Hello all, A number of stylesheets seem to convert to PDF format. Where do you find out what PDF markup (if that's what it is) looks like? -dan
there are server utilities that convert html to pdf on the fly. i don't think you can do that with a stylesheet.
j
On Monday, June 28, 2004, at 11:05 PM, Daniel O'Donnell wrote:
Hello all, A number of stylesheets seem to convert to PDF format. Where do you find out what PDF markup (if that's what it is) looks like? -dan
-- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. (403) 329-2377 Fax. (403) 382-7191 E-mail daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca Home Page http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/
dm-l mailing list dm-l@uleth.ca http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
there are server utilities that convert html to pdf on the fly. i don't think you can do that with a stylesheet.
There are a number of ways that people convert XML (and so xhtml) to PDF on the fly. My preferred method is to use XSL-FO (formatting objects) and then use apache's FOP to convert to PDF. This can be all done dynamically within apache's Cocoon.
(see http://cocoon.apache.org and/or http://xml.apache.org/fop/ for more information.)
Other pople use tools via LaTeX, also called dynamically through packages like axkit.
For Dan's question, usually such conversions are done via the above or via LaTeX. PDF is very similar in many ways to postscript, and not something you'd really want to code directly.[1]
-James [1]Unless you are really strange.
--- Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at ota dot ahds dot ac dot uk
I'm also not aware of any direct XSLT or XSL-FO conversion to .pdf that doesn't require a processor, but that's true of any XSL transform, it's just that Formatting Objects require something different. The Apache conversion engine (FOP for Formatting Object Processor) is the best known and is at http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html. It takes an XML document formatted using XSL-FO as its input. Apache FOP is also being built into some other products, like the Oxygen XML editor--see http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/HowToCreatePDFUsingTEI.pdf
You can look at any .pdf in a text editor and (depending on the complexity of the .pdf and the proportion that's encoded as byte-streams) see much of the coding. Yikes.
Murray
Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
there are server utilities that convert html to pdf on the fly. i don't think you can do that with a stylesheet.
j
On Monday, June 28, 2004, at 11:05 PM, Daniel O'Donnell wrote:
Hello all, A number of stylesheets seem to convert to PDF format. Where do you find out what PDF markup (if that's what it is) looks like? -dan
-- Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD Associate Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Tel. (403) 329-2377 Fax. (403) 382-7191 E-mail daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca Home Page http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/
dm-l mailing list dm-l@uleth.ca http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l
dm-l mailing list dm-l@uleth.ca http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l
-
Daniel O'Donnell -
James Cummings -
Jeffrey Fisher -
Murray McGillivray