RTF2FO 3.4.2: New Release of Powerful and Flexible Converter from RTF to XML Becomes More Convenient

Austin, TX (PRWEB) September 6, 2006

Novosoft Inc. announces a new version of its Java RTF2FO converter. RTF2FO 3.4.2 converts RTF documents to XML and prepares reach formatted XSL FO templates. All resulted documents are produced in strong compliance with the latest W3C specifications for XSL FO.

An important improvement of this new release becomes a facility to use different external logging systems for tracking the conversion process that is significantly lighten debagging and development work.

In contrast to tools that provide “interlinear, word for word” conversion, RTF2FO is designed for “smart” RTF to XML transformation. In RTF2FO, we concentrate on structure, logic and appearance of initial RTF documents and pass all this information to resulted XML files in terms of XSL FO semantics.

RTF2FO is a pure Java product and requires Java 1.2 or higher to be installed. Compatibility with so old version of Java comes from necessity to support big industrial Java environments created several years ago with popular Java IDEs, such as IBM VisualAge ® for Java 3.5 and other.

The easiest way to evaluate the converter is running it on your own set of business documents and forms using the “batch conversion” option through GUI or the Command Line Interface. Typically, XSL files are generated for further converting to PDF. To facilitate this process and achieve maximal similarity of appearance with initial RTF documents, we preset in RTF2FO a number of compatibility options for the most popular FO rendering tools. These options have to be chosen before starting a process of conversion depending on what PDF renderer will be used.

To integrate RTF2FO into production applications we recommend to do it through converter’s API of the converter which is a flexible and reliable.

Web site: http://www.rtf2fo.com/
Program interface: http://www.rtf2fo.com/rtf2fo.jpg
Evaluation version of the product:

What is new in the RTF2FO 3.4.2
·    Redesign of RTF2FO logging system. Any logger can be used now;
·    New logging is based on ExternalLogger interface;
·    Introduce RTFOPDF.java class example converting RTF to PDF in the memory using RTF2FO and FOP-0.20.5;
·    Fix a bug with default border width if it is omitted;
·    Support for "current page number" active symbol;
·    Missing char in "Symbol" and "ZapfDingbats" fonts is now substituted with U+2395 char (a rectangle).

Pricing and Availability

Standard License allows using RTF2FO as a standalone application - $50 US
Professional License with open API – from $150 US
Site License for multiple installations - $750 US
All these licenses can be bought on http://www.rtf2fo.com/purchasing.html.
The OEM License agreement is available upon request.
Free technical support is provided by e-mail.
The time-limited trial version with full set of features can be downloaded at

Publisher & Editorial Information
IT reviewers are encouraged to use this press release and any other related materials. We will be pleased to grant you a free full-featured trial copy. If you do not consider electronically distributed software, please e-mail us with the details of your postal address and we will send you a jewel case. Cover media editors are authorized to include the time-limited trial version of RTF2FO in their CD/DVD-ROMs.

This press release is available online at: http://www.rtf2fo.com/press

For more information, contact Novosoft Inc.,
http://www.rtf2fo.com,
Fax (USA) +1 (707) 9220104
3803 Mt. Bonnel Rd,
Austin, 78731, Texas, USA

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