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>I see that some elements are not rendered the right way. But it's late
>now, I'll have a good look at it over the weekend and then followup
>here. I hope others will respond too because I think this is very
>promising. It makes all the difference if we can present decent PDF
>docs.
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Ya, I'm still working on the XML mappings but this is what was rendered
after only an hour or two. Given a little more time I should be able to
perfect it!
My basic goal was to produce some documents that 'professional'
corporate types would get the confidence to use the product. MySQL is
heading in that direction and frankly Firebird is much better than MySQL
but this project doesn't have the momentum right now. Marketing can fix
that, and good quality docs can give a powerful first impression to new
users.
>One drawback is that we can't do this *within* the project at
>SourceForge, because we are certainly not going to buy Ventura and
>it wouldn't run on SF anyway. So we depend on you (or others) to
>produce them. That's not ideal, but still a heck of a lot better
>than ugly and/or broken PDF docs.
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Ya, it's not perfect in the 'open' sense but I'm willing to contribute
to this project for a good long time and based on the work I've done so
far it's pretty much automated for me right now. It depends on the
goals, I've always been of the mind set that we should use the 'right
tool for the right job' and Ventura fits the bill.
That's an added benefit of Ventura, once we have a good level of
documentation in place we can actually publish it to paper, and possible
sell it via the Firebird site to help support the project. Obviously not
yet, but this brings us closer.
Better marketing and image will hopefully increase support for this
project and that can only be a good thing.
Darcy O'Neil
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