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Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 17:26:11 +0200
From: Simon Pepping <spepping@leverkruid.nl>
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Subject: Re: Meta info [was: Printing from multiple trays with FOP generated
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On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 03:55:08PM +0200, Jeremias Maerki wrote:
> That's a good idea. I don't think RenderX could do anything against us
> adding such a similar feature, unless they have a patent filed on that
> particular feature which will (hopefully!!!) be difficult. Sooner or
> later we will need something like that. Dave White is quite right to ask
> for an extension to control trays. It would be cool to add tray infos
> and similar things to page masters.
> 
> In the end it will probably have to result in something similar as EXSLT
> where for widely accepted features a common syntax is defined. BTW, if I
> remember correctly.....ah yes: http://exslfo.sourceforge.net/

We might also implement rx:meta-info instead of forcing users to
produce fox:meta-info or rx:meta-info depending on their intended FO
processor.
 
> On 09.10.2004 15:33:35 Glen Mazza wrote:
> > Incidentally, RenderX has a nice extension called
> > rx:meta-info that holds the PDF document information
> > of Author, Producer, Title, etc.  We provide that
> > functionality programmatically to the user by
> > providing methods in FOUserAgent, but the RenderX
> > method seems better because nondevelopers can use it
> > as well.

Regards, Simon

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Simon Pepping
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