FOP vs RenderX

[Mark Bitz <ma...@hotmail.com>]

I was wondering if anybody had done any comparisons of FOP vs XEP (RenderX's engine).  Or if anybody knows where I can find any such comparisons.  RenderX took their comparison down off of their web site and I am trying to fend off a potential XEP solution in my company. I would rather use FOP and a comparison may be very helpful.

Mark

Re: FOP vs RenderX

[Mark Bitz <ma...@hotmail.com>]

It sounds as if you are more up-to-date on the keep-with-next status than I
am, you may very well be right. I will check that out and repost.

Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Savino" <ma...@synergizethis.com>
To: <fo...@xml.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 9:01 AM
Subject: Re: FOP vs RenderX


> I thought keep-together-with-next worked at the row level on .20.3. (W/o
> going into an endless loop like .20.2 did if the selected group of rows
> happened to span more than a page.) What is the final word on this?
>
> -Matt
>
>
> Patrick Andries wrote:
> >
> > To be frank, although I have the same experience as Matt as far as speed
> > (or lack thereof) of XEP is concerned, XEP is pleasant to work with
> > (more syntax checking) and does support many more features (among which
> > the absolutely essential keep-with-next for any professional looking
> > document).
> >
> > I hear often that this may not be available soon in FOP, what does this
> > mean a month, two months ?
> >
> > Patrick
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Re: FOP vs RenderX

[Matt Savino <ma...@synergizethis.com>]

I thought keep-together-with-next worked at the row level on .20.3. (W/o
going into an endless loop like .20.2 did if the selected group of rows
happened to span more than a page.) What is the final word on this?

-Matt


Patrick Andries wrote:
> 
> To be frank, although I have the same experience as Matt as far as speed
> (or lack thereof) of XEP is concerned, XEP is pleasant to work with
> (more syntax checking) and does support many more features (among which
> the absolutely essential keep-with-next for any professional looking
> document).
> 
> I hear often that this may not be available soon in FOP, what does this
> mean a month, two months ?
> 
> Patrick
> 
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Re: FOP vs RenderX

[Mark Bitz <ma...@hotmail.com>]

Patrick,
I wish that FOP also had the keep-with-next feature working, luckily, I
don't think for this particular application it's going to be as crucial, we
are only doing 1-up product sheets. I have been working with FOP for about a
year, maybe a year and a half, and I am just starting to understand the
basics of FOP (I think!), but only becuase there are so many applications
and so much it can do.  So, I think I am hearing that speed is an issue
HUGE. FOP is much faster. What about functionality?

Mark



----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Andries" <pa...@videotron.ca>
To: <fo...@xml.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 12:52 AM
Subject: Re: FOP vs RenderX


> To be frank, although I have the same experience as Matt as far as speed
> (or lack thereof) of XEP is concerned, XEP is pleasant to work with
> (more syntax checking) and does support many more features (among which
> the absolutely essential keep-with-next for any professional looking
> document).
>
> I hear often that this may not be available soon in FOP, what does this
> mean a month, two months ?
>
> Patrick
>
>
>
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Re: FOP vs RenderX

[Patrick Andries <pa...@videotron.ca>]

To be frank, although I have the same experience as Matt as far as speed 
(or lack thereof) of XEP is concerned, XEP is pleasant to work with 
(more syntax checking) and does support many more features (among which 
the absolutely essential keep-with-next for any professional looking 
document).

I hear often that this may not be available soon in FOP, what does this 
mean a month, two months ?

Patrick



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Re: FOP vs RenderX

[Matt Savino <ma...@synergizethis.com>]

Search my threads a few months back. In my case XEP was 10 times slower
than FOP. The RenderX guys looked at and said there was something weird
about my tables. By most accounts RenderX and FOP should be about the
same speed. I told them (RenderX) that if they could figure it out and
XEP proved not to run out of memory the way FOP does we might still be
interested in purchasing a number of licenses. They CEO of the company
called me and tried to help, but I got the impression whey were all too
busy to breathe--selling $5000/CPU licenses for a product that's
inferior to something free.

Arghh.

-Matt


> Mark Bitz wrote:
> 
> I was wondering if anybody had done any comparisons of FOP vs XEP
> (RenderX's engine).  Or if anybody knows where I can find any such
> comparisons.  RenderX took their comparison down off of their web site
> and I am trying to fend off a potential XEP solution in my company. I
> would rather use FOP and a comparison may be very helpful.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

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