Antenna House's Formatter now also supports print formatting via CSS (as
an alternative to XSL-FO). The FO processing is superb and while I haven't
used the CSS option, I'd expect it to be of similar caliber.

Evan Lenz
Software Developer, Community
MarkLogic Corporation



On 6/9/11 10:49 AM, "Justin Makeig" <[email protected]> wrote:

>You might check out Prince <http://www.princexml.com> as well. Prince,
>unlike FOP, uses CSS to specify rich page layouts. Prince implements most
>of CSS 3, including the Paged Media module
><http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-page/> and extends it for things like
>cross-references and numbering. Prince also allows you to render SVG for
>fancier drawing and text effects.  As a web developer at heart, CSS and
>SVG are much more palatable to me than FOP. (Others¹ mileage may vary,
>though.) I did a proof of concept implementation a while back that
>wrapped Prince in a PHP-based web service that allowed me to pass CSS and
>XML from MarkLogic and return PDF as a binary over HTTP. I¹m swamped now,
>but I¹ll try to post that code to GitHub in the not-too-distant future.
>
>Justin
>
>
>Justin Makeig
>Senior Product Manager
>MarkLogic Corporation
>
>Phone +1 650 655 2387
>
>email  [email protected]
>web    www.marklogic.com
>
>On Jun 9, 2011, at 7:20 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>
>> Is there a library for outputting PDF files from MarkLogic? I found
>>plenty of information about converting PDF to XML, but what about the
>>other way around?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Ryan
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