Antenna House Formatter (AH Formatter) is a proprietary software program that uses either
XSL-FO or
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to convert
XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable ...
and
HTML
The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaSc ...
documents into
PDF,
SVG, PostScript, XPS, text, and Microsoft Word formats. It supports 30 scripts and over 80 languages.
AH Formatter is developed by Antenna House Co., Ltd,
based in Tokyo, Japan. International sales and support is provided by Antenna House, Inc.,
based in Newark, DE, USA.
History
The first English-language release of "Antenna House XSL Formatter" was announced on the XSL-List mailing list on 22 November 2000.
Antenna House XSL Formatter V1.2 Alpha was one of six XSL Formatters that provided the test results for the test suite for the XSL 1.0 Candidate Recommendation that was required for XSL 1.0 to proceed to the Proposed Recommendation stage.
In December 2008, Antenna House Co., Ltd announced the availability of Antenna House Formatter V5.0 with support for both XSL-FO and CSS. The product supporting both XSL-FO and CSS was released as "AH Formatter", and single stylesheet language versions were released as "AH XSL Formatter" and "AH CSS Formatter".
Uses
Antenna House Formatter is used, for example, to generate PDF from
JATS,
DITA or
DocBook
DocBook is a semantic markup language for technical documentation. It was originally intended for writing technical documents related to computer hardware and software, but it can be used for any other sort of documentation.
As a semantic languag ...
XML.
AH CSS Formatter is used in the "md2pdf"
GitHub project for Markdown to PDF conversion.
References
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Typesetting software
XML software
2000 software