> Hi Manuel,
>
> Thank you for the tip, we will take a look at iText.  Although there
> would be benefits to a FOP engine that could accept XSL "includes" in
> PDF format.  Notably, that annotations (such as page numbering) can be
> contiguous for an entire output PDF document that was pieced together
> from multiple PDF input pages (as can be done now nicely with Apache
> FOP if your included input pages are in, say, TIFF or EPS format).
>

David,

yes I do understand why one would like such an integration. I am
personally not familiar enough with the PDF format to assess what would be
involved to be able to include a PDF document like an image into another
PDF document.

> Is there a forum where you can suggest possible features for
> consideration by the FOP team ?
>

IMO your best option is to keep this discussion on the fop-user mailing
list and hopefully this way collect some more feedback on your suggestion.

Of course you are more than welcome to give it a go and attempt an
implementation yourself. If you consider going down that track the fop-dev
mailing list is your best friend as that is were current and past FOP
developers are more than happy to lend a helping hand.

> Best Regards,
>
> David Elliot
>

Cheers

Manuel
>
>
> On 1/4/06, Manuel Mall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Hi FOP Users,
>> >
>>
>> I am not aware of any attempts to integrate something like this into
>> FOP.
>> Have you looked at possible post processing options using a library like
>> iText (http://www.lowagie.com/iText/) for example, that is let FOP
>> generate the initial PDF then use iText to append / insert pages from
>> the
>> other PDFs?
>>
>> Manuel
>>
>> > Apologies if this is a very common question - I have checked the FAQ!
>> >
>> > I know that you can embed (via <external-graphic> for example), the
>> > following file types: BMP, EPS, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SVG or TIFF during a
>> > FOP render.
>> >
>> > Is there any talk of "PDF" being supported as an additional "Input
>> > Format" for Apache FOP?  We would like to read in PDF input docs as
>> > part of a multi-attachment XML -> PDF render.
>> >
>> > I have seen a customized FOP library that uses the PJX libs to effect
>> > this - although this customized lib is somewhat buggy.
>> >
>> > Many thanks,
>> >
>> > Dave
>> >
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