Welcome to Ibex

What is Ibex ?

Ibex is a powerful standards-based component for dynamically creating PDF files.

Designed for both stand-alone and server applications, Ibex is a simple way to provide your application with powerful report creation facilities.

How does it work ?

Using a simple API your application passes Ibex XML data which is combined with a document template defined in XSL to create a PDF file which can then be saved to disk or sent to a browser.

What can ibex do?

Ibex implements the W3C XSL 1.1 standard for paged document creation, providing complete control over page layout and implementing formatting elements including pages, tables, lists, and markers.

Ibex gives you complete separation of data from document layout. So you can change your reports without having to recompile your application.

Powerful features include:

Table formatting	Multi-column pages	Page numbering
Page headers and footers	Keeps and breaks	Font support
Transparent images	Unicode Support	Floats & Footnotes

Platforms

Ibex is available for:

• .NET Framework versions 1.0 to 3.5. Both 32 bit and 64 bit assemblies are supplied. All operating systems which support the full .NET Framework are supported.

• Java JDK/JRE versions 1.4 to 1.6

Performance

Ibex has been designed from the ground up to scale well. Ibex was the first commercially available XSL FO formatter for .NET and remains the most complete, scalable and high performance formatter available.

Ibex is the first formatter to use a streaming architecture, allowing massive documents to be produced without requiring huge amounts of memory. Documents can easily be created which have tens or even hundreds of thousands of pages.