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Re: FOP - what, where, when, how?
- From: Joerg Heinicke <joerg dot heinicke at gmx dot de>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:26:05 +0100
- Subject: Re: [xsl] FOP - what, where, when, how?
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> I think No and never is a little harsh -- afterall,
> acrobat reader IS a pdf renderer engine -- if Alastair
> ran his transformation as a dynamic server side
> transformation to pdf, then
> wouldn't the display of the resultant text in the
> reader plug in be pretty much what Alastair asked for
> in the first place?
But how to get XSL Fo to PDF? Alistair spoke of a client-only solution
like XSLT with MSXML in IE. That's not possible. So "never" until there
will be a FOP-like plugin. Of course you can run a server/servlet like
Cocoon 2 with integrated FOP to produce PDFs.
Joerg
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