FOP + Acrobat: a strong team

["J.U. Anderegg" <ha...@bluewin.ch>]

An extended PDF renderer for FOP (Apache's XSL:FO Formatting Objects
rocessor) writes many documents in a single batch run. An optional Batch
Sequence by Acrobat increases the FOP functionality considerably. Who wants
to evaluate this system?

Hansuli Anderegg

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Highlights

o Document splitting: mass production, generate logical sets of
documents from XML input.

o Preprinted forms: spawn pages from a PDF document. Redundancies of
constant, fixed objects are eliminated, so that data volumes and
formatting loads are reduced.

o Bar codes: 3of9 in PDF graphics

o List of generated documents containing
	- file names, document and page counters
	- postprocessing control: tunnel any info thru FOP, e.g. mail addresses,
sort criteria, archive indexing. A standard mass mailing program is
available.

o Batch operation: no web server required

o Acrobat Batch Sequences: take adavantage of powerful AcroScripts - easy to
develop.
	- add objects to pages, dynamically positioned by FOP: form fields,
bookmarks, annotations
	- spawn pages from any document

Restrictions

o Base fonts, WinAnsii encoding supported
o SVG rendered as JPEG image
o Batch Sequences have to be run online by an operator