Antenna House Formatter (AH Formatter) is a proprietary software program that uses either

XSL-FO XSL-FO (XSL Formatting Objects) is a markup language for XML document formatting that is most often used to generate PDF files. XSL-FO is part of XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language), a set of W3C technologies designed for the transformation and f ...

or Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to convert

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and

HTML Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It defines the content and structure of web content. It is often assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets ( ...

documents into

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, SVG, PostScript, XPS, text, and Microsoft Word formats. It supports 30 scripts and over 80 languages. AH Formatter is developed by Antenna House Co., Ltd, based in Tokyo, Japan. International sales and support is provided by Antenna House, Inc., based in Newark, DE, USA.

History

The first English-language release of "Antenna House XSL Formatter" was announced on the XSL-List mailing list on 22 November 2000. Antenna House XSL Formatter V1.2 Alpha was one of six XSL Formatters that provided the test results for the test suite for the XSL 1.0 Candidate Recommendation that was required for XSL 1.0 to proceed to the Proposed Recommendation stage. In December 2008, Antenna House Co., Ltd announced the availability of Antenna House Formatter V5.0 with support for both XSL-FO and CSS. The product supporting both XSL-FO and CSS was released as "AH Formatter", and single stylesheet language versions were released as "AH XSL Formatter" and "AH CSS Formatter".

Uses

Antenna House Formatter is used, for example, to generate PDF from

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, DITA or

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XML. AH CSS Formatter is used in the "md2pdf" GitHub project for Markdown to PDF conversion.

References

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