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Elliot wrote: > However, if cost and/or throughput speed are an important business issue, > you may find that you can either compromise a bit on layout and typography > and apply FO at a much lower cost/faster turnaround or take advantage of > proprietary extensions to meet typographic requirements. But this requires a > careful, detailed analysis of the typographic and layout requirements of a > given publication to determine if FO can meet requirements. We use xsl-fo to generate course materials (in a "book" format) and have found there are two main difficulties that we cannot surmount. One of them is the keep-with-next is not up to par and the other is the way it treats graphics--although this may be a pdf issue that we are just more aware of now that we're generating with xsl-fo. We haven't come across anyone else experiencing this (inconsistent resizing of graphics and failure of the process when a graphic ends up being too big!) so we are looking for work-arounds. In general, we have definitely found that you have to live with the downsides in order to output complex publications with xsl-fo. > For automating higher typographic quality, the Typefi product (an InDesign > plug in) offers excellent value, although it's initial cost is high (on the > order 50K USD). Likewise, you can do significant automation with Arbortext > Advanced Publisher (3B2) and XyVision XPP, but at a similar or greater cost > than Typefi. And now...I'm off to check out Typfi! Thanks :) Julie
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