Our app is in live beta testing right now. We use FOP to generate printable versions of a lab report and 5 canned mgmt. reports. (I've included a demo copy of the lab report, just to show some of what FOP can do.) So far the only limitations we've found are:
1) Memory. Fop runs out of memory on large reports (from 40+ pages), moreso when several are being run concurrently. (It also happens more often on our $20,000 HP-UX production machines vs. my PIII-NT4 dev box. I have all the settings to HP recommendations. I don't think the HP-UX JVM, even with Hotspot, is tuned very well for garbage collection.) I understand that they way around this is to implement new page sequences every x pages or so. The problem is some of our reports don't have natural page breaks, so I guess I will have to insert some in odd places. 2) Table-header flexibility. We sometimes have a desire to alter the table header for every instance after the first (like inserting the word 'Continued'). I'm gearing up to write a FOP extension to accomplish this. 3) Keep-with-next endless looping problem. Apparently this will be addressed very soon. 4) Complex page numbering. We have a need to display a subsection page number separately within the document. (IE - document page 4 of 9 is subsection page 1 of 3.) Haven't figured out a way to do this. Maybe another extension? 5) On the attached lab report, I can't figure out a way to get the table (or it could be cell) border to extend to the bottom of the page. Note that the report is broken into 4 sections, all of which can span multiple pages. Any ideas on this one would be greatly appreciated. I posted a message about it awhile back (subj: min table or table-cell height?) but no one got back to me. Maybe the visual of the actual lab report will help. All in all, we're very pleased with FOP. I know I surprised some people who didn't think it was possible to work the voodoo of dynamic PDF generation w/o shelling out for a $$$ product, and probably consultants on top of that. thx, Matt Savino > -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick Andries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 2:31 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Any real-life business use ? > > > Hello everyone, > > I have busy evaluated the FO technology and I would like to hear from > people that are using it for real-life business needs. > > What kind of documents are they using it with ? What volume ? > Embedding > it in servlets ? How do they cope with the "speed" ? How do > they justify > using FO to their bosses ? > > Anybody with both 3B2 and FO or Compuset and FO experience ? I would > love to hear your story. > > > Patrick Andries > > > - ° - ° - ° - ° > Tout sur Unicode 3.1 en français : http://hapax.iquebec.com > Traduction complčte, mise ŕ jour, texte en ligne > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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