Re: [iText-questions] Re: merging two libraries

2002-03-12 Thread alex
At 14:27 12/03/02, Keiron Liddle wrote: > > FOP behaves exactly the same but instead of having its own pdf > generation code then iText is > used as a library to generate pdf. I agree that if anything iText could be considered as a "plugin" for PDF generation and FOP as an XSL:FO processor whi

Re: [iText-questions] Re: merging two libraries

2002-03-12 Thread Keiron Liddle
That sounds like a good suggestion. To start with I think we should consider only this: FOP behaves exactly the same but instead of having its own pdf generation code then iText is used as a library to generate pdf. So the questions are: - is the license useable - is the api sufficient for FOP

RE: [iText-questions] Re: merging two libraries

2002-03-12 Thread Paulo Soares
I'm not oposed to integration with FOP but what I fear is that FOP is essentially a XML project and iText would end up without a usable API to generate PDF without XML.I don't know if rather than being complementary (in the cooperative sense) , FOP and iText are too completely different approaches