Hi Mohamed, > On 24 Mar 2018, at 19:12, Mohamed Ashraf <[email protected]> wrote: > > Currently, the PDF export of XWiki is implemented based on XSL-FO and > transformation of XHTML to FO. This poses a couple of problems, mainly > related to the current level of support of FO from libraries implementing > FO to PDF transformation, as well as the limitations of automatized > transformation of XHTML to FO. The problems are mainly related to styling > limitations, auto-layouting, etc. > > The idea is to try to replace this with a pure XHTML & CSS (paged CSS) > export, using an open source library for producing PDFs out of this > ,
Sure, but which one? The only alternative I know is flying saucer (which is dead: https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer). Is that what you mean? Do you know a maintained fork of it? One that I know is used by a competing wiki: https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/xhtmlrenderer-atlassian Are you doing this as part of this GSOC project: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/ImplementPDFexportwithXHTMLpagedCSS ? Thanks -Vincent > and I will see LaTeX , > thanks > > 2018-03-24 19:52 GMT+02:00 Vincent Massol <[email protected]>: > >> Hi Mohamed, >> >>> On 24 Mar 2018, at 18:44, Mohamed Ashraf <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> If we should replacing the XSL-FO which we use to export PDF file out of >>> XML, >>> with XML and CSS only with open-source library , >>> >>> and I think * ”CSS Paged Media “ * >>> >>> is this good enough to do that , >>> or there are any suggestion >> >> Sorry but I don’t understand your question. Why would you want toi replace >> XSL-FO in your XWiki install? >> >> If you’d like to contribute to XWiki dev, then could you provide more >> context and explain why you want to replace XSL-FO and by what. >> >> You may also be interested by the LaTeX exporter which can be used to >> generate PDFs: http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/LaTeX/ >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> >> >>
