1 Jul
2013
1 Jul
'13
11:59 a.m.
Hi Josef,
On Jul 1, 2013, at 10:45 AM, jhaimerl <Josef.Haimerl(a)de-gmbh.com> wrote:
Hi,
we want to modify the pdf-export by using a commercial pdf-rendering
library. As so far the pdf-export is located in the xwiki-platform-oldcore
package, I suppose the reengineering is still pending. Because of that I
wanted to ask how is the future strategy for the pdf-export? How can we
integrate our pdf-export to be prepared for future modification?
The long term future is to have the PDF export done using the Rendering engine as a
Renderer (ie ability to transform XDOM into PDF). I've even started a branch on this
at
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-rendering/tree/itext-pdf-renderer
Now this branch is more an experiment at this stage since using iText is very nice but has
2 important drawbacks: PDF styling and exporting HTML (RawBlock with HTML).
But even if we don't use iText we could still move our current PDF export code in a
Renderer and implement the current pipeline (syntax --> HTML --> PDF, as described
at
http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Configuration#HCustomiz…
There's no defined roadmap to do this at this point. Currently you'll need to
modify ExportAction.export().
Thanks
-Vincent
Thanks and regards,
Josef