CFR: documentation rendered in PDF with FOP

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Tue Jul 23 21:18:26 UTC 2013


On Tue, 23 Jul 2013, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm working on new rendering solutions for our documentation. One renderer 
> will be dblatex, which doesn't depend on Java but doesn't give such high 
> quality output. The other one will be FOP, which is written is Java but 
> produces better quality.
>
> Here are some PDFs for review, rendered with Apache FOP:
> http://kovesdan.org/files/fop/
>
> I need suggestions for royalty-free print-quality Bengali, Greek and Cyrillic 
> fonts since these are still not customized and the default fonts lack 
> non-Latin glyphs.
>
> Apart from this, any comments are welcome. I know some parts still need 
> improvements but feel free to comment on anything you think that should be 
> changed.

There is something weird about bulleted lists and sub-lists, starting on 
page 35 of the PDF Handbook (page 7-9 of the content).  Some entries in 
the first list are blank, the ones in the second list have an extra 
linefeed after the bullet.


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