Antenna House Formatter Explained

Antenna House Formatter
Author:	Antenna House Co., Ltd
Developer:	Antenna House
Released:	.^[1]
Latest Release Version:	V7.2 MR2
Latest Release Date:	^[2]
Programming Language:	C++
Operating System:	Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
Genre:	converter
License:	Proprietary

Antenna House Formatter (AH Formatter) is a proprietary software program that uses either XSL-FO^{[3] [4] [5]} or Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)^{[6] [7] [8]} to convert XML and HTML documents into PDF, SVG, PostScript, XPS, text, and Microsoft Word formats.^[9] It supports 30 scripts and over 80 languages.^[10]

AH Formatter is developed by Antenna House Co., Ltd,^[11] based in Tokyo, Japan. International sales and support is provided by Antenna House, Inc.,^[12] 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.^[1]

Antenna House XSL Formatter V1.2 Alpha was one of six XSL Formatters that provided the test results^[13] 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^[14] 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,^{[15] [16] [17]} DITA^{[18] [19]} or DocBook^[20] XML.

AH CSS Formatter is used in the "md2pdf"^{[21] [22]} GitHub project for Markdown to PDF conversion.

Notes and References

1. Web site: A new XSL Formatter. www.biglist.com.
2. Web site: AH Formatter V7.2 MR2 is released.. 17 December 2021.
3. Web site: XSL-FO Processors - Print and Page Layout Community Group. www.w3.org.
4. Web site: XML Print and Page Layout Working Group. www.w3.org.
5. Web site: data2type GmbH: XSL-FO - Formatter comparison. www.data2type.de.
6. Web site: Building Books with CSS3. Nellie. McKesson. alistapart.com.
7. Web site: Converters, tools and services — print-css.rocks 1.5.1 documentation - CSS Paged Media Tutorial and Showcase - Andreas Jung, ZOPYX. www.print-css.rocks. 2018-03-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20180121154916/https://www.print-css.rocks/tools.html. 2018-01-21. dead.
8. The Case for Authoring and Producing Books in (X)HTML5. Sanders. Kleinfeld. 6 August 2013.
9. Web site: AH XSL/CSS Formatter - XML or HTML to PDF.
10. Web site: AH Formatter V7.1 - Overview.
11. Web site: PDF、組版と文書変換のアンテナハウス株式会社. アンテナハウス株式会社.
12. Web site: Format. Standardize. Automate.. Antenna House.
13. Web site: XSL CR Test Suite -- Test Coverage. www.w3.org.
14. Web site: News Release [Antenna House Formatter V5.0] CSS and XSL-FO]. www.antenna.co.jp.
15. Web site: Reducing costs and expanding XML submissions with PDF to JATS conversion. Keishi. Katoh. Tokushige. Kobayashi. Mitsuru. Kitazawa. 11 May 2018. National Center for Biotechnology Information (US). www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
16. Web site: Creating JATS XML from Japanese language articles and automatic typesetting using XSLT. Hidehiko. Nakanishi. Toshiyuki. Naganawa. Soichi. Tokizane. Tsuyoshi. Yamamoto. 11 May 2018. National Center for Biotechnology Information (US). www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
17. Web site: Implementing XML for Japanese-language scholarly articles. Soichi. Tokizane. 11 May 2018. National Center for Biotechnology Information (US). www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.
18. Web site: DITA Open Toolkit. www.dita-ot.org.
19. Web site: DITA-related Software Tools. 11 February 2014.
20. Web site: XSL-FO processors. www.sagehill.net.
21. Web site: Convert Markdown documents to PDF. github.com.
22. Web site: Markdown to PDF Conversion Using AH Formatter. github.com.