[css2xslfo-support] speeding up css2xslfo, FOP 0.95beta compatibility? PDF to PCL

[Brad C. <bk...@mu...>]

Hi,

I am running css2xslfo from the command line to convert simple, short 
xhtml pages to PDF.

I'm told it "takes too long", about 9 seconds to generate a 1 page 
document (contains a few tables, and maybe a 12Kb .png image or not)

Does anyone have suggestions on how to speed this up?

I don't know much about java, but I'm wondering if most of the time is 
spent loading java and the required classes.  Has anyone setup css2xslfo 
to run as a servlet / REST web service?

Also, is the Dec 07 release of css2xslfopnew compatible with the FOP 
0.95 beta release from march 08?

Thanks

ps.  For some use cases, I have to subsequently convert the PDF to PCL 
or Postscript and send it to a printer. I'm that is also slow. That is, 
low end printers take a long time to render each page.. About 40 
seconds.. the pcl6 output is only 183kb. I'm using ghostscript with 
pxlmono for this.

I can't really use FOP's PCL output directly in this case, because it's 
a 2 step process and I do not know in advance what kind of printer will 
be used. Does anyone have experience with this problem as well? Perhaps 
suggesting a better way to generate PCL from PDF? The eventual target is 
a windows printer, but all this work is done on Linux.


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