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

Alastair Growcott wrote:
> 
> > W. Eliot Kimber
> >
> > FOP can only produce PostScript, which you would then distill
> > into PDF using Acrobat Distiller.
> 
> The Apache FOP home page says;
> 
> "Output formats currently supported are PDF, PCL, PS, SVG, XML (area
> tree representation), Print, AWT, MIF and TXT. The primary output target
> is PDF." (http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html)

My mistake. Then you can generate PDF directly using FOP.

But note that FOP has some serious limitations in its support for XSL
features, so depending on the nature of the presentations you need to
produce it may not meet your needs. At least the last time I evaluated
it (about 6 months ago, I think) it was quite slow compared to its
commercial competitors.

Cheers,

Eliot

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