RenderX, Inc is a commercial software development company that provides standards-based software products, used for typeset-quality electronic and print output of business content. RenderX develops products that convert XML content into printable formats such as PDF, PostScript and AFP.

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RenderX

Company type	Private
Industry	Software development
Founded	1999 (1999), California, United States
Headquarters	Palo Alto, California, United States
Products	XML to PDF Layout Engine
Website	www.renderx.com

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RenderX started as a company to promote open standards in general and XSL-FO in particular, participating in a contest announced by Sun and Adobe.^{[1][failed verification]} Later the contest was cancelled but the company decided to proceed anyway.^{[citation needed]}

The company has devised a DTD for XSL-FO documents^[2][3] and holds three patents of converting XML to PDF.^[4][5][6] RenderX is one of the 335 members of the World Wide Web Consortium^[7] and a contributor^[8] to OASIS.

RenderX's main product is a Java-based XSL-FO formatting engine called XEP, which converts XSL-FO documents to printable form (PDF or PostScript). XEP is free for academic and personal use.

XEP conforms to Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL), a W3C recommendation. It also supports a subset of the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).^{[citation needed]}