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

August 9, 2010

AH Formatter V5.2 R1 is released

This major point release offers numerous enhancements and new PDF ouput features including the ability to embed 3D objects in PDF. The performance of over 30 different items has been corrected or improved. More information about V5.2 R1 is available in the Q&A Section of the Antenna House Website under Maintenance Releases - History V5.2.

April 9, 2010

AH Formatter V5.1MR2 is released

This maintenance release adds several enhancements and improves the behaviour of 50 different items. More information about V5.1MR2 is available in the Q&A Section of the Antenna House Website under Maintenance Releases - History V5.1.

March 25, 2010

Beginning June 1, 2010, Antenna House will increase the maintenance fee to 20% of the purchase price of AH Formatter V5 Standard. Existing customers may continue to purchase maintenance at the current price for the next 2 years.

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.

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

September 13-15, 2010
Hampton, Virginia

September 21-23, 2010
Oxfordshire, UK

November 3-5, 2010
Wiesbaden, Germany

November 15-16, 2010
DITA Europe, Vienna, Austria

November 30 - December 2, 2010
Grand Hall, Olympia, London

Recent Events

May 4-6, 2010

Mark Logic User Conference 2010 San Franciso, CA

April 19-21, 2010

CMS/DITA North America 2010 Santa Clara, CA

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