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What is Oxygen PDF Chemistry?
Oxygen PDF Chemistry allows you to obtain PDF output from HTML or XML documents simply by styling them with CSS. It is a CSS Paged Media processor based on the open-source Apache FOP XSL-FO engine. Its main purpose is to provide you with a simple tool that allows you to leverage your CSS knowledge to create printable deliverables. While the support for fancy formatting is limited, it is a great processor for generating technical documentation.
Using CSS for Print
While CSS was designed as a language to style web pages, it turned out to be a good candidate to also format printed materials. The so called CSS paged media module was thus added to the existing standard by W3C.
New concepts added by this module include:
- Page size
- Page breaks
- Headers and footers
- Footnotes
- Links containing the target page number
- Leaders that are used to fill spaces
For more information, see the following paged media specifications:
Note: There are many other processors that implement paged media standard: Prince XML, Antenna
House, PDF Reactor.