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

[Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>]

At 10:37 PM 11/7/2001 +0800, John Voris wrote:
> Back around Oct 12th, there was discussion with L. Rosenthol about
> developing in Postscript.

        Could be ;).


> 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)

        I'm assuming he was showing off FOP (http://xml.apache.org/fop), 
yes?  It's an excellent tool, though there are others including RenderX 
(http://www.renderx.com).


>  -- This method in Java can also create Postscript
> documents.  (Pretty cool!)

        Correct.   Though why you would want to is a big question!


> The XML formatting document (type XSL) handles page formatting.

        The .xsl file contains the style sheet information that defines 
how the different pages will look (everything from page sizes and margins, 
to header/footer and content blocks).  But it's just a style sheet - it 
needs to be linked with content (usually via XSL-T) to generate a final 
XSL:FO document.


>  The  XSLT translating document can handle the loop through the data, so
> very little "real" programming is needed.

        True.


>  His servlet was only 2  pages of simple Java Servlet code.

        Then his servlet called on FOP (or RenderX) since the code for 
FOP/RenderX is HUGE - as you would expect for such a product...


Leonard


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