Michael Miller
December 1, 2023
Turn HTML and XML into PDF with Antenna House Formatter
Seventy percent of CIDM Member companies use Antenna House Formatter to produce their paged output.
Without the right formatting engine, formatting your structured content from your CCMS system into paged output can be a time-consuming and laborious chore. Antenna House is a powerful engine for 100% automated document formatting. Highly customizable, Formatter can be tailored to your company’s unique requirements, producing print-quality paged output (most often PDF) with all the attributes of the printed page. With support for over 30 scripts and 80 languages, MathML, SVG, and CGM Antenna House is the leader in standards-compliant, high-speed publishing and is used in thousands of implementations worldwide to produce millions of pages daily.
XSL or CSS?
Antenna House has been developing Formatter for over twenty-five years, and today, it is the only product on the market that supports both the XSL-FO and CSS standards with nearly identical capabilities. This allows customers to select either/or both for producing documents.
To help you decide which standard to use, Antenna House has produced an in-depth book, ‘Antenna House XSL-FO and CSS Comparison Guide’ which is available on the Antenna House website at https://www.antennahouse.com/xsl-fo-css-comparison. In addition to the PDF book, you will also find all the files to produce the book using either XSL-FO or CSS.
Make it Yours
Antenna House released the first English version of Formatter in 2000. For 23 years, Antenna House has responded to customer needs by adding features, functionality, and extensions to Formatter. Extensions go beyond the standard to make it possible to meet all your document and formatting needs. A tiny sampling of what Formatter can do:
- Produce PDF 1.3 to PDF 1.7, PDF/UA, PDF/X, PDF/A, Tagged PDF
- Embed PDFs within a PDF
- Format MathML
- Create Bar and QR codes
- Support Color Management (Pantone, CMYK): Enhanced color profiles and color spaces to achieve accurate color rendering.
- Support multiple languages and writing directions within one document or even one-page
- Support over 15 different graphic formats, including Video/Audio
- Support tables of virtually any complexity and length
- Create Acroforms
- Produce documents from 1 page to thousands of pages.
XML, anyone?
Antenna House Formatter can be found in implementations based on standards: DITA, DocBook, S1000D, JATS, TEI, MIL-STD-38784, and many implementations explicitly built for a customer’s unique requirements.
Beyond Formatter
Office Server Document Converter (OSDC) – INTEGRATED SERVER BASED FILE CONVERSIONS
OSDC streamlines complex document conversions. It effortlessly transforms Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and RTF files into PDF or image formats without reliance on Microsoft Office or Adobe. With user-friendly design and robust performance on Windows and Linux, OSDC seamlessly integrates into existing applications or workflows via APIs like Java, .Net, COM, Command-line, and C/C++. Simplify your server-based conversions while enjoying fast and reliable high-volume conversion.
Antenna House Regression Testing System (AHRTS)
Automated – Fast – Accurate PDF to PDF & Image to Image Visual Compare
The Antenna House Visual Regression Testing System offers users the options of comparing/regression testing individual PDFs and directories of PDFs from any software. AHRTS is scalable, fast and does a precise pixel-by-pixel comparison of PDF files. The latest version gives you the option to compare text as well! For Antenna House Formatter customers, we offer the ability to automatically compare PDF documents from different versions of Antenna House Formatter.
Our Partners
Many CCMS suppliers use Antenna House as the output engine of choice. As the industry leader, we provide competitive pricing, flexible licensing options, and personalized support. For more information, contact us: