Hello I've developed a tool html2fo for conversion of .html files to .fo. http://html2fo.sourceforge.net A similar tool is WH2FO at http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/fabgia/wh2fo/wh2fo.html
WH2FO is optimized for Word 2000 html files - html2fo is more general. Enrico Am Freitag, 16. November 2001 21:45 schrieben Sie: > XMLSpy 4.1 has FO transformation built in as an option under the XSL menu. > All you have to do is point it to FOP.bat. I guess you could call this a > "visual tool". But I'm going to guess that what the original poster is > looking for is some kind of a WYSIWIG PDF editor that manipulates the > underlying FO? That would be a pretty intense project. > > Do you think Adobe will ever implement a built-in fop processor? The > Acrobat plug-in could come to life any time the browser comes across a .fo > file, just like it does now when it sees a .pdf. Any pages that require > precise coloring, layout, pagination, etc. would be candidates for > conversion from html to fo. Definitely some interesting possibilities here. > I suppose people could be doing the same thing now if they have Exchange, > but when you can make little changes through a text editor it's a lot more > convenient. > > > You'd think they'd be all for it since it could drastically increase PDF > viewing on the web. Although I guess it could cut into sales of their > full-version Acrobat (what used to be called Exchange). So what part of it > would they sell? Hmmm. Can even they do this within the licensing rules of > this project? > > > -Matt > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Charles Palmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 1:56 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: no visual tool for FOP? > > > > > > Hi team > > > > This is also something I am curious about. Here are two > > embryonic ideas - > > can anyone see any merit in them? > > > > 1 XMLSpy seems to have the ability to convert a Word > > document to XML. Could > > XSLT be used to transform this XML to FO, and thence to PDF? > > Then Word could > > be used as the "visual tool". > > > > 2 Sun's new Star Office apparently saves files as XML (see > > http://xml.coverpages.org/starOfficeXML.html ). Could the > > word processor > > from StarOffice be used as the "visual tool"? > > > > By the way, XMLSpy mentions support or fop - does anyone have > > experience > > with this? > > > > Regards - > > Charles Palmer > > > > Technical Director, DSP Design Ltd > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 7 Tapton Park Innovation Centre, Brimington Rd, Chesterfield > > S41 0TZ, UK > > ph: +44 (0) 1246 545 918 > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
