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From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
Subject: Re: convert XML to PDF in my ada application
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 20:33:03 +0200
Date: 2006-05-05T20:32:23+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1146853983.9076.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1146832811.204969.157870@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 05:40 -0700, evangeli@cnam.fr wrote:
> hello !
> i am writing an ada application which can generate some outputs in an
> xml format.
> i would also like to generate a pdf file of this output.
> is this possible?

You could write or reuse one or more XSL style
sheets/transformations.

XML --+
       \--> FO --> PDF
       /
XSL --+

This setup can represent one program, or a connection by
by pipes, collaborating processes, etc.

FO means Flow Objects. There are a number processors taking FOs
to PDF, including Apache Fop, RenderX XEP, and Antenna House 
XSL Formatter.

Another option is to use a text processor like FrameMaker,
OpenOffice Write, Ventura, etc., and feed them the XML data,
after teaching them how to render this kind of XML data.

HTH,
 Georg 





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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-05 12:40 convert XML to PDF in my ada application evangeli
2006-05-05 18:33 ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2006-05-05 21:52   ` Simon Wright
2006-05-05 23:56     ` Georg Bauhaus
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