[Klug-general] Document Production

[David Halliday]

How is this project going?

Something that I'm interested in playing with at some point: If you want to
generate reports by hand (custom parameters) you might find it advantageous
(and platform ambiguous) to use HTML based reports and apply a print style
sheet: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/goingtoprint/

<http://www.alistapart.com/articles/goingtoprint/>
On 16 February 2011 21:05, MacGyveR <macgyver at thedumbterminal.co.uk> wrote:

> On Monday 14 Feb 2011, Peter Childs wrote:
> > On 14 February 2011 19:26, Peter Childs <pchilds at bcs.org> wrote:
> > > On 14 February 2011 19:04, Mike Evans <mike at tandem.f9.co.uk> wrote:
> > >> I would suggest you look at XML and XSL-FO rather than HTML
> > >>
> > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSL_Formatting_Objects
> > >>
> > >> If you're not scared of Java then there is always the apache FOP
> project
> > >> which is a XSL-FO print driver.  One set of mark up can be transformed
> > >> into any of: PDF, PS, PCL, AFP, XML (area tree representation), Print,
> > >> AWT and PNG, and to a lesser extent, RTF and TXT.
> > >>
> > >> There are also XSL-FO processors for C/C++ and probably Python, though
> > >> I've never used them.
> > >>
> > >> Mike
> > >
> > > Brain Melt Down.
> > >
> > > Its a file format then? So are there standard tools for dealing with it
> > > right or what?
> > >
> > > I don't understand....
> > >
> > >
> > > Peter.
> >
> > Oh Right.....
> >
> > so XSL describe a document and how to takes xml data to produce an end
> > product.
> >
> > So I need an XML based method to describe by document.
> >
> > Now I wonder what that would be? Looks fine for HTML but I'm dealing in
> > paper....
> >
> > Peter.
>
> Steps would be:
>
> 1) Generate/write your documents in XML, using your own tags to give
> structure, such as paragraph breaks, heading, columns, images etc..
>
> 2) Create a XSL style sheet that will transform your XML into XSL-FO.
>
> 2a) Create a XSL style sheet to HTML for debugging/preview (optional but
> handy)
>
> 3) Use the example java code on the FOP site to build a converter that will
> convert the XSL-FO into PDF:
>
> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/1.0/embedding.html#render-with-xslt
>
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