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Unix and FOP ?

Hi,

I need information the file xsl:fo transformation in UNIX. 
What's I need by uses XSL:FO in UNIX?
Can I do?


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RE: Unix and FOP ?

Posted by Alistair Hopkins <be...@btopenworld.com>.
I can't remember the details but there are certain gui packages which Fop
needs to process the default fonts: if you run it on linux without X-windows
it may well complain

-----Original Message-----
From: John Austin [mailto:john@integerservices.no-ip.com]
Sent: 12 April 2002 07:36
To: fop-dev@xml.apache.org
Subject: Re: Unix and FOP ?


On Thursday 11 April 2002 09:37, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need information the file xsl:fo transformation in UNIX.
> What's I need by uses XSL:FO in UNIX?
> Can I do?

You can use xsl:fo in ANY system that has an implementation of the Java
VM. This includes any reasonable implementation of Unix (AFAIK).

Many people use Cocoon 2 from the Apache project because it provides a
ton of features, but you can use just the Fop program if you wish to.

I use it both ways and have also used it from XML Spy.

In Cocoon 2 you can run XSL transformations to produce an XSL:FO
document and render this to one of a number of formats such as PDF, PS
and RTF using the FopSerializer.

I have also used Fop driven by a shell script. The memory footprint is
smaller but you have to cart Fop around with you. From Cocoon, you can
generate fancy-pants documents over the network.

Cocoon has a much steeper and lengthy learning curve. Fop is much
smaller and comes with lots of examples.

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Re: Unix and FOP ?

Posted by John Austin <jo...@integerservices.no-ip.com>.
On Thursday 11 April 2002 09:37, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need information the file xsl:fo transformation in UNIX.
> What's I need by uses XSL:FO in UNIX?
> Can I do?

You can use xsl:fo in ANY system that has an implementation of the Java 
VM. This includes any reasonable implementation of Unix (AFAIK).

Many people use Cocoon 2 from the Apache project because it provides a 
ton of features, but you can use just the Fop program if you wish to.

I use it both ways and have also used it from XML Spy. 

In Cocoon 2 you can run XSL transformations to produce an XSL:FO 
document and render this to one of a number of formats such as PDF, PS 
and RTF using the FopSerializer.

I have also used Fop driven by a shell script. The memory footprint is 
smaller but you have to cart Fop around with you. From Cocoon, you can 
generate fancy-pants documents over the network.

Cocoon has a much steeper and lengthy learning curve. Fop is much 
smaller and comes with lots of examples. 

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