dsh <daniel.hais...@googlemail.com> wrote on 06/08/2011 12:15:52 PM: > > Of course we had been using ODFDOM but the issue is how do you get ODF > transformed accordingly to other formats such as RTF, AFP or PDF and > make those formats look consistent with what you would get if doing > the transformation natively during design time in OO or Symphony. > >
I think your observation is correct. The ODF Toolkit does not currently have a good way of generating print or print equivalent output from an ODF document. The Toolkit had no layout or rendering support. But I wonder if this is something that Apache FOP could help solve? The styling vocabulary of ODF is loosely borrowed from XSL Formatting Objects (XSL:FO). It may be possible to generate XSL:FO from ODF much more easily than converting from ODF to PDF or Postscript directly. But once we have the XSL:FO intermediary, then the pipeline could continue with Apache FOP to target formats ranging from PDF to raster images. Does that sound plausible? Someone needs to do the layout and rendering. But I hate to see that code written more than once. The ODF->XSL:FO conversion would be a great toolkit enhancement. Has POI done this with the Microsoft formats? -Rob --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
