On 12/17/2015 08:40 AM, Feargal Hogan wrote: > Hi > > I have downloaded and installed the latest stable version and am reviewing it > as an alternative to ID. > > A few questions: > 1) Is it suitable for long document production? > 2) Is the SLA file format documented somewhere? > 3) Is it possible to import XML format text? I note that html import is > supported. Do i need to convert my XML to XHTML rather than import directly? > 4) Is there any documentation on supported HTML flavours? >
1) Long is a relative thing, of course, but once you get beyond 30 pages of text, things can slow down. This is a rendering issue for the glyphs. Typically, the recommendation is to break up your document to smaller parts, then use some sort of utility to stitch the PDFs together. There seem to be a number of utilities available for that purpose. 3) XML is not going to work, and even HTML has limitations. It will mainly handle relatively simple tags such as headings, bold, italic, paragraph. Don't expect it to handle tabular structures; I'm not sure about lists, probably not. 4) There is some minimal documentation in the online manual, but it doesn't say much more than I have above. Importing some test files should give you more specifics. For example, it should handle <b>, but does it also handle <strong>? There is some documentation on the SLA format, hopefully someone else knows where it is. Greg
