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 PDF,

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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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Products

RenderX's main product is a

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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 In computing, the term Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) is used to refer to a family of languages used to transform and render XML documents. Historically, the W3C XSL Working Group produced a draft specification under the name "XSL," which ...

(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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