diff --git a/include/tesseract/renderer.h b/include/tesseract/renderer.h
index dad7995599df53766c60293161831ca70bfe4bea..2cfa06c56c152b326facb63836925e57d7945cd7 100644
--- a/include/tesseract/renderer.h
+++ b/include/tesseract/renderer.h
@@ -141,12 +141,12 @@ protected:
   void AppendData(const char *s, int len);
 
 private:
+  TessResultRenderer *next_; // Can link multiple renderers together
+  FILE *fout_;               // output file pointer
   const char *file_extension_; // standard extension for generated output
   std::string title_;          // title of document being rendered
   int imagenum_;               // index of last image added
 
-  FILE *fout_;               // output file pointer
-  TessResultRenderer *next_; // Can link multiple renderers together
   bool happy_;               // I get grumpy when the disk fills up, etc.
 };
 
diff --git a/src/api/renderer.cpp b/src/api/renderer.cpp
index aa7dd09e757ec7e54538a8b215fcc63a443f130e..41b11132cbb7a54f2d93c2ffe5ba48b27d4b78f6 100644
--- a/src/api/renderer.cpp
+++ b/src/api/renderer.cpp
@@ -31,11 +31,11 @@ namespace tesseract {
  * Base Renderer interface implementation
  **********************************************************************/
 TessResultRenderer::TessResultRenderer(const char *outputbase, const char *extension)
-    : file_extension_(extension)
+    : next_(nullptr)
+    , fout_(stdout)
+    , file_extension_(extension)
     , title_("")
     , imagenum_(-1)
-    , fout_(stdout)
-    , next_(nullptr)
     , happy_(true) {
   if (strcmp(outputbase, "-") && strcmp(outputbase, "stdout")) {
     std::string outfile = std::string(outputbase) + "." + extension;