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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:02:07 -0800
Subject: Re: XML to PDF
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Alternatively, you can easily write a few classes that translate DOM
objects into COS objects.  We have done this in our product.  It took very
few days.   XSLT/XSL-FO is one way to do the transformations using that
methodology.  We did not use it as our target is mobile forms which do not
require very complex layouts.  Most are horizontally centered and
vertically flowed.

Duane Nickull
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On 2012-11-30 5:35 AM, "Jeremias Maerki" <dev@jeremias-maerki.ch> wrote:

>An ideal candidate for that sort of thing is XSLT/XSL-FO with Apache FOP:
>http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/
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>Jeremias Maerki
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>On 30.11.2012 13:29:50 Patrik Berzander wrote:
>> Hi all,
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>> The PDFBox application can create PDF from text files, which is great.
>> But is there anyone out there that knows if it's possible to create a
>>PDF from structured content such as XML?
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>> I would like to to have a simple web form where someone can upload an
>>image, type some text and from that we would create a PDF.
>> There would be a fixed layout of course.
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>> If anyone know if this is possible, please let me know.
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