Serna Free is an Open Source XML editor now

Serna Free Open Source XML Editor: Release History

V 4.2: 2009/10/13

New Features


  • Added PDF publishing with Antenna House XSL Formatter.
  • It is possible to specify multiple search paths for plugins in the Preferences Dialog.

Bugs Fixed


  • DITA:
    • The conref's content wasn't shown if it was inserted through the Attributes Dialog.
    • Emphasized text wasn't shown as bold, italic or underlined.
    • It was possible to edit the content of topics in a resolved DITA map.
    • Attributes were duplicated on the list in the Attributes Dialog in DITA FAQ documents.
    • The View button was disabled for HTML output that was published to a modified output file location.
  • TEI:
    • Application crash on Windows and MacOS X and application freeze on Linux on opening or creating a TEI P4 document.
    • Application crash on opening or editing some TEI P5 documents.
  • Publishing didn't work if Java wasn't installed on the computer.
  • It was impossible to publish Resume and Simple Letter documents.
  • The Publish Dialog closed on clicking Enter.
  • The View button was disabled after HTML output was created in some cases.
  • The FAQ example wouldn't be published to HTML (multiple chunks).
  • Traceback on trying to publish a document to PDF on Linux (rpm).
  • Traceback on publishing with FOP if FOP was not installed.
  • It was impossible to build C++ examples because of some missing files in the package.
  • Serna opened before the tgz package was installed.
  • Clicking beyond an opened drop-down list of a combo box in the Editing Window wouldn't close the list and restore the original value.
  • Help assistant crashed on clicking the Index tab.