> I was working on the same problem and have been told of a
> java utility to
> convert XSL formatted XML into PDF:
>
> http://xml.apache.org/fop/
>
> I have not tried it yet and I suppose it seems like the long
> way round - but
> if you are using XML as a format it might be your solution.
>
> Another drawback might be that the XSL specification is not
> yet stable and
> could change considerably. I would be interested in what you
> find out.
FOP is actually a very useful tool and while I haven't worked with
it for a while it is quite robust. The only main problems I had
with it were:
* On large dataset documents it would grind to a halt.
* If a entity was too large for a single page things would get messed up.
I know from keeping an eye on the fop-dev list that the speed thing
has improved in recent releases and there have been multiple discussions
of the splitting algorithm over the past couple of months, but I haven't
paid real close attention to those.
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Michael Wentzel
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