hi, even i am working on a similar sort of project of making PDF from XSL-FO. I evaluated XEP, FOP & XFC by IBM.
XFC is quite good but the file size very large compare to other rendering engines. so it may not be of much help. XEP gives has a windows COM wrapper available but not for free. It should be of use if you don't want to use the command-line application. The evaluation version of XEP adds a line "Rendered by www.RenderX.com " line to the left bottom of the PDF output page. So this version can not be used for commercial purpose. I tried to find out about the prices of COM component, but i din't get a reply from RenderX as yet. (if anyone can figure out the prices do let me know) Apache FOP: is good. But it still does not support many properties. But u can get the desired output by doing changes in your XSL-FO file. Hopefully newer releases of FOP will have all the properties implemented. Let me know if you get some more information abut these rendering engines. Thanks, Dhiraj ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michiel Verhoef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 12:47 PM Subject: RE: Choice of a XSL-Fo processor > <big snip> > > $ The evaluation version does not include the API > $ documentation: it is meant > $ to let people assess formatting quality, memory footprint and > $ performance. > $ In our view, detailed knowledge of API is not necessary for making a > $ purchase > $ decision. > > Well, that depends on the requirements one has for software. I for one would > not > choose any tool if I had not been able to evaluate those things that I would > be > using the tool for. > > I agree that very detailed API knowledge may not be required but on the > other hand: > if I could choose between a tool that I could evaluate in full (and thus > have a reasonable > idea of what to expect in the future) for a limited time and a tool that I > could partially test > I'd go for the tool that I could test in full (provided it passed the test, > of course). > > Just my $0.02, > > Michiel > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
