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Re: converting xml output to pdf using FOP
From: "DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:47:16 -0500
On 7/19/07, Diman Todorov wrote:
Hello Jason, last year in SoC I spent quite some time trying to get exactly this to work. After a week or so of digging around it appeared to me that most of the non commercial FOP implementations are far from complete. Converting to xml works most of the time but useful pdf conversion is simply not free. I think Fyodor is using something commercial, but I forgot what it was exactly. Perhaps he will comment here :) cheers, Diman
Something else I considered today, but did not have much time to look at: OpenOffice.org's ODF. It's XML based and the 2nd version of it has already been standardized. Of course, you have to read through an 800 page document to figure it out (which I read about the first five pages of). I did find a shareware Windows program that let's me do a conversion of XML + XSL = Word document (I have to turn on visible borders on the tables and do the highlighting myself, though). It cost me $20: ABC Amber XML. It supports PDF, too but sort of mangles parts of it. Both FOP and RenderX XED give errors and won't produce an output file. This program does it with no questions asked. I was hoping to find some decent Perl modules to slurp in XML and spit out ODF or PDF, but no joy there either. -Jason _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
Current thread:
- converting xml output to pdf using FOP DePriest, Jason R. (Jul 18)
- Re: converting xml output to pdf using FOP Diman Todorov (Jul 19)
- Re: converting xml output to pdf using FOP DePriest, Jason R. (Jul 19)
- Re: converting xml output to pdf using FOP Fyodor (Jul 19)
- Re: converting xml output to pdf using FOP DePriest, Jason R. (Jul 19)
- Re: converting xml output to pdf using FOP Fyodor (Jul 19)
- Re: converting xml output to pdf using FOP Diman Todorov (Jul 19)