Re: [xep-support] Saving FO output

You should still be able to use any XSLT compliant processor to produce
your XSL-FO from your XML/XSL if you can't manage to save this from XEP.

I always use XEP from the commandline - so haven't looked at the API for
changing how the process runs.
I also run many of the same documents through either FOP or XEP
depending on what I need.
If the output can be produced by FOP I find it is often easier to
produce much smaller PDFs (maybe through default font-handling?)
E.g - for a common type of file I process - FOP output - 6K, XEP output
= 384K!

I do this for most of my output - as it's easier to time, tune and debug
the XSLT/FO part this way.
It probably also cuts down on memory requirements and improves
processing speed - depending on how your production process needs to run.
I often find - for large documents - that splitting an XML FO output
into several files that are included by a main file can help and
increases flexibility / re-usability.

Then you can feed this FO (and - yes - any FO from anywhere else)
through XEP.
e.g - from command line:. xep.sh -fo <any FO you like> -pdf <pdf file name>

If the FO using other vendor extensions (e.g. FOP uses fox:..) then
these will obviously not be recognised by XEP.

Mike

Dan Vint wrote:

> Is it possible to save the FO output when processing?
>
> Is it also possible to use the FO output from some other tool?
>
> I used to use saxon and FOP to generate my PDF. It was sometimes very
> useful to have the FO file as an intermediate to check the actual
> results of the formatting as well as for tracking down errors. Right
> now I have XEP reporting that there are 4 pages references right at
> the end of my document that it can't find so the TOC gets a ? instead
> of a page number. I've looked at my XML source and there aren't any
> extra headings that it should be referencing, but yet it manages to
> create them.
>
> I've also found some other tools that are useful to run against the FO
> output. XML Mind has a tool that reads FO and creates a Word document.
> With what I know right now, I will have to run a version through sxaon
> to get FO and another run just for XEP, I'd really like to save the
> extra step if I could.
>
> thanks
> ..dan
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