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Can anybody recommend a free XML to PDF or RTF converter?
mouser:
It looks like at first glance that that tool will require some serious configuration to convert an xml file to a nice output.
Sure would be nice to have something automated that maybe could read an xml file and make some reasonable assumptions in order to generate a nice looking layout.. or maybe use a kind of gui tool to let you configure the arrangements of fields for pretty printing..
timns:
It looks like at first glance that that tool will require some serious configuration to convert an xml file to a nice output.
Sure would be nice to have something automated that maybe could read an xml file and make some reasonable assumptions in order to generate a nice looking layout.. or maybe use a kind of gui tool to let you configure the arrangements of fields for pretty printing..
-mouser (February 15, 2011, 07:17 PM)
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Sounds like a pledge opportunity!
timns:
...which I could step up for unless anyone else fancies doing it. Let's try and co-ordinate this stuff in case several people give it a go... :Thmbsup:
Ath:
It looks like at first glance that that tool will require some serious configuration to convert an xml file to a nice output.
Sure would be nice to have something automated that maybe could read an xml file and make some reasonable assumptions in order to generate a nice looking layout.. or maybe use a kind of gui tool to let you configure the arrangements of fields for pretty printing..
-mouser (February 15, 2011, 07:17 PM)
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Quess there is a tool for that already. Didn't look close lately (researched it a bit about 5 - 7 years ago), but I wouldn't start a project without finding all the tools for creating either FOP layouts or full-blown XSLT layouts.
f0dder:
Slightly OT, but still related: I've been wanting to look into DocBook for the next school project, because frankly .doc sucks when you're collaborating and doing more than ~50 pages. But all the XSLT and FOP stuff is disheartening, looks like it's easier to go for LaTeX :/
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