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Re: XML to Word Document
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] XML to Word Document
- From: "Paul Tyson" <paul at precisiondocuments dot com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 19:01:36 -0700
- Organization: Precision Documents
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Jon,
Any system that will process xsl-fo documents will likely be able to produce
PDF, and FOP (http://xml.apache.org/fop) should do that on Windows as well
as on any other java platform. (Even if an xsl-fo processor doesn't make
PDF directly, you can use any PostScript printer driver to produce
PostScript, then use the GhostScript ps2pdf utility to get PDF.)
If I were going to set up an XML publishing system on Windows I would use
Sebastian Rahtz's passiveTeX system
(http://users.ox.ac.uk/~rahtz/passivetex/) in conjunction with MikTeX
(http://www.miktex.org). And you'll need your XSLT processor of choice to
create the xsl-fo document from xml source.
Unless you regularly require advanced formatting features such as floated
graphics and complex page layouts, this type of system should work quite
well for producing high-quality PDF output. It is scaleable and
stylesheet-driven, so you have complete control at every stage. You can
easily create a script (using Windows command language, née DOS batch file,
or your favorite scripting language) for automatic batch processing.
Hope this helps,
--Paul
Paul Tyson, Principal Consultant Precision Documents
paul@precisiondocuments.com http://precisiondocuments.com
"The art and science of document engineering."
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Ceanfaglione" <Jcean@cisglobal.com>
To: <xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 11:51 AM
Subject: RE: [xsl] XML to Word Document
> Paul
>
> Know of any sources for xml to PDF using MS? I know that you can use
xsl-fo
> in the Java world, but what about MS? Thanks!
>
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