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> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Andy Joslin > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 5:44 PM > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: FOP - what, where, when, how? > > > >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. > > > Recent builds of FOP are pretty darn good IMHO and can produce > excellent results. I'm pretty sure FOP now supports all of the > XSL:FO spec (which was only finalised in October 2001). It also > has SVG support and font embedding, so you can achieve quite a > high standard of presentation with a little bit of effort :-) For instance, last time I checked (around 6 weeks ago) it didn't support automatic table column sizing. Very annoying. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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