Re: converting xml output to pdf using FOP

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:48:21AM +0200, Diman Todorov wrote:
> last year in SoC I spent quite some time trying to get exactly this  
> to work. After a week or so of digging around it appeared to me that  
> most of the non commercial FOP implementations are far from complete.  
> Converting to xml works most of the time but useful pdf conversion is  
> simply not free. I think Fyodor is using something commercial, but I  
> forgot what it was exactly. Perhaps he will comment here :)

Well, I've never tried what he is doing (converting Nmap output to a
PDF).  But I do use XML processors for the Nmap man page and book.
Right now I use all open source tools in converting from XML to PDF.
I use jw/OpenJade which process the XML with DSSSL.

I would rather use XML-FO, but I didn't have much luck with brief
Apache FOP testing.  So I tested a trial version of RenderX's XEP.
That may be what you are thinking about.  That didn't work well for
me, and plus it is proprietary software, so I went back to OpenJade
for now.

Cheers,
-F

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