-----Original Message----- From: Chris Bowditch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 10 August 2004 6:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AFP Renderer
Glen Mazza wrote: > There are already other AFP Renderers for FOP > 0.20.5--actually Hansuli has it in our resources page: > > http://xml.apache.org/fop/resources.html I agree with Pete here - this AFP renderer is too disjointed and has a few limitations which make it too unpractical. > > And--amazing what Google searches turn up--Keiron also > created one for FOP apparently: > > http://www.aftexsw.com/personal/resume.html Interesting, I never knew that either! Well I did it for an internal project and was never allowed to release the code so it has remained unchanged and closed for some time now. I still believe that all is needed is for someone to start put the code into the public. The basic format (although binary and a bit difficult to understand) is not that hard once you get the idea. I wouldn't think there are any licensing issues since the format specs are available in to the public. > > But if you wish to donate code to the ASF, you are > welcome to submit it as a patch--in either 0.20.5 or > 1.0 format. (I caution though that the 1.0 rendering > system architecturally is not finalized.) We can > possibly leverage it along with the others in the > future. > > The fact that we don't have native support for it > already, however, could mean that there were licensing > issues involved with its inclusion (or the fonts it > uses, perhaps). This may be an IBM-only technology > for which you must use IBM-only products--I don't > know. I dont think there are any licensing issues. AFP is a widely used print format. I have worked on software products dealing with AFP before. Chris
