Need community advices to generate Postscript

anthony · **Posted:** Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:38 am

Hi friends,
i have a problem (not hibernate related).
We use FOP to generate PDF for printing.
Our printing system (HP DASEL) spends a lot of time to convert PDF to PCL using ghostscript.

My question is pretty simple but google doesn't seem to give good infos.
We would like to generate Postscript directly (or pcl).
The problem is that Postcript isn't really supported by FOP.

Do you know a tool (free or commercial) which is able to generate PostScript using XML/XSL, or course we need to work in java.

Thanks a lot.

max · **Posted:** Thu Oct 28, 2004 3:11 am

The printer classes in the JDK on sun generates native Postscript AFAIK.

I fiddle with it by downloading the source code to the jdk and got inspired by it ;)

anthony · **Posted:** Thu Oct 28, 2004 6:17 am

from xml/xsl transformation?

i'll take a look, thanks max!!

max · **Posted:** Thu Oct 28, 2004 6:24 am

no no - not from xsl whatever.

It will generate postscript as it's intermediate format when you do normal printing via the java.print api!

Meaning that you could just use your FOP to print to the normal printing system and by hooking in some weird place (probably need to rip out some code to do that) then you will get normal PS code.

What we actually do is that we run our printing on solaris so we get it for "free" ;)

Just let FOP do the processing and print it to the printers...

famousactress · **Joined:** Mon Sep 27, 2004 4:28 pm **Posts:** 44

I assume you've tried the FOP postscript output? I haven't used it much, but my understanding was that it was the only output format as mature as PDF.

Phill

anthony · **Posted:** Fri Oct 29, 2004 2:17 pm

fop postscript output is really really beta and output is ... ugly compared to pdf.