Ah, now I'm starting to see where this is going. I think this something extremely difficult to do. To a certain degree it sounds like my ideas/plans for the XML Graphics project, namely to separate certain peripheral components (fonts, PDF lib, Graphics2D implementations etc.) from FOP so efforts can be pooled between projects where easily possible (i.e. without major religious wars). For example, Peter is quite interested in the Graphics2D implementations. But going to a level of detail you hint at (at least that's my impression) will prove really difficult. You know I'm all for componentization, but you may have too high hopes here. But I could be wrong. Don't spend too much time explaining this to me. :-) We'll just see what happens. I will monitor what's going on. So, we're still going in the same general direction although I'm still a bit concerned that you based your PDF part on the maintenance branch code (that's still the case, isn't it?).
Concerning the common end-user API, I'll publish my findings as soon as they are somewhat "presentable". Jeremias Maerki
