[PLUG] Developing in Post Script ... back in October

["John Voris" <jvoris@axs2000.net>]

Back around Oct 12th, there was discussion with L. Rosenthol about 
developing in Postscript.

At the Philly JUG Weds night, Chad Darby spoke on creating .PDF files 
on the fly from a Java Servlet using XSL-FO (XML Style Language - 
Formatting Object) -- This method in Java can also create Postscript 
documents.  (Pretty cool!)

The XML formatting document (type XSL) handles page formatting.  The 
XSLT translating document can handle the loop through the data, so 
very little "real" programming is needed.  His servlet was only 2 
pages of simple Java Servlet code.


> On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 12:34:37PM -0400, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: >
> 	First and foremost, PS is a page description language ...
>  And Second, PS is a full blown programming language with 
> variables, loops, conditionals, etc.  That allows for some AMAZING 
 
> I know that I read an article in Java Pro a few months back where a
> programmer was using a Javabased XML-code generating tool called
> Javacc to build XML translators.  This would allow PostScript codes
> to be translated into XML and back, simplifying maintenance and
> comprehension.
 

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