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Apache FOP and additional output formats
Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 12:39 am
by amix
Do you plan to add additional output formats to the XSLFO transformation scenario dialog? Currently there is PDF, TXT and PS. I would like to have an Area Tree also. Even RTF (though, they say it's incomplete) would be nice. This is all for testing while doing the stylesheet.
Re: Apache FOP and additional output formats
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:42 am
by Radu
Hi Andreas,
For now the "Method" combo box from the transformation scenario is limited to the three values you specified above. We will discuss if we can make this more flexible for a future version.
But you have a workaround:
In the Oxygen Preferences
XML / XSLT-FO-XQuery / FO Processors define a new external FO processor with a custom name and the following command line:
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java -Xmx250m "-Dcom.oxygenxml.editor.home.url=${oxygenHome}" -Djavax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl -Djavax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl -Dorg.xml.sax.driver=org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser "-Dlog4j.configuration=${oxygenHome}/tools/config/log4j.xml" -cp "${oxygenInstallDir}/classes/;${oxygenInstallDir}/lib/author.jar;${oxygenInstallDir}/lib/oxygen.jar;${oxygenInstallDir}/lib/oxygenEclipse.jar;${oxygenInstallDir}/lib/authorEclipse.jar;${oxygenInstallDir}/lib/xercesImpl.jar;${oxygenInstallDir}/lib/resolver.jar;${oxygenInstallDir}/lib/log4j.jar;${oxygenInstallDir}/lib/fop.jar;${oxygenInstallDir}/lib/avalon-framework-4.2.0.jar;${oxygenInstallDir}/lib/batik-all-1.7.jar;${oxygenInstallDir}/lib/commons-io-1.3.1.jar;${oxygenInstallDir}/lib/xmlgraphics-commons-1.4.jar;${oxygenInstallDir}/lib/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar;${oxygenInstallDir}/lib/saxon9ee.jar;${oxygenInstallDir}/lib/serializer.jar;${oxygenInstallDir}/lib/xml-apis-xpath.jar;${oxygenInstallDir}/lib/xml-apis-ext.jar;${oxygenInstallDir}/lib/jeuclid-core.jar;${oxygenInstallDir}/lib/jeuclid-fop.jar" org.apache.fop.cli.Main -fo ${fo} -at ${out}
The command line is almost identical to the one run by Oxygen but it hard codes the FO method to
at which means
area tree. Then save the result of the transformation as XML.
You can also create a new External FOP which outputs only RTF this way.
Then in the transformation scenario choose as a FO processor one of the newly created ones and run the transformation.
Regards,
Radu
Re: Apache FOP and additional output formats
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 6:29 pm
by amix
This is great! Thank you very much!