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Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Software development |
| Founded | 1999 (1999), California, United States |
| Headquarters | Palo Alto, California, United States |
| Products | XML to PDF Layout Engine |
| Website | 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.1 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 documents23 and holds three patents of converting XML to PDF.456 RenderX is one of the 335 members of the World Wide Web Consortium7 and a contributor8 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).9
References
References
- Sun, Adobe offer bounty for XSL
- Simpson, John E. (2001). Just XSL. Prentice Hall PTR. ISBN 0-13-060311-2.
- XSL Tools
- Methods for rendering footnotes
- Methods for rendering tables
- Methods and systems for rendering electronic data
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Members
- OASIS Contributors
- "XEP Engine". RenderX. Retrieved 2026-04-22.