On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Patrick Andries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have busy evaluated the FO technology and I would like to hear from > people that are using it for real-life business needs. > > What kind of documents are they using it with ? What volume ? Embedding > it in servlets ? How do they cope with the "speed" ? How do they justify > using FO to their bosses ?
I am keeping an eye on FOP for a documentation project I'm working on. However, it doesn't yet meet the needs of the project. Project characteristics are delivery of a PDF version of a programming manual. Software is a commerical API with some 400 functions. each function has a "man" page to itself. There's also tutorial material (estimated at 200 pages or so) plus man pages for internal data structures. This is all marked up according to the DocBook DTD and (for contractual reasons) will be processed using the associated style sheets created by Norm Walsh. At the moment this is looking like we have to use the DSSSL stylesheets to create an RTF intermediary file and then distill from that. Personally I'd rather use FOP than go via Distiller. The SVG capabilities of FOP would be useful to have. Sadly the tests we've done show that 0.20 isn't ready for such a task, either in terms of resources or support for the latest DocBook XSLT scripts. If the only problem were the time to process the document then I could live with that; the production of the PDF will only be undertaken every six months. Regards, Trevor British Sign Language is not inarticulate handwaving; it's a living language. Support the campaign for formal recognition by the British government now! Details at http://www.fdp.org.uk/ or http://www.bsl-march.co.uk/ -- <>< Re: deemed! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]