[FM Discuss] update

[adam hyde]

hi Andy good to see you back online :)

On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 12:01 -0400, Andy Oram wrote:
> Thanks, Adam, for an impressive list of projects that are underway.
> 
> The usual way to create PDFs, as I understand it, is to start with XML and use XSL-FO. Do you have a description somewhere of the process that uses CSS instead?
> 

I dont have a description of the process. We are hacking our way through
it but essentially we can do this 'easily' because FM does not use wiki
markup but uses xhtml as its storage format. So we start with xml
generated by the WYSIWYG editor and we use htmltidy on the backend to
make sure its nice and clean. Then we define the css styles and use Pisa
to follow that to generate PDF. 

The main CSS rules Luka is implementing for the paged media are outlined
here:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/page.html

adam

ps. on a slightly different note : Andy, do you have any reason to be
in NYC this week? If so I will be there from tonight until Sunday. It
would be good to see you for coffee!





> I'm no fan of XML-FO, which seems to be an awkward attempt to redo CSS, so I'm intrigued by your project.
> 
> Andy
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