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XMLmind XSL-FO Converter

XMLmind XSL-FO Converter is an XSL-FO processor similar to Apache FOP, RenderX XEP or Antenna House XSL Formatter. Unlike the aforementioned processors which all renders XSL-FO as PDF and PostScript®, XMLmind XSL-FO Converter converts XSL-FO v1.0 to the following formats:

  • RTF (can be opened in Word 2000+),
  • WordprocessingML (can be opened in Word 2003+),
  • Office Open XML (.docx, can be opened in Word 2007+),
  • OpenOffice (.odt, can be opened in OpenOffice.org 2+).

In other words, XMLmind XSL-FO Converter translates one format, XSL-FO v1.0, to the file formats of the two most commonly used word processors, Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.org Writer.

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How it works
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See also RTF in MS-Word 2000, WML in MS-Word 2003, Open XML in MS-Word 2007, OpenDocument in OpenOffice.org.

JavaTM and .NET Versions

XMLmind XSL-FO Converter is available in two versions, targeted at the Java 1.4+ Platform and the Microsoft .NET 2.0+ Framework respectively.

Personal and Professional Editions

XMLmind XSL-FO Converter is available in two editions: Personal Edition and Professional Edition. Personal Edition is free of charge but is restricted to non-commercial use. Moreover, the files it generates contain a small, non-obtrusive stamp found at the bottom of the footer of each page. Professional Edition has of course no such restrictions.

v4.4 (April 14, 2010): Highlights:
  • Many enhancements related to the support of graphics: intrinsic size computed using the resolution stored in the image file, WMF, EMF, BMP, TIFF, SVG, MathML, fo:instream-foreign-object.
  • Possibility to map the generic font families (serif, sans-serif, etc) to actual font families ("Times New Roman", Arial, etc).
  • New extension attribute xfc:tab-align allows to generate nicer TOCs.
  • A few bug fixes.
v4.3.2_01 (March 8, 2010): upgraded several components in XMLmind XSL Utility. For example, XMLmind XSL Utility now integrates XMLmind DITA Converter (ditac) v1.2 which allows to convert DITA documents to EPUB (standard e-book format).
v4.3.2 (December 4, 2009): More powerful, yet nicer and easier to use, XMLmind XSL Utility.
Out of the box, in addition to DocBook and XHTML documents, XMLmind XSL Utility now allows to convert DITA 1.1 documents to production-quality XHTML 1.0, XHTML 1.1, HTML 4.1, JavaTM Help, HTML Help, Eclipse Help, PDF, PostScript®, RTF (can be opened in Word 2000+), WordprocessingML (can be opened in Word 2003+), Office Open XML (.docx, can be opened in Word 2007+), OpenOffice (.odt, can be opened in OpenOffice.org 2+).