thanks!
What I am not sure how to do is how to include fop in batik - check my previous messages to see what I mean...
When I tested it with batik trunk or svgcolor12 it generated files not recognizable by illustrator as cmyk, but I think it includes 1.0 or even lower by default.
I could not figure out how to include fop 1.1 in batik...
therefore, I hope standalone fop will be enough, I need to run more tests on actual templates we're using, to be sure.
what we process is mostly simple texts, however there are also some images (not sure if bitmaps or curves). I will have to test how it goes..
thanks again, dan