big big big thank you… very much appreciate your help

;-))

> On 18 Apr 2019, at 18:07, Hussein Shafie <huss...@xmlmind.com> wrote:
> 
> Sorry but it's not possible to really help you and this, for the following 
> reasons:
> 
> 1) v6.5 is very old and no longer supported by us. (We are about to release 
> XMLmind XML Editor v9!)
> 
> 2) This level of support is reserved to our customers and 
> <nicolai.and...@gmail.com> does not correspond to any of the email addresses 
> of our customers.
> 
> Your "pdf-ignite.xsl" indicates that you are/were a customer of NeoDoc, the 
> developers of Calenco (https://www.calenco.com/en/index.html), a company 
> which bought an XMLmind XML Editor developer license several years ago.
> 
> 3) Even if you were a customer, it would be difficult for us to explain how 
> to implement *all* your requirements. See FAQ:
> ---
> How do I customize the HTML, PDF, RTF, etc, generated using the "Convert 
> Document" menu?
> ---
> http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/faq.html#custom_deliverables
> 
> 
> =======================================================================
> However, just to prove our good will, we'll try to give you quick start:
> 
> A) "200+ articles" to convert to PDF implies that you'd better use xxetool, 
> our command-line tool, rather than the desktop application.
> 
> More information about xxetool here:
> 
> The xxetool command-line utility
> http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/xxetool/index.html
> 
> 
> 
> B) After commenting out
> 
> ---------------------------------------
> <!--
> <xsl:import href="fo-tricks.xsl" />
> -->
> 
> <!--
> <xsl:param name="local.l10n.xml" select="document('l10n.xml')"/>
> -->
> ---------------------------------------
> 
> in your "pdf-ignite.xsl", the following command runs just fine:
> 
> ---
> xxetool convert -t pdf-ignite.xsl db5.toPSFile black_box.xml -s pdf -s "|pdf" 
> -u out.pdf
> ---
> 
> and generates attached "out.pdf", which at least is a starting point.
> 
> [[["pdf-ignite.xsl" is very slow but if you replace (downloaded from the web):
> 
> <xsl:import 
> href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl-ns/current/fo/profile-docbook.xsl";
>  />
> 
> by (local to XMLmind XML Editor):
> 
> <xsl:import href="docbook5-config:xsl/fo/profile-docbook.xsl" />
> 
> you'll make it faster. See my modified "pdf-ignite.xsl" attached to this 
> email.]]]
> 
> 
> 
> C) As explained in the above FAQ, the answer to most of your requirements is 
> found in this book:
> 
> DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide by Bob Stayton.
> http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/
> 
> and in this online reference:
> 
> DocBook: DocBook XSL Stylesheet Reference Documentation by Norman Walsh
> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/
> 
> For example, adding:
> 
> ---
> <xsl:attribute-set name="section.title.properties">
>  <xsl:attribute name="font-family">sans-serif</xsl:attribute>
>  <xsl:attribute name="color">#808000</xsl:attribute>
> </xsl:attribute-set>
> ---
> 
> to your "pdf-ignite.xsl" changes the font and colors of headings.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ===================================================================
> Please do not send us further support requests because as explained above we 
> won't answer them.
> ===================================================================
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 04/18/2019 12:40 PM, Nicolai Andler wrote:
>> 
>> I have the xmlMind Editor prof edition 6.5.0 and I have +200 articles in
>> docbook xml.
>> I want to convert each of them into PDF and apply a certain formating to
>> it. I have a XLS stylesheet that was supposed to be used for a book PDF
>> output of mine….but somehow it does not work ?!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> at least, I would like to:
>> 
>>  * apply another font to the headings and body and change colour of
>>    headings 1-3
>>  * add a graphic in the header
>>  * add text in the footer
>>  * (ensure that the SVG graphics is actually displaying and are
>>    centered in the right size - does not work at all at the moment)
>> 
>> 
>> Ideally I would also like to only select certain sections in each XML
>> file. I have assigned different ‘vendor’ attributes to each section to
>> use them as a selection/filter…I have about 30 different ones and I only
>> want about 6 of these to be selected for the PDF creation.
>> 
>> any chance you can guide me in achieving this ?
>> 
> <out.pdf><pdf-ignite.xsl>

Best regards / Beste Grüsse
Nicolai Andler

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