Several questions about FOP
Hi all, i've got several questions about PDF generation with FOP. We want to use a open-source implementation of XSL-FO in our project, but stumbled across several open topics. Perhaps you can help us with these: 1) Can one use FOP on a host-environment, ie. IBM mainframe computers, or does EBCDIC somehow cause problems 2) Can one use font A, even is font A is _not_ installed on a client? Is this done automatically when rendering the PDF, or do I have to include additional fonts somehow in the PDF? 3) Is linearilazation possible, ie. displaying the first page while loading the rest? In Acrobat Reader, this can be queried in the File- Document Info-General-Optimized = true|false 4) How well does FOP perform in comparision to other XSL-FO implementations? Thanks for your time in advance, Sebastian Will
Re: Several questions about FOP
Hi FOPers, thanks for all the good advice you gave to me. I will report on any suceeds or failures in case we will use FOP in our projects to the list, if anyone is interested. Regards, Sebastian Will - Original Message - From: John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 12:09 AM Subject: Re: Several questions about FOP 1) Can one use FOP on a host-environment, ie. IBM mainframe computers, or does EBCDIC somehow cause problems FOP is written in Java and Java uses UNICODE for characters. I know better than to suggest that EBCDIC won't be problematic but in theory it's not supposed to be a problem. Although it's been a while since I served on a battleship ;-) I understand that Big Blue now provide Linux on the Operating Systems formerly known as MVS and/or VM.
