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XEP "Personal Edition" now free for "non-comm

xmldoc Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 9:37 am

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XEP "Personal Edition" now free for "non-comm

RenderX has announced "a free, non-expiring, Personal Edition" of
their XSL-FO engine, XEP, for "non-commercial" uses.

http://renderx.com/news/index.html

I`ve not read the actual license, but in the announcement that was
sent out to a few XSL-related mailing lists, it says "users of XEP
Personal are able to distribute output documents given that nobody
gains any profit from this distribution." And the news item at
their site specifically mentions that it can be used for (among
other things) "open source documentation":

"The Personal Edition is licensed to individuals who wish to
produce PDF and Postscript for non-commercial applications. It
is perfect for creating W3C standards, other industry standards
and specifications, open source documentation, blog postings and
any other non-commercial application. The Personal Edition is
functionally equivalent to RenderX`s full software, with the
exception of a small stamp applied to pages at the very bottom
margin."

So if you`ve done work on documentation for an open-source
software project and been frustrated by the limitations in FOP or
other free-software XML-to-print/PDF tools, then (as long as you
don`t have an ideological opposition to using non-open-source
software -- XEP itself is a proprietary application, not
open-source), you might give XEP "Personal Edition" a try.

RenderX also runs an xep-support mailing list:

http://www.renderx.net/lists/xep-support/

And from what I have seen, along with being able to get
peer-to-peer help with XEP problems, if you post a question to
that list, you are likely (more often than not) to get a response
from one of the XEP developers, not just from other users.

--Mike

P.S. For the record, I have no personal or financial stake in
RenderX, other than having actually purchased their product. (XEP
Desktop.)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexander Peshkov" <peshkov@...>
To: <xsl-list@...>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 1:54 AM
Subject: [ANN] RenderX XEP Personal Edition is released

> Dear list subscribers,
>
> RenderX, Inc is pleased to announce the release of XEP Personal
> Edition, based on popular XEP Desktop product. XEP Personal is focused
> on individuals creating professional grade documents for their own
> personal use.
>
> XEP Personal is free for everybody to use and have the same formatting
> power and quality as other products based on XEP Engine. There is
> no limitations in size or complexity of the documents processed by XEP
> Personal compared to commercial XEP releases and users of XEP Personal
> are able to distribute output documents given that nobody gains any
> profit from this distribution.
>
> XEP Personal places a small identification mark on every page produced
> with RenderX, Inc logo and a link to RenderX, Inc corporate website.
>
> XEP Personal is written in Java language and runs on most operating
> systems supported by Java Virtual machine 1.2:
> Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and many others.
>
> XEP Personal generates documents in PostScript and Adobe PDF formats,
> including many advanced capabilities of PDF format like accessibility,
> tagged PDF and PDF/X.
>
> Best regards,
> Alexander Peshkov mailto:peshkov@...
> RenderX

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