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Re: XSL-FO to PDF -- Effectiveness

From: Peter Flynn <peter.no-sp@-.--------.-->
To: NULL
Date: 1/3/2005 10:15:00 PM
Driver wrote:

> Well, the topic of PDF came up, and the polarized opinions were:
> 
> 1) Adobe FrameMaker (structured) to PDF
> 
> 2) Adobe FrameMaker (structured) to XML, then XSL:FO to PDF

You're missing one:

3) Adobe FrameMaker (structured) to XML, then XSLT to LaTeX to PDF.

> Hmmm. I thought Frame to PDF was a lock, with respect to effective PDF
> generation, allowing latitude for various options, but I think I'm willing
> to be convinced otherwise.

Going via LaTeX is an extra step, but it allows you to take advantage of
TeX's 25 years of expertise in programmable typesetting, thereby avoiding
the reinvention of the wheel which has to take place on other routes.

///Peter
-- 
"The cat in the box is both a wave and a particle"
      -- Terry Pratchett, introducing quantum physics in _The Authentic Cat_


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