Fw: XSL FO Draft rendered to PDF via XSL FO

[Jon Smirl <jo...@mediaone.net>]

How does FOP compare?

Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@mediaone.net


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nikolai Grigoriev" <gr...@iitp.ru>
To: "XSL List" <xs...@mulberrytech.com>
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 7:36 AM
Subject: ANN: XSL FO Draft rendered to PDF via XSL FO


> Dear all,
>
> this is to inform you that we have deeply reworked our XSL FO stylesheet
for
> XMLSpec 2.0.
> In its current version, it provides a reasonably nice coverage of five W3C
> papers:
> XML Spec, XML Namespaces, XSLT, XPath, and - finally - XSL FO Draft  (the
last
> one).
> At http://www.renderx.com/xmlspec.html, you can find the stylesheet with
more
> comments,
> plus XSL FO versions of each of the above documents, and PDFs generated by
our
> renderer.
>
> In my opinion, XML Spec, XPath and XSLT are quite convincing; XML Names
and XSL
> FO are worse, because we haven't implemented the automatic table layout
yet.
>
> For those interested in benchmarking: the XSL FO WD is by far the heaviest
> document
> of the set. Figures are:
> - XT processing time: 6:30 min
> - size of the resulting FO: 3 MB
> - total pages: 337
> - FO2PDF processing time: ~45 min net process time, >1 hour due to memory
> swapping
> - size of the resulting PDF: 9,4 MB
> - total virtual memory allocated: ~390 MB
>
> All measurements were performed on Pentium III-500, 256 MB RAM, running
Windows
> NT.
>
> Best regards,
> Nikolai Grigoriev
>
>
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