RenderX

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{{Infobox company

| name = RenderX

| type = Private

| logo = RenderXlogo.png|

foundation = {{Start date|1999}}, California, United States

| location = Palo Alto, California, United States

| industry = Software development

| products = XML to PDF Layout Engine

| homepage = [http://www.renderx.com www.renderx.com]

}}

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.[http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-222786.html Sun, Adobe offer bounty for XSL]{{failed verification|date=May 2016}} Later the contest was cancelled but the company decided to proceed anyway.{{citation needed|date=May 2016}}

Contribution to XSL-FO community

The company has devised a DTD for XSL-FO documents{{cite book

|last = Simpson

|first = John E.

|title = Just XSL

|publisher = Prentice Hall PTR

|year = 2001

|isbn = 0-13-060311-2

|ref = simpson2001

|url-access = registration

|url = https://archive.org/details/justxslsimp00simp

}}[http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/tools.html XSL Tools] and holds three patents of converting XML to PDF.[http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=3&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=RenderX.ASNM.&OS=AN/RenderX&RS=AN/RenderX Methods for rendering footnotes ][http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=RenderX.ASNM.&OS=AN/RenderX&RS=AN/RenderX Methods for rendering tables][http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=2&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=RenderX.ASNM.&OS=AN/RenderX&RS=AN/RenderX Methods and systems for rendering electronic data] RenderX is one of the 335 members of the World Wide Web Consortium[http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Members] and a contributor[http://www.oasis-open.org/about/contributors.php OASIS 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).{{Citation needed|date=August 2020}}

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