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<P><FONT SIZE=2>There are excellent programs out there that convert HTML+CSS to PDF, specifically PDFreactor which we have been using to generate downloadable documents using the same rendering code with slightly tweaked stylesheets for print media. I seem to recall posting small snippets to get you started on the list recently.<BR>
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Cheers!<BR>
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-Boris (via BlackBerry)<BR>
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From: seaside-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org <seaside-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org><BR>
To: seaside@lists.squeakfoundation.org <seaside@lists.squeakfoundation.org><BR>
Sent: Fri Apr 11 05:54:57 2008<BR>
Subject: Re: [Seaside] Re: ODFCanvas?<BR>
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Hi Stephan,<BR>
<BR>
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:25:09 +0200<BR>
stephan@stack.nl wrote:<BR>
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> > The practical reason for this is that I will need to create some<BR>
> > "editable", at least "printable" and "permanently storable" documents<BR>
> > like orders or requests for quotes.<BR>
><BR>
> I'm happy generating LaTeX and processing it with pdflatex.<BR>
> It is simple (at least compared to odf), fast, free, and a lot<BR>
> better looking than fo based approaches.<BR>
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I agree with the advantages you mention. One of the reasons I came up<BR>
with the css2xslfo transformator is that it should result in a pretty<BR>
good WYSIWYG effect, as it would make use of the style information<BR>
I use on the site already. Whereas with LaTeX I'd have to recreate<BR>
something similar looking first.<BR>
<BR>
I admit to not knowing much about the internals, possibilities and<BR>
limitations of creating ODF files "manually", but I hope that ODF<BR>
being XML based would allow me to leverage much of what is already<BR>
available. And it would be really nice to produce an editable document<BR>
by calling "renderContentOn: odf" instead of "renderContentOn: html",<BR>
wouldn't it?<BR>
<BR>
Thanks,<BR>
s.<BR>
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