Re: Jade Backends (from The DSSSList Digest V2 #120)

Subject: Re: Jade Backends (from The DSSSList Digest V2 #120)
From: "James Tauber" <jtauber@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 04:04:28 +0800
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From: Wroth, Mark <MARK.WROTH@xxxxxxxxxxx>


>Speaking only for myself, as a user largely incapable of doing either, I
>would find either a Postscript or a PDF backend to Jade useful.

I'm currently in the very early stages of an *XSL* formatting/flow object to
PDF converter (just moved over to Python as my development language). I
can't imagine it would be too difficult to adapt the input interface to cope
with DSSSL flow objects, though.

James
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