J. Knisley wrote: > We’re interested in using your “XMLmind XSL-FO Converter” product for > one of our customer implementations. We’ve already done some preliminary > testing with your trial/personal version online and really liked the > results. > > I was curious if you already have a command line version of the > converter…that can take an .fo file to output a word document? If you > don’t we would plan to use your .net library to create our own.
Of course, we have fo2rtf.exe, fo2docx.exe, fo2odt.exe, etc. See http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/_distrib/doc/dotnet/user/command_line_dotnet.html You'll find these command-line utilities in this distribution: http://www.xmlmind.net/foconverter/_download/xfc_perso_dotnet-4_6_0.zip > > Our customer created all of their documents as “Apache FOP” XSL-FO > files. Well, we ourselves write a lot of XSLT stylesheets which generate XSL-FO. And we never, ever, target a specific XSL-FO processor when we do this. Instead we refer to this standard (XSL 1.0 and not XSL 1.1) http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/ and then, we test our work against RenderX XEP, Apache FOP and XMLmind XSL-FO Converter. (We would love to do the same with Antenna House but we don't have it yet.) We have found mandatory to pass a fo-processor parameter (with "XEP", "FOP" and "XFC" as its value) to our XSLT stylesheets because *all* XSL-FO processors have their limitations. Example: FOP does not support automatic layout for tables, which is *very* annoying. Example: XFC has serious limitations with borders outside tables. Example: XEP has a problem with vertical spacing which makes it quite hard to have lists containing paragraphs look good. > I’m interested in any tips you may have to reduce the amount of > time we may need to take to ensure the documents look good when run > through the “XMLmind XSL-FO Converter”. We did have to do some work to > make sure the documents looked good when run through either Apache FOP > or your word converter. > As explained above, we don't have any special tip other than not design an XSLT stylesheet for a specific XSL-FO processor. However, from time to time, we have to refer to http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/conformance.html avoid loosing our time with XFC. Yes, even us, we have to do that! -- XMLmind FO Converter Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xfc-support
