Re: Wyona with FO

Alex McLintock wrote:
> At 13:58 26/10/02, you wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>> is there any reason why Wyona was built without XML2PDF or XML2SVG 
>> support?
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> I think Michael didn't need it and wanted to reduce the download size. I 
> think the reason was pretty arbitrary.

Well, the publication

  Slides: Open Source Content Management Conference

is using the FOPSerializer for the Printer Friendly version.

The reason we took it out of the "ROOT" sitemap was that Cocoon
is starting up without an X-Server running (I thought people might have 
troubles with it). But actually it's there and you just have to put 
stuff into your sitemap.

Concerning the download size we haven't done anything yet, but the beast
is too huge and I definitely think we should consider different 
versions, such as a minimal version,etc.


> I also think it was a mistake since generating PDFs is one of the major 
> selling points of FOP.

I agree PDF is certainly a major selling point and I hope we will have 
some nice examples for the future, for instance within the "New Wyona 
Times" publication, where we could generate articles in PDF with 
multiple columns and the main-title and lead/abstract across the 
columns, etc.
> 
>>  And if I wanted to install this functionality into Wyona I would just 
>> include all the required generators, serializers etc...?

Exactly


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> I *think* so.
> 
> Disclaimer: I know nothing about Wyona....

Well, you do ;-)

Thanks

Michael


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