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This new function leverages a new, free, open source software component called XMLmind Ebook Compiler (ebookc for short). Ebookc is an authoring tool nearly as powerful as DITA or DocBook, but being based on HTML and on CSS, it is much easier to learn, use and customize.

Version 7.5 also features a few minor enhancements —mainly a new layout for the generated Web Help— and bug fixes.

Ebookc features: topic-oriented; automatic TOC; automatic “back-of-the-book index”; automatic cross-references; automatic numbering of sections, tables and figures; footnotes; conditional processing; built-in XInclude. Ebookc uses CSS to create nicely formatted books and this, even for output formats like PDF and DOCX.

All in all, ebookc is an authoring tool nearly as powerful as DITA or DocBook, but being based on HTML and on CSS, it is much easier to learn, use and customize. More »

Forthcoming XMLmind XHTML Editor v7.5 (or its superset, XMLmind XML Editor) will have out of the box, extensive support for creating an ebook specification and its source HTML pages and for converting an ebook specification to a number of output formats. XMLmind XHTML Editor Personal Edition is free to use by many persons and organizations.

• You may now easily add image maps to your XHTML, DITA and DocBook documents. New, advanced image map editor may be used to add “hot areas” to your image. YouTube demo.
• XHTML iframe element is now rendered by embedding a Web browser in the styled view.
• Updated several software components. A number of bug fixes too.

DocBook 5.1 assemblies are processed using free, open source, XMLmind Assembly Processor v1.0. Version 1.0 is the first version to fully support processing DocBook 5.1 assemblies. This includes XInclude 1.1, DocBook Transclusion and assembly features such as relationships and transforms .

• XMLmind XSL Utility and XMLmind XSL Server can now convert DITA 1.3 (Technical Content) documents.
• ODT files generated by XMLmind XSL-FO Converter (Java™ Edition only) can now contain SVG graphics. In previous versions, SVG was automatically converted to PNG.

• Now fully supports DITA 1.3 Technical Content. More information in "XMLmind XML Editor - DITA Support".

  This feature is mainly provided by new XMLmind DITA Converter v3.1, but a substantial number of changes and enhancements were required in XXE in order to really support DITA 1.3 at the editor level.

• XHTML 5, DITA, DocBook 5.1 audio and video elements are now rendered by embedding a media player in the styled view. This media player is similar to those found in Web browsers. More information in "XMLmind XML Editor - Online Help", "The media player dialog box".

• Desktop application w2x-app has now a setup assistant (AKA “wizard” style dialog box) making it quick and easy creating w2x option files.

  This new setup assistant has a screen which may be used to map MS-Word character and paragraph styles (e.g. p-CodeSample) to XML elements possibly having attributes (e.g. DITA pre outputclass="code-sample").

• New “semantic” output formats:
  • Multi-page “semantic” XHTML 1.0 Strict, XHTML 1.0 Transitional, XHTML 1.1, XHTML 5;
  • Web Help containing “semantic” XHTML 1.0 Strict XHTML 1.0 Transitional, XHTML 1.1, XHTML 5;
  • EPUB 2 containing “semantic” XHTML 1.1.
• MS-Word math (that is, OpenXML math) is now automatically converted to MathML.

XMLmind is happy to announce three new products: XMLmind DITA Editor, XMLmind DocBook Editor, XMLmind XHTML Editor. These products are attractively priced, “special editions” of XMLmind XML Editor. Because they focus on a single class of documents, these specialized editors are slightly faster and simpler to use than XMLmind XML Editor. More information in "Which editor to choose?".

A Personal License is now available for XMLmind XML Editor, XMLmind DITA Editor, XMLmind DocBook Editor and XMLmind XHTML Editor. This makes our four editors free to use by many persons and organizations. More information in "Which license to choose?".

The Personal Editions of XMLmind XML Editor, XMLmind DITA Editor, XMLmind DocBook Editor and XMLmind XHTML Editor may be freely downloaded from this page.

This new version also has substantial enhancements and a number of bug fixes. All these enhancements aim to make our XML editors simpler and more straightforward to use.

• Major overhaul of the "Edit source" add-on (installed by default).
• Replaced menu item "Tools|Open Navigation Pane" by checkbox "Tools|Use as Master Document".
• New "View|Multiple Views" submenu.
• Made option "Automatically reopen last opened documents" much more useful.

• XMLmind XSL Utility and XMLmind XSL Server: updated several software components Apache FOP 2.1, DocBook XSL stylesheets 1.79.1, XMLmind DITA Converter v2.6, etc.

  Latest version of XMLmind DITA Converter adds partial DITA 1.3 support to XMLmind XSL Utility and XMLmind XSL Server. Full DITA 1.3 support is planned for year 2016. More information in "About DITA support in XMLmind DITA Converter".

• XMLmind XSL-FO Converter engine: better support of East Asian (CJK) fonts. See "Special support for East Asian fonts".

• Partial DITA 1.3 support. (Full DITA 1.3 support is planned for year 2016.) More information in "XMLmind XML Editor - DITA Support".
• Enhanced "DocBook v5.1 configuration (Release Candidate)" add-on.
• Improved XInclude 1.1 support in DocBook v5 and v5.1 configurations.
• Drag&drop of document tabs and tool tabs.

In order to generate these new formats, we need to automatically split the source DOCX document into parts. A new part is created each time a paragraph having an outline level less than or equal to specified split-before-level parameter is found in the source. An outline level is an integer between 0 (e.g. style Heading 1) and 8 (e.g. style Heading 9). The default value of parameter split-before-level is 0, which means: for each Heading 1, create a new page starting with this Heading 1.

New free online conversion services: Convert DOCX to Multi-page Styled HTML, Convert DOCX to Web Help, Convert DOCX to EPUB.

• New "Options|Customize Configuration|Customize CSS Stylesheet" menu item may be selected to quickly and easily customize the CSS stylesheet used to render an XML document on screen. The dialog box displayed by this new menu item has an "Add Style for Selected Element" button which does not require the user to know CSS in order to customize the style of the element being selected.
• Many other enhancements, most of them related to XHTML support and to the "Easy Profiling" add-on.

• New implementation of XMLmind XSL-FO Converter for .NET no longer requires installing Microsoft Visual J#® 2.0 Redistributable Package. It just requires a .NET 4.0+ framework on Windows or Mono 3.8+ on Linux.
• XMLmind XSL Utility and controlapp (desktop application allowing to easily configure and control XMLmind XSL server) now works fine on computers having very high resolution (HiDPI) screens.
• XMLmind XSL Utility is now available as a Mac OS X native .dmg distribution including a private Java™ 1.8.0_66 runtime.

• Text runs aligned on tab stops are now processed when generating XHTML+CSS and optionally, also when generating “semantic” XML.
• DOCX files using the "Strict Open XML Document" format are now supported.
• Desktop application w2x-app now works fine on computers having very high resolution (HiDPI) screens.

If your computer has a HiDPI screen or more simply if you use XXE on the Mac, it is strongly recommended to upgrade to version 6.5.

• XXE now works fine on computers having very high resolution (HiDPI) screens. For example, it now works fine on a Mac having a Retina® screen and a Windows computer having an UHD (“4K”) screen.

  On a Linux computer having a HiDPI screen, HiDPI is not automatically detected. You'll have to use the new "Display scaling" controls found in the General section of the Preferences dialog box. These controls may be used to change the size of all the items comprising the user interface of XXE. This new facility may be useful even if you don't have a HiDPI screen.

• XXE is now officially supported on Windows 10 and on Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan).

• Better support for the revisions of a document:
  • New option "Tools|Revisions|Store All Revisions in the Document" allows to store all the revisions of a document in the XML file containing this document.
  • New menu item "Tools|Revisions|Open Revision" displays a dialog box listing all the revisions of a document for which option "Store All Revisions in the Document" has been turned on. This dialog box allows to select one or more revisions in order to open or compare these revisions.
  • The Compare tool made more convenient to use.

  Tutorial Reviewing changes using the Compare tool has been updated in order to show a typical use case for these new facilities.

• Updated several software components used to implement add-ons.
• A few bug fixes.

• It's now possible to add a watermark to the pages generated by XFC.
• WML format only: identical images are no longer duplicated in the generated file.
• Updated important software components (FOP, Batik, ditac, etc) in XMLmind XSL Utility and XMLmind XSL Server.
• Bug fixes.

• It's now possible to add a watermark (e.g. "DRAFT", "CONFIDENTIAL") to a document generated by ditac.
• Completed the implementation of DITAVAL feature <revprop changebar="change bar styles"/>. Documented the implementation in "Flagging contents", a new section of the manual.