Re: [Hypercontent-users] output as pdf

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

Sorry, our mail server stripped the attachment off that message.  The 
"html_fo.xsl" file I tried to attach is the same that you can find in 
the sample project, so have a look for it there.  Let me know if you 
have any trouble finding it, and I'll post it on the web site.

Alex

On Apr 12, 2005, at 10:43 AM, Alex Vigdor wrote:

> 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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