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

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content into printable formats such as

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and AFP.

History

RenderX started as a company to promote

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s in general and XSL-FO in particular, participating in a contest announced by

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and

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. 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

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-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

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(SVG).

References

External links

RenderX corporate websiteUse the flexibility of XEP to render and publish XML presentations
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