PDF generation: xmlroff

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Thu Mar 31 07:05:02 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 11:54 -0800, Karsten Wade wrote:

> Tommy Reynolds patched xmlto to use FOP as a target.  Mark Johnson is
> using this along with the package from jpackage.org in some tests over
> the next few weeks.  Hopefully this will give us a clearer picture of
> where FOP falls short.

Last I looked there was a non free buildrequires on jimi for FOP.

> Thanks, and definitely everyone keep your eyes open for other possible
> solutions.  No matter what, we need a fully functional open source XSL-
> FO processor solution ...

Something on top of Cairo would be shiny and new, or docbook support in
evince.  May attract desktop style ppl.

Paul




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