Is it possible to use iText for post-FOP processing like encryption or adding conditional text based on page breaks?
"New, Cecil (GEAE)" wrote: > > My suggestion was *not* to merge the two! > > iText is a Java API with a document creation focus. In this day and age, > XSL:FO can be viewed as just another document type - in the same way that > more proprietary or older formats are (that is, PDF, RTF, etc.). > > Now XSL:FO is different in that you can't just double click on one and see > something. But the FOP project comes close. > > Making iText (optionally) output xsl:fo would greatly extend its potential > applications and make it squarely standards based. > > I would like to think that someday, StarOffice, Wordperfect, etc. would > either natively use xsl:fo as their file storage format or at least be able > to import it. > > Having something like iText that *programatically* create documents is very > exciting! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Keiron Liddle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 3:53 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [iText-questions] Re: merging two libraries > > Hi, > > From the archives it appears that the discussion on the fop-dev list was > about 2 years ago (no apparent refusal though). It is certainly time to > revisit. > > From the small amount of information I know about iText it would appear > to be a more advanced pdf library. > I don't know what the license issues might be. > > What sort of joining forces are you proposing? > > Please send to the fop-dev list for further discussion. > > Regards, > Keiron. > > On 2002.03.12 09:27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I'm not familiar with FOP, but I can't help noticing > > that people are moving from FOP to iText and vice versa. As original > > developer of iText, a JAVA-PDF library, I already > > proposed you guys at Apache twice to join forces and to combine > > both libraries. I now subscribe to this mailing list only to > > ask you a third time to reconsider your refusal. Please read these mails > > from some iText/FOP users: > > http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/8175/0/8071577/ > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/itext-questions%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg00491 > > > .html Please send your answers to the iText mailing list. > > You don't need to subscribe, I will pass them through. > > Remark: sorry, but due to the lack of time to read all > > my mail as it is, I will now unsubscribe from the FOP > > mailing list. kind regards, > > Bruno Lowagie > > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
