Fantastic! I hope to be able to do the same someday. Glen
--- Jeremias Maerki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FYI, I've just given myself a shove, followed > Bertrand's suggestion and > submitted a session proposal for ApacheCon. I feel > that our project > should be present there. I was also thinking about > something like > "hidden treasures in the XML Graphics project" but I > guess there's not > so much meat on that bone to fill one hour. > > > ApacheCon Europe 2005 CFP submission > > > > Submitter: Jeremias Maerki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Title: Apache FOP: Optimizing speed and memory > consumption > > Level: Experienced > > Style: > > Orientation: Developer > > Duration: 60 > > Categories: > > Abstract: > > > > Apache FOP is the most popular XSL-FO > implementation on the > > market. It is used in a wide variety of use cases > to create documents > > in PDF, PostScript and other formats. This session > will show a > > number of techniques to improve processing speed > and and hints on how > > to handle things like OutOfMemoryErrors. It will > also contain a > > short info block about the state and the future of > the project. > > > > > > On 12.02.2005 10:57:15 Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > > Le 8 févr. 05, à 19:29, Jeremias Maerki a écrit : > > > > > Most of you will probably have heard that > ApacheCon Europe will be > > > happening in > > > July. I think it would be great if FOP would > somehow be visible there. > > > There's a call for participation ending > 2005-03-04. Any ideas? > > > > A recurring question in my consulting work is "is > FOP fast or what?" or > > more precisely "how to tune XSL-FO for FOP to run > efficiently", mostly > > in view of avoiding memory bottlenecks. > > > > Me, I'm not using FOP hands-on enough these days > to answer very > > precisely, I usually just tell them to test their > performance on large > > documents very regularly during development, to > avoid surprises. > > > > But maybe one of you FOP gurus could give a > presentation with more > > precise information about this? > > > > Just my 2 cents. > > > > -Bertrand > > > > Jeremias Maerki > >
