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News Archive: 2004

December 10, 2004

Special Offer: Serna Personal/Home License

You can now enjoy fully-functional Serna for only 89 USD for your home or personal use!

December 3, 2004

Syntext Releases Serna v2.1 Beta
This Serna version brings two major usability enhancement features:
  • Custom Content Insertion Commands. Ability to create commands/buttons that insert highly customizable content templates (for example, insert "graphics", "emphasis", and "itemizedlist/listitem").
  • XSLT Stylesheet Parameter Sets. Ability to change values of top-level XSLT stylesheet parameters while editing document (for example, changing font sizes or switching draft mode on/off).

Download free fully functional trial, and e-mail us your suggestions about what custom content buttons we should also include in the package.

November 23, 2004

Syntext Releases Serna v2.0.1

This maintenance release fixes a number of bugs. Download free fully functional trial now!

November 11, 2004

Syntext Releases PDF Publishing Package for Serna

Thanks to the cooperation of Syntext and Antenna House it is now possible to publish high-quality PDF right from Serna with just a button click! Serna users also receive up to 20% discount on Antenna House XSL Formatter.

See details about the PDF Publishing Package for Serna.

October 15, 2004

Syntext Releases Serna v2.0.0

Syntext has released the second version of Serna XML WYSIWYG editor. Download the free fully functional trial of the world's first XSL on-the-fly XML WYSIWYG editor now!

October 7, 2004

Syntext Serna v2.0 Release Candidate 2 is Available

The second release candidate fixes several critical bugs. Download free fully functional triall.

September 9, 2004

Syntext Serna v2.0 Release Candidate is Available

The release candidate of Serna v2.0 is now available. The new major version adds a number of new features and enhancements. Download the free fully functional trial of the world's first XSL on-the-fly XML WYSIWYG editor.

August 19, 2004

Syntext Serna v2.0 Beta 3 is Available

This beta release brings CALS table tools, Serna GUI customization tool, batch configuration support, and IDEAlliance proceedings out-of-the box support. Become a beta tester now!

August 4, 2004

Syntext Releases Serna v1.5.2

This Serna release brings major memory optimizations. Docbook documents now require 30% less memory. Download free fully functional trial.

July 28, 2004

Syntext Serna v2.0 Beta 2_1 is Available

This minor beta release brings the advanced Find&Replace dialog, elaborated dockable "liquid dialogs," and the ability to hide peculiar attributes. Become a beta tester now!

July 7, 2004

Syntext Serna v2.0 Beta 2 is Available

This beta brings a number of new features and improvements: memory consumption optimizations, simplified open document dialog box, elaborated collapse/expand element commands, and many others. Become a beta tester now!

July 1, 2004

Syntext Releases Serna v1.5.1

This Serna release adds out-of-the-box HTML Publishing (with Libxslt Xsltproc, included in the package), better XSL stylesheet font settings for every platform. Download free fully functional trial.

June 23, 2004

Syntext Releases Dtd2Xs v2.0 (DTD to XML Schema Converter)

Dtd2Xs allows you to convert large, modularized XML DTD's and DTD's with namespaces to XML schemas. This release provides Dtd2Xs with a GUI front-end. Now Dtd2Xs may be used not only as a command line utility, but also as a GUI-enabled tool.

See Dtd2Xs Product Info for details.

June 9, 2004

Syntext Serna v2.0 Beta 1 is Available

This release improves the attributes dialog, folding commands, and brings a number of other minor features and bug fixes. Become a beta tester now!

June 3, 2004

Syntext Releases XslGen v1.1.1

New feature: "-O" option causes generation omit-xml-declaration="yes" in xsl:output. The XSL stylesheet version number bug has been fixed. Download now.

June 1, 2004

Syntext Serna v2.0 Beta 0 is Available

Participate in the Serna v2.0 Beta Program! New Serna v2.0 brings a number of long-awaited features like fully customizable GUI, element folding, large document support and many others.

April 26, 2004

Syntext Releases Serna v1.5.0

This Serna release adds XML Catalog support, Docbook v4.3 and DITA v1.3 out-of-the-box support. Download free fully functional trial.

April 8, 2004

Syntext Releases Serna v1.4.0

This Serna release brings an enhanced Insert Symbol dialog box, CALS table rendering optimizations and a number of other features and bug fixes. Download free fully functional trial.

March 29, 2004

Syntext Participates in DITA OASIS Technical Committee

Syntext has joined the DITA OASIS TC to participate in further DITA definition and maintenance, and to promote the use of the architecture for creating standard information types and domain-specific markup vocabularies. Read the press release.

March 5, 2004

Syntext Serna for Mac OS X is Available

Syntext unveils a Serna WYSIWYG XML editor release candidate for Mac OS X. Download free fully functional trial.

February 27, 2004

Syntext Serna now Supports Docbook Lite

Syntext Serna, the XML editor with on-the-fly XSL rendering, now also supports Docbook Lite.

February 19, 2004

Syntext Releases Serna v1.3.0

This Serna release adds the production version of XslBricks (rapid stylesheet development template library), out-of-the-box NITF support, and a number of other features and bug fixes. Download free fully functional trial.

January 26, 2004

Syntext Releases Serna v1.2.1

Syntext has released a minor version of the Serna XML WYSIWYG Editor. This bug fix release also adds XslBricks, a rapid stylesheet development template library, and a full TEI template. Download free fully functional trial.

January 6, 2004

Syntext Releases Serna v1.2.0

Syntext has released the next minor version of the Serna XML WYSIWYG Editor. This release adds GCA (XML Conference) Proceedings support, basic XHTML support, and a number of enhancements. Download free fully functional trial.