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Document Conversions Online
I want to build an open source online document conversion program.
Can someone get me started with a little blurb about the state of the
art? Thanks!
Michael
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Re: Document Conversions Online
Posted by Ben Pope <be...@gmail.com>.
Michael McGrady wrote:
> Now we seem to really be getting somewhere. Thanks. I am new at
> this, so I have some new-like questions. What is FOP?
Apache FOP.
I'll let them describe it best:
http://xml.apache.org/fop/
It's a piece of cake to use with Cocoon.
If you haven't already, then grab the 2.1.7 release, install it and take
a look at the examples. FOP is used in there.
Just have a wander round the Cocoon examples to see what it can do. If
you feel like getting your hands dirty you might be suprised at how easy
it is to get stuck in.
Ben Pope.
> On Apr 5, 2005 12:34 PM, Ben Pope <be...@gmail.com> 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.
>>
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Re: Document Conversions Online
Posted by Antonio Gallardo <ag...@agssa.net>.
On Mar, 5 de Abril de 2005, 15:10, Michael McGrady dijo:
> Now we seem to really be getting somewhere. Thanks. I am new at
> this, so I have some new-like questions. What is FOP?
http://xml.apache.org/fop/
Best Regards,
Antonio Gallardo
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Re: Document Conversions Online
Posted by Michael McGrady <mi...@gmail.com>.
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 <be...@gmail.com> 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.
>
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Re: Document Conversions Online
Posted by Ben Pope <be...@gmail.com>.
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.
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Re: Document Conversions Online
Posted by Michael McGrady <mi...@gmail.com>.
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.
On Apr 3, 2005 10:45 AM, Jorg Heymans <jh...@domek.be> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> What kind of formats are you looking to convert? Cocoon is extremely
> flexible in converting xml formats to almost anything else, is this what
> you are looking for?
>
> Regards
> Jorg
>
> Michael McGrady wrote:
> > I want to build an open source online document conversion program.
> > Can someone get me started with a little blurb about the state of the
> > art? Thanks!
> >
> > Michael
>
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Re: Document Conversions Online
Posted by Jorg Heymans <jh...@domek.be>.
Hi Michael,
What kind of formats are you looking to convert? Cocoon is extremely
flexible in converting xml formats to almost anything else, is this what
you are looking for?
Regards
Jorg
Michael McGrady wrote:
> I want to build an open source online document conversion program.
> Can someone get me started with a little blurb about the state of the
> art? Thanks!
>
> Michael
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