On Fri, 9 May 2003 00:10:44 +0200 André Malo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...] > PDF creation (for print and big ones like the CHM files) is an outstanding > issue, which I hoped to solve with the fop processor. After a lot of tests > and trials I think the results are not sufficient for us at the current > state of the software. Doh! That sucks... > The processor supports just a small subset of the XSL-FO recommendation; > some of the missing things are just annonying and require manual workarounds > (e.g. no auto table layout), some things are not possible (handling orphans, > widows etc). Font handling seems also not sufficient to me. > (And I believe it would not be able to create a big PDF file, because of > "out of memory" or "burning CPU"). FOP has opinion of a "decent xml:fo engine". A lot of projects rely on it's capabilities (including DocBook XML). This is because from programmer perspective it allows (at least in theory) for simple and clean transition. Anyway, there's no point in using software that doesn't meet expectations, just because "it has cool concepts". Lets just fill some bug reports before we actually abandon the idea. > I'd suggest we take the other alternative, that was already proposed by > Joshua (?): tex. I'm not familiar with tex (just started to learn ;-), but > IIRC here are some people who are. If some of you could create a concept how > to represent our docs in tex (or latex macros), it would be fine. I can > easily contribute some XSLT, so that we can automate the way from xml to > pdftex. LaTeX/TeX for document creation is sort of a cannon against fly. It's big, pretty tricky to configure (even with texconfig) and takes a bit to learn. On the other hand it's just the right tool for the job. You can achieve just about any possible efect you could imagine. So if majority of people will go for TeX/LaTeX I'll try to help as much as my free time permits. regards, Jacek Prucia --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
