Re: [Hypercontent-users] output as pdf

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

Hi Alex

I got things set up fine and am now able to output as pdf. Thanks very 
much.  Will there be any change in the way this is handled in version 
2?  If so, I'll wait to set things up properly until after I've upgraded.

Thanks
Carl

Carl Barrow wrote:

> 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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