Yes this is part of GSOC project Sent from my iPhone
> On Mar 24, 2018, at 9:29 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >>> >>> >>> >
