Subject: Re: XSL FO -> PDF From: Michael Smith <smith@xxxxxx> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 07:05:26 -0500 |
On Thursday, July 13, 2000, Rhonda Fischer wrote: > I have been assigned the task of assessing an appropriate tool > to generate PDF files from XSL FO. I am hoping to receive some > input on your preferred solution and features that you > appreciate and/or find frustrating. > > I am keen to recommend a product that is supported and continues > to be developed with updates issued and is very much platform > independant, using Java. I am working on Linux-i686-2.2.16 > using SAXON. Apache's Coccon/FOP meets your criteria. I've had some experience with it, and I'm really looking forward to seeing it mature. It has the potential to make everything fast and cheap: Web server stores your XML source along with an XSL stylesheet, and serves up PDF dynamically on user demand -- with built-in caching. But at this point, in my environment at least, the performance is unacceptable with the "real" documents I ran through it (small- to modest-sized stuff marked up in DocBook). For comparison purposes, you might check out Arbortext's Epic e-Content Engine: http://www.arbortext.com/Products/Selection_Guide/E3/e3.html It doesn't meet your platform-independenrce criterion, therefore almost certainly is not 100% Java (although at least some of it is Java), is up at the high end in cost, and may for all I know just be vaporware at this point. But as far as I can tell from their product literature, the intention at least is completely XSL-based -- that is, not realized through proprietary (non-XML) means, OmniMark, or any other print-transformation relic from the olden days. -- Mike Smith -- Michael Smith ... smith@xxxxxx XML-DOC mailing list ... http://www.egroups.com/group/xml-doc/ For discussing applications of XML to technical documentation. Subscribe: ... xml-doc-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxx XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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