Re: [Hypercontent-users] output as pdf

[Carl B. <C.P...@hu...>]

Thanks very much for the info Alex, it's very useful.  I'll let you know 
how I get on!

Carl

Alex Vigdor wrote:

> 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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