Saarbrücken RealObjects today announced the official release of PDFreactor 4.0. The new major release PDFreactor 4.0 is available from the RealObjects website for immediate download. The highlights of the new version are:

 

PDF/A Support

• PDFreactor 4 supports creating PDF/A-compliant files. To create PDF/A-1a (ISO 19005-1 Level a) compliant files, only one specific parameter in your PDFreactor integration is necessary.
• RealObjects is a member of the PDF/A Competence Center.

 

Professional Printing

• Multi-column layout typically used in newspapers and magazines is supported (according to CSS 3 "Multi-Column Layout").

 

• Footnotes can be added using simple CSS (according to CSS 3 "Generated Content for Paged Media").
• Specifying the PDF page boxes allows the content to bleed off trim area.
• Printer marks including trim marks, bleed marks, registration marks and color bars can be added to the pages.
• There is the option to convert color key words into CMYK colors.

 

Further noteworthy improvements

• PDFreactor 4 includes extended support for non-Latin content. This includes better handling of various document encodings as well as bidirectional content.

• Form support has been extended: Non-interactive form and PDF-forms can be styled and form elements adopt their names from the input document.

For more information on new features and improvements please see the readme.txt.

See also the comprehensive sample documents and interactive live demonstrations

 

About RealObjects

Headquartered in Saarbrücken, Germany, RealObjects is a manufacturer of standards-oriented, cross-platform software tools for content authoring and electronic publishing. The company ranks as a pioneering developer of easy-to-use, affordable and quick-to-deploy WYSIWYG HTML/XHTML/XML editor solutions, which enable content authoring in Web- and Java-based applications.

The privately-held software company has more than 2000 corporate customers in over 30 countries, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises, educational institutions as well as government and non-profit organizations. RealObjects has a strong network of key business alliances, value added resellers and OEM partners.