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upCast 7.1.1


upCast Offers a cost-effective way to reuse existing tools for gaining all the benefits of a standardized markup language: XML.

System Requirememts
Mac OS X 10.1 or later
Download Details
Company infinity-loop GmbH
Version 7.1.1
Post Date June 02, 2009
License Trial
File Size 18.2 MB
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upCast 7.1.1


Offers a cost-effective way to reuse existing tools for gaining all the benefits of a standardized markup language: XML.
upCast is a tool that 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.

Main features of upCast:

  • Fully recreates the document structure with automatic section nesting (customizable) and support for Word sections
  • Supports paragraph and character styles
  • Powerful table translation (HTML 4 or Oasis Exchange Table model - CALS), incl. nested tables, row/column spans, cell properties, borders and backgrounds
  • Processes footnotes, hyperlinks, references, forms, index entries, annotations, page headers and footers
  • Supports any combination of nested lists, tables and combination of layout elements possible in RTF documents
  • Support for document properties (incl. user properties), document template reference and document variables
  • Unicode and many two-byte encodings supported
  • Includes a WMF renderer and image rewriting capabilities
  • API for creating custom export filters
  • New inline nesting optimization with intelligent, customizable property hoisting to surrounding container element
  • Translation of most style and layout information into CSS2
  • Highlighting and support for non properly nested target regions
  • Pass-through import filter
  • Extracting embedded object binary data
  • Handles large files (only subject to available memory)
  • Improved support for textbox, image, TOC and fields
  • 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.
  • You can convert almost any document instantly without any time-consuming configuration. Yet, you'll still get highest conversion quality it's really just a click on a button. Built-in customizations for specific DTDs like DocBook 4.2 help you use the product right out of the box.
  • upCast features a powerful, configurable batch conversion language. Select documents based on their name or extension, sort the resulting documents into specific folders and set filters and filter parameters.
  • A useful pre-scan feature tells you immediately which files are affected by your batch, so you can see at a glance if everything works as expected or if you're bound for trouble at some time in the conversion process. A detailed log file tells you about the progress of the conversion as well as any errors that might have occurred. Combined with external commands and the built-in XML Validator and XSLT processor upCast turns into a flexible workflow automation tool.
  • With upCast, you get the best of both worlds: excellent structural markup in XML and corresponding style information separated out in a CSS2 stylesheet. Proven upCast technology with built-in structure recognition heuristics preserves the document structure to an extent you won't be able to find anywhere else instantly.
  • upCast has a built-in slim, but efficient application programming interface (API). You can program against this API and thus include the complete functionality of our upCast Technology into your own applications.
  • By writing only a few lines of Java, C/C++ or VB code, you gain complete control over the document conversion process the same way as you would using the GUI. You can even create your own export filters in Java.


    Requirements of upCast:

  • JDK 1.4.2 or later.
  • 512 MB RAM (recommended).
  • Environment compatible with Xerces 2.2 or later (Xerces 2.x is delivered with upCast binary).
  • Platform-independent due to Java technology.


    Limitations of upCast:

  • 252 days evaluation.
  • With this evaluation version, the document text output will contain interspersed random characters.

    What's New in This Release:

  • Fixed an issue where upCast would not launch on some system configurations.