I say do it. After using FOP for a while now and always having a problem with the embedded fonts, I thought I would try iText. The iText was able to handle the embedded fonts without any trouble at all. It seems that at least in this area iText is much stronger than FOP.
The use of fo, for us, is the major benefit of FOP, while it is also important for our project to be able to use fonts other than the defaults. So, I think a merging of the two would definitely be a major plus. I am all for it. I think this is a proposal we could all support. Kyle Koss -----Original Message----- From: Nicola Ken Barozzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: March 13, 2002 9:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PROPOSAL] FOP+iText = FOP-NG -next generation- (was: merging two libraries) Given what has been said on the mailing lists of FOP and iText, and given the current scope of the two projects, I feel reasonably sure that this could be a proposal accepted by bot communities. ------------------------------------------------------------- FOP uses iText as a PDF generation library ------------------------------------------------------------- This could have greater benefits than a merger and keep intact the strenghts that these two projects have (remember AOL+Time Warner? is the result we want?). iText could continue to be an excellent PDF (and RTF AFAIK) generation package with a good java API. FOP could concentrate on FO2AreaTree and use iText as the last step. Given the licences, nobody is prohibited to cross-collaborate. iText developers can send patches to FOP and viceversa, and be [VOTE]d as usual when the time is right. FOP can distribute iText jar as it's MPL, and both projects would cross-link in a clear way. AFAIK iText is already able to produce PDF using an XML file. If FOP could make a transformation step from FO to this format, we could get this up running in a short time. And IText can also output to html, which is not bad at all. What do you think? Shall we pull this off? -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
