Re: [SPAM] Re: Freemarker to create a PDF ?
Daniel Dekany <[email protected]>
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Yeah, good point. With Flying Soucer one can also use whatever XML schema + CSS. And for most programmers CSS is more familiar than FO, and anyway it's easier to learn. -- Best regards, Daniel Dekany Friday, May 8, 2009, 8:02:54 PM, Daniel Lopez wrote: > One approach we have used succesfully is to generate XHTML from > FreeMarker and then use XHTMLRenderer (a.k.a. the FLying Saucer) to > generate the PDF from XHTML (as Daniel Dekany said, filtering the > output). Depending on the document you have to produce, (X)HTML is > much more well-known format than FOP, for example, so it might be > easier to work with. > > S! > D. > > S'està citant Daniel Dekany <[email protected]>: > >> Friday, May 8, 2009, 4:02:55 PM, Ista Pouss wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Is it possible to create a PDF file with some freemarker template ? >> >> If you "filter" the output of the template through the required >> transformations... like you generate FO with the template, then >> transform that to PDF with FOP (or preferably with something more >> serious, like XEP). Of course, writing FO directly is not fun, so you >> will want to create some FreeMarker macros that represent higher-level >> concepts, like paragraphs, titles, etc. >> >>> Thanks for your answer. >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Daniel Dekany -- Best regards, Daniel Dekany ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com