Rendering Performance

Huge print jobs can now be processed in a fraction of the time thanks to optimized pagination routines and use of multiple CPUs to process one document. You will also notice that the memory footprint is usually 10 times smaller than the one of the competing products.

Getting Started

There are many help resources for XF Ultrascale 2008:

• Hello World Samples - Typical "Hello World" Samples in Java and C#, showing how to convert XSL-FO to PDF using XF Ultrascale 2008.
• XF Ultrascale Help - Contains in depth information about using XF Ultrascale. A full programmers guide is also included.
• Don't forget to visit the Ecrion Forum for a complete list of FAQs.
• XSL-FO Compliance Matrix - describes the level of compliance with W3C's XSL-FO standard.

If you can't find what you need on this web site, please send your questions to support@ecrion.com, and we'll answer ASAP.

Features at a glance

• Can paginate XSL-FO input.
• Can produce PDF, AFP (MO:DCA) and POSTSCRIPT output.
• Can use RGB, CMYK, spot colors and ICC color profiles.
• Supports Type1, TrueType and OpenType fonts. Fonts are embedded in the generated output.
• Documents can contain GIF, PNG, TIFF, GIF and JPEG images.
• Has the ability to render SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) images.
• Can process multilingual documents (Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Vietnamese, Thai, etc.)
• Can Hyphenate output in 27 languages including German, English, etc.
• Uses multiple processors/cores when available to reduce the processing time.
• Has a very small memory footprint which allows more requests to be processed simultaneously.
• Easy to administer and monitor through the Management Console.

System Requirements for High Perfomance

XF Ultrascale is able to process multiple requests in parallel and can make use of more than one processor to handle the load. In addition, each document can be processed on more than one CPU, if available.
While it is highly desirable to use Dual or Quad CPU server class machines, the following are the minimum system requirements:

• Software: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 or later.
  XF Ultrascale has been successfully tested on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008.

• Hardware: Minimum 2.4 Ghz Pentium 4 or better, 512 Mb of RAM, 10 Gb of free disk space.
  Using multicore or hyperthreaded CPUs will improve the response in highly concurrent environments.

Prerequisites for scalable XSL-FO processing

XF Ultrascale is able to process input documents of any size because content is discarded immediately when is no longer needed. In order to be able to do that however, there is a minimal set of rules you must follow in your documents:

• Repeated content must be available in advance.
  Headers and footers must be defined before document’s body. Similarly, table headers and footers must be defined before table’s body.

  Example 1: Page Headers & Footers
  Example 2: Table Headers & Footers

• All tables must have column widths defined.
  If columns are missing, the engine would have to load the entire table in memory and perform automatic layout which significantly degrades performance. Automatic table layout is disabled in XF Ultrascale for performance reasons.

  Example 1: Table Columns

• Avoid nesting of content.
  This is a general guideline.

Open Standards

XF Ultrascale 2008 can process documents described using XSL-FO and SVG. Both are XML languages defined by W3C, the same organization that standardized HTML:

• XSL-FO (Extensible Style Language Formatting Objects) is an open standard developed by W3C consortium, the same organization that standardizes HTML, WSDL and virtually all major XML languages. XSL-FO is a language similar in many ways to HTML, but specially designed to describe fairly complex, typeset-quality, paginated documents.
• SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is another W3C standard, which can be used to describe vectorial images (maps, various graphics that can scale without quality loss).

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