From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 3 7:17: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F30937B6A7 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 07:16:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from pd4mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85C3C43EA9 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 07:16:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robin@damm.ca) Received: from pd2mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr3so-ser.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.108]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H6J00KC2UG15L@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 08:16:49 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml5so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml5so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.149]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H6J00MBUUG13M@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 08:16:49 -0700 (MST) Received: from lulu.bad.dog (h24-82-238-48.wp.shawcable.net [24.82.238.48]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H6J00MNVUG0ZJ@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 08:16:49 -0700 (MST) Received: from lulu.bad.dog (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lulu.bad.dog (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB3FGuNG000705; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 09:16:56 -0600 (CST envelope-from robin@damm.ca) Received: (from robin@localhost) by lulu.bad.dog (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gB3FGtmf000704; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 09:16:55 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 09:16:55 -0600 From: Robin Damm Subject: Re: XML to PDF parser, preferably FOP, for FreeBSD? In-reply-to: <1505845296.20021203131840@buz.ch> To: Gabriel Ambuehl Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: Gabriel Ambuehl , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <20021203151655.GA487@lulu.bad.dog> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i References: <1505845296.20021203131840@buz.ch> X-Authentication-warning: lulu.bad.dog: robin set sender to robin@damm.ca using -f Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message