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XEP Engine

At the heart of each RenderX publishing solution is RenderX XEP Engine. XEP is built around the mature, high-quality formatting kernel developed by RenderX and which has passed several years of deployment in a wide range of environments. XEP is continually improved in the quality of formatting, standards' conformance, support for advanced features and in compliance to strict requirements to the formatted output of print-ready materials.

XEP User Guide

XSL Tutorial


XEP is an XSL FO (XSLFO) and SVG processor. It takes input in XML, applies an XSL transformation to build XSL Formatting Objects representation, and then formats the Formatting Objects into PDF or PostScript. XEP supports multiple raster and vector graphic formats. Among them, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector graphics representation, widely used in business applications and for fine typesetting.

Specifications

XSL 1.0 Recommendation

SVG 1.1 Specification

Adobe PDF

PostScript


XEP conforms to Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.0, a W3C recommendation. It also supports a subset of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 Specification. XEP outputs formatted documents in Adobe PDF version 1.3 (with optional support for features from newer versions) and PostScript level 2 or 3 formats.

The XEP Engine is written in Java and runs on most Unixes, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and other systems where Java Virtual Machine 1.1.8 or newer is available.

Licensing Information


XEP Engine is available in two license models, XEP Desktop and XEP Server.

XEP Desktop


XEP Desktop is for casual use by a single user installed on a desktop computer. Authors call it from their XML editors like jEdit, Emacs or oXygen to format books and manuals they are writing.

XEP Desktop is licensed for use by an individual on a single desktop machine with discounts available for packages of licenses for workgroups or organizations. XEP Desktop can be purchased from our online shop or contact sales about volume discounts.

XEP Server


XEP Server is for high-volume, multi-user or batch formatting in server-side applications. XEP Server generates rich reports from databases, prints high volumes of personalized correspondence and provides on-line creation of dynamic, customized documents.

XEP Server is licensed by CPU of the server environment with discounts for purchases of multiple CPU licenses.

Extended Support is available with server purchases. Extended Support customers enjoy free access to all point releases for feature enhancements and bug fixes within the current major version. Current Extended Support customers also are granted new major releases at a significant discount off list price. Purchase of Extended Support includes a free integration kit and special integration assistance for your project. Contact sales for a custom quote based on your configuration and use.

Pricing Information

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Please see our current price list for more details on RenderX packaged solutions. This information serves as a guide for end-users of our software, for other arrangements like OEM or reseller contracts, please contact sales.

XEP Desktop


XEP Desktop is USD $360.00 for a single copy with discounts available for package purchases. Please see our current price list for further details.XEP desktop can be purchased from our online shop or contact sales for more information.

XEP Server


XEP Server is USD $4,400.00 per CPU Single-Core of the production machine with discounts available for multiple CPU and CPU-Core purchases. For all initial purchases, either one integration kit or Extended Support is required. Extended Support is 20% of software purchase annually. Please see our current price list for further details. XEP Server can be purchased from our online shop or contact sales for more information.


News

December 4, 2009
XEP 4.17 released

Adds support for multi-media
objects like Flash and MPEG,
enhanced PDF Forms through
support of Javascript libraries
and hooks for fields, adds XPS
as a new output format.

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November 10, 2009
Format Large Reports with VDPMill

This white paper presents concepts that can be applied to create a solution for very large report formatting.

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September 3, 2009
RenderX at Print09

Visit us in Booth #6521
at the McCormick Place,
Chicago, IL,
September 11-16, 2009.

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July 7, 2009
XEP 4.16 released

'PDF Forms' extension,
new options and wider
support for images in
HTML and SVG generators,
native JPEG images and
IMM instructions in AFP
generator.

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April 9, 2009
XEP 4.15 released

HTML backend, SVG gradients
and patterns, opacity in SVG
and alpha channel in PNG,
lower memory requirements.

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March 9, 2009
RenderX at 2009 AIIM/On Demand

Visit us in Booth #1432
and #1449 at the
Pennsylvania Convention
Center, Philadelphia, PA,
March 30-April 2, 2009.

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December 12, 2008
XEP 4.14 released

SVG backend, XEPOUT as
external graphics, control
image data placement in PS.

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September 17, 2008
RenderX at Oracle
OpenWorld 2008


Visit us in Booth #3730 in
San Francisco at Moscone
West September 21-24.

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August 19, 2008
XEP 4.13 released

'Transpromo' and 'watermark'
extensions and bug fixes.

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July 25, 2008
DiType 2.2 Release

PDF and PS backend
configuration options,
improved TTF, faster
rendering of tables.

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