RenderX

RenderX, Inc is a commercial software development company that provides standards-based software products, used for typeset-quality electronic and print output of business content. RenderX develops products that convert XML content into printable formats such as PDF, PostScript and AFP.

RenderX
Private
IndustrySoftware development
Founded1999 (1999), California, United States
HeadquartersPalo Alto, California, United States
ProductsXML to PDF Layout Engine
Websitewww.renderx.com

History

RenderX started as a company to promote open standards in general and XSL-FO in particular, participating in a contest announced by Sun and Adobe.[1] Later the contest was cancelled but the company decided to proceed anyway.

Contribution to XSL-FO community

The company has devised a DTD for XSL-FO documents[2][3] and holds three patents of converting XML to PDF.[4][5][6] RenderX is one of the 335 members of the World Wide Web Consortium[7] and a contributor[8] to OASIS.

Products

RenderX's main product is a Java-based XSL-FO formatting engine called XEP, which converts XSL-FO documents to printable form (PDF or PostScript). XEP is free for academic and personal use.

XEP conforms to Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL), a W3C recommendation. It also supports a subset of the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).

References
  1. Sun, Adobe offer bounty for XSL
  2. Simpson, John E. (2001). Just XSL. Prentice Hall PTR. ISBN 0-13-060311-2.
  3. XSL Tools
  4. Methods for rendering footnotes
  5. Methods for rendering tables
  6. Methods and systems for rendering electronic data
  7. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Members
  8. OASIS Contributors
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