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Ashvil writes: > Oops, All this talk about how great the formatting capabilities of XSL > FO lead me to believe that XSL FO is designed as replacement for PDF, > for documents that needed the high presentation quality, which are > currently distributed on the web via the PDF format. If memory serves > me right, when XSL FO was first presented, this was the claim made. If it was made, it could never have been justified. I don't recall FO ever being anything other than DSSSL-like, where page and line breaks were left to an undefined formatting engine. PDF is absolutely fixated on fidelity of rendering, FO is at a higher level. Some might argue (I have done :-}) that it interposes an unwanted and damaging layer in a route from XML to print. > What I want is to write a document that has HTML, Vector graphics and > Voice annotations and view/print that document on a variety of devices > like PC, EBook, Printer, etc. I am still not sure how XSL FO will make > that happen :-( because you will write a transformation that turns all the elements in your various DTDs into a common formatting language, and your PC, ebook and printer will all have rendering engines to make best sense of it. You don't, of course, *want* the page fidelity that PDF provides, in that situatiom, you want `equivalent rendering', which is what FO is all about. sebastian *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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