Eliot Kimber wrote:
For automating higher typographic quality, the Typefi product (an InDesign
plug in) offers excellent value, although it's initial cost is high (on the
order 50K USD). Likewise, you can do significant automation with Arbortext
Advanced Publisher (3B2) and XyVision XPP, but at a similar or greater cost
than Typefi.
I've been using the 3B2 (now APP)from many years and I liked the way it
handles/support the XML and its feature along with the Perl and 3B2 scripts
(I know that you keep on contributing to the 3B2 group). I had an
opportunity to see Typefi presentation few years back at Amsterdam but never
had my hand on XPP.
From the past one or more years I've been also working on Indsign CS2 and
now Indesign CS3 but Adobe still has to work on supporting XML feature and
better script options (although they have introduced the Xpath rules in CS3
and I like using but requires improvement).
Few year back we thought of implementing XML to PDF workflow with the help
of XSL:FO, at least for the projects, which does not require complex
typesetting requirement. After reading your comments, I believe, W3C still
require to introduce few other features(may be in 2.0)to smartly handle the
complex publishing. I mean journals or scientific books. At least as of now
I don't see that it will be possible to meet the publisher's requirements
without multi-pass process system (plug-ins etc), which may not be fruitful
economically.
I also wonder how smartly FO handles the data manipulation, I mean moving
content from place to other so that it appears correctly on page (for which,
I've been using XSLT as of now or 3B2 and Indesign scripts or Perl etc).
The conference papers link suggested by Wendell and link
(http://www.nabble.com/FOP-f309.html) from Philip seems to be interesting.
Thanks anyways for your time and comments.
Pankaj
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