Scott Prentice wrote:

> 
> If your PDF layout requirements are very simple, XSL-FO *may* be a good option
> for you. ...

> In my opinion, FO is good for high volume and moderate to low PDF formatting
> requirements. Yes, you can make it do most of what you can do with Frame, but 
> it'll
> require a huge amount of coding and effort. I have seen people spend well over
> $200K on FO development over many years to achieve moderate looking PDFs.
> Something that might take a week to develop with FrameMaker. 

That's not been my experience with FO templating. I've seen FO templating take 
maybe 1.5-3x as long as in FrameMaker. $200k sounds more like they developed an 
entire formatting engine.

Harro de Jong
Triview
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