Graphical User Interface

Antenna House Formatter V7.4 Windows versions have a Graphical User Interface (GUI). By using the GUI, you can easily initiate formatting and then view the formatted results in the WYSIWYG window prior to outputting to PDF or printing. You also have control over a number of formatting options, can set the options for PDF output and can direct files to any connected printer.

For developers, the GUI provides quick visual feedback of formatting results and has the added ability to save Area and FO Trees to aid in the development processes. In a large multi-page document, the pages can be browsed as they are formatted. If errors are detected, formatting can be stopped prior to completion, thus saving considerable time on very large runs.

The GUI also lets you save the XSL-FO file resulting from an XSLT transformation. This is very useful when you want to transmit a file for formatting, but not the XML or XSL files.

The application window of Antenna House Formatter V7.4 consists of following elements:

1. Title Bar

   The title bar shows the title of Antenna House Formatter V7.4 and the filename of the original XML document you are viewing. It may also show: a <title> of HTML; and if the FO contains a <fo:title> formatting object; or if title is specified by the <axf:document-info> extension element, then either content (HTML's <title> or <fo:title> has priority) is also displayed.

   

2. Menu Bar

   The menu bar contains the following 6 pull-down menus:

   • File
   • Edit
   • Move
   • View
   • Format
   • Help

3. Tool Bar

   The most commonly used menu functions are available as buttons on the Tool Bar. You can easily execute these functions by one click of the mouse. ☞ [View]-[Tool Bar]

4. WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)

   The WYSIWYG displays the formatted results. When the scroll bar is displayed on the WYSIWYG window, you can press and hold the left mouse button to use the hand tool as the mouse pointer to move the page around so that you can view all the areas. Note that the hand tool is not available when [Text Select] mode is selected in the Edit menu. If you left-click on the link destination in the formatting result, it will move to that location if it is an internal link. If it is an external link, the link destination is opened on the current window and formatted.

   You can format files of various types by dropping them on the WYSIWYG window. ☞ Drag-and-drop Formatting

   CAUTION:	Although some unsupported drawing elements may not be displayed in the GUI, there may be no problem with the output to other devices, such as PDF.

5. Bookmarks Window

   When formatting a document that contains bookmarks, you can check how the bookmarks will be displayed. By clicking the bookmark item, you can display the link destination. Also, by right-clicking the bookmark item, you can specify how to open the link destination. ☞ [View]-[Bookmarks Window]

   

6. Layer Window no-LT

   When formatting a document that includes layers defined by axf:layer-settings, you can change the layer display status to check the status of each layer. By clicking the check box, you can switch between showing and hiding each layer. In the initial state, the layer with view on is checked in axf:layer-settings. You can also click the layers submenu button at the top to display the layer submenu, where you can switch the display according to the layer settings such as language. ☞ [View]-[Layer Window]

   

7. Log Window

   When running the GUI, the location of the file that Antenna House Formatter V7.4 loads, such as version information, license file, etc. is shown. If the file does not exist, the file name is enclosed in < and >.

   The log window shows a running status as the document is formatted. Minor warnings are shown here. Serious warnings are shown in a popup dialog box. The log window can hold a significant amount of status information. Older information is discarded if the information becomes too much. The last line of the log output is the time it took to format the document. The log window has its own scroll bar for viewing the log output. ☞ [View]-[Log Window]

   

   The content in the log window can now automatically be saved to a file by click the Others tab in the Other Settings Dialog and then checking the [Output Log File] check box.

   Click the link to the document displayed in the error log to edit the document using the editor specified in the Editors page in the Other Settings Dialog.

   The log window can be displayed in three modes: Hide, Floating, and Docked. You can float the log window by dragging the border between the log window and the WYSIWYG window, or by selecting Floating from the View Menu. Also, if you drag the floating log window, a guide to the docking position will be displayed, and you can dock the log window by dropping it at the specified position. Leave the log window floating and select Docked from the View Menu to dock the log window where it was previously docked.

8. Status Bar

   The Status Bar displays the following information: ☞ [View]-[Status Bar]

   • Current status of Formatter or the tool bar button function as you pass over the button with the pointer.
   • Current page number/total number of pages (based on physical page count).
   • The physical page size of the displayed page.
   • Zoom ratio.

   

When the pointer is over an area on the WYSIWYG window, such as over a character string or an image, the information about the area is displayed as a Tooltip. Font name, size, format and size of an image that are actually used can be checked.

Multiple font names may be displayed in order to show the difference between the specified font and the font actually used:

font-family

The font-family specified by FO.

font-name

The font name actually selected. If this is the same as font-family, it is not displayed.

display-font

The font name that Windows selected to display the character on the screen. If this is the same as font-name, it is not displayed.

See also [Display Glyph] in the menu.

You can format files of various types by dropping them on the WYSIWYG window. The type of the file is detected automatically as you drop it. (See Detection of Formatting Type to learn about automatic detection.) If you'd like to specify the file type, instead open the file using the Document/Stylesheet Dialog. The dropped file is added to the <Recent File> list in the File menu and its file type is also memorized. Therefore, when you drop a file that is also on the Recent File list, the same file type will be used again automatically. Formatting actions for each file type are as follows:

FO file

Formatting starts immediately.

Stylesheet (XSL or CSS)

When you drop the stylesheet on a formatted XML/HTML document, Antenna House Formatter V7.4 starts formatting the current document using the dropped stylesheet. When you drop the stylesheet and there is no current XML/HTML document, if you then drop a XML/HTML document, Antenna House Formatter V7.4 starts formatting the new document using the stylesheet.

HTML file (without XSL/CSS specification in HTML)

Formats the document using a default stylesheet.

XML/HTML file (with XSL/CSS specification in XML/HTML)

Formats the document using the stylesheet specified in the XML/HTML.

XML/HTML file (without XSL/CSS specification in XML/HTML) + Stylesheet (XSL/CSS)

Formats the document using the dropped stylesheet.

XML/HTML file (with XSL/CSS specification in XML/HTML) + Stylesheet (XSL/CSS)

Formats the document using the dropped stylesheet.

Graphics file

Renders graphics files in formats supported by Antenna House Formatter V7.4.

If another stylesheet is dropped when formatting a file, except for a FO or graphics file, the file can be again formatted using the stylesheet. Moreover, if a Internet shortcut (.url) file, URL character string or Shortcut link (.lnk) to a file is dropped, the target file referred to by the URL can be opened.

1. File

   Menu	Shortcut	Description
   Open...	Ctrl+O	Displays the Document/Stylesheet Dialog.
   Close	Ctrl+W	Closes the displayed formatted results.
   Save AreaTree... no-LT		Displays the Save AreaTree Dialog.
   Save FOTree...		Displays the Save FOTree Dialog.
   Save FO...		Displays the Save FO Dialog.
   Print...	Ctrl+P	Displays the Print Dialog.
   PDF Output	Ctrl+D	Displays the PDF Output Dialog.
   SVG Output...		Displays the SVG Output Dialog.
   PostScript Output...		Displays the PostScript Output Dialog.
   XPS Output...		Displays the XPS Output Dialog.
   Word(docx) Output... no-LT		Displays the Word(docx) Output Dialog.
   Text Output... no-LT		Displays the Text Output Dialog.
   Document Information...		Displays the Document Information Dialog.
   <Recent File>		Displays the files that were most recently formatted.
   Exit	Alt+F4	Exits Antenna House Formatter V7.4.

2. Edit

   Menu	Shortcut	Description
   Text Select		Enables you to select the text in the WYSIWYG window with the mouse.
   Copy	Ctrl+C	Copies the selected text to the clipboard.
   Select All	Ctrl+A	Selects all the text shown in the formatted document in the WYSIWYG window.
   Deselect		Cancels selection mode of the text.
   Edit Document	Ctrl+U	Opens the target document or stylesheet using the editor specified in the Editors tab in the Other Settings Dialog. You cannot edit a document formatted via HTTP or HTTPS.
   Edit StyleSheet	Shift+Ctrl+U	Opens the target stylesheet using the editor specified in the Editors tab in the Other Settings Dialog. If there are related CSS style sheets, a list of them will be displayed in the submenu.
   Search String...	Ctrl+F	Displays the Search String Dialog.
   Search Property...	Shift+Ctrl+F	Displays the Search Property Dialog.
   Search Previous	Shift+F3	Searches backwards from the position just before the search position.
   Search Next	F3	Searches forwards from the the search position.

3. Move

   Menu	Shortcut	Description
   First Page	Ctrl+Home	Goes to the first page.
   Previous Page	Ctrl+PageUp	Goes to the previous page.
   Next Page	Ctrl+PageDown	Goes to the next page.
   Last Page	Ctrl+End	Goes to the last page. When you stop formatting before it finishes, the last formatted page will be displayed.
   Go To Page...	Ctrl+G	Displays the Go To Page Dialog. This only functions in multi-page documents. The current page position is shown in the Status Bar.
   Back	Alt+←	As you move through the pages of a document, Formatter stores up to 10 moves. By using Back and Forward, you can step backwards or forwards through the pages viewed.
   Forward	Alt+→

4. View

   Menu	Shortcut	Description
   Fit in Window	Ctrl+0	Zooms the displayed size of the formatted page to automatically fit the entire page in the WYSIWYG window.
   Actual Size	Ctrl+1	Sets the zoom ratio to 100%.
   Fit Page Width	Ctrl+2	Automatically zooms the width of the formatted page to the width of the WYSIWYG window.
   Zoom In	Ctrl++	Changes the zoom in/out %. You can change the zoom in % up to 2000% and zoom out % up to 12.5%. Values from 5% to 2000% can be entered using the Zoom Dialog. The current zoom ratio is shown in the Status Bar.
   Zoom Out	Ctrl+−
   Zoom...	Ctrl+M	Displays the Zoom Dialog.
   Two Page View	Ctrl+N	Specifies whether to display the formatted pages on the WYSIWYG window as two facing pages or as single pages.
   Continuous		Specifies whether to display the formatted pages on the WYSIWYG window continuously or as separate pages.
   Many Page View		Specifies whether to display the formatted pages on the WYSIWYG window as multiple pages.
   Show Border	Ctrl+B	Specifies whether to display borders of areas. The displayed borders are used to confirm how the formatted result is divided in areas. The borders do not appear in any output file or when printing. This setting can also be specified in Other Settings Dialog.
   Show Ruler	Ctrl+I	Displays the ruler to confirm the position of the character, etc., in the document. The ruler can be moved to anywhere you like.
   Show Printer Mark no-LT		Specifies whether to display printer marks. Available only when the document being formatted includes printer marks.
   Display Glyph		Specifies whether the characters are selected by Windows or are based on glyph outlines. When Windows can select the font to display, a font may be replaced and there is no guarantee that the font that is displayed is the actual specified font. See Tooltip. When a font is not the font installed in Windows, always display the glyph outline.
   Bookmarks Window		Specifies how to display the Bookmarks Window. You can choose from three modes: Hide, Floating, and Docked.
   Layer Window no-LT		Specifies how to display the Layer Window. You can choose from three modes: Hide, Floating, and Docked.
   Tool Bar		Specifies whether to show or hide the Tool Bar.
   Status Bar		Specifies whether to show or hide the Status Bar.
   Log Window		Specifies how to display the Log Window. You can choose from three modes: Hide, Floating, and Docked.
   Full Screen no-LT	F11 / Ctrl+L	Makes the screen in full screen mode. You can go to full screen mode when any document is open. Full screen mode is canceled when the document is closed. You can also exit full screen mode by pressing ESC / F11 / Ctrl+L. Pages can be moved with the mouse or shortcut keys.

5. Format

   Menu	Shortcut	Description
   Format	F5 / Ctrl+R	Formats the current document (FO or XML+XSL, etc.).
   Stop Formatting	Shift+F5	Stops formatting. In a large multi-page document, the pages can be browsed as they are formatted. If errors are detected, you can stop the formatting prior to completion.
   Analyze Page no-LT		Analyzes the current page. The analyzer results are reported in the log window and shown as red marks on the page.
   Format Option Setting...	Shift+Ctrl+O	Displays the Format Option Setting Dialog.
   PDF Option Setting...	Shift+Ctrl+P	Displays the PDF Option Setting Dialog.
   Other Settings...	Shift+Ctrl+T	Displays the Other Settings Dialog.
   Import Option Setting...		Displays the Import Option Setting Dialog.
   Export Option Setting...		Displays the Export Option Setting Dialog.
   Reset Option Setting...		Resets the Option Setting File back to the default and reloads the settings.
   Edit Option Setting File no-LT	Shift+Ctrl+D	Edits the Option Setting File. The Option Setting File will not automatically be read after editing. It will be reflected when rerunning the application.
   Reload Hyphenation Dictionary		Reloads Hyphenation Dictionary and formats the document again.
   Edit Font Configuration File no-LT		Edits the Font Configuration File. The Font Configuration File will not automatically be read after editing. It will be reflected when rerunning the application.

6. Help

   Menu	Shortcut	Description
   Open Manual	F1	Displays this Manual.
   Open Online Manual		Displays the Latest Manual on the Internet.
   Sample Page		Displays the Antenna House Formatter Samples on the Internet.
   Mail to Support no-LT		Sends an email to Antenna House Support. The required information such as serial number, etc., is embedded automatically. This is not available with either the evaluation version or Antenna House Formatter V7.4 Lite.
   Antenna House website		Opens the Antenna House website in your web browser.
   About Antenna House Formatter V7.4...	Shift+F1	Displays the About Dialog of Antenna House Formatter V7.4.

The following popup menu/boxes are displayed in the GUI.

The following pop-up menus appear when a document is open.

The following pop-up menus appear in full screen mode. no-LT

The content in the Log Window depends on which function Formatter is performing.

The following popup menu/boxes are displayed on the Ruler.

The following pop-up menus appear in the bookmark item in the Bookmarks Window.

Clicking the Layer Submenu button in the Layer Window displays the following menu.

The Document/Stylesheet Dialog is used when opening a document or document plus stylesheet to be formatted.

• Format Type

  Specifies the type of target document and stylesheet in the Formatter Type combo box. The following five types can be selected:

  • Auto
  • HTML
  • XHTML
  • XML+CSS
  • XSL-FO

  By specifying a type other than “Auto”, you can avoid possible misdetection of the type of format. For example, you can specify the type of format as “XML+CSS” for a document that might be detected as XHTML by the auto detection. When the specified type of format differs from the actual type, it is considered “Auto” and the type of format is detected automatically. See also Detection of Formatting Type.

• Document

  Specifies the target FO, XML or HTML document. Specified files can reside on the local file system, the network or over the internet. Files over the internet can be specified with a URL via HTTP. Local files can also be specified by a URL format starting with file://.

  Recently used files are listed in the Document drop-down list. Although XML files and stylesheets are specified in pairs, only previously used XML documents are listed in the drop-down list. However, the previously used stylesheet can be inserted in the Stylesheet combo box automatically when the XML document is selected.

• Stylesheet

  Specifies the XSL stylesheet or CSS. FO files can only be specified in the document box.

The directory or base URL displayed under the each edit box indicates the base directory that will be used with a relative path in the edit box.

Click [OK] to start formatting.

Antenna House Formatter V7.4 determines the file type based on its content. If a stylesheet is called from within an document, then it is not necessary to separately specify the stylesheet. The specified stylesheet is used automatically.

The AreaTree is an XML representation of the formatted result of FO or HTML that includes almost all the page geometry and layout information. Since all formatting information and all information necessary for formatting is included in the AreaTree it is a very useful tool for stylesheet developers. Press the [Save] button to save the AreaTree. An AreaTree XML file can be opened using the current browser. It's possible to format an AreaTree by specifying it in the document combo box of the Document/Stylesheet Dialog.

Saving and loading the AreaTree is not available with Antenna House Formatter V7.4 Lite.

In processing an FO or XML and XSL file Formatter first complete the FO file by adding properties, adding the elements omitted in the loaded FO or the resulting FO of the XSLT transformation and removing unused elements. The AreaTree is generated by evaluating this completed FO. Press the [Save] button to save the FO that was made at this time. When you format a document from the AreaTree, this menu cannot be selected. it's not available to format in CSS with the Lite version.

This menu item lets you save an FO file that is the result of the XSLT transformation of the XML and XSL files that is being formatted. This menu is only available for files formatted from XML and XSL files.

You can select to print all pages, a range of pages, or selected pages. If formatting is not yet completed in the GUI, Formatter reformats the document from the beginning before output to the printer. For this reason it may take more time to output to a printer than the GUI. The border used to confirm how the formatted result is divided in areas does not appear in Print Output.

See also Restrictions regarding print.

The PDF Output Menu enables outputting the formatted results to PDF. You can select to output the entire document or select a range of pages. yet completed in the GUI, Formatter reformats the document from the beginning, it may take more time to output to a PDF file than the GUI. The border used to confirm how the formatted result is divided in areas does not appear in PDF Output.

• Multi Volume no-LT

  Specifies whether to produce multiple volumes. Available only when the FO includes an <axf:output-volume-info> extension element that enables output as multiple separate volumes.

  CAUTION:	The output in multiple separate volumes is not available with the AreaTree formatting.

  CAUTION:	The output in multiple separate volumes is not available with CSS formatting.

• Reverse page

  Outputs pages to PDF in reverse order, from the end page to the start page.

• Suppress Bookmark no-LT

  Suppresses the output of the bookmark.

• Output Range

  Specifies the range to output. When outputting in multiple separate volumes, specifies the volume number. Otherwise, specifies the page number or page range separated by commas. When outputting in multiple separate volumes, if you specify 0 or greater than the actual volume number in [End], the output range continues to the end. For page range syntax, see the -page parameter in the Command-line Interface. They indicate a physical position independent of axf:initial-volume-number or initial-page-number.

• Embed All Fonts

  Embedding fonts in a PDF makes it possible to create a PDF that can be browsed anywhere and that is independent of the fonts available on the local machine. This is particularly important when generating multilingual PDF files. The drawback is that embedded fonts can substantially increase the size of the PDF file. This option is not available when the PDF format is PDF/X, PDF/A or PDF/UA, since PDF/X requires that all embeddable fonts are embedded.

• Embed Standard 14 Fonts

  Usually, Standard 14 Fonts are not embedded even if the [Embed All Fonts] check box is checked, However, by checking the [Embed Standard 14 Fonts] check box, Standard 14 Fonts can be embedded. When PDF/X, PDF/A or PDF/UA is specified to create, Standard 14 fonts are embedded. At that time, the check box is displayed in gray color.

• Text and Line-Art Compression

  Selecting this option makes the PDF file more compact by compressing the text and line-art.

• Fast Web View no-LT

  Generates Linearized PDF. In PDF's character, it cannot be optimized unless once usual PDF is generated. Therefore, although the generation of the Linearized PDF requires time rather than usual, the display of the generated PDF on the Web will be in high-speed.

• Open PDF

  Opens the created PDF using the application associated with extension .pdf (in many cases, it is Adobe Acrobat or Reader).

Changes made in PDF Output Dialog are temporary and do not affect the much more comprehensive PDF Option Setting File under the Format Menu. Specify the detailed settings regarding PDF output in the PDF Option Setting Dialog.

See PDF Output to learn more about the outputted PDF.

The SVG Output Menu enables outputting the formatted results to SVG. Through the menu a user can select to output the entire document or selected range of pages. If formatting is not completed in the GUI then Formatter reformats the document from the beginning for output to SVG. For this reason it may take more time to output to a SVG file than the GUI. The border used to confirm how the formatted result is divided in areas does not affect SVG Output.

• SVG Version

  Selects the version of SVG to output from the following:

  • SVG 2.0
  • SVG 1.1
  • SVG Basic
  • SVG Tiny

• Output Range

  Specifies the range to output. This feature is not available with the evaluation version.

• GZIP Compression

  Outputs GZIP compressed svgz. The extension is set to .svgz.

• Output to Single File

  Specifies whether pages are outputted as one SVG file, or each page is outputted as an individual file when outputting two or more pages. When outputting two or more SVG, page numbers are placed before the extension of the output file name. For example, if the specified file name is document.svg, page numbers are put as document1.svg, document2.svg, and so on. The number format can be set in Option Setting File, etc.

• Open SVG

  Opens the created SVG using the application associated with extension .svg.

Changes in SVG Output Dialog are temporary and are not reflected to the Option Setting File. See also SVG Option in the Other Settings Dialog.

See SVG Output to learn more about the outputted SVG.

The PostScript Output Menu enables outputting the formatted results to PostScript. Through the menu a user can select to output the entire document or selected range of pages. If formatting is not completed in the GUI then Formatter reformats the document from the beginning for output to PostScript. For this reason it may take more time to output to a PostScript file than the GUI. The border used to confirm how the formatted result is divided in areas does not affect PostScript Output.

• Output Range

  Specifies the range to output. This feature is not available with the evaluation version.

• Open PostScript

  Opens the created PostScript using the application associated with extension .ps.

See PostScript^® Output to learn more about the outputted PostScript.

The XPS Output Menu enables outputting the formatted results to XPS (XML Paper Specification). Through the menu a user can select to output the entire document or selected range of pages. If formatting is not completed in the GUI then Formatter reformats the document from the beginning for output to XPS. For this reason it may take more time to output to a XPS file than the GUI. The border used to confirm how the formatted result is divided in areas does not affect XPS Output.

• Output Range

  Specifies the range to output. This feature is not available with the evaluation version.

• Open XPS

  Opens the created XPS using the application associated with extension .xps.

See XPS Output to learn more about the outputted XPS.

Output the formatting result in WordprocessingML of OOXML (Office Open XML). The formatting result on the screen may not be all pages, but outputs all the pages in Word (docx). When the volume exceeds the range of the formatting result on the screen, Antenna House Formatter V7.4 outputs it while reformatting it from the first page (the page outputted at this time is discarded from the memory). Therefore, it may take longer than the formatting result on the screen. The border to confirm the area is not output. no-LT

• Output Range

  Specifies the range to output. This feature is not available with the evaluation version.

• Open Docx

  Opens the created Word(docx) using the application associated with extension .docx.

See Word(docx) Output to learn more about the outputted Word(docx).

The TEXT Output Menu enables outputting the formatted results to plain text format.

• Encoding

  Specifies the encoding of the output text. The defaults value is UTF-8. Choose one from the list or input a encoding you want to specify. See encoding attribute on TEXT Output Settings about the value which can be specified.

• End of line Mark

  Selects the type of “End of line Mark” from the following:

  • CR/LF
  • CR
  • LF

• Output Range

  Specifies the range to output. This feature is not available with the evaluation version.

• Open Text

  Opens the created Text file using the application associated with extension .txt.

See TEXT Output to learn more about the outputted TEXT. Text output cannot be performed with Antenna House Formatter V7.4 Lite.

Some document information specified in the document is displayed. You can change the setting here and have it reflected in the PDF output. Changes are not reflected in the original document.

In FO, document information is specified by the axf:document-info extension element.

• Title
  Information for the document-title is displayed.
• Subject
  Information for the subject is displayed.
• Author
  Information for the author is displayed.
• Keywords
  Information for the keywords is displayed.
• PageMode
  Information for the pagemode is displayed.
• OpenAction
  Information for the openaction is displayed.
• Duplex Mode no-LT
  Information for the duplex is displayed. Effective with PDF1.7 or later. Invalid with Antenna House Formatter V7.4 Lite.
• Binding no-LT
  Information for the binding is displayed. Invalid with Antenna House Formatter V7.4 Lite.

For more details, see axf:document-info.

Specify a sequence of characters to search. This dialog continues being displayed until it closes. When some characters have found in the last searching, the seach restarts from the following character. For example, when ABCDE is searched and is found, the next searching starts from B. When having found nothing, the searching begins from the first or the last page. In order to cancel the highlight of a searching result, click anywhere on the GUI screen.

• Ignore Case

  Searches a sequence of characters without distinguishing upper-case and lower-case. It is applied to all Latin alphabets, Cyrillic alphabets, etc. that have uppercase and lowercase characters.

• First Page / Last Page

  When these check boxes are checked, the seach starts from the first or the last page. When the Reverse check box is unchecked, the display of the check box on the left side changes to [First Page]. When the Reverse check box is checked, the display of the check box on the left side changes to [Last Page].

• Reverse

  When the [Reverse] check box is checked, it starts searching toward the first page.

This search function has the following restrictions:

• Impossible to search neither what has been deleted such as a white space, nor the strings summarized to one.
• Impossible to search the strings whose spelling has changed by the hyphenation.
• Impossible to search the original text transformed under the XSL specification.

Specify a property to search. This dialog continues being displayed until it closes.

• Underline / Line Through / Overline / Change/Revision Bar

  Specify a property to search.

• First Page / Last Page

  When these check boxes are checked, the seach starts from the first or the last page. When the Reverse check box is unchecked, the display of the check box on the left side changes to [First Page]. When the Reverse check box is checked, the display of the check box on the left side changes to [Last Page].

• Reverse

  When the [Reverse] check box is checked, it starts searching toward the first page.

Used to specify the page number to go to and can be from 1 to the total number of formatted pages displayed in the Status Bar.

Specifies the zoom ratio. Can be set from 5% to 2000%.

Specifies which language of the layer to display when lang is specified in axf:layer-settings.

• Select Language

  For layers whose display status are specified in the Layer window or Layer submenu, the displayed layer can be switched by the lang specified in axf:layer-settings.

• Reader Language

  Selects the language of the layer you want to display from the list. The list includes the following languages: (Settings that are equivalent in terms of specifications, such as en-us, en-USA and ENG-us, are grouped together.)

  • GUI language: The language specified in [Language] in Others in Other Settings Dialog. This does not include the country code like en or ja.
  • Language specified in the root element of the document: Settings of xml:lang, etc. If not specified, it's not included in the list.
  • Language specified by lang in axf:layer-settings.

  Layers are selected as follows according to the language selected from the list. (Regarding the consistency between the language code and the country code, differences in uppercase and lowercase letters, 2-letter code and 3-letter code are ignored.)

  • Layers without lang specified in axf:layer-settings.
  • When the country code is not included, such as en: The layer whose lang in axf:layer-settings matches it exactly, or a layer where the language code of lang matches and preferred is specified is selected.
  • When the language code and the country code are included, such as en-US: The layer whose lang in axf:layer-settings matches it exactly is selected. If nothing is selected, a layer of lang with that language code only, or a layer where the language code of lang matches and preferred is specified is selected.

• Preferred

  Specifies whether to select layers only by language code and not by country code. For example, when en-US is selected, it will be considered en for layer selection.

By default if the AHFSettings.xml (AHFSettings(x86).xml for Windows x86 version) file exists in the application data directory this file is automatically loaded as the Option Setting File when running the application. The application data directory is [APPDATA]\AntennaHouse\Formatter\7.4\ indicated by the environment variable, APPDATA. If you want to load the other setting file, click Import Setting Files on the Format menu. Through the Format Option Setting Dialog, formatting items in the Option Setting File can be modified. Once changes are made through the Format Option Setting Dialog, click [OK] to write the changed items to the AHFSettings.xml (AHFSettings(x86).xml for Windows x86 version) file that exists in the application data directory.

Font

Format

Color, Border, Unit

Page

XSLT

CSS

You can use the PDF Option Setting Dialog to set items in the Option Setting File related to PDF. When you click the [OK] button, your changes made here are written out to the AHFSettings.xml (AHFSettings(x86).xml for Windows x86 version) in the application data directory.

Version

Font

Security

Compression

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This enables you to load an Option Setting File with previously saved main preferences from the Option Setting Dialog. By default if the AHFSettings.xml (AHFSettings(x86).xml for Windows x86 version) file exists in the application data directory this file is automatically loaded as the option setting file when running the application. The application data directory is [APPDATA]\AntennaHouse\Formatter\7.4\ indicated by the environment variable, APPDATA.

Displays the version of Antenna House Formatter V7.4 and the license information. If you are using an evaluation license the evaluation period remaining can be confirmed here.

You can use the parameters shown below when you run the AHFormatter.exe GUI program.

• Only one of -d, -p, -pt, -pts, -pdf, -pdft or -pdfts can be specified.

The GUI has certain formatting restrictions that do not apply when using the other interfaces.

• The maximum number of pages that can be formatted is controlled by the Others tab in the Other Settings Dialog. This is because storing formatted pages for browsing in the GUI consumes memory. Without this restriction, the system could run out of memory with very large documents.

  The other, non-GUI interfaces can format very large numbers of pages because they can aggressively discard information about already formatted pages during formatting.

  In the GUI, all pages can be output to PDF or to the printer regardless of this setting.

• EMF and WMF rendering in the WYSIWYG window is performed using functions provided by Windows. There may be documents for which the formatted results in the GUI and the formatted results in the PDF are different. The same applies to the printing of EMF and WMF using Windows printer drivers from the GUI or the Command-line Interface.

• The rendering result in the GUI and the output may differ due to the settings of glyph, smoothing, etc. or output settings in the Option Setting File. In such a case, try one of the following:

  • Place the font in question in a non-Windows directory and specify it in the Font Configuration File
  • Turn off Text Smoothing
  • Turn on Display Glyph

• There may be cases where fonts displayed in an image are dropped from PDF output. This is because Windows may have substituted the fonts used for display. Specifying the proper font-family in FO or CSS can avoid this problem.

• fo:color-profile in FO and the ICC profile included in the image are not reflected on the screen.

• When the color set to output in black and white by PostScript printers does not convert to black and white, turn off all Smoothing. In addition, gradients may not print as black and white even when all smoothing is turned off.