TLF Editor / Docx compatible / PDF Export

[Leonardo Sapucaia <sa...@tivic.com.br>]

HI,

A couple years ago I started to develop a TLF text editor with many
features found in MS Word, as header, footer, footnotes, and that could
export PDF files.

Despite finding few examples and open source projects, necessary for me to
be an area that had very little experience, I could code a reasonable
editor allowing pagination, headers and footers.

In the meantime I had to devote myself to other projects and I could not
quite finish the editor. Features such as footnotes and the generation of
PDFs were left unfinished.

Now I have to resume the project and since a long time passed, I wonder if
there is already some example or project that anyone here could show me.
Some reference so that I can use.

Need to generate PDF files from the TLF code (and may need to generate docx
too). Must also create a reference (marker) in text positions within the
TLF code (maybe a custom element?) which are linked to topics within the
footnotes block.

Could someone enlighten me?

Cheers,

Leonardo Sapucaia

Re: TLF Editor / Docx compatible / PDF Export

[hferreira <hf...@gmail.com>]

@Leonardo Sapucaia

Did you manage to finish this task ?



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Re: TLF Editor / Docx compatible / PDF Export

[Leonardo Sapucaia <sa...@tivic.com.br>]

Hi,

@Scott Yes, I'm thinking about PurePDF to export documents in PDF. About
references (in my case, footnotes) how you did? I'm thinking about some
kind of custom element, but i couldn't implement that.

@Dave I'm not sure yet if I can generate docx files. I tried Apache POI for
that, but i couldn't generate pixel perfect files.


Leo Sapucaia


Atenciosamente,



2015-02-16 23:09 GMT-03:00 Dave Fisher <da...@comcast.net>:

> There are some APache projects to consider.
>
> Apache PDFBox - pdfbox.apache.org
> APache POI - poi.apache.org for docx.
>
> You could also take a look an the newly incubating
> corinthia.incubator.apache.org
>
> Regards,
> Dave
>
> On Feb 15, 2015, at 3:55 AM, Leonardo Sapucaia wrote:
>
> > HI,
> >
> > A couple years ago I started to develop a TLF text editor with many
> > features found in MS Word, as header, footer, footnotes, and that could
> > export PDF files.
> >
> > Despite finding few examples and open source projects, necessary for me
> to
> > be an area that had very little experience, I could code a reasonable
> > editor allowing pagination, headers and footers.
> >
> > In the meantime I had to devote myself to other projects and I could not
> > quite finish the editor. Features such as footnotes and the generation of
> > PDFs were left unfinished.
> >
> > Now I have to resume the project and since a long time passed, I wonder
> if
> > there is already some example or project that anyone here could show me.
> > Some reference so that I can use.
> >
> > Need to generate PDF files from the TLF code (and may need to generate
> docx
> > too). Must also create a reference (marker) in text positions within the
> > TLF code (maybe a custom element?) which are linked to topics within the
> > footnotes block.
> >
> > Could someone enlighten me?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Leonardo Sapucaia
>
>

Re: TLF Editor / Docx compatible / PDF Export

[Dave Fisher <da...@comcast.net>]

There are some APache projects to consider.

Apache PDFBox - pdfbox.apache.org
APache POI - poi.apache.org for docx.

You could also take a look an the newly incubating corinthia.incubator.apache.org

Regards,
Dave

On Feb 15, 2015, at 3:55 AM, Leonardo Sapucaia wrote:

> HI,
> 
> A couple years ago I started to develop a TLF text editor with many
> features found in MS Word, as header, footer, footnotes, and that could
> export PDF files.
> 
> Despite finding few examples and open source projects, necessary for me to
> be an area that had very little experience, I could code a reasonable
> editor allowing pagination, headers and footers.
> 
> In the meantime I had to devote myself to other projects and I could not
> quite finish the editor. Features such as footnotes and the generation of
> PDFs were left unfinished.
> 
> Now I have to resume the project and since a long time passed, I wonder if
> there is already some example or project that anyone here could show me.
> Some reference so that I can use.
> 
> Need to generate PDF files from the TLF code (and may need to generate docx
> too). Must also create a reference (marker) in text positions within the
> TLF code (maybe a custom element?) which are linked to topics within the
> footnotes block.
> 
> Could someone enlighten me?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Leonardo Sapucaia

Re: TLF Editor / Docx compatible / PDF Export

[Scott Talsma <sc...@talsma.tv>]

I assume that PurePDF is on your radar?  I recently had to generated PDFs
in Arabic, and this worked really well.  The only thing that was a bit
tricky was automatic pagination.  If I recall correctly, it also did
references w/o issue.

It was pretty low-level; you could not give it HTML, and have it spit out
PDFs, you kinda have to manage everything, including fonts (embedded or
system).

On the upside, there is an example of how to do just about anything that it
is capable of, which is how I got Arabic working pretty quickly.

Scott

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 6:55 AM, Leonardo Sapucaia <sa...@tivic.com.br>
wrote:

> HI,
>
> A couple years ago I started to develop a TLF text editor with many
> features found in MS Word, as header, footer, footnotes, and that could
> export PDF files.
>
> Despite finding few examples and open source projects, necessary for me to
> be an area that had very little experience, I could code a reasonable
> editor allowing pagination, headers and footers.
>
> In the meantime I had to devote myself to other projects and I could not
> quite finish the editor. Features such as footnotes and the generation of
> PDFs were left unfinished.
>
> Now I have to resume the project and since a long time passed, I wonder if
> there is already some example or project that anyone here could show me.
> Some reference so that I can use.
>
> Need to generate PDF files from the TLF code (and may need to generate docx
> too). Must also create a reference (marker) in text positions within the
> TLF code (maybe a custom element?) which are linked to topics within the
> footnotes block.
>
> Could someone enlighten me?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Leonardo Sapucaia
>