[jcifs] Shared printersy

[Michael B Allen]

On Mon, 19 May 2003 eglass1 at attbi.com wrote:

> 
> > I thought Apache.org had something that would create printer in a variety of
> > print formats.  Called FOP  Formatting Objects processor.
> > http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html#intro
> > 
> 
> FOP is an XSL-FO processor; assuming you have an XSL-FO representation of your
> document, you can use FOP to generate PostScript/PDF/PCL/txt etc. from it.
> XSL-FO is the underused "other half" of XSL (the popular half being XSLT);
> typically, you would transform an XML document into XSL-FO (using XSLT),
> then render your XSL-FO document using FOP (or XEP, or another XSL-FO processor)
> into whatever output is desired.
> 
> It is certainly feasible to produce raw PostScript in Java; if we could get
> the printer stuff working, there could be some pretty cool uses for this.

I'll look at a printjob later but this FOP thing sounds like a major
headache. If I get printing working it's going to be RAW. Someone else
will have to figure out how to use it.

Mike

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