RE: xml to pdf conversion

> 
> Maybe this will help...

Just so long as the recipient realises you are using xep,
and he asked about fop.

Regards DaveP


> 
> This is how I do a 'demo' of the whole process (from XML tp PDF)
> 1- Open DOs box and execute the style sheet conversion to get 
> from XML to FO
> like this:
>     XT input stylesheet output
> The input file is your 'raw' XML; the stylesheet converts 
> this XML file into
> an XML file containing FO-tags.
> 2- Next, you have to call the FOP-processor. I use a CMD file for this
> purpose. I named it 'fo-to-pdf.cmd'.  It takes one parmL the 
> input file.
> This input file is the output of step1 (the XML file containing the
> FO-tags.)
>    So type in: fo-to-pdf input-file
> This generates an output file called input-file.pdf 
> 
> This is the content of the CMD file 'fo-to-pdf':
> 
> rem @echo off
> rem   This batch file encapsulates a standard XEP call. 
> 
> set JAVA_HOME=E:\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3.0_02
> set XEP_HOME=C:\XEP
> 
> set
> CP=%JAVA_HOME%/lib/tools.jar;%XEP_HOME%/lib/xep.jar;%XEP_HOME%
> /lib/xerces-1.
> 0.0.jar;%XEP_HOME%/lib/JimiProClasses.zip
> 
> %JAVA_HOME%\bin\java -classpath %CP% 
> -Dcom.renderx.FO2PDF.ROOT=%XEP_HOME%
> -Dcom.renderx.FO2PDF.VALIDATE=true -Dcom.renderx.FO2PDF.GC_LEVEL=0
> com.renderx.FO2PDF.Driver %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rene de Vries [mailto:RdVries@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: dinsdag 19 juni 2001 9:06
> To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE:  xml to pdf conversion
> 
> 
> Hi Rianda (and Spencer),
> 
> I found FOP at http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html, 
> downloaded everything 
> I could found, read everything I could read, but until now I 
> wasn't able to 
> get it working. How do I get a Windows-exe to be able to run 
> it from the 
> command line, etc..
> What I miss is a simple "Getting started".
> Maybe it's beacuse I only have java 1.3.1 runtime environment???
> 
> Greetings Rene
>    { @   @ }
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>       \__/
> 
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> 
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van:	Rianda Broodryk [SMTP:RiandaB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Verzonden:	maandag 18 juni 2001 16:20
> Aan:	'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Onderwerp:	RE:  xml to pdf conversion
> 
> If you are using xsl as well as xml, then you can download a 
> package called
> FOP, and run it from the command line, it transforms xsl and 
> xml into pdf
> format and is available free of charge. Extensive tutorials 
> are available
> with the downloaded package. Just do a search from a search 
> engine for FOP.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earl Spencer [mailto:eapencer74@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 18 June 2001 04:07
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  xml to pdf conversion
> 
> 
> Hi folks,
>             I want to convert an xml document to pdf format i 
> just started
> working on it .Can anybody who already did that give me some 
> guidelines or
> any links and tell me what the best way is to convert an xml 
> file to pdf
> file.
> 
> Thanks
> Spencer
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