Subject: AW: [xsl] FO Processor choice From: Ronald Kent Gibson <Kent.Gibson@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 13:06:07 +0100 |
We use and sell DOPEFO. Its greatest advantage is its speed and wide spectrum of output streams. In answer to your question "is FOP a realistic choice?", I would say when you need to print lots of documents quickly or with little resources you may have to rule it out. DOPEFO It is a lot faster than FOP and uses less memory. We specialise in solutions for clients that use high throughput printers so PDF is not always viable. In these situations we use AFP. Other than PDF, DOPEFO supports more exotic formats like PCL, SVG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, IOCA, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TGA, GOF/SAP and Notes. I would not be able to estimate our conformance, however I reckon we are pretty good in comparison to FOP. Kent Gibson icon Systemhaus GmbH, Unterlaender Strasse 71, 70435 Stuttgart Tel. +49 711 80 60 98-0 (Durchwahl -15) Fax +49 711 9877-464 -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Andrew Welch [mailto:AWelch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Gesendet: Dienstag, 3. Februar 2004 12:00 An: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Betreff: [xsl] FO Processor choice Firstly, I don't want to ask 'which is the best FO processor', so its ok to read on :) Ive recently set about converting a set of xhtml producing stylesheets to produce pdf. Ive learnt a bit of FO, using FOP as the processor. Now I've seen the conformance charts at http://www.antennahouse.com/xslfo/impl-comparison-fo.htm and I can see that FOP only implements about 50% of the 'complete' spec (around 67% of the 'basic' spec). What I would like to know is that enough to use for development? Is there anything missing that rules FOP out as a realistic choice? The others are all really expensive, so if its possible to do a task using FOP - even if its longhand, or requires more work work in xslt - then that's fine. Things like margins, text-transform etc can all be done another way, so is there any need to pay for one of the commercial ones? What do other regular FO developers use? Thanks for any insight andrew XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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