RTF rendering

[Sergey Simonchik <Se...@borland.com>]

Greeting.

	Currently I work on upgrading FOP's RTF rendering. We need it as a
part of another project.
	And now some patches to RTF-rendering with test cases are available.
	So I have two questions:
	1) Would you be so kind to tell your intention about RTF support?
	2) What do you think about commiting these patches?

Thanks for attention.

Good success!

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Sergey Simonchik.

Re: RTF rendering

[Jeremias Maerki <de...@greenmail.ch>]

On 01.08.2005 20:05:20 Andreas L Delmelle wrote:
> On Aug 1, 2005, at 18:57, Sergey Simonchik wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > Currently I work on upgrading FOP's RTF rendering. We need it as a
> > part of another project.
> > And now some patches to RTF-rendering with test cases are available.
> > So I have two questions:
> > 1) Would you be so kind to tell your intention about RTF support?
> 
> Well, there has been some talk --I think it was very early this year-- 
> about doing a release off the trunk that only supported RTF rendering 
> (since the other renderers weren't ready yet), so I guess you could say 
> that we're quite sure RTF support will be available in the next 
> release.

Definitely, but at what level depends entirely on contributions for this
part. I'd love to work on it but simply have to concentrate on other
parts right now.

> Question for other devs: the Ant build indicates that the RTF renderer 
> is 'still very very alpha'. Can that warning be removed or is it still 
> too early?

I'll remove it. It makes no sense. The RTF output is quite usable for
not too complicated use cases.

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Jeremias Maerki

Re: RTF rendering

[Andreas L Delmelle <a_...@pandora.be>]

On Aug 1, 2005, at 18:57, Sergey Simonchik wrote:

Hi,

> Currently I work on upgrading FOP's RTF rendering. We need it as a
> part of another project.
> And now some patches to RTF-rendering with test cases are available.
> So I have two questions:
> 1) Would you be so kind to tell your intention about RTF support?

Well, there has been some talk --I think it was very early this year-- 
about doing a release off the trunk that only supported RTF rendering 
(since the other renderers weren't ready yet), so I guess you could say 
that we're quite sure RTF support will be available in the next 
release.

Question for other devs: the Ant build indicates that the RTF renderer 
is 'still very very alpha'. Can that warning be removed or is it still 
too early?

> 2) What do you think about commiting these patches?

Well, all help is welcome, but it's difficult to say what we think if 
you don't show us the patches. :-) If you don't have any objection, 
just enter a Bugzilla report[1] describing the enhancements your 
patches offer, attach the diff(s) and testcases, and we'll certainly 
get back to you.

TIA!


Cheers,

Andreas

[1] http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fop