Re: [xsl] Office 2007, XSL-FO, and the Adobe "Save as PDF"

Subject: Re: [xsl] Office 2007, XSL-FO, and the Adobe "Save as PDF" (non)native-support...
From: Robert Koberg <rob@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 15:39:44 -0400

Rudolf P. Weinmann wrote:

Rick Quatro wrote:

The real question is, are there good, reliable tools for XSL-FO output to PDF?
Yes, there are quite a lot. See http://www.xslfo.info

He did ask for *good* tools (apache FOP is not a good tool, BTW).

I have some experience with publishing companies (more than most, I would bet) and they do not use tools to convert XML to PDF. If they are going to output to PDF they go straight to PDF and the /real/ source is long gone or in some proprietary binary format (probably most likely) when the document lives.

The real question is why use PDF. It sucks. MS Word or OO Write is better (not best).

-Rob

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