RE: FOP - what, where, when, how?

> In fact, I have transformed some very large documents via 
> XLST to XSLFO and 
> then process to PDF using RenderX' Java-based XEP renderer.  On a 
> 3-year-old laptop (300MHz Pentium, 256MB memory, Win2K), I 
> can process a 
> several-hundred page document from XML to PDF in under 5 
> minutes, which is 
> pretty reasonable, IMHO.
> 

I have been following this thread with some interest because, although I
plan (eventually) to add the ability to generate PDFs to my XML-based
content management system. Right now, I mostly generate HTML, but I've been
constructing this system to not be specific to any one rendering mechanism.

Basically, I had planned to use XSL-FO to generate intermediate files and
distill them using Acrobat automatically. However, I don't want to do that
"on-demand", but rather when necessary, and simply store the resulting PDF
on a web server, file server, FTP server, etc depending on where I was
sending data. Users could then access these stored PDFs and I could update
them as necessary.

Does this seem like a reasonable solution? I have no need (currently or
anticipated) to generate PDF "on-demand", but from my reading of this
thread, I could do that with FOP if I have a burning need for it.

Regards and thanks,

Corey Snow

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