Saarbrücken RealObjects today announced the official release of PDFreactor Version 8.
PDFreactor 8.0.8064 is a major upgrade with great new features:
- Professional printing capabilities like:
- Support for PDF/X (PDF/X-1a:2001, PDF/X-1a:2003, PDF/X-3:2002, PDF/X-3:2003 and PDF/X-4)
- Spot Colors, incl. Pantone
- Baseline Grids
- A new and improved web service makes it even easier to deploy PDFreactor into the environment of your choice using one of the web service APIs. The web service now provides:
- A REST API
- New APIs for Java and JavaScript
- A command line API with support for batch processing (incl. wildcards)
- Asynchronous document conversions that do not block the client
- PDFreactor now supports the following CSS3 features:
- calc
- box-sizing
- background-size: contain/cover
- CSS length units including “rem”, “ch”, “vw”, “vh”, “vmin”, “vmax” and “q”
- CSS media features (@media …)
- Implemented new CSS page pseudo class “:-ro-last” and “:-ro-nth” to address the last page or specific pages of a document.
- PDFreactor can now be deployed in an OSGi environment.
- Improved JavaScript and Charting library support.
- All PDF/A formats are now supported (1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 2u, 3a, 3b and 3u).
- Improved merging with existing PDF documents:
- Pages from existing PDF documents can now be used like images.
- When overlaying documents, the longer document can now be trimmed.
Upgrading to PDFreactor 8
When upgrading to PDFreactor 8, you will have to update your integration code. Please make sure to consult our migration guide here: http://www.pdfreactor.com/product/doc/migration-guide.html.
Web Service or Wrapper Integrators:
Since a new PDFreactor Web Service is introduced with this version, the old Wrappers have been completely overhauled and integrations have to be adapted.
Java Integrators:
A new PDFreactor Java API has been introduced with which you can transition near seamlessly from and to the new Java Wrapper API. The previous Java API is still available under the com.realobjects.pdfreactor.legacy package, however you are strongly encouraged to migrate to the new API as soon as possible.
Please visit our PDFreactor product website at www.pdfreactor.com. There you can find anything related to PDFreactor 8 in a modern and comprehensive design. Make sure to check out the new samples, highlighting the new features: http://www.pdfreactor.com/samples/
A list of changes and corrections as well as important release notes can be found here: http://www.pdfreactor.com/product/readme.txt
The PDFreactor 8 installation packages are available for download from: http://www.pdfreactor.com/download/
The new version is a free upgrade for all PDFreactor customers with a valid support and maintenance subscription. A version 8 license key is required and should be requested at support@realobjects.com when upgrading. If you do not have a valid support and maintenance subscription, please contact support@realobjects.com to purchase an upgrade.
We also offer a Free Personal License for private, non-commercial use of PDFreactor by individuals. You can request a PDFreactor Free Personal License here: http://www.pdfreactor.com/free-personal-license/
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 typset-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, value added resellers and OEM partners has been established.