What's New in Oxygen PDF Chemistry 21.1

May 23, 2019

Related version: 21.0    

Oxygen PDF Chemistry is a CSS Paged Media processor that allows you to obtain PDF output from HTML or XML documents simply by styling them with CSS. It comes bundled with Oxygen XML Author, Oxygen XML Editor, and Oxygen XML Developer distributions.

With the release of version 21.1, Oxygen PDF Chemistry is no longer in a BETA stage and is now available as a separate commercial option for those who want to use the publishing engine outside of Oxygen. This maintenance release also includes numerous improvements, and addressed various feature requests and issues reported by users.

For example, the CSS level 3 functions target-counter and target-counters are now fully supported, a problem was fixed where invisible elements were interfering with automatic collapsing, and the colspan and rowspan attributes now work as expected for HTML and XHTML tables.

Chemistry

Support for CSS Level 3 Functions target-counter and target-counters

The CSS level 3 functions target-counter and target-counters are now fully supported as values for the content property to retrieve counter values and display information obtained from a target at the end of a link.

Commercial Version Now Available for Use Outside of Oxygen

A commercial version of Oxygen PDF Chemistry is now available for those who want to use the publishing engine outside of Oxygen. For details, see Buy Oxygen PDF Chemistry.

Spaces Collapsed Between Elements That Have and ID Attribute

A problem was fixed where invisible elements with an ID attribute was interfering with the automatic collapsing of block margins.

The colspan and rowspan Attributes Work Properly for HTML Tables.

A problem was fixed where colspan and rowspan attributes were not working as expected for HTML and XHTML tables.