Re: future of FOP

2005-03-07 Thread Chris Bowditch
Jeremias Maerki wrote: I understand that IBM is quite big in the document business. It would be very interesting if IBM committed to supporting FOP like they do for other open source projects here at the Apache Software Foundation. As far as I know IBM even has its own implementation of XSL-FO alt

Re: future of FOP

2005-03-07 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Michael, if you follow the fop-dev mailing list you will realize that the development has not come to a stand-still. It is true that the last release is almost two years old. We're in a redesign phase which tries to address exactly the issue of keeps among other things. The redesign took a lot lon

future of FOP

2005-03-07 Thread Michael Iwaniewicz
Dear FOP developers, we are a big sw-development and decided recently to change or old "bookmaster/afp" based print component to XSL-FO. As part of our solution we started to use FOP but run into formatting problems in the area of the "keep-together" and "keep-with-next" options. We got the imp