RE: Future of DSSSL: What about PDF?

[Avi Kivity <Avi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, March 04, 1999 22:58, Didier PH Martin
[SMTP:martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> Do you think that a PDF backend for a DSSSL engine is something that
> can be
> useful? To be more precise, having PDF output from a DSSSL script
> processing.

A tightly coupled 'mid-end', or formatter, is highly desirable, to support
non-simple page-sequences and generated flow objects.
Various back ends (pdf, postscript, X, win32 gdi) should be easy to attach
to the formatter since they implement essentially the same model.

Once you get to the page description level the format no longer affects
output quality (correct me if I am wrong), so the format should not matter.
There are near-lossless converters for the formats specified above.
 
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