The major improvements of this version since the last major release version (10.0) are:

  • Platform Support
    • Added support for Windows Vista.
    • Added support for Windows 7.
    • Added 64 bit versions.
  • Product Licensing
    • Replaced licensing system with PTC FlexLM.
  • Direct PDF Output
    • Replaced APP PDF driver with PDFlib 8 based driver.
    • New option to select Acrobat version compatability.
  • TrueType fonts now embedded as TrueType in Unicode version.
  • Tagged PDF
    • Added PDF tagging support.
  • PDF Import
    • Added support for PDF files in image import. (Supported in Direct PDF Output only).
  • Pantone Color
    • Updated Pantone Color Books.
  • Formatting Object Model
    • Updated JavaScript engine.
    • Added DOM Level 2 access to XML streams.
    • Added File object for native file access from JavaScript.
  • Bookmark Links
    • Modified Bookmark link handling to prevent unnecessary breaking of link boxes.
    • Added <?tbklnkcol [colour]> PI to specify the highlight colour for Bookmark links.
    • Added option to tdslevel to allow highlighting of Bookmark links within the user interface. (tdslevel +#x00400000)
  • Formatting
    • Added support for side-by-side for blocks

11.0 F000 (Build 2609)

  • Added js-eval XPath extension function. syntax is ‘string [x3b2:]js-eval( string )’.
  • Added veritcal alignment property to frames, equivalent to <?breakt b[7|8]> as initial content.
  • Added avoid mode ‘ignore’ to frames.  Allows the frame to ignore any avoids on other frames.
  • Added directional cursor ability to document view to highlight the text direction at the cursor position.
  • Modified drawing code to improve handling of inline rules, ttbgc, underlines, etc. especially in RTL mode. (SPR 1963510).
  • Implemented support for drawMode on ttgbc, tunderline, etc.
  • Added repeatpattern property to tunderline, tstriketrough and toverbar.   If set to 0 startpattern and endpattern only occur once rather than on each fragment.
  • Added ignoredir property to ttbgc, tunderline, tstriketrough and toverbar.   If set to 1 the rule will ignore changes to text direction.
  • Added option to sprint that allows a zoom level to be set after completing the format.
  • Added new “apply” keyword to contexts to allow a different control stream to be tested once a node has been matched (SPR 2027834)
  • Added new “id” keyword to contexts to allow the tags specified in individual matches to be selected during formatting using <ctxt#$id.onEnter> or <ctxt#$id.onEnter>.
  • Added new option to document sequences to allow odd and even tests to be reversed (SPR 2025183)
  • Added new mode to contextup that limits other contexts in the same group instead of blocking all other groups.
  • Added support for <?blockobeyfitb> to control the block depth.
  • Changed default behaviour of serrlog.3at so it gets created in the directory stored in the TEMP environment variable if it is unable to write to \{@\}serrlog.3at. (SPR 2060168)
  • Fixed context matching namespace tag lookup. (SPR 2072753)
  • Fixed problem with passthru PI upsetting formatting at the start of the paragraph. (SPR 2072678)
  • Fixed handling of table and paragraph elements over page boundaries in the XML printer driver. (SPR 2055484)
  • Fixed JavaScript crash when accessing application.activeTemplate with no document open. (SPR 2075642)