[publican-list] Possible alternative to FOP!

[Mike Hideo]

how does it process complex-text-languages and indic 
(really-complex-text-languages) ?

On 08/12/2011 11:11 AM, Jeff Fearn wrote:
> Hi everybody, as you all no doubt know we have been searching for an
> alternative to FOP for some time. FOP has proven very expensive to
> support and package, and has basically been a thorn in our side for ages :(
>
> Enter http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ a new approach to HTML->PDF
> conversion. Now I've been rather negative about this approach since
> quite frankly the output of existing tools is poor, but this tool takes
> the output to a new level!
>
> I urge you to take a look at the test PDF [1] I generated for the
> Publican Users' Guide before you write off this approach.
>
> After a few tweaks to the HTML-Single style-sheet the out put is on-par
> with FOP. Clearly there are limitations to what this can do, but the
> benefits of this over FOP are significant, and I think overall we'd get
> a lot more return for our effort in fixing layout issues with this tool
> than continuing smashing our faces against the impenetrable mountain of
> pain of FOP.
>
> Initail thoughts wkhtmltopdf Vs FOP:
>
> Cons:
>
> Foot notes become end notes
>
>
> Pros:
>
> Not Java
> Layout matches HTML
> Not Java
> Layout synced with HTML
> Not Java
> Non Intel arches possible
> Not Java
> Fast
> Not Java
> Small memory footprint
> Not Java
> Maintainable
> Not Java
>
> Discuss!
>
> Cheers, Jeff.
>
> 1: http://fedorapeople.org/~jfearn/PUG_test.pdf
>
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