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

• The width of deeply nested floats is now determined correctly. (#7307)
• Setting “max-height” on images inside floats no longer causes incorrect sizes or positions. (#6797, #7315)
• Complex nested inline elements no longer cause superfluous line breaks. (#7303)
• HTML “class” attributes are now processed correctly when containing line breaks in the HTML source. (#7312)
• Optional XSLT processors, e.g. Saxon, no longer cause exceptions when the document contains no XSLT processing instruction. (#7313)
• JavaScript wrapper now supports service URLs with trailing slash. (#7263)

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.

RealObjects continues to establish its HTML to PDF converter PDFreactor as the leading printing component for web applications

SAARBRÜCKEN, Germany & MONTIGNY-LE-BRETONNEUX, France

RealObjects and 4D Concept announced an OEM partnership, which enables 4D Concept to bundle RealObjects’ HTML to PDF printing tool PDFreactor with its ADAM Software Suite in order to enhance publishing and distributing of technical documentation. The ADAM software suite consists of various modules for authoring, managing, viewing and publishing all types of source content. PDFreactor will simplify and streamline the process of multichannel publishing and leverages 4D Concept’s solution.

Yves Mangili, CEO of 4D Concept, said, “We are very pleased to announce our partnership with RealObjects. For us, this is not only a step towards making our solutions more user-friendly than ever, but also the beginning of a closer partnership between our two companies. We want to regularly improve our software in order to create even more synergy between our products. We hope our customers will be as excited by this announcement as we are!”

The 4D Concept partnership is another example of RealObjects efforts to tie-up with leading software companies through its international partner program. Under this initiative, RealObjects has signed OEM agreements with recognized software leaders. These alliances target industries such as financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and solution segments including database publishing, web-to-print, product information and content management. The goal is to provide software companies with an easy-to-integrate, web standard compliant and powerful tool for print and electronic publishing.

About RealObjects

RealObjects (www.realobjects.com), founded in 2000, provides W3C standard-compliant, cross platform software tools for electronic publishing, content authoring and web-to-print.

Its W3C standards-based publishing solution PDFreactor is an industry-recognized flagship product, which is used for server-side conversion of HTML to PDF whenever electronic and typeset-quality print output of business content is required. It is the perfect printing component for web applications, incl. database publishing, web-to-print, PIM, DMS, MDM, DAM, WCMS, VDP etc.

RealObjects products are used by about 3000 corporate customers in over 40 countries, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises, educational institutions as well as government and nonprofit organizations. Several OEM and VAR partners as well as major accounts have deeply integrated RealObjects technology into their toolsets and solutions.

About 4D Concept

4D Concept (www.4dconcept.fr), established in 1989, is a player in documentation engineering in France. They develop content management solutions that allow clients to produce, capitalize, organize and publish cross-media information through XML technologies.

Their flagship is the innovative and powerful ADAM Software Suite, which enhances publishing and distributing of technical documentation. 4D Concept has more than 100 references around the world, 3 software packages, more than 15 solutions and services, 10 training courses, more than 20 partners and more than 100 projects all over France and around the world.

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

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

• The SVG attributes “dx” and “dy” now work properly on text elements. (#7319)
• Repeated images in tables spanning over several pages are no longer missing under rare circumstances. (#7244)

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.

mafi is an international natural wood flooring brand, standing for a family-owned business that was founded more than 100 years ago, producing innovative products for kitchens, baths, living rooms as well as commercial projects exclusively in Austria. mafi Naturholzboden GmbH also offers several additional solutions such as stairs, skirting, as well as care and installation materials. Their tailor-made products are sold in more than 50 countries, achieving a turnover of about 22 million EUR in 2017.

Achievements

All product, sales and marketing information is structured and consolidated from 3^rd party systems. A central master data management process feeds all relevant IT systems, such as PIM, CMS, DAM and e-commerce and keeps track of all changes. The mafi B2B/B2C e-commerce portal and related price list production retrieves data for thousands of different product variants from those systems.

Using PDFreactor as plug-in within Pimcore enables mafi to easily and quickly update price lists, maintaining consistent layout standards without having design and typesetting costs. Cost reduction in the five-digit range, considerable time-savings as well as constant performance have been achieved.

Web-to-print

The fully automatic database publishing is done based on the consolidated master data. The generated print-ready price lists generated with PDFreactor serve as a basis for all mafi stores and distribution partners in more than 50 countries, covering: 17 different price lists, 9.000 product variants, 5 languages, 6 currencies, 10 different units.

Print-ready PDFs are created directly within the Pimcore system using PDFreactor as plug-in. When rendering, the print is first rendered to HTML and then rendered to PDF. PDF rendering itself is done by PDFreactor, which comes with an out-of-the box feature to add (technically done by an additional CSS-file) printer marks to the PDF.

Read more

About RealObjects

RealObjects (www.realobjects.com), founded in 2000, provides W3C standard-compliant, cross platform software tools for electronic publishing, content authoring and web-to-print.

Its W3C standards-based publishing solution PDFreactor is an industry-recognized flagship product, which is used for server-side conversion of HTML to PDF whenever electronic and typeset-quality print output of business content is required. It is the perfect printing component for web applications, incl. database publishing, web-to-print, PIM, DMS, MDM, DAM, WCMS, VDP etc.

RealObjects products are used by about 3000 corporate customers in over 40 countries, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises, educational institutions as well as government and nonprofit organizations. Several OEM and VAR partners as well as major accounts have deeply integrated RealObjects technology into their toolsets and solutions.

Because of a public holiday, our office will be closed on Wednesday, 3rd October 2018. No support requests or license purchases will be processed on this day.

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

Your RealObjects Support Team

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

• Broken system fonts are now handled properly. (#6979)
• System fonts are now only read when necessary. (#7051)
• Complex float layouts no longer cause floats to be positioned incorrectly. (#7012, #6961)
• Fixed bidi layout in page margin boxes and in conjunction with leaders. (#7044)
• Tables no longer miss content in complex layouts, incl. pages-spanning multi-column elements. (#7050)
• Fixed OSGi regression from PDFreactor 9.1. (#7064)
• The web service configuration is now loaded when placed in the same directory as the web service JAR. (#7047)
• PDF structure no longer contains superfluous non-standard element. (#7049)
• Fonts containing more than 55000 glyphs are now handled properly, so NotoCJK can now be used for PDF text. (#6748)
• The “-ro-image-resampling” property now properly scales background images. (#7041)

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.

Windhager stands for competence, creative, market-oriented product innovations in the field of insect stops, pest control, gardening accessories as well as sun and privacy screens. Their products encourage the beauty and natural diversity of gardens and increase economic yields. Windhager products also contribute to a more comfortable life around the house and on the patio. Established in 1983 and headquartered in Thalgau, Austria, Windhager Groups’ 250+ employees assure 80+ million turnover p.a. within 25 European countries.

Realization

The leading system for article data is an ERP system (self-developed), which is connected via web services to the PIM system (Pimcore). Digital assets are stored in an external DAM database (CELUM). All marketing titles and texts are entered, translated and stored in Pimcore, pictures and videos in CELUM, but they are synchronized between CELUM and Pimcore so that every digital asset is available in Pimcore.

Every catalogue is realized with the Pimcore module “Web-to-Print”, which is integrated in the Pimcore suite and allows the marketing team to create a catalogue, every chapter and subchapter and add all relevant products to the catalogue. Windhager decided to add every product manually via a search menu and exclude every variant which is deprecated automatically. When creating new catalogues marketing can copy an old catalogue and needs to add only new items manually.

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About RealObjects

RealObjects (www.realobjects.com), founded in 2000, provides W3C standard-compliant, cross platform software tools for electronic publishing, content authoring and web-to-print.

Its W3C standards-based publishing solution PDFreactor is an industry-recognized flagship product, which is used for server-side conversion of HTML to PDF whenever electronic and typeset-quality print output of business content is required. It is the perfect printing component for web applications, incl. database publishing, web-to-print, PIM, DMS, MDM, DAM, WCMS, VDP etc.

RealObjects products are used by about 3000 corporate customers in over 40 countries, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises, educational institutions as well as government and nonprofit organizations. Several OEM and VAR partners as well as major accounts have deeply integrated RealObjects technology into their toolsets and solutions.

The leading HTML to PDF conversion engine just got better: PDFreactor 10 is now available.

PDFreactor 10 is a major upgrade with great new features, fixes and improvements such as:

• Segmentation functionality enables you to create documents with many thousands of pages with little memory impact
• Highly optimized table mode drastically reduces the amount of time and memory required to convert large uniform tables, even with millions of rows
• Color space conversion for CSS colors and images, configurable via the API
• Support for typographic font families, including the CSS property “font-stretch” and numerical “font-weight” values
• CSS page groups, including the ability to select the first pages of chapters
• Optional validation of created PDF/A documents
• Completely revised flex-box layout, resulting in significantly improved standard compliance and browser-like behavior as well as better handling of many edge-cases and pagination
• Greatly enhanced JavaScript support and compatibility
• Improved debug mode

For more information about PDFreactor 10, 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.

Important!

PDFreactor Web Service users: Please refer to the migration guide before updating to PDFreactor 10, as the installation process may overwrite settings.

Upgrading to PDFreactor 10

The new version is a free upgrade for all PDFreactor customers with a valid support and maintenance subscription. A version 10 license key is required and should be requested at support@realobjects.com or here. PDFreactor 10 will not work with PDFreactor 9 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 10, you might have to update your integration code or documents since there have been some changes in the PDFreactor APIs. Please make sure to consult our migration guide.

For more information about PDFreactor 10, please visit www.pdfreactor.com. If you have any questions about PDFreactor 10, please don’t hesitate to contact support@realobjects.com.

A maintenance release for PDFreactor 10 is now available. This release includes the following changes:

• Hyphenation no longer causes erroneous text sizes when using Java 11. (#7526)
• Corrected static position of certain absolutely positioned elements. (#7511)
• Fixed a rare exception what could lead to seemingly non-terminating conversions. (#7521)

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 10 installation packages are available for download in the download area.

Because of the holiday season, our office will be closed from Monday, 24th December 2018 to Tuesday, 1st January 2019. No support requests or license purchases will be processed in this period.

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 10 is now available. This release includes the following changes:

• Synthetic italic is applied again. (#7532)
• Empty inline elements no longer prevent their parents from collapsing through. (#7531)
• The dimensions of multi-page collapsed tables with varying border widths are now determined correctly. (#7110)

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 10 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:

• Embedded SVGs containing large amounts of sibling elements no longer impact conversion performance. (#7241)
• Tables with “width” set to “auto” no longer contain unexpected line breaks when the table fits into its container. (#7227)
• Modifications of complex multi-page tables no longer cause errors. (#7222)
• Multi-columns containing complex float constructs are now laid out correctly. (#7221)
• Break styles on nested block elements are now applied correctly. (#7208)

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 10 is now available. This release includes the following changes:

• Target-counter and target-text functionality now works correctly when segmentation is enabled. (#7552)
• Complex collapsed tables no longer cause exceptions in rare cases. (#7554)
• Dithering translucency for PDF/A-1 conformance now works independent of image type. (#7551)
• Specific combinations of tables and overflow styles no longer cause exceptions when PDF tagging is enabled. (#7561)
• Headings spanning multiple pages no longer cause exceptions when PDF tagging is enabled. (#7556)
• JavaScript modifications of documents with counters in the contents of “XHTML” CSS functions no longer cause exceptions. (#7540)
• “Save Memory” mode now works correctly for all supported image formats. (#7560)
• “BoxDescription.columnIndex” is now computed correctly in all cases. (#7542)
• Python and CLI Wrappers are now compatible with Python 3. (#7559)

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 10 installation packages are available for download in the download area.

A hotfix release for PDFreactor 10 is now available. This release includes the following changes:

• Page breaks no longer happen between positioned first child elements and their next normal flow sibling. (#7611)
• Inline-block elements with a specified width no longer cause incorrect widths for surrounding tables. (#7614)
• Percentage values as parameters of “rgb” functions in SVG are handled correctly again. (#7626)
• Certain combinations of target counters and targets no longer cause missing values when segmentation is enabled. (#7602)
• Adding multi-column structures via JavaScript no longer causes exceptions. (#7569)
• The JavaScript functions “prompt”, “confirm” and “alert” no longer cause exceptions. (#7576)
• Using asset packages in evaluation mode no longer breaks conversions. (#7583)
• Logs appended to output PDFs again have correct timestamps. (#7592)

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 10 installation packages are available for download in the download area.

The JAF Group is the largest timber merchant in Europe, offering around 83,000 articles (including more than 20,000 permanently in stock) at 59 sites in 19 countries all over the continent. Founded in 1948 at the company’s headquarter in Stockerau (Austria), JAF Group has become central Europe’s leading wholesaler for wood and wooden materials. It has established itself as a strong partner for the wood processing industry, the construction sector and resale. Today the company is the market leader in Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Croatia.

Printing automation

Full printing automation creates print outputs/PDFs based on templates, data and rules. Foundation for this functionality is the interoperation between Pimcore PIM and RealObjects PDFreactor. No manual setup of content is required like it generally happens with product listings, product detail pages, etc. It comes quite handy for automating the creating of data sheets, price lists, and energy labels.

The terrace designer e.g. is a special component of Pimcore eCommerce and is tightly integrated with Pimcore PIM, which uses PDFreactor as plug-in. For B2B customers, the terrace designer calculates the optimal patterns for the desired terrace floor plans and generates the building instructions, including material lists, construction plans, sketches etc. PDFreactor then generates a PDF, presenting all the info in an attractive layout.

Read more

About RealObjects

RealObjects (www.realobjects.com), founded in 2000, provides W3C standard-compliant, cross platform software tools for electronic publishing, content authoring and web-to-print.

Its W3C standards-based publishing solution PDFreactor is an industry-recognized flagship product, which is used for server-side conversion of HTML to PDF whenever electronic and typeset-quality print output of business content is required. It is the perfect printing component for web applications, incl. database publishing, web-to-print, PIM, DMS, MDM, DAM, WCMS, VDP etc.

RealObjects products are used by about 3000 corporate customers in over 40 countries, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises, educational institutions as well as government and nonprofit organizations. Several OEM and VAR partners as well as major accounts have deeply integrated RealObjects technology into their toolsets and solutions.

Because of Easter holidays, our office will be closed from April 19 to April 22. No support requests or license purchases will be processed in this period.

All of us here at RealObjects wish you happy Easter holidays!

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

Your RealObjects Support Team

We have been made aware that information has recently been published in social media about potential vulnerabilities in systems which use PDFreactor to convert data from untrusted sources. This could be used for Server Side Request Forgery, file system access and other similar attacks. A potential attacker could gain access to data on the server or internal networks. We would like to inform PDFreactor customers about this and highlight measures that can be taken to avoid this risk.

Does this affect me?

PDFreactor works under the assumption that all content and data (HTML, CSS, JavaScript etc.) it processes comes from trusted sources and does not contain malicious code or content. However, this may not always be the case depending on your integration. This means systems using PDFreactor to convert data or content from untrusted sources are potentially vulnerable.

You have to verify if PDFreactor — as you have integrated it — processes any data from untrusted sources where it is potentially vulnerable to the injection of malicious content in HTML, CSS, JavaScript etc. For this, you have to analyze and validate your entire processing chain for all data supplied to PDFreactor.

What can I do?

Should this be the case, implement appropriate measures immediately to protect your system against this sort of potential attacks. Such measures can include the following:

• Stop processing any data from untrusted sources with PDFreactor
• Prevent injection of malicious code or content into HTML, CSS, JavaScript e.g. by appropriately escaping or filtering data from untrusted sources
• Configure CustomUrlStreamHandlers (if you are using the PDFreactor Java Library) to filter URLs and block unwanted access to certain protocols or resources (see https://www.pdfreactor.com/product/doc/apidocs/index.html?com/realobjects/pdfreactor/Configuration.CustomUrlStreamHandler.html)
• Run the PDFreactor service under a user that has appropriately restricted privileges e.g. without any access rights to confidential files
• Configure appropriate outbound firewall rules on the server, to prevent access to internal network resources

If you have any questions, please contact us at support@realobjects.com or open a support ticket in our helpdesk at support.realobjects.com.

Personal electronic document storage is an important topic for the customers of various Raiffeisen systems. In the e-banking system „Mein ELBA“ Raiffeisen therefore aims to offer its customers the simple and fast generation of PDFs in various templates (turnover lists, advisor mailbox etc.). The interconnection within all templates in the system means that it is also important that separate implementation and layout of the PDF document is not necessary beyond the web templates, which have also be designed both professionally and responsively. Ideally the PDF should be generated from the HTML and CSS shown in the web browser.

The use of RealObjects PDFreactor allowed Raiffeisen to establish a generically usable „HTML to PDF as a service“ function in its systems without requiring a lot of time. Raiffeisen Software GmbH chose a PDFreactor „Corporate Application License“ that also enables unlimited use of any sub applications such as „Mein ELBA“ (https:// banking.raiffeisen.at/) as part of the application „Digitale Regionalbank“.

Please also read the related case study.

About Raiffeisen Software GmbH

Raiffeisen Software GmbH is the software house of Raiffeisen Bankengruppe Österreich and one of the largest IT service providers in the country. For over 50 years Raiffeisen Software GmbH has been creating IT solutions that provide innovation, increased efficiency and added value to customers. Raiffeisen Software GmbH supports the daily business of Raiffeisenbanks in Austria with user-friendly IT systems. The corresponding IT solutions set standards in the financial sector.

About RealObjects

RealObjects (www.realobjects.com), founded in 2000, provides W3C standard-compliant, cross platform software tools for electronic publishing, content authoring and web-to-print.

Its W3C standards-based publishing solution PDFreactor is an industry-recognized flagship product, which is used for server-side conversion of HTML to PDF whenever electronic and typeset-quality print output of business content is required. It is the perfect printing component for web applications, incl. database publishing, web-to-print, PIM, DMS, MDM, DAM, WCMS, VDP etc.

RealObjects tools have been used by about 3000 corporate customers in over 40 countries, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises, educational institutions as well as government and non-profit organizations. Several major accounts have deeply integrated RealObjects technology into their toolsets and solutions. A network of strategic business alliances, resellers and OEM partners/customers has been established over the years.

Contact:

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

Because of a public holiday in Germany, our office will be closed on Wednesday, 1st May. No support requests or license purchases will be processed on this day.

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

Your RealObjects Support Team

mafi is an international natural wood flooring brand, standing for a family-owned business that was founded more than 100 years ago, producing innovative products for kitchens, baths, living rooms as well as commercial projects exclusively in Austria. mafi Naturholzboden GmbH also offers several additional solutions such as stairs, skirting, as well as care and installation materials. Their tailor-made products are sold in more than 50 countries, achieving a turnover of about 22 million EUR in 2017.

Achievements

All product, sales and marketing information is structured and consolidated from 3^rd party systems. A central master data management process feeds all relevant IT systems, such as PIM, CMS, DAM and e-commerce and keeps track of all changes. The mafi B2B/B2C e-commerce portal and related price list production retrieves data for thousands of different product variants from those systems.

Using PDFreactor as plug-in within Pimcore enables mafi to easily and quickly update price lists, maintaining consistent layout standards without having design and typesetting costs. Cost reduction in the five-digit range, considerable time-savings as well as constant performance have been achieved.

Web-to-print

The fully automatic database publishing is done based on the consolidated master data. The generated print-ready price lists generated with PDFreactor serve as a basis for all mafi stores and distribution partners in more than 50 countries, covering: 17 different price lists, 9.000 product variants, 5 languages, 6 currencies, 10 different units.

Print-ready PDFs are created directly within the Pimcore system using PDFreactor as plug-in. When rendering, the print is first rendered to HTML and then rendered to PDF. PDF rendering itself is done by PDFreactor, which comes with an out-of-the box feature to add (technically done by an additional CSS-file) printer marks to the PDF.

Read more

About RealObjects

RealObjects (www.realobjects.com), founded in 2000, provides W3C standard-compliant, cross platform software tools for electronic publishing, content authoring and web-to-print.

Its W3C standards-based publishing solution PDFreactor is an industry-recognized flagship product, which is used for server-side conversion of HTML to PDF whenever electronic and typeset-quality print output of business content is required. It is the perfect printing component for web applications, incl. database publishing, web-to-print, PIM, DMS, MDM, DAM, WCMS, VDP etc.

RealObjects products are used by about 3000 corporate customers in over 40 countries, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises, educational institutions as well as government and nonprofit organizations. Several OEM and VAR partners as well as major accounts have deeply integrated RealObjects technology into their toolsets and solutions.