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Re: xml to pdf or word
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] xml to pdf or word
- From: "cutlass" <cutlass at secure0 dot com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:31:27 +0100
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STEP 1
xml+xslt -------> an xsl-fo marked up document
STEP 2 ( magic )
there is a FOP processor which converts xsl-fo -----> PDF
there are other methods
cheers, jim fuller
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Darwin" <addarwin@yahoo.co.uk>
To: <xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: [xsl] xml to pdf or word
> I still don't get this. I think i'm being really
> stupid, but....
>
> The way I think it should work is that I have some
> xml, which I translate through an xslt using the xslt
> formatting objects. This is all done dynamically by a
> user accessing an asp page, selecting a few options
> and pressing a button. the pdf then magically pops up
> on the screen.
>
> From the examples I have found on the net, I can't see
> how this works, as they seem to create the pdfs before
> hand and not on the fly (i.e. using java compiler)
>
> Is what I want to do possible?
>
> am I just being stupid?
>
> all help is greatly appreciated.
>
> regards,
>
> Adam
>
> --- Mailer Mailer <maillistboxes@yahoo.com> wrote: >
> Hi Adam,
> >
> > I have done this kind of work, but my pdf views are
> > very simple. My architecture that there will be an
> > xml, which should be validated my DTD and I have
> > created an xsl which will generate the PDF with that
> > information. My requirement was to create an
> > existing
> > xml to PDF. I converted that XML to another XML and
> > then finally converted to PDF.
> > Please see the PDF structure first, it is a tree
> > structure and suitable to be represented as XML.
> > Check examples in PDFSpecs1.3
> >
> > -Deep
> >
> >
> > --- Adam Darwin <addarwin@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Thanks, but (and I may be missing something here)
> > > these are compiled with java. I need to generate
> > > the
> > > pdf on the fly, so that a user selects a number of
> > > options, clicks a button and the pdf opens in
> > their
> > > browser/computer.
> > >
> > > is this possible?
> > >
>
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