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upCast - 5.4.2

Word/RTF to XML converter

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Version 5.4.2:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	5.4.2
Release Date:	2006-01-25
License:	Update
Downloads (version 5.4.2):	611
Downloads (all versions):	17,329

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Product Description:

upCast enables you to use Microsoft Word as an authoring application for XML documents. Take advantage of the widespread availability and familiar user interface of Word or any other RTF savvy office application for structured document authoring. upCast offers a cost-effective way to reuse existing tools for gaining all the benefits of a standardized markup language: XML.

What's new in this version:

Carriage returns were not handled correctly in all situations. Code like "\xfe12" was not treated as "\xfe12", but as "\xfe 12", which is wrong.
The stdfonts.config table has no effect in certain situations. Determining the encoding for a character run often reverted to the document's default encoding instead of the font's specified encoding.
Nested lists restarting numbering by default were not exported correctly, but the item numbering was explicitly continued at the next nested list of same level within one complete list group.
Fixed issue where some subsequent list would continue numbering from previous list.
We did not handle all possible list format override values.
Relative URLs with fragment identifier or parameter part get quoted incorrectly when converting them to an URL. Any absolute URL with fragment identifier and/or parameter section loses these parts when being passed through DiskFile, i.e. all absolute links in documents lose these components on their way through upCast.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.1 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 5.4.2:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(5.0)	Support:	(5.0)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(4.0)	Price:	(5.0)

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Fantastic - Version: 5.4.2, 1/25/2006 02:55PM PST

a.mjb

If you need to transform Word to anything useful, this is for you, its helped me many times on very big projects, good company, good program!!

Worked well - Version: 5.2.1, 12/23/2005 08:34AM PST

gregK

Our Vienna-based organization needed a Word to XML converter and fast. This product was reasonably priced and the Word to DocBook converter fit the bill; it ditched most of the WordML crap while leaving enough for us to transform usefully.

The company seems to care about the product, offering good support and timely updates. This is definitely worth a look for anyone concerned with Word to XML conversion.

Nice GUI, but has problems.. - Version: 4.0.1, 9/18/2003 04:38PM PST

Tony the Tech

This might be useful for some document processing I need to do. Tried it out on a simple rtf file. The docbook output left rtf tags in the output (it says experimental, so I guess that's OK). The standard XML output seemed OK, but seemed to have less structure than could be obtained from the document. The problem was that the RTF file was left open And a huge chunk of my memory is gone after the program has quit. I guess I'll be putting this one in the trash...

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Nice GUI, but has problems..