[opencms-dev] PDF on the fly

[Jeff Greer]

You must use the FOP XSL extensions to be able to transform you data into PDFs.
I just did a quick google search on "fop editor" and www.oxygenxml.com came up.
So you will need to either hand edit your xsl files or use some editor to create your stylesheets.
I would like there should be some documentation about the FOP XSL template calls at http://xml.apache.org

I personally wrote a very complex xsl/fop library for my fop embedded application so I know it can be done.

Cheers.


Olli Aro said:
> Hi,
>
> I know this is not an OpenCMS question, but since we are talking about PDF generation using FOB... I tried this
> couple of months ago. Transforming content item to XHTML was easy - just ran it through jTidy.  However, using fob
> to transform XHTML to PDF was something I never got working properly. It seems that I was not able to find XSL from
> anywhere, which would produce an error free FO output. With one of the XSLs I tried (Atennahouse) it caused FOB to
> loop forever, which another one (from the IBM developer network) after few modifications my FO code caused always an
> empty PDF even if the FO code had all data in it :(
>
> I was wondering if someone would have an XSL, which would transform XHTML properly to FO and would like to send it
> :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Olli
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org [mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Maurizio Betti
> Sent: 03 May 2004 19:36
> To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
> Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] PDF on the fly
>
> Hy,
>
> I suppose you can use the FOP java library (see on
> http://xml.apache.org/fop/) to generate a PDF file from an xml source. So  jou have only translate a openCMS VFS
> element in a xml element and then  give it to FOP...
>
> Regards,
>          Maurizio Betti
>
>
>
> At 12.28 03/05/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>>Is it possible to generate a PDF document on the fly from content in
> 5.3.4?
>>
>>I.E. I am reading a page generated from the vfs. Can I click on some  button to have a PDF version displayed in
>> another
>>window?
>>
>>
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