[FM Discuss] New to FM - Cool Latex-style PDF and outline creation tool

[adam]

On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 07:47 -0700, Marcio Galli wrote:
> Hi adam ( e janet ) thanks for the answers. I looked for xinha and
> objavi ( understand now how to pronouce heh and that is it not related
> to video )> very impressive work the objavi releases you guys doing
> and all this infra to let organizations generate PDF from
> data-sources. 

thanks! Doug develops objavi and he's doing a great job.

> 
> you saing "objavi 2
> can output anything that renders in a browser  " . Objavi calls the
> browser API ( would it be gecko? or can it be Gecko as a server type
> thing? ). I also found that xhtml2pdf claims that FLOSSManuals are
> using it. What is the relationship ? Documentarion here might be the
> source code right? 

FLOSS Manuals uses objavi 1 which uses reportlab and xhtml2pdf. booki
uses objavi 2 which uses (amongst other things) webkit (and later we
hope to wire in the mozilla engine).

as for the documentation of the code...we were hoping to do a sprint
later in the year to doc the code...perhaps there is a FM friendly tech
writer with experience in documenting python APIs that might want to
lead the charge? ;)

adam






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> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:47 AM, adam <adam at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>         On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 10:43 -0500, Janet Swisher wrote:
>         > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:17 AM, adam <adam at xs4all.nl>
>         wrote:
>         > > On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 10:28 -0700, Marcio Galli wrote:
>         >
>         >
>         > >> I also wonder if FM has option to render the PDF using
>         some latex
>         > >> style/quality.
>         > >
>         > > nope...
>         >
>         > If what you want is something that *looks* like LaTeX
>         output, you
>         > could provide a CSS to Objavi that gives you that look.
>         (Though I
>         > doubt Objavi uses TeX fonts.)
>         >
>         > If you want something that actually uses TeX rendering (such
>         as for
>         > math equations), then no, FM doesn't do that.
>         
>         
>         booki might be able to do rendering of equations since xinha
>         has a
>         plugin that supports it and outputs to html... and in theory
>         objavi 2
>         can output anything that renders in a browser to book
>         formatted pdf...
>         
>         but you'd have to wait for all that (or contrib to the dev and
>         get it
>         done fast!)
>         
>         
>         hey janet - how did the linux fest go?
>         
>         adam
>         
>         
>         >
>         > --Janet
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