From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,666bab5bfbdf30c2 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Generating PDFs with Ada Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:02:11 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <4d2908c7$0$22120$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> <4D297FED.8080201@obry.net> <82vd1x330z.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <4d2add0f$0$6884$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 6rRe9PNJhpflU+LT8z4Gxg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.00 (Win32) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:17329 Date: 2011-01-10T18:02:11+01:00 List-Id: Le Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:19:01 +0100, Georg Bauhaus = a =C3=A9crit: > Another approach is to rely on existing standards and tools: > produce input suitable for PDF rendering via XSL FO. > Control the process from within your Ada program. Do know and use XSL, but not XSL-FO. However the web seems to agree with= = that point. English: =E2=80=9CThe most common and best supported print output is cur= rently = Adobe PDF=E2=80=9D http://www.learn-xsl-fo-tutorial.com/ French: =C2=AB XSL-FO (Formatting Objects) est l=E2=80=99outil de pr=C3=A9= dilection pour = g=C3=A9n=C3=A9rer du PDF =C2=BB http://dosimple.ch/articles/Introduction_XSL-FO/ Thanks for the tip! > OK, that's less sexy than writing NIH software. National Institutes of Health ? (oops) -- = Si les chats miaulent et font autant de vocalises bizarres, c=E2=80=99es= t pas pour = les chiens. =E2=80=9CI am fluent in ASCII=E2=80=9D [Warren 2010]