Subject: Re: Future of DSSSL: What about PDF? From: Carlos Villegas <cav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 13:56:09 +0900 |
Avi Kivity wrote: > document ---> dsssl engine <---> formatter ---> pdf/ps/win32 gdi/X I also thought this is the best approach to the problem. No trivial task. If the formatter can write to a format independent page description language, then it should be easy to write backends to the backend! > look at general-indirect-sosofo and page-model - I don't believe they can be > implemented via tex (they certainly can't be implemented via rtf) > As I understand the page-sequence FOs are not currently implemented by Jade. Though, James has said, implementing the front end part of it should be relatively easy, however no backend can currently support the DSSSL page model. Where can I get some examples on using the page-sequence FOs? It's difficult for me to understand how they should work from the spec. And since there are no tools to play with... I thought about attempting to design such a formatter some time ago. However, it's been only that, just an attempt! One of the key points, of course, is to implement the DSSSL page model and the synchronization flow objects from the start, then a simple-page-sequence would be implemented in terms of the more general page-sequence. There's no gain on not implementing the page model, we already have that. However, after reading the spec several times about the page model, I need some practical examples, to make sure I have the correct interpretation. Carlos Villegas Uniscope, Inc. "Ojos que no ven, corazon que no siente" DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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