On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 04:55:59PM +0000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Joachim Seibert wrote:
> > My second question is where to find an example of how to produce pdf
> > files from XML content?
>
> There are a number of examples on the 'net of using XSL:FO to do this. If
> you can brave the PassiveTeX installation (you already braved the AxKit
> install, so it won't be *too* bad) then you can use the PassiveTeX
> Language module to do XSLFO->PDF. See perldoc
> Apache::AxKit::Language::PassiveTeX
>
> You might also want to do it by hand, in which case check out AxPoint
> which I use for online presentations in PDF.
In my case I was reticent to toy with PassiveTex,
so I've been using xps to convert my XML to LaTeX,
and then a hacked version of Apache::AxKit::Language::PassiveTeX
to call pdflatex over the produced document. I still have a
few things to lick out (escape of %, $ and other special characters,
for one), but still it's working fairly decently. Code can be
made available if anyone's interested.
(samples of the final output at
http://babyl.dyndns.org/fadingsuns/roundrobin and
http://babyl.dyndns.org/goat)
Joy,
`/anick
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