Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XEP for $80

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>]

At 2:13 PM -0700 10/15/02, Bob Stayton wrote:
>For those of you who would like a better XSL-FO
>processor and can afford to go beyond the free
>FOP and PassiveTeX, I just learned that RenderX XEP
>is available for $80 in the version that stamps
>each page with their company name.  This is not the free demo
>version that blanks even-numbered pages after the
>10th page.  It is a single client license of XEP version 3.02,
>PDF backend only.  It's available from:

If it's stamping every page, it's still a demo, and I can't see 
paying $0.80 for a demo, much less $80.00.

>They also have a $300 license that doesn't
>stamp your pages.  These prices are much lower than
>they used to be.

Yes, but this version still doesn't come with documentation. If you 
want documentation you need to pay $999.95. This still costs more 
than FrameMaker/Quark/PageMaker for something that does a lot less.
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