XMLSpy 4.1 has FO transformation built in as an option under the XSL menu. All you have to do is point it to FOP.bat. I guess you could call this a "visual tool". But I'm going to guess that what the original poster is looking for is some kind of a WYSIWIG PDF editor that manipulates the underlying FO? That would be a pretty intense project.
Do you think Adobe will ever implement a built-in fop processor? The Acrobat plug-in could come to life any time the browser comes across a .fo file, just like it does now when it sees a .pdf. Any pages that require precise coloring, layout, pagination, etc. would be candidates for conversion from html to fo. Definitely some interesting possibilities here. I suppose people could be doing the same thing now if they have Exchange, but when you can make little changes through a text editor it's a lot more convenient. You'd think they'd be all for it since it could drastically increase PDF viewing on the web. Although I guess it could cut into sales of their full-version Acrobat (what used to be called Exchange). So what part of it would they sell? Hmmm. Can even they do this within the licensing rules of this project? -Matt > -----Original Message----- > From: Charles Palmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 1:56 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: no visual tool for FOP? > > > Hi team > > This is also something I am curious about. Here are two > embryonic ideas - > can anyone see any merit in them? > > 1 XMLSpy seems to have the ability to convert a Word > document to XML. Could > XSLT be used to transform this XML to FO, and thence to PDF? > Then Word could > be used as the "visual tool". > > 2 Sun's new Star Office apparently saves files as XML (see > http://xml.coverpages.org/starOfficeXML.html ). Could the > word processor > from StarOffice be used as the "visual tool"? > > By the way, XMLSpy mentions support or fop - does anyone have > experience > with this? > > Regards - > Charles Palmer > > Technical Director, DSP Design Ltd > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 7 Tapton Park Innovation Centre, Brimington Rd, Chesterfield > S41 0TZ, UK > ph: +44 (0) 1246 545 918 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
