Fred Janon wrote:
I just started looking at FOP, therefore I don't really understand what it can or cannot do.
Think of FOP as an abstraction on top of other page description languages like Postscript or TeX. It exists because it's more convenient to perform automatic manipulations on the pages in XSL-FO format than in these more programmer-oriented languages. It also makes multiple output formats from a single source format possible.
I would like to know if FOP with a custom extension could generate Gantt charts?
I'm sure there are many people who would find such a generator useful, but it's not something that belongs in FOP itself. FOP is not concerned with any particular data, or message. This is just like asking whether Firefox should have a Gantt extension. Where the answer there would be to generate HTML and PNGs and such, the answer here is to write your Gantt generator to create XSL-FO, which you may then translate into something else with FOP or any other XSL-FO processor that you later come to use.
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