Re: Question about Apache FOP

[Clay Leeds <cl...@medata.com>]

Peter,

I'm replying to fop-dev@apache.org, because I believe this question 
will reach your intended audience, and may answer other people with the 
same questions as well.

In addition to Chris Bowditch's response (included below since it was 
not sent to fop-dev):

On Mar 9, 2004, at 12:43 AM, Chris Bowditch wrote:
> Peter Billen wrote:
>> - applications, projects, ... which use Apache FOP
>
> Take a look at Cocoon.
>
>> - projects similar to Apache FOP - I found something about Jade (used 
>> in
>> docbook I'm correct), but haven't looked into that yet.
>
> Well, xmlroff is the only other open source XSL-FO Formatter, but 
> there are a few commercial implementations. The main ones being 
> RenderX's XEP and Antenna House's XSL Formatter.
>
> Chris

There are a few so-called add-on programs on the FOP Resources page:

http://xml.apache.org/fop/resources.html

In addition, Apache's XML project documentation framework Forrest 
(http://xml.apache.org/forrest/) can generate PDF files of each page, 
and can also create a "Whole Site PDF" file. There's also Krysalis 
Barcode (http://www.krysalis.org/barcode/), which has a plugin for FOP 
to generate barcodes.

I hope this helps!

Web Maestro Clay

On Mar 8, 2004, at 12:57 PM, Peter Billen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> First of all: I'm mailing you directly, instead of using the 
> mailinglist,
> because I'm using Apache FOP as a school project, and I'm not certain 
> if we
> can use mailinglists/forums/.. to ask our questions. I hope you don't 
> mark
> this message as spam; that's not my intention.
>
> At this moment, I'm writing a paper about Apache FOP, in English. So 
> when
> it's done, I can put it on the mailinglist; it might be interesting for
> other users. It's mainly an introduction and quick explanation, since 
> I'm
> also new to FOP.
>
> It's almost finished, but there are still some sections to do. At this
> moment, I'm looking for two things:
>
> - applications, projects, ... which use Apache FOP
> - projects similar to Apache FOP - I found something about Jade (used 
> in
> docbook I'm correct), but haven't looked into that yet.
>
> I didn't manage to find much on the archive of the mailinglist or the 
> site
> about those 2 sections, so this is my reason of writing. I'm hoping 
> you guys
> can help me with this and have some examples. I believe giving the 
> users
> some real-world examples or comparisons with other similar projects is 
> a
> good thing, since XSL:FO can look very abstract and complicated for
> beginners (the stage I'm still in), and maybe even convince them to 
> use it
> in upcoming projects (as I'm already using it together with bibtex to 
> create
> a reference-list of my paper).
>
> Thanks a lot for your time and input,
>
> --
> Peter
>