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.Sun, Adobe offer bounty for XSL 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 documentsXSL Tools and holds three patents of converting XML to PDF.Methods for rendering footnotes Methods for rendering tablesMethods and systems for rendering electronic data RenderX is one of the 335 members of the World Wide Web ConsortiumWorld Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Members and a contributorOASIS Contributors 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).
References
External links RenderX corporate website Use the flexibility of XEP to render and publish XML presentations