XSL FO. The Javascript uses REST to send to RenderX running in the
> Cloud (open for all to use), returning back PDF. Cloudformatter is sitting
> on Amazon Web Services so we can scale up to any level very easily or even
> replicate private environments for clients. Today we started adding google
> fonts to the server and are examining dynamic font specifications for the
> formatter.
>
> We are busy this week creating a whole new web site for this with many more
> samples, API information for the various JS functions and options.
>
> http://xep.cloudformatter.com/doc/
>
> Kevin Brown
> RenderX
>
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