Last updated: June 17, 2008

XML and XSL-FO to PDF with High Quality SVG, MathML and Multilingual Support for over 50 Languages

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What's New From Antenna House
June 16, 2008 - XSL Formatter V4.3MR1 is released. This is a major maintenance release that addresses a large number of request our customers have submitted over the past several months. More information about V4.3MR1 is available in the Q&A; Section of the Antenna House website under Maintenance Releases - History V4.3. ☞ Download V4.3 Now 
   
June 16, 2008 - Rainbow PDF Digital Signature V1.1 is released. Antenna House is pleased to announce the following improvements, upgrades and fixes to Rainbow PDF Digital Signature in version 1.1. These changes continue to improve the quality and reliability of our software.

  • Adds the ability to set RFC3161-SHA2(512bit) timestamps
  • Now verifies RFC3161-SHA2(256/384/512bit) timestamps
  • Verifies signatures added with Nuance PDF Edit 2
  • Acquires the certificate revocation list information (CRL) from the directory Service.
  • Changed the version of Open SSL from 0.9.6 to 0.9.8.
  • Changed and the DLL name from "libeay32.dll" to "AHlibeay32.dll"
   
Apr 28, 2008 - XSL Formatter V4.3 is released. This is a major release that adds a 64-bit Windows version of Formatter and two major options, the INX Creator Option and the CGM Option. More information about the new options is available on the Antenna House website under INX Creator Option and CGM Option. ☞ Download V4.3 Now
   
Apr 28, 2008 - Antenna House Web Service Interface V2.2 is now available. This new release provides for compatibility with XSL Formatter V4.3.
   
Mar 5, 2008 - XSL Formatter V4.2 MR5 is released. This is a major maintenance release that addresses a large number of requests our customers have submitted over the past several months. More information about V4.2 MR5 is available in the Q&A Section of the Antenna House website under Maintenance Releases - History V4.2
Mar 2, 2008 - The Q&A Section of the Antenna House website has been updated with new information.
   
Feb 29, 2008 - Antenna House Web Service Interface V2.1 MR2 is now available. This new release improves the control users have over XSL Formatter from Web Service Interface and also provides information on how to configure the Web Service Interface as a Windows Service.
   
Jan 18, 2008 - Antenna House released XSL Formatter V4.2 MR4. V4.2 MR4 is a maintenance release and consolidates several fixes into one release.. XSL Formatter V4.2 conforms to the W3C Recommendation for Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1. XSL Formatter V4.2 implements all the new Formatting Objects and Properties for XSL-FO 1.1. The Conformance is shown at XSL-FO 1.1 Conformance. V4.2 offers support for Unicode 5.0, PDF Acrobat Forms (AcroForms), PDF Digital Signatures, PDF/A, PostScript® Output (as an option) and numerous other enhancements.
   
Jan 1, 2008 - Rainbow PDF Digital Signature Module is now available. Antenna House is pleased to announce the release of our newest product, Rainbow PDF Digital Signature Module, which is a server side software library for Windows that can be used to verify existing digital signatures in PDF files and to apply either a digital signature and/or timestamp to an existing PDF on demand or via batch processing. The PDF Digital Signature software is also available as an option for Antenna House XSL Formatter.
   
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What is XSL-FO

Antenna House XSL Formatter is the most compliant software available for the W3C Recommendation for XSL-FO. In addition Antenna House has added a large number of extensions to meet the numerous requests of our customers and to be able to offer the most powerful XSL formatting software available. Please email your requests and comments regarding our extensions to support@antennahouse.com.
☞ Conformance to latest FO Specification V1.1
☞ Extensions by Antenna House V4

XSL-FO Tutorial and Samples

  • "How to Develop Stylesheets for XML to XSL-FO Transformation" explains a development process of stylesheet.
  • Formatting World Languages
  • Stylesheets for XHTML to FO are completely re-written. You may enjoy the various styles available for formatting a single XHTML instance.
  • The published XBRL to FO stylesheet.
  • FO Layout Samples that show some of the capabilities of FO.

DITAtoFO Stylesheet

Antenna House is pleased to announce that a new set of DITAtoFO Stylesheet for the DITA Open Toolkit 1.4 that supports booksmarks, table of contents, indexes and several other features has been made public. DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) is an XML-based architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical information. ☞ Download Now 
 
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XSL Formatter V4.3

Antenna House XSL Formatter V4.3 is the first 64-bit Windows version of Antenna House XSL Formatter and the first XSL-FO product to offer CGM support as high quality vectors and the first XSL-FO product to offer output to InDesign. In addition V4.3 offers support for the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1 recommended from the W3C. V4.3 offers support for Unicode 5.0, PDF Acrobat Forms (AcroForms), PDF Digital Signatures, PDF/A, PostScript® Output (as an option) and numerous other enhancements.
Evaluation Version for V4.3: Download
Question & Answer page   [updated on March 6, 2008]
For customers who have XSL Formatter V3.X/V4.X Antenna House is now offering a special promotion to upgrade to the latest version of Antenna House XSL Formatter. XSL Formatter V4.3 has many new features, enhancements and greatly improved PDF functions.
Upgrade from V3.X/4.X to V4.3

XSL Formatter V4.3 Lite

XSL Formatter V4.3 Lite is a lower priced version of XSL Formatter for those customers who produce smaller documents (under 300 pages) and only work with the over 40 languages that write from left to right. Lite offers the same quality, GUI, speed, PDF output capabilities, integration interfaces and graphic support as the standard version of Formatter but for less than one-third of the price. Also, Lite does not come with the 90 days of free support that the full version of Formatter comes with. Available in Standalone, Server and Developer versions, Lite fits many of today's production requirements.
Evaluation Version for V4.3: Download
Note: Only the full version of Formatter is available for evaluation. When you purchase Lite the limitations then take effect.

XSL Formatter V3.4

The sale of V3.4 has been terminated at the end of December 2006. Antenna House offers Support for V3 customers continuously. We also accept the additional V3 orders for the customers who integrated V3 into the system.
Upgrade from V3.X/V4.X to V4.3

XSL Formatter Add On Products

Rainbow PDF Digital Signature

When the Rainbow PDF Digital Signature Module has been purchased and installed on a system that also has Antenna House XSL Formatter V4.3 Windows version installed, a digital signature can be applied to the PDF when it is being output.

CGM Option

XSL Formatter CGM Option is a new option for XSL Formatter V4.3 that enables the outout of CGM images as vectorsw.

INX Creator Option

XSL Formatter INX Creator Option is a new option for XSL Formatter V4.3 that enables outputting formatted pages to INX for then inputting into Adobe InDesign for further editing.

PostScript® Output Option

XSL Formatter PostScript® Output Option is a new option for XSL Formatter V4.3 that enables the outout of PostScript.

Chart Option

XSL Formatter Chart Option is a option for XSL Formatter V4.3 that enables the use of Microsoft® Excel Charts as graphics with the output being high quality vector images without the degradation caused by scaling, etc.

PANTONE® Option

The PANTONE® Option provides the ability for more than 1000 PANTONE® Colors to be converted into RGB or CMYK values automatically. Possible to specify the PANTONE® colors for separation color (spot color) simply by putting only the name of the PANTONE® colors in FO.

Web Service Interface

Web Service Interface V2.1 is an option for Antenna House XSL Formatter to further support the use of XSL Formatter V4.3 via the Internet using SOAP/HTTP, easy to use on the client side and without the need to undertake an expensive and complicated development effort. V2.1 supports Folder Monitoring Service. Evaluation Version: Download

SVG Output Option

XSL Formatter can now product SVG output compliant to W3C Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 specification. Moreover, it also can output SVG Tiny and SVG Basic in the Mobile SVG Profiles defined by the SVG 1.1 specification.

MathML Option

XSL Formatter MathML Option provides for quality formatting of Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) 2.0 defined by W3C by utilizing Antenna House originally developed engine.

Barcode Option

XSL Formatter Barcode Option generates barcodes using specially designed stylesheets, without the need to use external libraries for generating barcodes.

Plug-in for xmlspy®

For all registered users of Antenna House XSL Formatter there is a free downloadable Plug-in for xmlspy®. It's an add-on connection module for xmlspy.

XSL Report Designer

Antenna House XSL Report Designer enables you to design your complex XML forms quickly and simply with a user friendly GUI. Without having knowledge of XSLT Stylesheets, XSL-FO or programming, you can arrange XML element freely on the layout pane and merge your XML data to produce XSL-FO. All with Antenna House's new Windows XSL Report Designer! Wide range of built-in functions also supports inputting of complicated expression. Evaluation Version: Download

XML Editor

XML Editor is a software that combines two tools. One is XML Editor, an editor required to edit XML documents, and the other is XML Parser, a parser application, which verifies if the XML document and DTD under the edit is correct by comparing with the XML specification. XML Editor supports a wide variety of character encodings and all characters of Unicode can be displayed as long as the font is appropriate. In addition, XML view is available for easy tagging. Trial Version: Download
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Antenna House offers End User, Developer, OEM and Evaluation licenses for XSL Formatter.

End User Purchasing and Pricing Information.
For Reseller and OEM Pricing please contact Antenna House at info@antennahouse.com.

You may buy Formatter through our Resellers, or directly from us.

The Standard Versions of Antenna House Products are provided with 90 days or warranty and support. The Lite Versions of XSL Formatter are provided without support. Antenna House offers an Annual Maintenance Contract for both the Standard and Lite products so that customers can receive support, maintenance releases and upgrade versions.
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