[originally posted on 4/7/09]

I almost but not quite found the solution to yesterday’s problem.

Starting with XSL Formatter version 3.x, the ability exists to inline EPS files in a PDF generated directly from XSL Formatter, eliminating the need to go through Distiller, and thus solving the problem of not having figure tagging in the PostScript output. [...]

XSL Formatter from Antenna House is, as far as I can tell, the best XSL-FO renderer on the market today for dealing with multilingual content. RTL, Asian character sets, line breaking in non-Latin languages – XSL Formatter does them better than any of the other renderers on the market.

That’s not to say it’s perfect, however. [...]