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
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On Mar 24, 2018, at 9:29 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Mohamed,
On 24 Mar 2018, at 19:12, Mohamed Ashraf <[email protected]> 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/ImplementPDFexportwit... ?
Thanks -Vincent
and I will see LaTeX , thanks
2018-03-24 19:52 GMT+02:00 Vincent Massol <[email protected]>:
Hi Mohamed,
On 24 Mar 2018, at 18:44, Mohamed Ashraf <[email protected]> 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