RE: [xsl] FOP - what, where, when, how?

["Julian Reschke" <julian dot reschke at gmx dot de>]

> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Andy Joslin
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 5:44 PM
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: RE: [xsl] FOP - what, where, when, how?
>
>
> >But note that FOP has some serious limitations in its support for XSL
> >features, so depending on the nature of the presentations you need to
> >produce it may not meet your needs. At least the last time I evaluated
> >it (about 6 months ago, I think) it was quite slow compared to its
> >commercial competitors.
>
>
> Recent builds of FOP are pretty darn good IMHO and can produce
> excellent results. I'm pretty sure FOP now supports all of the
> XSL:FO spec (which was only finalised in October 2001). It also
> has SVG support and font embedding, so you can achieve quite a
> high standard of presentation with a little bit of effort :-)

For instance, last time I checked (around 6 weeks ago) it didn't support
automatic table column sizing. Very annoying.


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