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Subject: Re: Formatting Objects considered harmful
From: "Scott S. Lawton" <ssl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 20:18:38 -0400
scott lawton prefab 2006
>I just honestly can't
>understand why someone would want to implement either XSL FO-only documents
>or software. What'd be in it for them?

OK, role playing.  Let's say I'm a "page layout artist" who uses
QuarkXPress to create printed pages that look *exactly* as I want.  I like
printing to PDF and posting those to the web, 'cause it's easy and I get to
control how it looks.  (I tried using HTML but can never get it to look
right -- plus it's tons of extra work.)  But, some people complain that
they don't like PDFs.  So, I look around and find a plug-in for QuarkXPress
that outputs to something called an FO.  And, amazingly enough, it looks
pretty close to my printed page in all the recent browsers that I check.
Great!  Now I can continue to produce documents using existing tools and
output a standard format that WC3-blessed browsers display like I want them
to display.

...

>What've they got that PDF et al. ain't got?

They work in any browser.

cheers,

-- SSL, PreFab Software <http://www.prefab.com/>



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