Release-Date
2024-10-08
New
- The Microsoft Word table format information “Header row” and “First column” are taken into account for the table roles “Automatic” and “Table”, provided that no style sheet roles are used within the table. This is a breaking change, see New features for tables in axesWord 24.0.0 Beta.
- Bookmarks are exported in full. This is controlled via the “Heading” styles or the axesWord style role “Heading”.
- The “Quote” style built into Word is exported as a “Quote” element.
- The new roles “Title” and “Subtitle” can be assigned to a style in the axesWord role assignments.
Improved
- Improved implementation of the list attribute “ListNumbering” in the PDF.
- Improvements to the translations.
- Implementation of sub-tables of contents (sub-TOCs) in accordance with the “Tagged PDF Best Practice Guide: Syntax”.
- axesWord now exports in PDF version 1.7.
- axesWord displays a warning when the Word compatibility mode is active.
- Non-interactive cross-references are now exported as “Reference”.
- The “Title” attribute is written for “Title”, “Subtitle” and “Headings” for better navigation in the PDF.
- axesWord adapts the interface language to the set Word interface language. If this is not supported, the operating system setting applies. If this is also not supported, axesWord is displayed in English.
- Improvements to the license manager.
Fixed
- Fixed a bug when the “Decorative” property was used on an (inline) shape.
- Fixed a bug when writing the number of bookmarks.
- Fixed a bug when using the symbol fonts “Symbol” and “Webdings”.
- Fixed a bug when using user-defined footnote numbering.
- Fixed a bug when using footnotes in multi-column text.
- Fixed a bug with rotated text that was embedded from other Office applications.
Installation instructions
- If you have not installed axesWord or have installed an older version of axesWord (e.g. 23.4): Install version 24.0 beta as usual, without taking any further action.
- If you have already installed a version 24.0 beta: Uninstall the existing beta first.
- If you want to switch from version 24.0 beta to the productive version 23.4: Uninstall the existing beta first.