Re: PDF transforms (was: Re: File prefix again)

2002-12-23 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 02:18, Kevin O'Neill wrote: It would be possible to do some work with Fop so that it can: - convert xsl:fo to paged xml Is the paged XML a new or existing format? A new format for now at least. It is possible there will be a w3c defined format.

AW: PDF transforms (was: Re: File prefix again)

2002-12-23 Thread J.U. Anderegg
Hi Keiron, On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 02:18, Kevin O'Neill wrote: Is the paged XML a new or existing format? A new format for now at least. It is possible there will be a w3c defined format. Please give some pointer to w3c activities in this area. What is this thing exactly supposed to do?

Re: PDF transforms (was: Re: File prefix again)

2002-12-21 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Hi Keiron On 20.12.2002 09:41:52 Keiron Liddle wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 21:15, Jeremias Maerki wrote: All cool, but how exactly is that better than having a PDF template that is stitched behind or in front of the FOP result using iText or PJ? Works well. Ok, PDF reading with our own

Re: PDF transforms (was: Re: File prefix again)

2002-12-21 Thread Kevin O'Neill
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 18:05, Keiron Liddle wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 15:23, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: I don't get this. How can PDFs be transformed? There are Java libraries that read PDFs. What would be really cool is to have a reader or something like it that uses a PDF as a

Re: PDF transforms (was: Re: File prefix again)

2002-12-20 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 21:15, Jeremias Maerki wrote: All cool, but how exactly is that better than having a PDF template that is stitched behind or in front of the FOP result using iText or PJ? Works well. Ok, PDF reading with our own library is a bonus as is better XML output for debugging.

Re: PDF transforms (was: Re: File prefix again)

2002-12-19 Thread Jeremias Maerki
All cool, but how exactly is that better than having a PDF template that is stitched behind or in front of the FOP result using iText or PJ? Works well. Ok, PDF reading with our own library is a bonus as is better XML output for debugging. But I don't see any immediate need for this at the moment

PDF transforms (was: Re: File prefix again)

2002-12-18 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 15:23, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: I don't get this. How can PDFs be transformed? There are Java libraries that read PDFs. What would be really cool is to have a reader or something like it that uses a PDF as a template. Using FOP for just filling out forms is