Public Standards Compliance
See which public standards MHC platform is compliant with, and enjoy the benefits.
High-Volume Production of Documents
And The Importance of Public Standards
Within the last few years, the ability to reach an increasingly diverse audience has created the need for cross-publishing support. The MHC platform can produce documents in most popular formats used today, including PDF, HTML5, Word, PowerPoint, and more.
Today, data is scattered throughout the enterprise: customer preferences configured in the customer portal; transactional data stored in a SQL database; and contact information stored in a cloud CRM are just a few examples. This is why the MHC platform provides significant data integration capabilities, allowing it to retrieve and join data from multiple sources.
This input/output variety means complying with any applicable public standards becomes increasingly important in order to ensure crucial features and capabilities are not overlooked.
Standards Compliance
Compliance with public standards is not usually what you would expect from a High-Volume Document Production solution. MHC strongly advocates compliance with public standards because of the many important benefits for customers.
It reduces the chance of vendor lock-in. Customers can switch vendors and reuse their work. Due to proprietary standards, switching from many vendors involves significant costs to port the document templates you have in place.
Customers can get information from multiple sources on how features should work and what features should be available. All public standards used in the MHC platform are well documented, and information is readily accessible.
MHC is compliant
with the following public standards:
XSL-FO
We implement the latest version of the open industry standard for document formatting. MHC is compatible with XSL:FO 2.0. Additionally, you can use most XSL parsers, including MSXML and SAXON.
MHC provide extensive support for PDF version 1.4 and conformance with PDF/A (long term archiving), PDF/X (professional printing), and Section 508 (accessible) PDF.
SVG
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is the most popular open image format for vector graphics. Use SVG to add shapes or gradients to your documents. Our solution is compliant with SVG 1.1.
OOXML
Office Open XML is the ECMA standard that became the new default format for Microsoft Office in 2007. We support Word 2003 and later as both input and output. Note that Microsoft Word is not required.
AFP
Advanced Function Presentation™ (AFP™) is the industry-leading architecture for mission-critical transaction printing. MHC provides extensive support for the IBM MO:DCA standard, including NOP tags, outline forms, all image formats, and more.
DITA
DITA (Document Information Typing Architecture) is an XML data model for authoring and publishing. MHC supports DITA 1.3 of the OASIS standard.
