The Danish software company – Mindworking A/S – has successfully integrated PDFreactor into their marketing system. The new PDF engine enables accurate correspondence between the HTML editor in the system and the output PDF files, which has improved satisfaction among their most important clients.

Mindworking A/S has developed marketing systems for the real estate industry since 2002, and now operates throughout Scandinavia and the UK. The recent penetration of new markets has resulted in new demands in terms of production of marketing material.

Mindworking has been challenged by the requests for flexible text columns. The initial PDF engine did not support for HTML5 regions, and Mindworking had to find an alternative solution.

Based on a market research Mindworking chose to go with RealObjects and PDFreactor which seems to be the right choice. Today PDFreactor is successfully implemented into the Mindworking Marketing System, and Mindworking is now happy to accommodate all sorts of layout requests from the real estate industry in different markets.

Please also read the related case study.

About Mindworking A/S

Since 2002 Mindworking has developed marketing software especially for the real estate industry. The company is based in Aarhus, Denmark, and has 40 employees.

Mindworking is represented throughout Scandinavia and the UK. In Denmark Mindworking is the preferred supplier of marketing software supporting 85% of the market.

The Mindworking platform includes a number of seamlessly integrated products such as websites, apps, instore TV and a production system for graphic material, The Marketing System, which is integrated with data providers, photographers, printers, media houses – and now PDFreactor.

About RealObjects

Headquartered in Saarbrücken, Germany, RealObjects provides standards-based, cross-platform software solutions for both electronic publishing as well as content authoring.

The company ranks as a pioneering developer of easy-to-use, affordable and quick-to-deploy online HTML editor solutions, which enable content authoring in Web- and Java-based applications. They are a perfect fit for Content Management, Knowledge Management and e-Learning systems.

RealObjects’ W3C standards-based publishing solution PDFreactor is another industry-recognized flagship product, which is used for server-side conversion of HTML and XML to PDF whenever electronic and print output of business content in typeset-quality is required. The latest RealObjects products emerged from Project MARTHA, an integrated application framework that enables enterprise developers to create powerful HTML and XML editing and rendering applications in pure Java.

Founded in May 2000, the privately held and self-funded software company has more than 2500 corporate customers in over 40 countries, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises, educational institutions as well as government and non-profit organizations. A strong network of key business alliances, resellers and OEM partners has been established.

Contact:

Michael Jung
RealObjects, Managing Director
michael.jung@realobjects.com
Tel. +49 681 985 790

Thomas International provides people assessments which empower business leaders to transform the performance of their teams and individuals – and deliver an immediate impact on their organization.

Thomas products include many different types of custom reports which are dynamically generated from a large bank of text-based content and driven by personalized assessment data. These also include many specialized data visualizations. Reports are requested in real time by globally dispersed online end users, so they need to be generated and delivered speedily.

The existing report creation technology was old, inflexible and reports were very basic because more complex layouts were impossible to create. We needed a faster, more flexible and modern way to create reports. We also needed to support most global languages including RTL (right-to-left) languages. Data visualizations were also simplistic because it was not possible to exploit better technologies. One of the few good things about our old technology was that it is based on a low level PDF API so would render documents quickly.

They built a new highly object oriented .NET based reporting engine that dynamically constructs and outputs the HTML5/CSS3 based documents and injects the SVG/JavaScript visualizations where required. Thomas needed a third party product to convert these to PDF. They evaluated several vendor offerings and chose to go with PDFreactor.

Please also read the related case study.

About Thomas International

Thomas International is a global specialist in work-based, user-friendly assessments, providing objective data to accurately identify people’s work behavior, learning capability and emotional intelligence. With over 30 years of experience, Thomas International works with business leaders to transform the performance of their teams and individuals by enhancing hiring, retention, development and management.

About RealObjects

Headquartered in Saarbrücken, Germany, RealObjects provides standards-based, cross-platform software solutions for both electronic publishing as well as content authoring.

The company ranks as a pioneering developer of easy-to-use, affordable and quick-to-deploy online HTML editor solutions, which enable content authoring in Web- and Java-based applications. They are a perfect fit for Content Management, Knowledge Management and e-Learning systems.

RealObjects’ W3C standards-based publishing solution PDFreactor is another industry-recognized flagship product, which is used for server-side conversion of HTML and XML to PDF whenever electronic and print output of business content in typeset-quality is required. The latest RealObjects products emerged from Project MARTHA, an integrated application framework that enables enterprise developers to create powerful HTML and XML editing and rendering applications in pure Java.

Founded in May 2000, the privately held and self-funded software company has more than 2500 corporate customers in over 40 countries, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises, educational institutions as well as government and non-profit organizations. A strong network of key business alliances, resellers and OEM partners has been established.

Contact:

Michael Jung
RealObjects, Managing Director
michael.jung@realobjects.com
Tel. +49 681 985 790

Saarbrücken A minor release for PDFreactor 8 is now available. This release includes the following new features and improvements:

• Support for PDF/UA as well as generally improved PDF tagging, conforming to the Matterhorn Protocol.
• Support for the creation of PDF/X-4p documents.
• Added Node.js web service wrapper API.

Some of the bug fixes in the new release include:

• The style “display: inline-block” can now be applied to generated content (was treated as “inline”)
• Floated or positioned elements inside inline-block elements are now laid out correctly.
• JavaScript wrapper API now handles connection timeouts.
• Block images can now be placed on named pages.

For more information about PDFreactor 8, please visit www.pdfreactor.com.

For a full list of changes and corrections see the changelog.

Important release notes und upgrading information can be found in the readme.

The PDFreactor 8 installation packages are available for download in the download area.

Saarbrücken A hotfix release for PDFreactor 8.1 is now available. This release includes the following bug fixes:

• Positioned floated elements inside positioned elements were covered by the backgrounds of those elements. (#6474)
• Images with max-width styles and text next to them could unnecessarily overflow table cells. (#6448)
• Calling Java Configuration setters with a variable amount of arguments could cause exceptions. (6470)
• Java and .NET wrappers were missing the “getDocumentAsBinary” API method.
• Error handling in Java and .NET wrappers when using “…AsBinary” API methods caused exceptions.

For more information about PDFreactor 8, please visit www.pdfreactor.com.

For a full list of changes and corrections see the changelog.

Important release notes und upgrading information can be found in the readme.

The PDFreactor 8 installation packages are available for download in the download area.

A new minor release for PDFreactor 8 is now available. This release includes the following new features and improvements:

• Greatly improved table layout and visualization.
• AngularJS can now be used without using workarounds.
• Added more hyphenation dictionaries including French.
• Asynchronous PDF conversions now persist even when the service is restarted.
• Clipping paths of images are now respected

Some of the bug fixes in the new release include:

• Calling configuration vararg setters no longer causes exceptions. (#6470)
• SVG elements with percentage values for their width and height attributes now properly resolve their sizes. (#6481, #6485)
• Calling “deleteDocument” now cancels the conversion if it is not yet finished. (#6471)

For more information about PDFreactor 8, please visit www.pdfreactor.com.

For a full list of changes and corrections see the changelog.

Important release notes und upgrading information can be found in the readme.

The PDFreactor 8 installation packages are available for download in the download area.

Because of a public holiday, our office will be closed on Monday, 3rd October 2016.

We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause on your side. Thank you for your understanding.

Your RealObjects Support Team

ReviewPro is the leading provider of Guest Intelligence solutions to independent hotel brands worldwide. Their suite of cloud-based solutions includes Online Reputation Management (ORM) and the Guest Survey Solution (GSS), which enable clients to obtain a deeper understanding of reputation performance as well as operational/service strengths and weaknesses. More than 25,000 hotel brands worldwide are currently using ReviewPro’s solutions.

At ReviewPro they provide their clients with the most relevant and insightful information delivered in the most actionable way possible. Downloadable reports, in both excel and PDF, are a vital component in how their clients manage their guest satisfaction, teams, tasks, day-to-day activities, and organizational and management meetings.

A static reporting solution was not an option for ReviewPro, and their challenge was to provide a dynamic reporting solution across their platform that would give their clients the customized information they needed, in the simplest and most efficient way possible. It had to be a scalable solution that they could implement across both existing and new functionality.

After comparing various options, their engineering and product teams selected PDFreactor as the product most suited to their use case. PDFreactor allows their clients to get real-time reports that are completely customizable to their role and informational needs. When their users are in the ReviewPro tool they are able to customize their view of the information on screen, and PDFreactor allows them to then immediately translate this into a printable and sharable PDF report.

Please also read the related case study.

About ReviewPro

ReviewPro is the leading provider of Guest Intelligence solutions to independent hotel brands worldwide. Their suite of cloud-based solutions includes Online Reputation Management (ORM) and the Guest Survey Solution (GSS), which enable clients to obtain a deeper understanding of reputation performance as well as operational/service strengths and weaknesses. They provide actionable insight to increase guest satisfaction, rankings on review sites/OTAs and ultimately revenue.

They offer the industry-standard Global Review Index™ (GRI), an online reputation score, which is used by thousands of hotels worldwide as a benchmark for reputation management efforts, based on review data collected from 175 OTAs and review sites in over 45 languages. More than 25,000 hotel brands worldwide are currently using ReviewPro’s solutions.

About RealObjects

Headquartered in Saarbrücken, Germany, RealObjects provides standards-based, cross-platform software solutions for both electronic publishing as well as content authoring.

The company ranks as a pioneering developer of easy-to-use, affordable and quick-to-deploy online HTML editor solutions, which enable content authoring in Web- and Java-based applications. They are a perfect fit for Content Management, Knowledge Management and e-Learning systems.

RealObjects’ W3C standards-based publishing solution PDFreactor is another industry-recognized flagship product, which is used for server-side conversion of HTML and XML to PDF whenever electronic and print output of business content in typeset-quality is required. The latest RealObjects products emerged from Project MARTHA, an integrated application framework that enables enterprise developers to create powerful HTML and XML editing and rendering applications in pure Java.

Founded in May 2000, the privately held and self-funded software company has more than 2500 corporate customers in over 40 countries, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises, educational institutions as well as government and non-profit organizations. A strong network of key business alliances, resellers and OEM partners has been established.

Contact:

Michael Jung
RealObjects, Managing Director
michael.jung@realobjects.com
Tel. +49 681 985 790

AdvancED is the largest community of education professionals in the world. They are a non-profit, non-partisan organization that conducts rigorous, on-site external reviews of Pre-K-12 schools and school systems to ensure that all learners realize their full potential.

Most recently, AdvancED introduced the next generation school improvement platform – eProve™. The eProve platform is comprised of several applications that use common platform RESTful APIs and services for various functional areas, PDF generation being one of these common services used by each application for its PDF reporting needs.

One of the key features of the eProve product offering is the ability to generate rich and visually appealing PDF reports. Previously, the PDF generation layer used iText, a popular Java PDF library, for programmatic construction of PDF documents. One of the drawbacks of this library had been the inability to customize and enrich PDF output without having to write custom Java code for each customization, which has proven effort and resource intensive.

A new, flexible and feature-rich PDF solution was needed, and after careful analysis and testing of several leading products, the decision was made to use PDFreactor, the market-leading product featuring advanced customization and cutting-edge visual design capabilities. PDFreactor has allowed AdvancED to take its PDF reports, a critical customer-facing feature, to the next level of freedom with modern visual design and flexibility.

Please also read the related case study.

About AdvancED

AdvancED is the largest community of education professionals in the world. They are a non-profit, non-partisan organization that conducts rigorous, on-site external reviews of Pre-K-12 schools and school systems to ensure that all learners realize their full potential. While their expertise is grounded in more than a hundred years of work in school accreditation, AdvancED is far from a typical accrediting agency. Their goal isn’t to certify that schools are good enough. Rather, their commitment is to help schools improve.

Combining the knowledge and expertise of a research institute, the skills of a management consulting firm and the passion of a grassroots movement for educational change, they serve as a trusted partner to 34,000 schools and school systems—employing more than four million educators and enrolling more than 20 million students—across the United States and 70 other nations.

About RealObjects

Headquartered in Saarbrücken, Germany, RealObjects provides standards-based, cross-platform software solutions for both electronic publishing as well as content authoring.

The company ranks as a pioneering developer of easy-to-use, affordable and quick-to-deploy online HTML editor solutions, which enable content authoring in Web- and Java-based applications. They are a perfect fit for Content Management, Knowledge Management and e-Learning systems.

RealObjects’ W3C standards-based publishing solution PDFreactor is another industry-recognized flagship product, which is used for server-side conversion of HTML and XML to PDF whenever electronic and print output of business content in typeset-quality is required. The latest RealObjects products emerged from Project MARTHA, an integrated application framework that enables enterprise developers to create powerful HTML and XML editing and rendering applications in pure Java.

Founded in May 2000, the privately held and self-funded software company has more than 2500 corporate customers in over 40 countries, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises, educational institutions as well as government and non-profit organizations. A strong network of key business alliances, resellers and OEM partners has been established.

Contact:

Michael Jung
RealObjects, Managing Director
michael.jung@realobjects.com
Tel. +49 681 985 790

A hotfix release for PDFreactor 8.2 is now available. This release includes the following bug fixes:

• Styles from style sheets are now properly applied to nested SVG elements. (#6585)
• The new REST URIs introduced in PDFreactor version 8.2.8867 are now documented in the REST API documentation.
• When converting a document directly to binary format (either by using the “convertAsBinary” API method or appropriate REST or SOAP APIs), errors are now correctly relayed to the client.

For more information about PDFreactor 8, please visit www.pdfreactor.com.

For a full list of changes and corrections see the changelog.

Important release notes und upgrading information can be found in the readme.

The PDFreactor 8 installation packages are available for download in the download area.

A hotfix release for PDFreactor 8.2 is now available. This release includes the following bug fixes:

• Resolved an issue where a rare combination of styles including “word-wrap: break-word” and “padding-right” could lead to an exception. (#6626)

For more information about PDFreactor 8, please visit www.pdfreactor.com.

For a full list of changes and corrections see the changelog.

Important release notes und upgrading information can be found in the readme.

The PDFreactor 8 installation packages are available for download in the download area.

A hotfix release for PDFreactor 8.2 is now available. This release includes the following bug fixes:

• The setting “continuousOutput” no longer breaks PDFreactor Web Service conversions. (#6642)
• The Node.JS wrapper API now supports service URLs with “HTTPS” protocol.

For more information about PDFreactor 8, please visit www.pdfreactor.com.

For a full list of changes and corrections see the changelog.

Important release notes und upgrading information can be found in the readme.

The PDFreactor 8 installation packages are available for download in the download area.

Because of a public holiday, our office will be closed from Monday, 26th December to Friday, 30th December 2016.

We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause on your side. Thank you for your understanding.

Your RealObjects Support Team

Because of a public holiday, our office will be closed from Monday, 26th December to Friday, 30th December 2016.

We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause on your side. Thank you for your understanding.

The entire RealObjects Team wishes you, your family and friends

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

A hotfix release for PDFreactor 8.2 is now available. This release includes the following bug fixes:

• Tables with collapsed borders that contain only empty rows no longer cause exceptions. (#6658, #6671)
• Resolved visual discrepancy between the outputs of PDF, image and Preview application when using CSS “letter-spacing”. (#6670)
• The CSS units vw, wh, vmin and vmax can now be used for the font-size of the root element. (#6650)

For more information about PDFreactor 8, please visit www.pdfreactor.com.

For a full list of changes and corrections see the changelog.

Important release notes und upgrading information can be found in the readme.

The PDFreactor 8 installation packages are available for download in the download area.

A hotfix release for PDFreactor 8.2 is now available. This release includes the following bug fixes:

• Complex large tables in named pages no longer cause exceptions. (#6695)
• Resolved visual discrepancy between the outputs of PDF, image and Preview application when using CSS “letter-spacing”. (#6670)
• Resolved assertion error caused by rare combinations of nested tables. (#6701)

For more information about PDFreactor 8, please visit www.pdfreactor.com.

For a full list of changes and corrections see the changelog.

Important release notes und upgrading information can be found in the readme.

The PDFreactor 8 installation packages are available for download in the download area.

A hotfix release for PDFreactor 8.2 is now available. This release includes the following bug fixes:

• Complex layouts in named pages no longer cause exceptions. (#6695)

For more information about PDFreactor 8, please visit www.pdfreactor.com.

For a full list of changes and corrections see the changelog.

Important release notes und upgrading information can be found in the readme.

The PDFreactor 8 installation packages are available for download in the download area.

A hotfix release for PDFreactor 8.2 is now available. This release includes the following bug fixes:

• “break-before” styles with the value “left” or “right” used inside tables could lead to layouts not terminating correctly. (#6710)
• Empty table cells or complex table structures on named pages could cause unexpected page break. (#6711, #6713)

For more information about PDFreactor 8, please visit www.pdfreactor.com.

For a full list of changes and corrections see the changelog.

Important release notes und upgrading information can be found in the readme.

The PDFreactor 8 installation packages are available for download in the download area.

The leading HTML to PDF conversion engine just got even better: PDFreactor 9 is now available.

PDFreactor 9 is a major upgrade with great new features and improvements:

• Flexible Box Layout (experimental)
• PDFreactor now supports the following CSS(3) features:
  • box-shadow
  • text-shadow
  • filter
  • “blank”, “recto”, “verso” page pseudo classes
  • opacity
  • word-spacing
• Web service improvements
  • RESTful monitoring API
  • Support for callback URLs for events during conversion
  • Support for configurable API keys to authenticate clients
  • Support for zipped asset packages containing the input document an its resources
• Improved JavaScript support.
• Raster Image Output can now be configured to output grayscale images.
• PDFreactor now supports “systemd” in Linux installer

For more information about PDFreactor 9, please visit www.pdfreactor.com. Make sure to check out the samples, highlighting the new features.

For a full list of changes and corrections see the changelog.

Important release notes und upgrading information can be found in the readme.

The PDFreactor 9 installation packages are available for download in the download area.

Upgrading to PDFreactor 9

The new version is a free upgrade for all PDFreactor customers with a valid support and maintenance subscription. A version 9 license key is required and should be requested at support@realobjects.com or here. PDFreactor 9 will not work with PDFreactor 8 or older license keys.

If you do not have a valid support and maintenance subscription, please contact support@realobjects.com to purchase an upgrade.

When upgrading to PDFreactor 9, you might have to update your integration code or documents. Please make sure to consult our migration guide.

A hotfix release for PDFreactor 9 is now available. This release includes the following bug fixes:

• Fixed issues when using Highcharts 5.0.10 by adding support for “ownerSVGElement” in JavaScript. (#6838)
• Fixed possible exceptions for tables with no cells or with certain page breaks. (#6837, #6845)
• Accessing server information via the PDFreactor Web Service monitoring API no longer causes errors. (#6846)
• The JavaScript method getBoxDescriptions() returned an empty list for images, inline-block elements and single line spans. (#6847, #6869)
• Resolved an issue where user style sheets from URL could not be added when using the PDFreactor command line wrapper. (#6852)
• Specifying “element” CSS functions in “@page” rules no longer causes NPEs. (#6851)
• Media PDF page boxes not larger than the trim boxes no longer cause NPEs. (#6848)
• IFrames that cannot be loaded no longer draw placeholders. (#6850)

For more information about PDFreactor 9, please visit www.pdfreactor.com.

For a full list of changes and corrections see the changelog.

Important release notes und upgrading information can be found in the readme.

The PDFreactor 9 installation packages are available for download in the download area.

A hotfix release for PDFreactor 9 is now available. This release includes the following bug fixes:

• Fixed issues when using Highcharts 5.0.10 by adding support for “ownerSVGElement” in JavaScript. (#6838)
• Fixed possible exceptions for tables with no cells or with certain page breaks. (#6837, #6845)
• Accessing server information via the PDFreactor Web Service monitoring API no longer causes errors. (#6846)
• The JavaScript method getBoxDescriptions() returned an empty list for images, inline-block elements and single line spans. (#6847, #6869)
• Resolved an issue where user style sheets from URL could not be added when using the PDFreactor command line wrapper. (#6852)
• Specifying “element” CSS functions in “@page” rules no longer causes NPEs. (#6851)
• Media PDF page boxes not larger than the trim boxes no longer cause NPEs. (#6848)
• IFrames that cannot be loaded no longer draw placeholders. (#6850)

For more information about PDFreactor 9, please visit www.pdfreactor.com.

For a full list of changes and corrections see the changelog.

Important release notes und upgrading information can be found in the readme.

The PDFreactor 9 installation packages are available for download in the download area.