Re: PDF Generation

[Michael Nachbaur]

I haven't released this to CPAN, mainly because I wanted to create a 
more generic XSL-FO transformation provider before doing so, but I have 
created a hacked-up copy of Matt Sergeant's PassiveTeX language 
provider that hands off XSL-FO to FOP.  It is pretty inefficient in 
that it calls the command-line fop.sh application, which means the Java 
runtime environment kicks off every time, but it works.

For those who would like to play with the code I have so far, you can 
get at it via my CVS repository at:

http://cvs.nachbaur.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Apache-AxKit-Language-FOP/
An improvement (patches welcome) would be to have the option to pass 
XSL-FO to a running Tomcat application server that has FOP pre-loaded 
in a servlet.  But my Java skills, thankfully, are too rusty to do 
this.

On Apr 13, 2005, at 11:11 AM, Mike Trotman wrote:
Hi.
I've been experimenting with AxKit for the past two weeks - so still a 
new user.

I have successfully set up a XML processing environment to produce 
nicely formatted HTML
pages using a chain of XSL and XPS translations.

I would now like to add a transformation to XSL-FO and a subsequent 
PDF generation and display in the browser.
I can successfully generate the PDFs from the command line using XSLT 
stylesheets and Apache FOP.

Is there any easy way of doing this in AxKit?
I have naively tried running the FOP transformation (inside backticks) 
in XPS - but cannot get a PDF generated.
And I have also experimented with 'catting' a PDF from XPS - but can't 
get the content-type recognised by the browser.
(I'm using the '$r->content_type('application/pdf') approach.)

Does anyone have any experience in trying this - or any suggestions on 
how it should be done?
(The AxPoint demo PDF generat ion works OK.)

Alternatively - is there any way to link AxKit (XSLFO) output to 
Tomcat - and run FOP from there?

I think there is possibly a principle I am missing.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Mike


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