[jira] Commented: (DOXIA-53) Pdf and Rtf support with the iText framework

["Bruno Lowagie (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Bruno Lowagie commented on DOXIA-53:
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This is a very old thread.

In march 2006, I was overloaded with work, writing the book on iText.
I remember studying an APT to PDF convertor, but I never found the time to write one.

If you want to use iText to convert a wiki to PDF, I see different alternatives:

We have a developer who is currently working on better HTML to PDF and RTF
conversion in iText (his name is Howard Shank).

Another possibility would be to 'resurrect' the old XmlToPdf stuff in a separate jar
(the code is still out there in the SVN repository).

If you need any further input from me, please send a mail to the iText mailing-list:
itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net

> Pdf and Rtf support with the iText framework
> --------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DOXIA-53
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/DOXIA-53
>             Project: Maven Doxia
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Vincent Siveton
>            Assignee: Vincent Siveton
>             Fix For: 1.0-alpha-9
>
>         Attachments: doxia_itext.zip, generated-doc.zip, itext_plugin.zip
>
>
> Propose a Pdf/Rtf support with the iText framework for Doxia. 
> Here is the architecture: 
> - added an itext module in doxia-modules
> - created a doxia-doc-renderer (similar to doxia-site-renderer)
> - created an iText plugin for maven
> The iText module generates iText XML files. So, documents should be generated in Pdf or Rtf format (supported by iText).
> You could see the howto in the plugin for more information or try the project tests.
> According MPIR-17, we could be more generic by defining a new generated XML Doxia (I mean another DoxiaSink) and apply XSLT  to generate other formats (like javahelp)
> Known limitations:
> - known limitations from the iText framework like roman list
> - i18n for the "table of contents" title
> - reports are not supported
> - Renderer for Fml and Xdoc format should be improved. Parsers suppose that the renderer is HTML. 
> Attachments are:
> - doxia zip with diff (containing doxia-doc-renderer and doxia-module-itext) and resources
> - itext plugin zip with diff and resources
> - a zip containing generated documents for the site project (real examples)

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