Format HTML and XML for print and PDF using the power of Antenna House Formatter

Style your content with XSL-FO or CSS

Hyphenation Support for over 50 Languages

Formatter Includes standards compliant MathML and SVG rendering engines with an option for a CGM engine

What's New From Antenna House

December 9, 2009

AH Formatter V5.1MR1 is released

This maintenance release adds several enhancements and improves the behaviour of over 40 different items. More information about V5.1MR1 is available in the Q&A Section of the Antenna House Website under Maintenance Releases - History V5.1.

December 2, 2009

i18n Index Library V2.1 is released
(formerly know as the Chinese Sorting Module)

This new release adds the PDF5 plug-in for the DITA Open Toolkit. More information about V2.1 can be found on the i18n Index Library Product Page.

November 6, 2009

Web Interface V3.0MR1 for Formatter

This new version works with both CSS and XSL V5.1, V5.0 and V4.3 of Formatter. The Web Interface reduces the amount of development effort necessary to integrate Formatter into an internet based solution.

November 2, 2009

Beginning November 2, 2009, Antenna House will discontinue offering XSL Formatter V4.3. Please refer to Antenna House Formatter V5.1.

October 23, 2009

XSL Report Designer V2.5MR2 is released

The release of V2.5MR2 now adds support for Microsoft 7. See all the features of V2.5 under XSL Report Designer V2.5 New Features.

October 6, 2009

XSL Formatter V4.3MR9 is released

More information about V4.3MR9 is available in the Q&A Section of the Antenna House website under Maintenance Releases - History V4.3.

March 23, 2009

Support for both CSS and XSL-FO

Antenna House is very pleased to announce the formal release of version of Formatter V5.0, now with support for page layouts specified using either CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) or XSL-FO (Extensible Stylesheet Language - Formatting Objects) for formatting documents for PDF and print. Select the stylesheet language and content strategy that best suits your business needs.

CSS is for print, too!

With Antenna House V5 Formatter you can now add to your CSS added functionality to create high quality printed documents with support for over 50 languages, MathML, support for numerous graphic formats and output to PDF 1.3 to PDF 1.7, PDF/X, PDF/A, tagged PDF and PDF for fast web viewing.

Stylesheets and Samples

Upcoming Events

April 19-21, 2010

Recent Events

December 1-3, 2009

online information 2009 London, UK

November 16-17, 2009

DITA Europe 2009 Conference Munich, Germany

November 4-6, 2009

tcworld conference 2009 Wiesbaden, Germany

February 9th to 11th, 2009

O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference New York, New York

October 21st to 23rd 2008

2008 S1000D User Forum! Budapest, Hungary

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.

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

Formatter Add-ons and Options

Rainbow PDF Digital Signature

Rainbow PDF Digital Signature Module enables Antenna House XSL Formatter for Windows to apply a digital signature to PDF output.

INX Creator Option

INX Creator Option enables outputting formatted pages to INX for editing with Adobe InDesign.

Web Service Interface

Web Service Interface for Antenna House Formatter provides support so that Formatter can be used via the Internet using SOAP/HTTP without the need to undertake an expensive and complicated development effort.

PANTONE® Option

The PANTONE® Option provides the ability for more than 1000 PANTONE® Colors to be converted into RGB or CMYK values automatically.

Barcode Option

XSL Formatter Barcode Option generates barcodes using specially designed stylesheets.

PostScript® Output Option

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

CGM Option

XSL Formatter CGM Option is a new option for Formatter that enables the output of CGM images as vectors.

MathML Option

XSL Formatter MathML Option provides for quality formatting of Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) 2.0 as defined by W3C.

SVG Output Option

Enables output compliant to W3C Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 specification. Can output SVG Tiny and SVG Basic in the Mobile SVG Profiles.

XPS Output Option

XSL Formatter XPS Output Option enables the output of XPS (XML Paper Specification) files.

i18n Index Library V2.0(previously known as the Chinese Sorting Module)

Is a Java library and stylesheet that addresses the complex problem of making index pages for Traditional and Simplified Chinese. The library also officially support 19 other languages including Japanese and Korean.

Rainbow PDF Products for your Server and your Desktop

Please visit Antenna House's family of new PDF desktop and server products at WWW.RainbowPDF.COM

The Rainbow PDF Products are powerful desktop and enterprise products to transform PDF into Word, Excel and Text (Rainbow Desktop PDF Converter) and to transform on a server Microsoft Office Documents into PDF and SVG (Server Based Converter), all without the need for Microsoft or Adobe software.

Other Products

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

Licensing

Licensing and Purchase Information
Antenna House offers End User, Developer, OEM and Evaluation licenses for  Formatter.
Pricing Information
Please contact Antenna House at info@antennahouse.com For Reseller and OEM Pricing .
Purchasing Assistance
You may buy Formatter through our Resellers, or directly from us.

Customer Support & Maintenance Service Guideline

The Standard Versions of Antenna House Products are provided with 90 days or warranty and support. The Lite Versions of 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.

Associations and Memberships