<div dir="ltr">Wow! Thank you all for the wealth of information about TeX and its various diaLeXts. So the good news is that with care, I should be able to get the kind of throughput (thousands of pages per minute - kppm?) I'm looking for. Sounds like I may have conflicting requirements in having to support the common desktop font formats and having to support hz-program style glyph scaling in DVI output.<div>
<br></div><div>I'm not interested in producing e-books, HTML or XML output, or single-word images. I want to be able to produce whole document pages at a time, either in PostScript/PDF or JPEG/PNG/GIF format.</div><div>
<br></div><div>What I was thinking of was writing some wrapper code around a TeX engine that would do the composition for me. The wrapper code would take page and style parameters (page size, printable area, etc.) and XML for the contents. I could turn the XML into TeX mark up, feed that to the TeX engine, and then interpret the resulting DVI to incorporate into finished pages. I was thinking that I could invoke the TeX engine separately for each "box" of text on the page, and the results would then also be composed with other image data, placed PDF content, etc. This whole package, including my wrapper code and the TeX engine, would be my "server" ... basically just a body of code I could call to compose a page at a time. I'm happy to learn as much TeX as it takes to do this successfully.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So, this has given me a lot more to look into: CONTeXT, LuaTeX, XeTeX, pdfTeX, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you!</div><div><br></div><div>-pd</div><div><br></div></div>