I am interested in most html2pdf, html2fo, but after I tried any of them, i am frustrated. some very lame ones support only 3 tags even. so i am wondering this tool support all html tags specified in HTML 4.0 DTD?
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Enrico Schnepel wrote: > Hello > > I've developed a tool html2fo for conversion of .html files to .fo. > http://html2fo.sourceforge.net > A similar tool is > WH2FO at > http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/fabgia/wh2fo/wh2fo.html > > WH2FO is optimized for Word 2000 html files - html2fo is more general. > > Enrico > > Am Freitag, 16. November 2001 21:45 schrieben Sie: > > XMLSpy 4.1 has FO transformation built in as an option under the XSL menu. > > All you have to do is point it to FOP.bat. I guess you could call this a > > "visual tool". But I'm going to guess that what the original poster is > > looking for is some kind of a WYSIWIG PDF editor that manipulates the > > underlying FO? That would be a pretty intense project. > > > > Do you think Adobe will ever implement a built-in fop processor? The > > Acrobat plug-in could come to life any time the browser comes across a .fo > > file, just like it does now when it sees a .pdf. Any pages that require > > precise coloring, layout, pagination, etc. would be candidates for > > conversion from html to fo. Definitely some interesting possibilities here. > > I suppose people could be doing the same thing now if they have Exchange, > > but when you can make little changes through a text editor it's a lot more > > convenient. > > > > > > You'd think they'd be all for it since it could drastically increase PDF > > viewing on the web. Although I guess it could cut into sales of their > > full-version Acrobat (what used to be called Exchange). So what part of it > > would they sell? Hmmm. Can even they do this within the licensing rules of > > this project? > > > > > > -Matt > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Charles Palmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 1:56 AM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: RE: no visual tool for FOP? > > > > > > > > > Hi team > > > > > > This is also something I am curious about. Here are two > > > embryonic ideas - > > > can anyone see any merit in them? > > > > > > 1 XMLSpy seems to have the ability to convert a Word > > > document to XML. Could > > > XSLT be used to transform this XML to FO, and thence to PDF? > > > Then Word could > > > be used as the "visual tool". > > > > > > 2 Sun's new Star Office apparently saves files as XML (see > > > http://xml.coverpages.org/starOfficeXML.html ). Could the > > > word processor > > > from StarOffice be used as the "visual tool"? > > > > > > By the way, XMLSpy mentions support or fop - does anyone have > > > experience > > > with this? > > > > > > Regards - > > > Charles Palmer > > > > > > Technical Director, DSP Design Ltd > > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > 7 Tapton Park Innovation Centre, Brimington Rd, Chesterfield > > > S41 0TZ, UK > > > ph: +44 (0) 1246 545 918 > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
