Re: Converting Word document to PDF (with FOP)

Shoulda been "Hi, Joe". I was reading one message down or thinking one
message up, depending on perspective. Sorry for any confusion.

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay Bryant" <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 12:39 PM
Subject: Re:  Converting Word document to PDF (with FOP)


> Hi, Jonas,
>
> I often convert XML to PDF via FOP. I have created the DTD and XSLT files
> needed to create software manuals, white papers, data listings, and many
> others. FOP can create just about any document, so long as you work within
> its limitations. As with many things (including XSLT), people get
frustrated
> and think FOP is a bad tool when they expect it to conform to their way of
> thinking. If you instead accommodate its way of doing things, it works
fine
> and can be quite powerful (I produce 2000-page data listings with it). I
> have not needed columns, but I have no doubt that I could get FOP to do
it.
> Many of the books I produce use images, though, and FOP handles them well.
> FOP also handles SVG, which can be quite useful for certain tasks.
>
> If you have more specific questions, let me know, either here or
privately.
>
> Jay Bryant
> Bryant Communication Services
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joe Heidenreich" <HeidenreichJ@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 11:43 AM
> Subject: Re:  Converting Word document to Pdf
>
>
>
> This is something we've been researching as well. Generating PDFs from
> XML in XSLT 1.0. However, we need to generate a two column pdf, which is
> apparently a problem when doing an XML to PDF conversion. Is that
> possible through FOP? Can you also integrate images?
>
> Unfortunately for the Cocoon suggestion, we use IIS, not Apache. Any
> information from personal experience would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Joe
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonas Lundberg [mailto:my.name.is.hans@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 10:19 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Spam:Re:  Converting Word document to Pdf
>
> In my own system, I use Cocoon http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/ Cocoon has
> a serializer using FOP to create PDF.
> You can also install Saxon, to get XSLT 2.0 In this environment, I
> transform word HTML to PDF.
>
> Hans