RenderX
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | RenderX |
| type | Private |
| logo | RenderXlogo.png |
| foundation | , California, United States |
| location | Palo Alto, California, United States |
| industry | Software development |
| products | XML to PDF Layout Engine |
| homepage | www.renderx.com |
| :: |
--{{multiple issues| | name = RenderX | type = Private | logo = RenderXlogo.png
|foundation = , California, United States | location = Palo Alto, California, United States | industry = Software development | products = XML to PDF Layout Engine | homepage = 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{{cite book |last = Simpson |first = John E. |title = Just XSL |publisher = Prentice Hall PTR |year = 2001 |isbn = 0-13-060311-2 |ref = simpson2001 |url-access = registration |url = https://archive.org/details/justxslsimp00simp
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
References
- [http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-222786.html Sun, Adobe offer bounty for XSL]
- [http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/tools.html XSL Tools]
- [http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=3&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=RenderX.ASNM.&OS=AN/RenderX&RS=AN/RenderX Methods for rendering footnotes ]
- [http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=RenderX.ASNM.&OS=AN/RenderX&RS=AN/RenderX Methods for rendering tables]
- [http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=2&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=RenderX.ASNM.&OS=AN/RenderX&RS=AN/RenderX Methods and systems for rendering electronic data]
- [http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Members]
- [http://www.oasis-open.org/about/contributors.php OASIS Contributors]
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