Re: RE: Commercial Documents
Any clues on how you achieve crop marks and bleeds? quoting.. pascal sanchos -- Our customers expect now more and more, so we can produce Hi quality PDF that are used for professional printing, including crop marks and bleeds (yes, FOP can do that, either v 0.20.5), etc... -- This message was sent on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] at openSubscriber.com http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org/4603489.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Commercial Documents
As Chris already said, FOP doesn't have anything built-in, yet, for this. But other have managed by experimenting (Block-containers and SVG). You'll find some information when you search the mailing list archives: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/maillist.html#fop-user-archive On 16.08.2006 16:10:40 andyrob_24_7 wrote: Any clues on how you achieve crop marks and bleeds? quoting.. pascal sanchos -- Our customers expect now more and more, so we can produce Hi quality PDF that are used for professional printing, including crop marks and bleeds (yes, FOP can do that, either v 0.20.5), etc... Jeremias Maerki - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RE: Commercial Documents
Would you be able to outline how you achieve crops and bleeds. This is something I thought was not possible in FOP, any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Sample xml-fo would be ideal. thanks in advance andy r -- This message was sent on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] at openSubscriber.com http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org/4603489.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Commercial Documents
Also, do you need to pay for a licence to use the FOP engine. Or is that just if you want to embed the code? -- This message was sent on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] at openSubscriber.com http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org/4598678.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RE: Commercial Documents
So you write content for your reports and sales docs in HTML then transform? Do you ever combine multiple html files into one pdf? -- This message was sent on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] at openSubscriber.com http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org/4599562.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Commercial Documents
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Are people using FOP to generate pdf documents for commercial purposes? How successful has this been. What are the cost savings of this route? Hi Andy, We hardly use FOP since 2003 with very great satisfaction in a commercial environment. Our customers expect now more and more, so we can produce Hi quality PDF that are used for professional printing, including crop marks and bleeds (yes, FOP can do that, either v 0.20.5), etc... IMO, the main advantages of FOP are: - high flexibility (we always find a solution to a specific request); - high availability (we can include FOP in various solutions); - great community help solidarity (no price for that!); - very very active project; - etc. Final pricing depends on how you imagine your solution: when combined to an easy-to-use dtd, an easy-to-use back-office, and simple principles of writing, you should be able to free more than 50%. Pascal - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Commercial Documents
Andy: We have used FOP (since 0.18) for all of our report and document generation and have been very happy with the feature set and support from this group. Some of the docs we produce using FOP: Bills of Lading Manifests FCRs Commercial Invoices Export Decs (US and Chinese) Contracts We also produce several hundred different reports using FOP and its peripheral technology base (Xalan, Batik, etc.) and have little or no complaints from our customer base. If you need more or want some examples, email me offline and I can provide them to you. -Lou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/03/2006 12:33:26 PM: Are people using FOP to generate pdf documents for commercial purposes? How successful has this been. What are the cost savings of this route? thanks Andy -- This message was sent on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] at openSubscriber.com http://www.opensubscriber.com/messages/[EMAIL PROTECTED] org/topic.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Commercial Documents
Hi Andy, we are currently in the process of migrating about 30 branchoffices to a new software. I wrote an xml based documentserver [1] which is using fop (0.20.5) for printing and previewing reports. We have printed about some 10,000 invoices, orders and all kind of business papers since then and I am really happy with that solution. We used Crystal Reports before and in my opinion nearly solutions with fop are faster and better - but sometimes I had to modify/extend fop (which is one of the reasons, I hesistate to change to the new Version...) [1] http://documentserver.sourceforge.net/ (Be careful, information on the page is somewhat outdated - as always;-) Holger Am Donnerstag, 3. August 2006 18:33 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Are people using FOP to generate pdf documents for commercial purposes? How successful has this been. What are the cost savings of this route? thanks Andy -- This message was sent on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] at openSubscriber.com http://www.opensubscriber.com/messages/fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org/top ic.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Commercial Documents
Yessir. I help my clients create systems that use FOP for commercial output. We've been hugely successful, producing books as large as 2,000 pages. My clients and their customers are very satisfied with FOP (though many of them don't even know FOP exists, since it works behind the scenes from their point of view). The cost of any software package is trivial next to the cost of development time (both writing and programming), so I can't say that using an open-source processor like FOP saves a lot of money. However, I can't sufficiently emphasize the value of the FOP community. I've never yet had an issue for which I didn't get help in a hurry. Generally, if I have a question, I post and get more than one helpful message within 24 hours (often much less). I never get that kind of support from any company, even though I paid for their product. Jay Bryant Bryant Communication Services - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 11:33 AM Subject: Commercial Documents Are people using FOP to generate pdf documents for commercial purposes? How successful has this been. What are the cost savings of this route? thanks Andy -- This message was sent on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] at openSubscriber.com http://www.opensubscriber.com/messages/fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org/topic.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Commercial Documents
Yes, I am using it in a product for occasional reports, but mostly for sales documents. I used to do them in HTML, but the inconsistencies between one browser and another drove me nuts! PDF may not be exactly the same everywhere, but it is a huge improvement. I like the pdf format because I can email, fax or print from within the program and all customers can read it. So far, creating the documents is rather slow (up to 10 seconds/doc), but I am doing this on a Windows network using a batch file. As I get a bit deeper into Java I can probably speed things up, but I'm a complete novice now. The support on this NG is VERY good. The advantage for my client is to be able to email invoices rather than send by mail. In the US, and probably everywhere, postage is becoming a major expense. Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 10:33 AM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: Commercial Documents Are people using FOP to generate pdf documents for commercial purposes? How successful has this been. What are the cost savings of this route? thanks Andy -- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
