FOEditor History

Version 1.3.4
11 January 2004

New Features

• Added support for Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) or higher.

Bug Fixes

• Other minor fixes.

Version 1.3.3
3 October 2003

New Features

• Added support for DocBook XSL Stylesheets.

Bug Fixes

• Improved loading of external files.
• Improved reporting of errors/warnings from PDF generation.
• Other minor fixes.

Version 1.3.2
6 August 2003

New Features

• Added xsl:import, xsl:include and XPath document(...) support to load external files, including relative to the XSLT.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Open Recent menu to include files opened from within FOEditor.
• Fixed Show Parameters button state to properly reflect whether the XSLT contains parameters.
• Other minor fixes.

Version 1.3.1
20 May 2003

New Features

• Added support for the XSLTFOEngine. It must be installed prior to running FOEditor.
• Added Info button to toolbar.
• Improved AppleScript vocabulary for saving Formatting Object documents as PDF or RTF.

Bug Fixes

• Added ability to disable Java validation errors at startup that may prevent FOEditor from running. At a Terminal prompt type: defaults write com.scruffyware.FOEditor SSDisableJavaValidation 1.
• Fixed issues that prevented FOEditor from working properly when Java 1.4.1 is installed.
• Other minor fixes.

Version 1.3
7 January 2003

New Features

• Added ability to open/edit XML Schema documents (.xsd extension).
• Added validation of XML documents.
• Added ability to use external entities in XML documents.
• Added ability to specify XSLT encoding as either UTF-8 or UTF-16.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed 'Out Of Memory' error when generating PDF documents with more than 100 pages.

Version 1.2.1
5 December 2002

Bug Fixes

• Possible problems with generated PDF.

Version 1.2
15 November 2002

New Features

• Added ability to edit XML documents.
• Added Undo/Redo support when editing documents.
• Added Find/Replace support when editing documents.
• Added ability to choose HTML external viewer in Preferences.
• Enhanced scripting support.
• iTunes Reports is no longer included with FOEditor. Download and install DigiLife Reports which includes applications for generating reports from data in iTunes and Address Book.

Bug Fixes

• Choice of PDF external viewer in Preferences now respected.
• Other minor issues.

Version 1.1.1
16 October 2002

• Added ability to specify columns for page masters.
• Improved context menu support for XML outline view.
• Fixed: Attribute Sets are now properly edited with Info panel.
• Fixed: Other minor issues.

Version 1.1
10 October 2002

• Fixed: Generated PDF could not be saved through Save a Copy As.
• Added generation of RTF from XSL-FO (limited capabilities).
• Added context menu support to XSL outline editing.
• Improvements to error/warning reporting in the Activity Viewer.
• Property drawer can now edit <xsl:output> encoding and DOCTYPE attributes.
• Added Finder icon for XSL-FO (with .fo extension) documents.
• Added a Tools menu where all palette windows can be accessed.
• Added error reporting for cases where user has already installed Java libraries (jars) that ship with FOEditor causing features to work improperly. This was exhibited by starting FOEditor and not being presented with an untitled stylesheet document and File > New Stylesheet produced no document either.
• Updated to Apache FOP 0.20.4 engine.
• Fixed: Variables are now properly created and displayed in the Content Hierarchy.
• Fixed: Other minor issues.

Version 1.0
1 June 2002

• Included iTunes Reports (pre-release).
• Added Property Editor for manipulating property values of XML and Formatting Object elements.
• Added Content Hierarchy that shows major elements of the stylesheet by Category. The categories include:
  • Imports
  • Keys
  • Attribute Sets
  • Templates
• Extensions can now be edited through the Extensions Editor. See Xalan-Java Extensions for details on how to use extensions in your XSL Transformation. FOEditor removes much of the complexity of editing extensions, and some included examples utilize extensions.
• Printing of the generated PDF can now be performed directly from within FOEditor.
• Editing of Templates can now be done through either a hierarchical outline or direct source views.
• Page Sequences can be edited through the user interface.
• Updated to Apache FOP 0.20.3 processing engine.
• Minor bug fixes.

1.0 Beta 6
13 February 2002

• Added named template editing.
• Improved graphical interface layout.
• Improved online help.
• Fixed Page Masters width/height editing issue that could cause an empty PDF document to be generated.
• Fixed problem when clicking Regions when no Page Masters exist caused the XSLT document to become "modified."
• Fixed problem with removing an Attribute Set.
• Fixed problem with improper titles/descriptions showing when adding either Attribute Sets or Page Masters.

1.0 Beta 5
11 February 2002

• Updated to Apache Xerces 1.4.4
• Added XSL editing capabilities. Can create an XSL document with formatting objects or edit an existing one.

1.0 Beta 4
9 January 2002

• Preferences for Default View Scale selection fixed.
• Improved error handling and logging.
• Improved interface layout.
• Handle transformations of multiple output types (i.e. XML, HTML, FO, Text).

1.0 Beta 3

• Included Apache FOP examples.
• Updated menus for Human Interface compliance.
• Changed XML document to show file's contents.
• Added Activity window to show warnings or errors that may occur during transformations.
• Fix Convert to PDF to allow inclusion of external files in same directory as opened Formatting Objects file.
• Enabled Drag-and-Drop of XSL files onto XML documents.

1.0 Beta 2

• Introduced Apache FOP 0.20.2RC processing engine.