On 16.09.22 14:44, Andreas Reichel wrote:
Greetings and compliments of the day.
We use FOP successfully to generate nice PDF files for our technical
documentation.
Although there is one more requirement: printing formatted code blocks
with syntax highlighting (e. g. SQL or Java code snippets). What would
be the best way to achieve that?
I have tried to convert the SQL/Java code to SVG via Pygments and to
insert it as EXTERNAL_GRAPHICS. This works in general, but I cant
control the sizing. Each EXTERNAL_GRAPHICS will have a different size of
characters based on the size of the graphics.
Does anyone know a better way or has done something similar already? I
would appreciate any idea or hint.
Thank you in advance and best regards
Andreas
Hi Andreas,
I haven't had such a problem yet, so I don't know tools that perform the
actual syntax highlighting. But what I do not understand is why you are
using SVG and external graphics. FO is capable of doing preformatted
text and also of colorizing text. So no need to go that path. Since you
using scripts anyway (as far as I understand), it shouldn't be too
complicated to generated XML fragments to be inserted into you document.
Regards,
Klaus
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