> On 18 Jan 2017, at 21:42, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 01/18/2017 12:05 PM, Anca Luca wrote: >> For the problems of Apache FOP, does anyone have any idea what libraries do >> other software use for this kind of functionality? (maybe there is a more >> cool lib that we haven't found out about) > > There are commercial alternatives, but those are out of the question due > to the license. > > There's the programmatic PDF generation option with PDFBox, but that > will require a MAJOR redesign of the export. > > Then there's the option of building our own patched version of FOP with > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-2469 included.
The patch in FOP-2469 is possibly not good enough which could explain why it’s not committed yet. So there might be more work to do before we could use it. Analysing and understand it is also quite some work I guess. > It wouldn't be > the first time we use a patched library, and it seems to be the solution > with the least amount of work needed. There are 24 open issues with PDF export right now (and 10 bugs): http://jira.xwiki.org/issues/?jql=component%20%3D%20%22Old%20Core%20-%20PDF%20export%22%20AND%20project%20%3D%20XWIKI%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20ORDER%20BY%20priority%20DESC We could take them one by one and see if using the print button would solve some of them. Thanks -Vincent > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu
