There are a number of HTML to XSL-FO converters. I've never checked how good the results are but ultimately a native HTML engine is likely to produce better results especially since HTML was not really designed for print and has to be retrofitted in CSS3. But again, this is a large project and, IMO, out of scope for PDFBox.
http://html2fo.sourceforge.net/ http://denature.sourceforge.net/ ...and probably others... On 20.03.2012 13:02:33 Dexter Mishra wrote: > I vote for a PDS editor kind of stuff. > Another thing regarding the HTML to PDS, cant it be done with XSL-FO > feature? > Thanks > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Maruan Sahyoun <sahy...@fileaffairs.de>wrote: > > > > > > <snip/> > > > > > >> > > >> Although I think that the current PDF Reader can be enhanced in many > > ways > > >> there are already so many Readers out there as well as PDF support > > within > > >> web browsers my personal opinion is that enhancing PDFBox core > > capabilities > > >> would be more beneficial. > > >> > > >> With kind regards > > >> > > >> Maruan Sahyoun > > >> > > >> > > > Check out Jeremias' suggestions of the viewer, it's less of a viewer and > > > more of a front-end for a lot of the tools PDFBox has to offer, a PDFBox > > > GUI so to speak rather than a PDF viewer. > > > > I'd still look into enhancing PDFBox core as this will benefit most users. > > Looking at the bugs and issues most come from core capabilities. Jeremias Maerki
