On 1/6/06, Glen Mazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Elliot wrote: > > >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. > > > That would IMHO be outside FOP's scope, as the input for Apache FOP is > an XML document in the XSL namespace. That's FOP's task at Apache. > Other software products may choose to embed Apache FOP as part of > something that you would like to see, but I think FOP's role in this > aspect should be merely to be very easy to be embedded in other > products, but not directly be that "other product" itself. > > Glen
Hi Glen, Sure that makes sense, FOP looks to be conceived as an Apache strength XSL-FO -> PDF formatting utility/library that implements W3C's XSL-FO standard - the end result being a library which task specific applications can then confidently leverage. Although, currently FOP supports a variety of input formats - notionally image/graphic data (BMP, EPS, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SVG or TIFF) - for inclusion during a render. Did this list of supported data formats evolve via contribution, or is it strictly specified by standard ? Many thanks, David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
