[XML4Lib] Printed catalogs

[Eric Lease Morgan]

On 3/11/09 3:32 PM, "Wick, Ryan" <Ryan.Wick at oregonstate.edu> wrote:

> If you're comfortable with XSLT, you might want to look at XSL:FO (Formatting
> Objects). It's commonly used to create PDFs from XML documents. It's an
> additional set of formatting rules, so you'd use XSLT to create a FO document
> that has your data and the formatting rules, and then send the FO document to
> another processor (see Apache FOP: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ ). Parts
> of FO are like CSS for print. If you want to see more of the EAD PDF files,
> look at http://eadpdfgen.library.oregonstate.edu/


I concur. The use of FO is another option besides LaTex. I know there are
advantages and disadvantages of both technologies, and we needn't start a
religious war about it.

BTW, your overall goal is a good one. I believe there are many times when a
printed version of something is just as good if not better than an
electronic version.  printed_catalog++

-- 
Eric Lease Morgan
University of Notre Dame