It's okay for making initial designs, but you can't reverse engineer with it (reading hand-made FO templates), and because of that, IMHO, it has no real power.
Wouter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Sweeney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 6:02 PM Subject: RE: Free Visual tool for making fo files I tried XSLFast, it crashed the WHOLE machine (Windows XP) within about 2 minutes of using it. After the reboot and the 2nd crash I gave up on it. If anyone has had more luck with it I'd be interested in how good it is. Richard -----Original Message----- From: Chris Bowditch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 May 2004 09:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Free Visual tool for making fo files Juan Manuel Bellina wrote: > I need to make a report in PDF file, so I want to know > if there is a free XSL Template Designer to make my fo > file in a simple way, some kind of visual tool that > help me with this job. The only free tool I know of is FOA (Formatting Objects Author). There are a couple of commercial products, but none of them are very good. I find them more of a hinderence than a help, but please judge them for yourself: FOA http://foa.sourceforge.net/ Commercial http://www.xslfast.com Chris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
