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Old February 21st, 2006, 01:25 PM
Zika Mustikla
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Default XML -> PDF


Which is the easiest way to transform XML into PDF? Which tool/.Net library
I should use?


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Old February 21st, 2006, 10:15 PM
Peter Flynn
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Zika Mustikla wrote:[color=blue]
> Which is the easiest way to transform XML into PDF? Which tool/.Net library
> I should use?[/color]

It depends on what kind of typographic quality you want, and how much
effort you want to put into getting it.

The canonical answer is XSL:FO, using one of several FO processors (some
free, some commercial). This has the advantage of using XML syntax, and
thus "staying within the fold", but doing anything other than fairly
trivial formatting means reinventing rather a lot of wheels.

If you happen to know LaTeX, another path is to use XSLT to generate
LaTeX source code. This has the advantages of better typographic quality
and greater modularity (using LaTeX's style packages) but it's an
additional syntax to learn and an additional processor (again, both free
and non-free).

///Peter
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