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What's New in Oxygen PDF Chemistry 23.0
November 19, 2020
Related version: 23.1
Version 23 of Oxygen PDF Chemistry provides more improvements and new possibilities for the CSS Paged Media processor used for obtaining PDF output from HTML or XML documents simply by styling them with CSS.
Chemistry Processor
Image Maps Now Fully Supported
Image maps are now fully supported in DITA-based output. The shapes that are
defined in the image map are rendered in the output as clickable areas within the image
and the list of links are presented below the image. Two new parameters
(-show.image.map.area.numbers and
-show.image.map.area.shapes) are used to instruct the publishing engine
to make the numbers and shapes visible in the output. For more details, see How to
Use Image Maps.
Avoid Line Breaks at Hyphens
A line break at a hyphen character can cause PDF readers to join the lines but
discard the hyphen character when copying and pasting content. A new extension property (
-oxy-avoid-breaking-line-at-hypens) can be
used to avoid this type of line break.High Quality Text Rendering for Latin Scripts
Latin ligatures are now enabled by default. This means that, depending on the
capabilities of your particular font, high quality text rendering is possible for
Latin-based scripts.
Support for Advanced Font Settings (Ligatures, Stylesets)
Chemistry now supports advanced OpenType font settings, such as
font-variant-ligatures (for ligatures) and
font-variant-alternates (for stylesets).More Fallback Fonts
Additional fallback fonts were added to help avoid having missing characters in
the PDF output. For example, DejaVu fonts were added as fallbacks for the
SansSerif, Serif, and Monospace font
families.
Support for Rounded Corners on Borders
Now you can round border corners using the
border-radius CSS
property. The background-color property also follows the defined border
shape.Support for initial and unset CSS Values
The global CSS property values
initial and
unset are now allowed in many of the supported CSS
properties.The widows and orphans CSS Properties are Applied to Lists
The
widows and orphans CSS properties are now
applied to the lists, as well as paragraphs (the default value is 2). This means that a
list that spans consecutive pages will have either none or at least 2 text lines on each
of the pages.CFF Fonts Now Supported
Support was added for CFF (Compact Font Format) fonts packed in a TTC font
collection.
Add Links to SVG Images
It is now possible to place links
over parts of SVG images that point to other document sections. This is useful
if, for example, you want to use the SVG graphic as a type of table of contents or image
map.
New Parameter for Controlling the Version of the PDF
The new pdf.version transformation parameter can be used to specify
the version of the produced PDF.
Component Update: Apache Batik 1.13
Updated the Apache Batik SVG toolkit to version 1.13.
Component Update: Apache FOP 2.5
Updated Apache FOP to version 2.5.
Component Update: Apache XML Graphics 2.4
Updated the Apache XML Graphics Commons library to version 2.4.
Component Update: Apache Commons IO Library 2.8.0
Updated the Apache commons-io library that is bundled inside
FOP to version 2.8.0.