Thanks all,
Yes, ghostscript came to mind. Quite honestly, I think my esteemed colleague
is just trying to poke holes in this "xml stuff." However, he raised a
valid question since most of our printers are not capable of printing
straight from pdf.
Harriet
-----Original Message-----
From: Uli Mayring [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 4:23 PM
To: 'Cocoon-Users
Subject: Re: Transformations to PS
rOn Wed, 13 Jun 2001, H. Whitlock wrote:
> I'm a newbie just beginning to pull together a transformation system (and
> later, dynamic web component)for my organization. I have started small,
> working with XSL to create only HTML and PDF formats. Today a coworker
asked
> me about generating Postscript. I blithely answered, "of course,"
thinking
> that PS comes before PDF. However, now that I think about it, I'm not sure
> if Cocoon's transformation tools can do this for me. We don't need
something
> formed for the browser or Adobe viewer, but rather something to go
straight
> to the printer without that interim processing. Any ideas?
Can't be done out of the box. You either have to write an equivalent to
fop, only for generating PostScript instead of PDF (but how to deal with
output device specific information??) or you convert the PDF put out by
fop to PostScript with some tool (GhostScript, Acrobat Reader etc.)
Ulrich
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Ulrich Mayring
DENIC eG, Softwareentwicklung
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