Re: [xsl] What's the fastest XSL-FO renderer out there...

["W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@xxxxxxxxxx>]

roger.wyatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I intend to use XSL-FO to generate potentially tens of  thousands of pages
> in PDF format.  Not necessarily all in one go, probably a couple of hundred
> at a time.  I am testing all my scripts using FOP which I have noted is
> rather slow.

XSL Formatter 3.0 claims to be optimized for speed and to be quite 
faster than XSL Formatter 2.x. It seemed to be so in the few tests I 
ran, but I didn't put it head to head against XEP. Unfortunatly, XSL 
Formatter 3.0 still lacks a few key features, so it may not be usable 
for all FO applications.

Advent's 3B2 formatter is very fast, so I would expect their FO 
implementation to be fast as well (depending on how they've implemented 
the mapping from FO constructs to the 3B2 typesetting language, but I 
haven't had a chance to test it yet.

Cheers,

E.
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W. Eliot Kimber
Innodata Isogen
eliot@xxxxxxxxxx
www.isogen.com


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