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DiType
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DiType turns manuscripts into type. Built in and for the digital age, it presents the type in PDF, PostScript and other page
description languages, and accepts manuscripts in a number of popular XML markup vocabularies.
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DiType User Guide
XSL Tutorial
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DiType is a sophisticated program; it makes better type than a human typesetter would and produces layouts that would otherwise
require a lot of tedious trial-and-error work.
The architecture of DiType is based on experience gathered during the lifetime of XEP and widely uses open technologies and
protocols.
The heart of DiType is XSL FO rendering engine, accompanied by input format converters and output generators.
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Specifications
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XSL 1.0 Recommendation
XSL 1.1 Recommendation
Adobe PDF
PostScript
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DiType conforms to Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.0, a W3C recommendation. It also supports a subset of XSL 1.1 recommendation. DiType outputs formatted documents in Adobe PDF version
1.4 and PostScript level 3 formats.
DiType is written in Common Lisp (the core) and Python (the rest) and runs on FreeBSD, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Mac OS
X.
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Usage
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User's view
Internals
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DiType architects designed the version with optimal performance for most uses. DiType is intended for use:
- as a personal tool by documentation authors, invoked manually as a command-line application, automatically from a Makefile
or a batch build script, or via a plugin from an authoring environment of their choice;
- as a server component for on-demand rendering, used to process user requests and produce formatted reports;
- as a part of an automatic high-throughput publishing pipeline.
DiType is built from components connected by well-documented protocols. External interfaces are based on industry-standard
protocols and APIs. These features provide for easy and efficient continued development of DiType through improvements in
quality, performance and addition of new features. The project is expected to have a long life, and the software to be easily
adaptable to customer needs.
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Licensing Information
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DiType is a combination of software and sample documents. DiType Trial is available for download for evaluation purposes only (excluding the commercialization of information technology products), subject to the terms of
the Trial Software License Agreement.
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News
 April 30, 2008 New Product Trial Release: DiType 1.9 Trial
 DiType turns manuscripts into type in PDF and PostScript. It accepts manuscripts in a number of popular XML markup vocabularies.More news...
April 29, 2008 RenderX PDF Forms White Paper
 View your free copy of "Integrating RenderX XSL FO Technology with iText for High Performance Dynamic Forms Generation".More news...
April 28, 2008 RenderX TransPromo White Paper
 View your free copy of "Using RederX for TransPromo".
More news...
April 25, 2008 XEP 4.12 released

Multicolumn and unique footnotes extensions, PDF/A support, custom meta-fields.
More news...
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