Re: [css2xslfo-support] Command line for creating pdf

[Peter W. <wms...@gm...>]

Hi Aaron,
This sounds like something similar that I worked on a couple of years 
ago (having a Perl script on a Unix server run CLI commands to convert a 
web page into a PDF).  What I used was:

css2xslfo1_5_2.jar <input filename> -fo <output fo file>

fop <input fo file> <output pdf>

I think I tried css2fopnew1_5_1.jar to output directly to PDF, but it 
wouldn't convert everything the way I wanted it to.  Things might have 
changed a bit since then too.  I know I did get this working with the 
two commands above, and it converted XHTML and inline CSS (not sure 
about linking the CSS file).

Good luck,
Peter


On 07-Sep-10 3:59 PM, Aaron Shumaker wrote:
> (Sorry if this is a dupe, when I sent it the first time I had not
> joined the mailing list yet, so I was not sure if the mailing list
> would block mail from non-subscribers.)
>
> The only example I've seen of running css2xslfo with fop is:
>
> java -jar css2fopnew.jar url_or_filename<options>
>
> So based on that I placed AppViewer.htm in the same directory and ran this:
>
> java -jar css2fopnew1_6_2 .jar AppViewer.htm
>
> And it gave an error indicating no output file specified.  I then tried this:
>
> java -jar css2fopnew1_6_2.jar AppViewer.htm -pdf Test.pdf
>
> and it does nothing but print the help for the command line with no
> errors.  So I am not understanding something here.  I want to produce
> a pdf for the given html file(which is xhtml compliant, is that the
> same as being xhtml?).
>
> My hope was that this command would produce a pdf file.  Can anyone
> advise me what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Here are details/versions for anyone that wants this information:
> Long story is that I'm essentially trying to piece together a way for
> a server side asp.net app to call this command line and produce a PDF
> version of the page to serve to a user for printing.  I want the PDF
> to appear as close as possible to how it appears in a browser.
>
> I would also like a css file to be used as well for styling(but does
> not replace the user agent CSS).  The html file contains a tag with:
> link rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css" href="UacApplicationControls.css"
>
> and the css file is in the same directory as the htm file.  Will
> css2fop use this tag and apply the styles from that CSS file?  I saw
> some documentation showing the correct syntax that it recognizes for a
> stylesheet link, but now that I am trying to verify I cannot find it.
>
> I actually just dropped the css2xslfo jar files, and the fop jar file
> into fop's library directory.  So that all jar's are in the same
> directory, and the htm and css files are as well.  This way I didn't
> have to muck with an environment settings for now since I'm just
> testing to see if this tool is a viable solution.  It seems to be
> finding everything just find.
>
> I am on Windows XP, installed the JRE 6 update 21, and using FOP 1.0.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by:
>
> Show off your parallel programming skills.
> Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010.
> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd
> _______________________________________________
> css2xslfo-support mailing list
> css...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/css2xslfo-support
>