Now we seem to really be getting somewhere. Thanks. I am new at this, so I have some new-like questions. What is FOP?
On Apr 5, 2005 12:34 PM, Ben Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael McGrady wrote: > > Hello, Jorg, > > > > Thanks for your response. I want to provide an application that will > > take documents and convert them to and from XML, e.g. Word to PDF, PDF > > to Word, RTF to PDF, etc. Can cocoon do this? Thanks. > > Well... > > Word, PDF and RTF are not XML in their native formats. > > Word can produce an XML document describing something that you want - > I'm not sure how nice it is to interpret. > > Anyway, assuming you can get Word, PDF and RTF into XML, it's not too > bad to create a stylesheet that outputs XSL:FO (depending on how > exacting you want your output to be). FOP will then create RTF and PDF > from your FO. To be honest, the RTF generation doesn't work nearly as > well as for PDF, but I haven't tried other than setting the rendering > target so I may well have done something wrong. > > Cocoon is a publishing framework at heart, it is the ideal basis for > what you want to do, but you may have to write some components yourself, > unless somebody knows better. > > It's an excellent starting point, anyway. > > Ben Pope. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
