Release of XMLmind Word To XML v1.14.1

Release of XMLmind Word To XML v1.14.1

Enhancements:

• Upgraded wmf2svg to version 0.10.6, which now supports EMF input files in addition to WMF input files.

  wmf2svg is a very promising software component but it's still a work in progress

  For some WMF/EMF input files, wmf2svg may generate very large or incorrect SVG output files. This generally depends on the software which was used to create these WMF/EMF files.

  By default, wmf2svg is limited to create SVG files which are at most 4Mb large. This is done by passing parameter maxsize 4194304 to WMFConverterFactory which is the image converter leveraging wmf2svg. The default value of environment variable (or Java™ property) W2X_IMAGE_CONVERSIONS is now, on Windows:

  .emf.svg.wmf.svg java:com.xmlmind.w2x_ext.wmf_converter.WMFConverterFactory maxsize 4194304; .emf.png.wmf.png java:com.xmlmind.w2x_ext.emf2png.EMF2PNG resolution -300; .tiff.png java:com.xmlmind.w2x.docx.image.ImageConverterFactoryImpl

  and on any other platform:

  .emf.svg.wmf.svg java:com.xmlmind.w2x_ext.wmf_converter.WMFConverterFactory maxsize 4194304; .tiff.png java:com.xmlmind.w2x.docx.image.ImageConverterFactoryImpl

  Therefore, on Windows, you may want to get rid of WMFConverterFactory/wmf2svg in order to force the use of “more stable” EMF2PNG. This is done either by setting W2X_IMAGE_CONVERSIONS to:

  .emf.png.wmf.png java:com.xmlmind.w2x_ext.emf2png.EMF2PNG resolution -300; .tiff.png java:com.xmlmind.w2x.docx.image.ImageConverterFactoryImpl

  or, more simply, by deleting or renaming W2X_INSTALL_DIR/lib/wmf_converter.jar.

• If an image converter fails (e.g. if WMFConverterFactory fails) then the following converters (e.g. EMF2PNG on Windows) found in the W2X_IMAGE_CONVERSIONS list will now be automatically considered.
• Desktop application w2x-app: it's now possible to use the native file chooser in preference to Java's multi-platform file chooser on Linux too. This is specified once for all by starting w2x-app as follows: w2x-app -putpref useNativeFileChooser true
• "FlatLaf Look and Feel" add-on: updated FlatLaf to version 3.7.1. (On Linux, the FlatLaf light theme is used as the default Look & Feel of desktop application w2x-app.)
• XMLmind Word To XML, which passed all non-regression tests, is now officially supported on the Java™ 26 platform.

Bug fixes:

• Windows only: W2X_INSTALL_DIR/bin/w2x-app.exe could pick a Java™ 1.8 runtime incapable of running desktop application w2x-app version 1.14+.

What is XMLmind Word To XML?

XMLmind Word To XML can automatically convert DOCX files to:

• Clean, styled, valid HTML (single page or multi-page HTML, Web Help, EPUB) looking very much like the source DOCX file.
• Unstyled, but structured and valid, DITA bookmap, map, topic, DocBook (including V5.1+ assembly), XHTML (single page or multi-page HTML, Web Help, EPUB) or XML conforming to your custom schema.

Home Page: https://www.xmlmind.com/w2x/

Download: https://www.xmlmind.com/w2x/download.shtml

Free online DOCX conversion services: https://www.xmlmind.com/w2x/online_w2x.html