| RenderX | |
| Type: | Private |
| Foundation: | , California, United States |
| Location: | Palo Alto, California, United States |
| Industry: | Software development |
| Products: | XML to PDF Layout Engine |
| Homepage: | 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.
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.[1] Later the contest was cancelled but the company decided to proceed anyway.
The company has devised a DTD for XSL-FO documents[2] [3] and holds three patents of converting XML to PDF.[4] [5] [6] RenderX is one of the 335 members of the World Wide Web Consortium[7] and a contributor[8] to OASIS.
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).