Re: [Hypercontent-users] output as pdf

[Alex V. <av...@co...>]

Hi Carl,
	The hard part is learning to write xsl formatting objects, which 
provide the necessary instructions for the conversion to PDF.  In terms 
of configuration, all you have to do is configure an output with 
content type "application/pdf" and set up the transformation with an 
XSL stylesheet that contains formatting objects.

I have attached the fundamental XSL:FO stylesheet you will want to 
import into your own formatting object stylesheets; this contains all 
the transformations for XHTML into PDF.   This stylesheet requires a 
parameter "baseDownloadUrl" if you want your images to be brought into 
the pdf; the url should point to the build site. In version 2.0 this is 
different, as version 2 has a special URL format for links to internal 
resources ("hypercontent:/path/to/file.ext").
	If you have a single HTML element as the root of your XML document, 
you could import html_fo.xsl and do something like

<xsl:template match="/">
	<xsl:apply-templates mode="html"/>
</xsl:template>

The html_fo templates are set up with this "html" mode to avoid 
conflicting with other templates.  If you have a different root element 
and possibly multiple HTML elements, you will have more work to do.

XSL:FO is quite daunting, so give yourself some time to learn it.  
There's lots of info online; this tutorial looks like it might be a 
good start:

http://www.renderx.com/tutorial.html

The sample project that came with HyperContent uses FO to generate the 
manual; you can look at "common_fo.xsl" and "docs_fo.xsl" to get some 
more examples.

Good luck!

Alex

On Apr 12, 2005, at 10:13 AM, Carl Barrow wrote:

> Hi Alex
>
> I want to use HyperContent to output a number of pdf files rather than 
> html pages.  The idea being that we can have pdf files for download 
> and staff can update the content when needed without worrying about 
> making pdf file and uploading it.  Plus the content is stored in xml 
> instead of a file on an individual machine.
>
> I assume HyperContent can do this, whats the best way to go about it?
>
> Many Thanks
> Carl
>
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