Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact general-help@xml.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list general@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 68016 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2000 22:01:51 -0000 Received: from pop.systemy.it (194.20.140.28) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 20 Apr 2000 22:01:51 -0000 Received: from apache.org (pv3-pri.systemy.it [194.21.255.3]) by pop.systemy.it (8.8.8/8.8.3) with ESMTP id AAA19078 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 00:01:48 +0200 Message-ID: <38FF70F2.FC0DBA78@apache.org> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 23:04:50 +0200 From: Stefano Mazzocchi Organization: Apache Software Foundation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; I) X-Accept-Language: en,it MIME-Version: 1.0 To: general@xml.apache.org Subject: Re: AW: Reverse XSL:FO References: <4094ADEA26D8D3119F020000D1106EC42254@BLAHFASEL> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Henning von Bargen wrote: > > There's a tool called ps2edit (an extension to ghostscript) that promises > to convert files from PS or PDF to SVG, but I didn't test it. > >From SVG, why should you then want to use XSL:FO ? > SVG is a XML format in itself and you can use XSL to do whatever you want. Like, for example, do neural OCR on the SVG vectors to get FO text using XSLT stylesheets? good luck :) Converting PS to FO is not different from converting JPG to MathML, or WAV to VoxML. XSLT is great but not magic :) -- Stefano Mazzocchi One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. Friedrich Nietzsche -------------------------------------------------------------------- Missed us in Orlando? Make it up with ApacheCON Europe in London! ------------------------- http://ApacheCon.Com ---------------------