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Re: [PLUG] Developing in Post Script ... back in October
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On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 10:46:40PM -0700, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> At 10:37 PM 11/7/2001 +0800, John Voris wrote:
> >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).
fop is great, but it's still an "early access" sorta release. There
are some common things that fop doesn't support *yet*, such as tables.
renderx is supposed to be a much better XSL-FO -> PDF converter, except
that it's a commercial tool. (Not that expensive, but worth the money
I understand).
IBM recently released an XSL-FO converter. Haven't checked into it yet.
Keep in mind that the XSL specification is weeks old, and has
changed during it's lifetime. Typically, reaching W3C recommendation
status is key, and conforming implementations begin to appear weeks
to months after the recommendation is released. So, if there aren't
any (open source) tools that meed your needs for XSL-FO today, they
should be arriving *REAL SOON NOW*. :-)
Z.
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