31 Aug
2005
31 Aug
'05
9:47 p.m.
Hi,
I achieved some, lets say, satisfying results by modifing the
pdf-footer.vm and pdf-header.vm. I also had a look into the fop docs,
seems to be rather complex. Too complex for me - at the moment.
Thanks for your hints!
Sascha
Ludovic Dubost schrieb:
Aggregating articles into one PDF can be done using a wizard and
scripts in XWiki using the XWiki API.. It's independent from the PDF
generation itself.. The objective is to generate an XWiki page which
takes multiple pages and aggregates them together.. Scripts are there
for this.
See for example this page
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Dev/ChildAsOneDoc which does this
with child pages.
The code is here:
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Dev/ChildAsOneDoc?xpage=code&
Improving the PDF itself (header, footer, table of content with page
numbering) is mode complex and will need XSLT improvements..
The existing tasks for PDF are:
- improve header and footer output in XSLT taking the source from some
specific HTML blocks. The pdf.vm template would then be improved to
create these specific blocks from specific XWiki Objects.
- add styles to PDF. For this what is needed is a java module to apply
external CSS styles (css files) to their respective XHTML tags.. There
must be an OSS module doing this
- find a technical solution for page numbering in the table of content
(maybe there is a FOP or PDF solution)
Ludovic
Sascha Österle wrote:
Hi,
I try to use XWiki as a CMS and communications platform for the
student-reps at my university. XWiki seems to be perfect! We would
just need one feature on top of it - a more sophisticated PDF export.
We plan to collect all kinds of Information on our platform and do a
lot of documentation - some of it also has to be available on paper.
PDF Templates would also be great!
Therefore I am also highliy interessted in aggregate PDF's with TOC
(as Stephen Schaub). Plus there should be a non-geek way to achieve
such PDF's. Perhaps like the "clippings"-feature on IHT.com where you
mark all the articles you are interessted in and they all appear in
the "clippings" dropdown right of the naviation bar.
So here is how I imagine it works (for the user):
1) Mark your articles
2) Go to the "PDF Generation" page
3) (Optionally) bring the articles into your favorite order and
choose the pdf template (Toc/No-Toc, 1 or 2 columns,...)
4) (Optionally) Save your selection for future use.
5) Click on generate
Although I am neither a Java nor XWiki pro I got some XSLT experience
and could help with the templates.
Please tell me what you think an if there is any chance an advanced
pdf generation will be introduced in the future. Or is there another
(external) way to achieve this?
Looking forward to reading your comments!
Thanks,
Sascha Oesterle.
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