[Xmlgraphics-fop Wiki] Update of "SuccessStories" by kindaian

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  Robin (rscarriere _at_ gmail dot com)
  
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+ '''FOP used to publish pharmaceutics industry book'''
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+ At my former job I developed a system for converting a full 5k page pharmaceutics book from quark-xpress to fop with a database back-end.
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+ The work involved several steps, first manage to build a flexible enough database to store the information, then, convert all the information from quark-xpress to it (which involved some wacky formatting cleaning) and finally mounting a server to assemble the book with pretty pages, some pages with 2 columns others with one, depending on the content, all well behaved and so on.
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+ At the time, I opted for not using XSLT at all, and so I built the whole .fo files by hand and mounted it as needed (well, with so many exceptions in the system, I don't think I opted wrong here).
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+ The website of the client is at http://www.mapaterapeutico.pt (pity that some sections are login reserved).
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+ The book is on it's way to the 3rd edition using this system, and edition timed where reduced from about 3 months to assemble the new edition to one, two weeks tops.
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+ The PDF generated by the publishing server are post-processed for colour conversion (from rgb to cmyk) and sent directly after that to the printing offsets.
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+ The same database that is used to publish the book is used to supply the site information, avoiding double insertion of the same information.
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+ I'm not sure of the future of the system, because I moved on, but giving the huge benefits of it, I bet they will keep using it.
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+ I've to thank everyone in the FOP Team and for sure Jeremy (which even sorted out some of my problems with FOP at the time) for all support in the last 2 or 3 years that this project already had over my shoulders, because without his help and the help off everyone else at the forums (specially when I moved from 0.25 to 0.94). FOP opened my horizons on many levels, and for that I'm very gratefully for it. I for sure will continue to use FOP.
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+ Luís Ferro (kindaian _at_ gmail dot com)
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