Publishing with XML - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v4.02, by Dr. Herong Yang
Formatting XSL-FO Files to PDF Files Using FOP
This section provides an example of formatting an XSL-FO file to a PDF file with FOP.
Let's format hello.fo into a PDF file with the following command:
fop -fo hello.fo -pdf hello.pdf
You should see the following on the screen:
[INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser [INFO] FOP 0.20.5rc2 [INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser [INFO] building formatting object tree [INFO] setting up fonts [INFO] [1] [INFO] Parsing of document complete, stopping renderer
Now if you open the output file, hello.pdf, with Adobe Acrobat Reader, you should see the greeting message, "Hello world!", showing at the top left corner of the page. This is great. I am starting to like FOP now.
Table of Contents
Ideas on Publishing Books using XML
Overview of hyPub - A Simple XML Publishing Tool
Writing Book Contents in XHTML Source Files
Transforming Book Source Files with XSL Technology
Designing Web Page Layouts with Tables
Controlling Web Page Appearance with CSS
Sharing HTML Codes with JavaScript Files
Generating Web Pages with hyPub
►Formatting Printable Documents with XSL-FO
What Is XSL-FO (XSL Formatting Objects)
Example of XSL-FO Document - hello.fo
Installing Apache FOP - XSL-FO Processor
Formatting XSL-FO Files to Text Files Using FOP
►Formatting XSL-FO Files to PDF Files Using FOP
Formatting XML Files to PDF Files with XSLT
Tranforming XML Files with XSLT Stylesheets