Professional Formatting Solutions
Last updated: July 9, 2009

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

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What's New From Antenna House
July 7, 2009

This new version works with both CSS and XSL V5.0 and V4.3 of Formatter. The Web Interface reduces the amount of development effort necessary to integrate Formatter into a internet based solution.
June 29, 2009

More information about V4.3MR8 is available in the Q&A Section of the Antenna House website under Maintenance Releases - History V4.3.
June 22, 2009

This maintenance release for V5.0 adds several enhancements, greatly improves performance and fixes several bugs. More information about V5.0MR2 is available in the Q&A Section of the Antenna House website under Maintenance Releases - History V5.
June 18, 2009

i18n Index Library V2.0
(formerly know 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.
March 23, 2009
V5
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.

To learn more about V5.0 and to download the evaluation copy please visit the V5.0 Information Page.
Feb 6, 2009

You can now use an existing PDF as a rough background image for designing the pages in addition to several new features.
☞ Download Report Designer V2.5 Now
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.
Upcoming Events
November 4th to 6th, 2009

Wiesbaden, Germany

November 16-17, 2009

Recent Events
April 27th to 29th, 2009
February 9th to 11th, 2009
October 21st to 23rd 2008
2008 S1000D User Forum! Budapest, Hungary
November 17th to 18th 2008
November 5th to 7th 2008
Tekom Conference and Fair Wiesbaden, Germany
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 Module enables Antenna House XSL Formatter for Windows to apply a digital signature to PDF output.
INX Creator Option enables outputting formatted pages to INX for editing with Adobe InDesign.
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.
The PANTONE® Option provides the ability for more than 1000 PANTONE® Colors to be converted into RGB or CMYK values automatically.
XSL Formatter Barcode Option generates barcodes using specially designed stylesheets.
XSL Formatter PostScript® Output Option is a new option for XSL Formatter V4.3 that enables the outout of PostScript.
XSL Formatter CGM Option is a new option for Formatter that enables the outout of CGM images as vectors.
XSL Formatter MathML Option provides for quality formatting of Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) 2.0 as defined by W3C.
Enables output compliant to W3C Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 specification. Can output SVG Tiny and SVG Basic in the Mobile SVG Profiles.
XSL Formatter XPS Output Option enables the outout of XPS (XML Paper SpecificationI) 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
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
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 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
Antenna House offers End User, Developer, OEM and Evaluation licenses for Formatter.
Please contact Antenna House at info@antennahouse.com For Reseller and OEM Pricing .
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 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
W3C
Idealiance
Unicode