Version 2.16 - November 2021

• Alternate background colors for areas
• Default font setting
• Shortcuts help

Version 2.15 - December 2020

• Fine tuning of row and column markers positions. Dimensions section
• Check standard functionalities when exporting to Apache FOP server type
• Area border type, top or bottom open
• Split string, fixed position
• Batch of documents, page number restarted for each new Report Header
• Perists Xpath dialog location and size
• Overflow and wrapping options in fields
• New flag, do not output field if empty is missing or empty
• Fix rotation field 90 degrees

Version 2.14 - March 2020

• New functionality: Multilanguage support
• New functionality: Formatting options for numeric fields
• Command file for installing user defined functions on the designer
• Usability: PDF files generated within the designer will inherited the project name (can be disabled in the preferences)
• Usability: FO Designer will store the last exported FO file name and directory

2.13.1 - September 2019

• allow more than 5 masters
• allow small font sizes ( 1 to 5)
• fixed keep-together in area , use keep-together.within-page instead

2.13 - July 2019

• Attach XML file in PDF
• PDF metadata fields
• PDF mode

2.12 - April 2019

• Added TTF support for Interactive Forms
• Upgraded PDFBox libraries
• Hierarchy of fields in Interactive Forms
• Fix right margin of report

2.11.1 - March 2019

• fix for forms

2.11 - March 2019

• table frame object

2.10.1 - November 2018

• button for Excel generation in the designer
• different page sizes and layout for masters
• OpenJDK JRE OpenJ9 included in the distribution

2.10 - November 2018

• add migration tool for existing xslfo files
• add reusable xsl templates
• allow areas to have height = 0. If an area has height 0, it has to be selected using the outline windows to be able to resize it

2.9.1 - August 2018

• add condition Xpath for table-rows (RowMarkers)
• fix import of legacy reports with more than one master
• fix input field with constant value

2.9 - August 2018

• improved tracing capabilities for finding XSL or XSLFO error locations
• new marker functionalities for dynamic headers and footers
• fix area border selection list

2.8.3 - July 2018

• added conditions to report masters
• fix constant image files when testing in the designer. The image path must use / also in windows

2.8.2 - June 2018

• add item in outline context menu for moving areas positions
• wrap long text in XPath dialog
• XPath dialog resizable
• fix input fields in groups and subdetail areas

2.8.1 - June 2018

• new report assistant
• fix pdf forms borders

2.8.0 - May 2018

• local history of reports, in catastrophe case you can go back to an older version
• local history settings in the preferences page
• set utf-8 encoding for Server requests
• fix forms border

2.7.0 - April 2018

• added Report Analyzer feature
• fix manual change of dimensions (reports cannot be opened after saving)
• change tool tip of the export FO button
• fix loops in XPath dialog

2.6.0 - April 2018

• Excel output on cloud server
• added border box object to the palette
• added name property for line and markers
• update field dimensions and position in the properties
• pretty format FO Code window
• fix compatibility fixed field area and fixed object height
• fix compatibility fixed field area and column markers
• fix error if free code (not cell type) is in empty cell

2.5.0 - March 2018

• added fix field positions for areas
• added page break after X repetition of areas
• added spinning button to fine positioning and sizing of fields
• added scaling of background images
• added embedding of background images, no file system required anymore
• page footer, page header and report footer can be made invisible
• fix encoding for inhouse J4LFOPServer
• Fix justify alignment in memo fields
• fix send to front/back
• fix custom page size setting

2.4.0 - Jan/Feb 2018

• PDF protection functionality (for Cloud FOP Server)
• Fixes for memo fields
• Fixes for subtotal reference field

2.3.0 - Jan/Feb 2018

• License key format changed
• Support for remote cloud testing 
• License information in exported xsl-fo
• Sending emails from the designer
• Preferences pages reorganized
• New program icons and splash screen
• Fixed response reading bug when using remote PDF server
• Added progress window for remote PDF rendering
• Use of Java 1.8 VM
• Support for HTTPS

2.2.0 - Jan 2018

• Support for templates (reusable reports)
• Support for HTML fields (formatted long text fields)
• Support for Memo fields
• Support for variables (placeholders in long text fields)
• Version for Mac OS

2.1.0 - Dec 2017

• Allow deletion of row markers in header areas. Required for imported legacy report
• New example report with 2 columns
• Added 2 additional field for grouping
• Added local grouping flag
• Advanced settings in area objects
• Initialization code in the report
• New example PersonKey , keys and variable examples
• Documentation for the use of key and variables
• Use of condition in flavour tab when there is only one flavour. In this case it is like making the field conditional
• Description of subversion installation on java4less.com
• New menu item "Select all"
• Add documentation field in the reports properties
• Fix area border type combo box
• Allow row markers in header areas
• Fix display problem when inserting new areas
• Set row height flag in areas (allow areas to shrink)
• Added waiting cursor for long lasting operations
• Document naming of files (reports and projects)
• Added example server URL in the preferences window
• Fix bug in xsl-fo output when there are no column markers and the area has subareas

2.0.0 Nov-2017

• Major release based on the Eclipse Platform

1.6.3

•  new preview tab
•  new code tab 
•  new free code field
•  fixed minor problem selecting objects for resizing
•  new menu item "select all" and "deselect all"
•  fixed UI error while working with several selected objects 
• undo option

1.6.2.2

•  fix align to grid setting 
•  fix save dialog for FO files
  

1.6.2.1

•  fix constant image for Apex 

1.6.2

•  fix for saving reports in UTF-8 charset 
  

1.6.1 

•  fix for APEX Listener, use xsl:stylesheet instead of xsl:transform
  

1.6

• database for report templates and versioning
• user/password protected
• embedded constant images in xsl-fo
• embedded dynamic images from source XML (base 64 encoded)
• embedded chart definition, no need for reference to external file
• support for opening PDF in default desktop reader
• support for multiuser and team work environment with central database
• support for webstart (automatic installation of client)

1.5.5.2

• fix XPath for attributes

1.5.5.1

• fix toArabic function

1.5.5

• www links
• background area with fixed (absolute position) texts
• text rotation
• vertical lines
• content tables lines

1.5.4.3

• add format to subtotal values
• encode + sign in Sum function for Apex

1.5.4.2

• fix Line (leader-length) for Apex
• multi element field
• fix "keep-together" functionality
• formatDate function will ignore empty elements (empty string), instead of writting an error in the log
• fix dragging of fields in landscape orientation
• fix landscape orientation, field being cut on the right side

1.5.4.1

• fix exception when creating fo/pdf file if field if higher than area.
• Apex Server, fix error for Apex default layout "For fo:simple-page-master, fo:region-body must be declared before fo:region-before."
• fix free J4LFOPServer, remove BOM bytes when uploading XML files to server
• XSL-FO files for Apex option in setting windows. Solution for Apex not encoding special characters when calling the print server.
• Picture object, align property
• Picture object, new non-uniform scaling
• Picture object, user defined FO attribute
• fixed error when creating a schema from XML file whose name has a character like �, � or �.

1.5.4
 

• fields flavours added
• added properties to row and column markers
• filename added to Apex server

1.5.3

• fix TTF files support, new format of fopUserConfig.xml for FOP 0.95 or later
• use defined function to support arabic text
• new border type property
• new user defined fo attributes for fields and comboboxes

1.5.2

• support for preserve line feed in fields
  

1.5.1

• fix, special characters in constant values: & , < , > , " and '
• support for total number of pages <fo:page-number-citation ref-id="last-page"/>

1.5 

• Support for PDF interactive forms

1.4.3 

• improved landscape orientation
• background images
• running subtotals in page footer
• fixed bold fonts

1.4 

• Support for several page masters (e.g. cover pages)

1.4.1 

• fix screen flickering in java 1.6.21 and later 
  

1.4.2 

• page break in areas only if the area exists
• add function conditionalValue(value,condition)

1.3 

• added user functions
• added functions in the xpath editor
• added support for TTF fonts

1.3.1

• new "Keep together" property in detail areas
• add "remove NS" setting in the administration window

1.3.2

• remove processing instruction node when loading test data
  

1.3.3

• send email from APEX servlet
• barcode new property "checksum"
• support for RChart

1.1 

• Barcodes integrated into designer

1.1.1 

• Fix for Oracle APEX
  

1.1.2 

• Fix border-width and page bottom margin
  

1.2 

• Added "group-by" option

1.0 

• initial release