# RenderX

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{{Infobox company
| name = RenderX
| type = [Private](/source/Privately_held_company)
| logo = RenderXlogo.png

| founded  = {{Start date|1999}}, [California](/source/California), [United States](/source/United_States)
| location = [Palo Alto](/source/Palo_Alto), California, United States
| industry = [Software development](/source/Software_development)
| products = [XML](/source/XML) to [PDF](/source/PDF) [Layout Engine](/source/Digital_typesetting)
| website  = [http://www.renderx.com www.renderx.com]
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'''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](/source/XML) content into printable formats such as [PDF](/source/PDF), [PostScript](/source/PostScript) and [AFP](/source/IBM_Advanced_Function_Printing_(AFP)).

== History ==

RenderX started as a company to promote [open standard](/source/open_standard)s in general and [XSL-FO](/source/XSL_Formatting_Objects) in particular, participating in a contest announced by [Sun](/source/Sun_Microsystems) and [Adobe](/source/Adobe_Systems).<ref>[http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-222786.html Sun, Adobe offer bounty for XSL]</ref>{{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](/source/Document_Type_Definition) for XSL-FO documents<ref>{{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
  }}</ref><ref>[http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/tools.html XSL Tools]</ref> and holds three patents of converting XML to PDF.<ref>[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 ]</ref><ref>[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]</ref><ref>[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]</ref> RenderX is one of the 335 members of the [World Wide Web Consortium](/source/World_Wide_Web_Consortium)<ref>[http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Members]</ref> and a contributor<ref>[http://www.oasis-open.org/about/contributors.php OASIS Contributors]</ref> to [OASIS](/source/OASIS_(organization)).

== Products ==

RenderX's main product is a [Java](/source/Java_(programming_language))-based [XSL-FO](/source/XSL_Formatting_Objects) 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](/source/Extensible_Stylesheet_Language) (XSL), a W3C recommendation. It also supports a subset of the [Scalable Vector Graphics](/source/Scalable_Vector_Graphics) (SVG).<ref>{{cite web |title=XEP Engine |url=https://www.renderx.com/tools/xep.html |website=RenderX |access-date=2026-04-22}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
*[http://www.renderx.com/ RenderX corporate website]
*[http://www.techrepublic.com/article/use-the-flexibility-of-xep-to-render-and-publish-xml-presentations/5483185 Use the flexibility of XEP to render and publish XML presentations]

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