Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 09:16:55 -0600 From: Robin Damm <robin@damm.ca> To: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XML to PDF parser, preferably FOP, for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20021203151655.GA487@lulu.bad.dog> In-Reply-To: <1505845296.20021203131840@buz.ch> References: <1505845296.20021203131840@buz.ch>
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On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 01:18:40PM +0100, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > Hello, > I'm looking for an XML to PDF Parser (preferably FOP like the > charming http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html project) that actually > works under FreeBSD without first going through the hoops of > installing Java (never managed to get it running anyway), meaning it > must be in some other language than Java (C, C++, Python, Ruby, Perl, > PHP all fine, just not Java). Speed isn't an issue at all (it's used > only very infrequently, like 1 time a day for a 2 page report) but > working under FreeBSD most certainly is. > > If anyone knows about a FOP parser that isn't implemented in Java, I'd > really appreciate to hear about it (preferably CC it to me as the > traffic on this list is somewhat high and messages get lost in the > "noise" [1]). I can't offer a solid solution but here are a few pointers. For FO generation take a look at xsltproc (ports/textproc/libxslt). The only non-java FO processor I can think of would be PassiveTex (ports/print/passivetex). I can't comment on PassiveTex but xsltproc works great. OpenJade (ports/textproc/openjade) is an option too. These all make use of TeX and friends so maybe your java problems aren't so bad. :) -- Robin Damm <robin@damm.ca> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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