News 2005

RenderX along with Sun Microsystems is sponsoring the Idealliance XML 2005 Conference in Atlanta November 14-18. Make plans to come visit us and see our industry-leading XML to PDF technology in a series of demonstrations.

Now you can simplify single source publishing from XML to PDF, PostScript and other advanced document formats with integrated support for the RenderX XEP XSL:FO processor in Stylus Studio. Use the industry-leading RenderX XEP processor in place of the Apache FOP to edit, troubleshoot and preview advanced XML to PDF transformations using XSL:FO directly from within Stylus Studio. A new tutorial explains how to configure the two products, read about it on page containing description of using Stylus Studio with RenderX XEP.

To show its dedication to the XSL FO (XSLFO) community, RenderX is pleased to offer a free, non-expiring "Personal Edition" of RenderX software. The Personal Edition is licensed to individuals who wish to produce PDF and Postscript for non-commercial applications. It is perfect for creating W3C standards, other industry standards and specifications, open source documentation, blog postings and any other non-commercial application. The Personal Edition is functionally equivalent to RenderX's full software, with the exception of a small stamp applied to pages at the very bottom margin. Fill out the download form and we will e-mail your license key immediately.

RenderX has released verison 4.4 of the XEP Engine, the major new features of this release are support for generating PDF which complies to Section 508 in the trial version of the software and added support for implementing Change Bars within nested lists and tables. More information on XEP can be found on the product page.

RenderX has released verison 4.3 of the XEP Engine, the major new features of this release are support for generating PDF which complies to Section 508 and added support for repeatable XSL FO (XSLFO) table footers. Section 508 requires that Federal agencies' electronic and information technology is accessible to people with disabilities. RenderX government and commericial customers can now create PDFs with logical reading order, alternate descriptions for images and setting an overall document language. This new release also supports repeatable table footers and honors 'table-omit-footer-at-break'. More information on XEP can be found on the product page.

RenderX released a new version of EnMasse, our high-performance formatting server for XML documents. This version adds a SOAP interface to EnMasse, allowing users to format documents directly from a user application. The EnMasse Soap server accepts source XSL FO (XSLFO) or XML documents and sends back the formatted document via the same connection to the user. It can easily be intergrated to any application that supports SOAP. More information on EnMasse can be found on the product page

XML is a better way to handle content… but what's the best way to handle all that XML? Get the answer in a live web event, where you'll find out how an XML content server can give you more value from your enterprise content while speeding document print production wth RenderX software to lower the costs of business. Please make plans to attend this educational web seminar, Unlocking the Value of Enterprise Content: We'll Hand You the Keys, on Tuesday, March 22. It will feature live demonstrations of MarkLogic, the industry's leading XML content server, integrated with RenderX's industry leading print technology and other best-of-breed XML software. Don't miss this opportunity, register now!

John Durant featured a spot on his weblog about a recent article for MSDN co-authored by RenderX engineers and Mark Iverson, Microsoft's programmability writer. As John points out, WordprocessingML from Microsoft is hot-hot-hot! We think so too John, "Rock on"! The article, Transforming Word Documents into the XSL-FO Format demonstrates publicly available stylesheets from Microsoft and RenderX that can be used to convert Word 2003 documents into XSL FO (XSLFO). There is some additional information about this technology in our free tools section.

RenderX announces the initial release of XEPWin Desktop and Server. RenderX has responded to our customers demands for tools better suited for deployment on the Windows platform. The result is XEPWin, a .NET service that surrounds XEP Engine. XEPWin delivers all the functionality of our flagship product and exposes new .NET interfaces for interacting with the core engine. This initial release also includes several Windows applications to ease productivity on that platform, including a new Windows GUI and ActiXEP — a hot folder application. More information on XEPWin is available from the product page.

RenderX has released version 4.2 of the XEP Engine. Among other features, this release includes an extension for change bars, support for varying levels of PDF/X conformance including PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3, embedding ICC profiles into documents, and support for z-index on fixed containers. As always, customers can easily upgrade their existing copies by visiting our download page, uploading their license key and accessing all new updates.