[Zope] STX (Wiki) to PDF?

[Chris McDonough]

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
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