The major new features of the new version include:

All formats:

• Significant refactoring and optimization which make the new version about 3-4 times faster and 2-3 times less memory consuming than the current 2.x release.
• New output formats: SVG Basic, raster images and GDI output.
• The possibility to embed any supported format into any other; for example, SVG files can embed now XSL-FO pages.
• Improved typography including the support of OpenType fonts with Type1 outlines and kernings.

XSL-FO format:

• The support for MathML as an external graphics format.
• The support for multipage floats.
• Extended XSL-FO 1.1 support.
• New extensions for absolutely positioned floats and tabulation support.

WordML:

• Support for absolutely positioned boxes.
• Tabulation support.
• Overall performance and quality improvements.

XHTML:

• Improved floats support.
• Overall performance and quality improvements.

SVG:

• Overall performance and quality improvements.

CSS:

• Support for paged media module from CSS 3.0.
• Support for different media types.

All together Xml2PDF 3.0 supports the following file formats:

• Input XML formats: XSL-FO, SVG, XHTML, WordML, MathML.
• Output formats: PDF, raster graphics (TIFF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WMF), SVG (Basic profile).

The formatting engine is implemented as a pure managed .NET components and can be easily integrated into any .NET-based solution. It does not use any third-party applications or COM components.

The following Xml2PDF editions are available into Xml2PDF 3.0 Release:

• Xml2PDF Workstation, a dialog-based GUI application that validates and converts any supported format to a number of output formats reporting all errors and warnings
• Xml2PDF Viewer, a rich GUI application that displays any supported XML format on a screen and provides scaling, navigation and printing functionality. It can also save open XML documents to any of the supported output formats.
• Xml2PDF Hotfolder, a hotfolder based formatting engine tracing and processing all incoming files in parallel threads.
• Xml2PDF API, the .NET component providing access to Xml2PDF formatting functionality via the standard .NET interface.

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