Re: [xwiki-devs] replacing XSL-FO

On 24 Mar 2018, at 21:58, Paul Libbrecht <paul(a)hoplahup.net> wrote: 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>