Subject: Re: XML+XSL transforms to a print-ready format From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:54:53 +0100 (BST) |
Paul Tchistopolskii writes: > > It is available. It is not available in the form of > 'evaluation version'. If you want to bye it - > you can. Contact our sales and they'l start > dancing around you. I apologize. When I asked in the summer, someone (you?) said it was not yet available. Since I had not seen any announcement, I checked the Web site, and it did not give me any clue that fo2pdf was for sale. I assumed it would quote price, platforms, availability, requirements, specification etc etc. > There is one easy way to make it even open-source. I was not actually asking for open source. Please don't get me wrong, I am NOT criticizing RenderX for making a commercial product. > If somebody will provide comparable functionality - working on it... > The content on RenderX website should be > correct. If you can point me to the wrong information > written anywhere there - I'l appreciate greatly. It is not wrong anywhere that I can see. just incomplete.... (ie I want to read about avialablility, pricing etc) > As to the wording - if you send me some particular > comments by e-mail, I'l forward your thoughts > to marketing and they may change the wording. I was not being terribly serious > Maybe I was wrong when pointing somebody > who has asked about FO's to our > demonstration ? not at all. most helpfil > Is there realy anything wrong on www.renderx.com > that is worth discussing it here, in a technical > mailing-list ? nope. > > b) there remains much to do > > Yes. As usual and always. I think people who are writing > HTML browsers *still* have *many* things to do. > Don't they? um, whats the relevance of that? > What is the point here ? correct me if I am wrong, but you don't seem to have tackled tables yet. to me, thats so crucial I cannot regard a product without it as seriously useful. > > Could you please provide the .fo stream to be considered > "a really convincing example of table formatting"? Just in case.... > no, sorry, I don't have any good examples to hand. i am sure others do. Norm Walsh's Docbook test documents have some reasonable things > > and when I can buy or otherwise acquire a copy of fo2pdf, > > Maybe you can right now. Contact our sales. Unfortunately, > it is not available to students, for example. er, why ever not??? why would you NOT sell to me on the basis of my profession?? (not that I am a student) > "We are bulding a new Netscape, but not a new Mozaic if > you know enough to understand the difference". you are building a new web browser? i would not have guessed it from the web site. > renderx is mostly typical 'commercial' website. > The level of bullshit there is not too high, true. not sure that two wrongs make a right, but i take the point. > > PS remember the old adage "if their web site is not valid HTML, don't buy > > from them"? Paul, you might want to pass by validator.w3.org :-} > > Our .fo streams are much more valid than it could be, i am talking about the HTML of your Web site itself, not your .fos, which are of course excellent > Maybe I'm stupid. on the other hand, maybe I am. Sebastian XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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