Headquartered in Heber City, Utah, USA, with development and support offices in Walnut Creek, California,
USA, foActive™ is privately held and managed by several developers and business executives from the XML community.
We think XML and XSL FO are cool, and our mission is to put together some tools to make it easy for the not-so-expert to use and expand the use of this technology.
Our first product, <X>Styler™,
is a plug-in to Microsoft Word 2003 Professional that delivers
on this promise. To the end user, <X>Styler is simply a
new Word toolbar that allows you to insert tags from an XML
schema into a document and then generate an XSL template to use
for merging data into documents without using any Word
functions. The <X>Styler XSL templates can be used to
generate new Word documents as well as XSL FO by merging content
from XML streams. And of course, once you have XSL FO, you can
publish this content using a XSL FO processor.
We have also started the Beta program for fo:Factory™.
This product is a complete Windows-based GUI for constructing
and performing high volume batch print production. fo:Factory is
based on the RenderX® XEPWin XSL FO processor. It provides for
identification of data sources, relating those sources to XSL
conversion and output of various document formats leveraging
all the capabilities of RenderX
XEPWin. fo:Factory also provides several extended
capabilities like concatenation of output, reorganization of
bookmarks, application of barcodes and watermarks, and saving
complete XML-based instruction sets for scheduling off-line
conversions.
foActive has also developed our first of many web services
for websites as well as XSL FO and SVG users. Our barcode
web service allows you to insert various barcodes into
documents. For our XSL FO users, you can insert these barcodes
by using a simple URL in a <fo:external-graphic>. As long
as you have web access, the barcode is generated server side in
SVG and delivered directly to your running XSL FO processor.
We have many more products and services on the drawing board
so take a look and check back often.
925.354.5103
FAX: 208.247.1051