Re: Showing FO output

[Oleg Tkachenko <ol...@multiconn.com>]

Jeremias Maerki wrote:

> I'm going a step further and I'm thinking about providing a development
> tool for FOP. We've developed a simple one at work where we could
> specify either FO or XML/xSLT file and an output format (FO, PDF, PS etc.).
> Then we have that big "Process" button that runs the document through
> Xalan and FOP. The configuration is saved when you exit, but at the
> moment we don't have multiple profiles. I've got a few good ideas about
> an improved tool in this direction. It would also be a good project for
> someone who'd like to contribute to the FOP project but doesn't want to
> go to the depths. I can elaborate if anyone is interested.

I agree with you, I was thinking about it too. btw, I found an interesting 
mail in the xsl-list archive back to 1999 from James Tauber about his vision 
of FOP's future[1]:
"To give a little insight into my *long term* vision for FOP. Eventually, I
would like to put a GUI interface on top to allow exactly this kind of human
fine-tuning. The FOP engine does an initial layout and then a human can
override line/column/page breaks, hyphenation, kerning, etc., saving back as
formatting objects again."
Well, but 1.0dev certanly is higher in the task list.

[1] http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/199905/msg00504.html
-- 
Oleg Tkachenko
eXperanto team
Multiconn Technologies, Israel


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