Re: [cinjug-users] PDF generation in Java

[Brian Bonner <brian.bonner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim, it's really pretty straightforward,  there are some gotchas with 
Apache's FO processor in that it's not fully compliant (but then again, 
I don't know if any are fully compliant)  -- but FOP it is open source, 
so you can contribute back to it :)

I use Oxygen (Eclipse plugin) for the XML editing and transforming to FO 
and running it through FO,  but the xml/xsl editor in the WST that Chris 
Nelson mentioned can probably handle the XSL editing and running through 
transformations.  You might find one that plugs into your ide nicely, or 
as another standalone tool like: Check out www.xslfast.com  or 
www.inventivedesigners.com/scriptura

Let me know what you end up doing.

Brian



jim_garrett@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> I have searched the cinjug archives and found information regarding Java 
> frameworks used to facilitate the creation of PDF files and found that several 
> of you have leveraged the Apache/Jakarta FOP framework to do so.   For those 
> who have done this, was there another tool used to facilitate the creation of 
> the XSL files containing the FOP tags?  From the surface this appears to be a 
> very difficult task in that the FOP tags are very cumbersome to use.  Is there 
> an easy way to accomplish this.
>
> thanks in advance for any help
>
> Jim Garrett
>
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