24 Mar
2018
24 Mar
'18
9:58 p.m.
Hello Mohammed,
have you googled for paged-media html to css converters?
Surely an option is to let it be done by the browser but there must also be engines.
E.g. I think that phantomJS of weasyprint can do that. However, I haven’t found yet in
java (which would simplify things).
As Vincent says, print with LaTeX in the middle is a way to get high-quality but there are
many losses too: it is really hard to get CSS rules to be all implemented in TeX.
I’m wondering if CSSbox could do the job.
paul
On 24 Mar 2018, at 20:51, Mohamed Ashraf wrote:
Yes this is part of GSOC project
Sent from my iPhone
> On Mar 24, 2018, at 9:29 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Mohamed,
>
>> On 24 Mar 2018, at 19:12, Mohamed Ashraf <morybtf(a)gmail.com> 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/ImplementPDFexportwi…
?
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
>> and I will see LaTeX ,
>> thanks
>>
>> 2018-03-24 19:52 GMT+02:00 Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net>et>:
>>
>>> Hi Mohamed,
>>>
>>>> On 24 Mar 2018, at 18:44, Mohamed Ashraf <morybtf(a)gmail.com>
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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>