RenderX

RenderX

File:RenderXlogo.png
Type	Private
Industry	Software development
Founded	1999 (1999), California, United States
Headquarters	Palo Alto, California, United States
Products	XML to PDF Layout Engine
Website	www.renderx.com

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.

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. 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 and holds three patents of converting XML to PDF. RenderX is one of the 335 members of the World Wide Web Consortium and a contributor 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).

External links

• RenderX corporate website
• Use the flexibility of XEP to render and publish XML presentations

• Sun, Adobe offer bounty for XSL
• XSL Tools
• Methods for rendering footnotes
• Methods for rendering tables
• Methods and systems for rendering electronic data
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Members
• OASIS Contributors