Xsl-Fo: Making XML Look Good in Print by Dave Pawson

Xsl-Fo: Making XML Look Good in Print



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Xsl-Fo: Making XML Look Good in Print Dave Pawson ebook
Format: pdf
Page: 284
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780596003555


--stringparam fop1.extensions 1 \. /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/fo/docbook.xsl \. Here's a good explanation of the technique. Don't worry if you see warnings and errors, you should end up with a good document.fo file. During volunteer work for a organization that needed a new website I discovered XSl-FO and for that matter XML. A lot of XML implementers assume that their DTP and of using CSS3 to format XML source? We're quickly approaching the point (if we're not already there) at which, for some use cases, the print formatting capabilities of CSS are good enough to justify avoiding the complexity of XSL-FO. The XSL Formatting Objects (FO) document is input to a formatter, a composition tool that renders marks on paper, typically these days in the form of a PDF file. From all I've read, it looks like Opera has done a great job supporting CSS compared to other browsers, and you can do some amazing things with CSS. It worked, the results look very good and the process was streamlined. There are many, many more flags that you can set during this transformation stage to take care of errors later on. With desktop publishing (DTP) tools and help authoring tools (HATs), a moderately competent computer user can control the look and feel of the final output. might look old-fashioned, but it would do the job much better than all that tag tower. The example they give, though, only worked correctly for me in Opera, not Firefox or IE. It is most often used to create print documents and is specifically tailored for paged media. So, we could XSL-FO was thought by some to eventually go to the browser, but the biggest push in XSL-FO has typically been for the creation of print documents. Producing quality printed output is devilishly hard.

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