Antenna House Formatter
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| name = Antenna House Formatter
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| author = Antenna House Co., Ltd
| developer = Antenna House
| released = {{Start date|2000|11|22|df=yes}}.{{cite web|url=http://www.biglist.com/lists/lists.mulberrytech.com/xsl-list/archives/200011/msg00981.html|title=A new XSL Formatter|website=www.biglist.com}}
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| latest release version = V7.2 MR2
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2021|12|17}}{{cite web|url=https://www.antennahouse.com/news/ah-formatter-v7.2-mr2-0|title=AH Formatter V7.2 MR2 is released.|date=17 December 2021}}
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| programming language = C++
| operating system = Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
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| genre = converter
| license = Proprietary
| website = {{url|https://www.antennahouse.com/}}
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Antenna House Formatter (AH Formatter) is a proprietary software program that uses either XSL-FO{{cite web|url=https://www.w3.org/community/ppl/wiki/XSL-FO_Processors|title=XSL-FO Processors - Print and Page Layout Community Group|website=www.w3.org}}{{cite web|url=https://www.w3.org/XML/XPPL/|title=XML Print and Page Layout Working Group|website=www.w3.org}}{{cite web|url=https://www.data2type.de/en/xml-xslt-xslfo/xsl-fo/formatter-comparison/#c489|title=data2type GmbH: XSL-FO - Formatter comparison|website=www.data2type.de}} or Cascading Style Sheets (CSS){{cite web|url=https://alistapart.com/article/building-books-with-css3|title=Building Books with CSS3|first=Nellie|last=McKesson|website=alistapart.com}}{{cite web|url=https://www.print-css.rocks/tools.html|title=Converters, tools and services — print-css.rocks 1.5.1 documentation - CSS Paged Media Tutorial and Showcase - Andreas Jung, ZOPYX|website=www.print-css.rocks|access-date=2018-03-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180121154916/https://www.print-css.rocks/tools.html|archive-date=2018-01-21|url-status=dead}}{{cite journal|url=https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol10/print/Kleinfeld01/BalisageVol10-Kleinfeld01.html|title=The Case for Authoring and Producing Books in (X)HTML5|first=Sanders|last=Kleinfeld|date=6 August 2013}} to convert XML and HTML documents into PDF, SVG, PostScript, XPS, text, and Microsoft Word formats.{{cite web|url=https://www.antennahouse.com/antenna1/formatter/|title=AH XSL/CSS Formatter - XML or HTML to PDF}} It supports 30 scripts and over 80 languages.{{cite web|url=https://www.antenna.co.jp/AHF/help/en/ahf-about.html#scripts-languages/|title=AH Formatter V7.1 - Overview}}
AH Formatter is developed by Antenna House Co., Ltd,{{cite web|url=https://www.antenna.co.jp/|title=PDF、組版と文書変換のアンテナハウス株式会社|website=アンテナハウス株式会社}} based in Tokyo, Japan. International sales and support is provided by Antenna House, Inc.,{{cite web|url=https://www.antennahouse.com/|title=Format. Standardize. Automate.|website=Antenna House}} 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{{cite web|url=https://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/TestSuite/coverage/testcoverage.html|title=XSL CR Test Suite -- Test Coverage|website=www.w3.org}} 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{{cite web|url=https://www.antenna.co.jp/news/AHF50-20081208-en.html|title=News Release [Antenna House Formatter V5.0] CSS and XSL-FO|website=www.antenna.co.jp}} 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,{{cite web|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK100490/|title=Reducing costs and expanding XML submissions with PDF to JATS conversion|first1=Keishi|last1=Katoh|first2=Tokushige|last2=Kobayashi|first3=Mitsuru|last3=Kitazawa|date=11 May 2018|publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information (US)|via=www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279832/|title=Creating JATS XML from Japanese language articles and automatic typesetting using XSLT|first1=Hidehiko|last1=Nakanishi|first2=Toshiyuki|last2=Naganawa|first3=Soichi|last3=Tokizane|first4=Tsuyoshi|last4=Yamamoto|date=11 May 2018|publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information (US)|via=www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK100380/|title=Implementing XML for Japanese-language scholarly articles|first=Soichi|last=Tokizane|date=11 May 2018|publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information (US)|via=www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov}} DITA{{cite web|url=http://www.dita-ot.org/|title=DITA Open Toolkit|website=www.dita-ot.org}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ditawriter.com/dita-related-software-tools/|title=DITA-related Software Tools|date=11 February 2014}} or DocBook{{cite web|url=http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/FOprocessors.html|title=XSL-FO processors|website=www.sagehill.net}} XML.
AH CSS Formatter is used in the "md2pdf"{{cite web|url=https://github.com/2SC1815J/md2pdf/tree/en|title=Convert Markdown documents to PDF|website=github.com}}{{cite web|url=https://github.com/2SC1815J/md2pdf/raw/en/dist/all-en.pdf|title=Markdown to PDF Conversion Using AH Formatter|website=github.com}} GitHub project for Markdown to PDF conversion.