I've been looking around the Zope Book CVS and web pages trying to find the elusive "STX to PDF" conversion tools. Anyone have any pointers? I need a way to dump a Wiki into a single PDF document. Figured I'd have to build something, but would like to find an STX to PDF converter to start with. Thanks for any hints. Brad Clements, bkc@murkworks.com (315)268-1000 http://www.murkworks.com (315)268-9812 Fax AOL-IM: BKClements
Hi Brad, Wow, this is an incredibly timely question. ;-) First of all the tool the Zope Book used (I speak in the past tense for a reason here ;-) to convert to PDF was "htmldoc" available from http://www.easysw.com/software.html . It's a command-line UNIX tool that appears to be available in source code form although I'm not sure what its actual license is. I've been working for the last few days on something that uses Reportlab's PDF generation tool to do the same. The "BackTalk" project/system is what drives the Zope Developer's Guide at http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZDG. This is a Zope Product that allows inline comments and editing. I've added code to the CVS version of BackTalk (http://sourceforge.net/projects/backtalk/) to render structured text to PDF if you've got Reportlabs' PDF stuff (http://www.reportlabs.com) and PIL (http://www.pythonware.com) installed. The "PDFClass.py" Python module is what you'll want to look at inside of the BackTalk CVS module. This file implements a general-purpose stx-to-PDF "colorizer" class (akin to stx's HTMLClass) and can generate tables of contents, PDF bookmarks, and can handle images. It is lacking any facility to produce internal and external links, though I'd like to implement them soon (any help would be wonderful ;-) Currently the "htmldoc" tool produces marginally nicer output, but it of course requires HTML input and doesn't appear to be free software. HTH, - C ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Clements" <bkc@murkworks.com> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 10:54 AM Subject: [Zope] STX (Wiki) to PDF?
I've been looking around the Zope Book CVS and web pages trying to find the elusive "STX to PDF" conversion tools.
Anyone have any pointers?
I need a way to dump a Wiki into a single PDF document. Figured I'd have to build something, but would like to find an STX to PDF converter to start with.
Thanks for any hints.
Brad Clements, bkc@murkworks.com (315)268-1000 http://www.murkworks.com (315)268-9812 Fax AOL-IM: BKClements
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Chris McDonough wrote:
Hi Brad,
Wow, this is an incredibly timely question. ;-)
First of all the tool the Zope Book used (I speak in the past tense for a reason here ;-) to convert to PDF was "htmldoc" available from http://www.easysw.com/software.html . It's a command-line UNIX tool that appears to be available in source code form although I'm not sure what its actual license is.
It's gpl, and it's really hard to miss that if you try to download that tool ;-): http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/software.php cheers, oliver
OK. Sorry. I didn't really look. ;-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Oliver Bleutgen" <myzope@gmx.net> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 12:02 PM Subject: Re: [Zope] STX (Wiki) to PDF?
Chris McDonough wrote:
Hi Brad,
Wow, this is an incredibly timely question. ;-)
First of all the tool the Zope Book used (I speak in the past tense for a reason here ;-) to convert to PDF was "htmldoc" available from http://www.easysw.com/software.html . It's a command-line UNIX tool that appears to be available in source code form although I'm not sure what its actual license is.
It's gpl, and it's really hard to miss that if you try to download that tool ;-):
http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/software.php
cheers, oliver
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On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:30:27AM -0500, Chris McDonough wrote:
reason here ;-) to convert to PDF was "htmldoc" available from http://www.easysw.com/software.html . It's a command-line UNIX tool that appears to be available in source code form although I'm not sure what its actual license is.
IIRC it was GPLed last time I checked.
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/backtalk/) to render structured text to PDF if you've got Reportlabs' PDF stuff (http://www.reportlabs.com) and PIL (http://www.pythonware.com) installed.
it's http://www.reportlab.com bye, Jerome Alet
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