On 08/12/2011 11:11 AM, Jeff Fearn wrote:
Hi everybody, as you all no doubt know we have been searching for an
alternative to FOP for some time. FOP has proven very expensive to
support and package, and has basically been a thorn in our side for
ages :(
Enter http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ a new approach to
HTML->PDF conversion. Now I've been rather negative about this
approach since quite frankly the output of existing tools is poor,
but this tool takes the output to a new level!
I urge you to take a look at the test PDF [1] I generated for the
Publican Users' Guide before you write off this approach.
After a few tweaks to the HTML-Single style-sheet the out put is
on-par with FOP. Clearly there are limitations to what this can do,
but the benefits of this over FOP are significant, and I think overall
we'd get a lot more return for our effort in fixing layout issues with
this tool than continuing smashing our faces against the impenetrable
mountain of pain of FOP.
This looks awesome!
I love that there will only be 1 styling mechanism (CSS) across all the
4 default outputs. Makes it much easier to create new, and maintain styles.
cheers,
ryanlerch
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