[publican-list] Possible alternative to FOP!

[Ryan Lerch]

On 08/12/2011 01:55 PM, Ryan Lerch wrote:
>
> On 08/12/2011 11:11 AM, Jeff Fearn wrote:
>> Hi everybody, as you all no doubt know we have been searching for an 
>> alternative to FOP for some time. FOP has proven very expensive to 
>> support and package, and has basically been a thorn in our side for 
>> ages :(
>>
>> Enter http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ a new approach to 
>> HTML->PDF conversion. Now I've been rather negative about this 
>> approach since quite  frankly the output of existing tools is poor, 
>> but this tool takes the output to a new level!
>>
>> I urge you to take a look at the test PDF [1] I generated for the 
>> Publican Users' Guide before you write off this approach.
>>
>> After a few tweaks to the HTML-Single style-sheet the out put is 
>> on-par with FOP. Clearly there are limitations to what this can do, 
>> but the benefits of this over FOP are significant, and I think 
>> overall we'd get a lot more return for our effort in fixing layout 
>> issues with this tool than continuing smashing our faces against the 
>> impenetrable mountain of pain of FOP.
>>
>
> This looks awesome!
>
> I love that there will only be 1 styling mechanism (CSS) across all 
> the 4 default outputs. Makes it much easier to create new, and 
> maintain styles.
>
> cheers,
> ryanlerch

Jeff,

I also assume that the approach that wkthtmltopdf uses makes it a whole 
lot easier to change things like page size?

cheers,
ryanlerch