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[XML Graphics - FOP Wiki] New: HowTo/HtmlToPdf

   Date: 2005-01-31T01:58:18
   Editor: 81.221.167.213
   Wiki: XML Graphics - FOP Wiki
   Page: HowTo/HtmlToPdf
   URL: http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/HowTo/HtmlToPdf

   An initial page for HTML to PDF conversion for others to improve.

New Page:

##language:en

= How to convert HTML or XHTML to PDF =

Apache FOP is an XSL-FO processor. If you want to convert HTML to PDF you need to convert it to XSL-FO first, before FOP can do anything for you. There are several possible approaches:

 1. Start with XML and create a separate XSLT that converts the XML to XSL-FO instead of PDF. That's probably the best approach if the original data is available as XML.

 2. Convert the HTML to XHTML and convert the XHTML to XSL-FO using XSLT.

  /!\ FOP currently doesn't support automatic table-layout. Column widths have to be specified.

 3. Convert the HTML to XSL-FO directly using some specialized tool (check out the ''Tools'' section below).

(!) '''''Add additional content (additional ideas, pitfalls, etc.)!'''''

== Tools ==

 * [http://xml.apache.org/fop/resources.html#products-other Links to related tools]
 * [http://jtidy.sourceforge.net JTidy]

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