Subject: Re: [xsl] Office 2007, XSL-FO, and the Adobe "Save as PDF" (non)native-support... From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 21:20:39 -0400 |
I assume yes... But I'm not qualified to answer this. The connection that I originally made that caused the desire to ping this list was based on the simple notion that I do know that XSL-FO is used to create PDF documents. Unfortunately my experience with the FO side of XSL is limited... REALLY limited.
My thought was "If there is information that is valuable to a publisher (e.g. meta-data such as that associated with citations) and this information can be embedded into a PDF document using standard citation style footnotes and such, then does the fact that the new XML format allows for ease of extension (and as such, allows the ability to easily embed meta-data during a copy/paste operation) + the ability to "Save as PDF..." + the connection that FO has to PDF = Opportunity for the XSL-FO community?
However, your point now has me wondering... is XSL-FO as embedded into the printing industry as I (incorrectly?) assumed it was?
Again, this is all fairly new territory to me... Initially this seemed like a question best answered by a G. Ken Holman or a Norm Walsh-type expert, but it seems you also have quite a bit of experience in this area as well...
Have I connected the wrong technology dots?
Does providing the ability to save a Word document as PDF natively, out-of-the-box (apparently they will counteract the apparent demand by Adobe by providing the support as a separate download) provide even greater opportunity for XSL-FO by increasing the number of PDF documents, or does it hurt XSL-FO my making it less relevant to the needs of the printing industry?
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