Wat is the quick and best way to convert dataset (XML) into .PDF file

[Guest]

Hi,

I have got XML with content and links towards pictures. I wanna covert this
XML to .pdf file to print it on paper including with nice colors and
pictures. Or anyway ideas to convert HTML into .pdf file

Is there any open source free tool. If not is there any cheap payable tool
available



Regards,



Sam

 

[Barry Burton]

I used FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) from Apache on
my last project and it worked very well. Unfortunately,
it is written in Java...

I don't know if they have any plans to port it to C# or
J#, but you might want to take a look here anyway:

http://xml.apache.org/fop/

Barry

 

[Guest]

i find the project with port to J#. But no documatation
Wat was the out of ur FOP?

regards
Sam

 

[Guest]

We use a product called XMLPDF (see http://www.xmlpdf.com/). It's not free but the licence isn't too expensive and there's an evaluation version available (about USD 600).

 

[Barry Burton]

We used FOP to output a PDF byte stream to the web browser
to display PDF files. XML/XSLT was used for formatting
the actual output. It wasn't easy, but since FOP is FREE
(open source), it was the best way to go. Go to the FOP
site and do a search for the docs, they are there... The
example files were also helpful.

Good luck!

Barry

 

[Guest]

ok its fine, but im looking for same sort of software only difference is
that i wanna done XMLPDF on the web server.
Is it possible to do so, with the software u used?

regards

Sam

We use a product called XMLPDF (see http://www.xmlpdf.com/). It's not

free but the licence isn't too expensive and there's an evaluation version
available (about USD 600).

 

[Guest]

Not sure what you mean, but the application that uses it is an ASP.NET web-based application.

 

[Guest]

on the site http://www.xmlpdf.com there are simple VB generator program
including source code is this also for evaluation or open source. Does
XMLPDF helps to convert imgs and pictures into PDF as wel?

regards

Sam

We use a product called XMLPDF (see http://www.xmlpdf.com/). It's not

free but the licence isn't too expensive and there's an evaluation version
available (about USD 600).

 

[Guest]

hi,
I followed ur advise and im succeeded to develop FO2PDF in J# but can't find
solution to XML2FO because can't import JAXP in J#, which give reference to
Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) v1.2.4 FCS and helps to compile
ExampleXML2FO.java file from http://xml.apache.org/fop/embedding.html.
Is there any easy to convert these code to J# to get XML2FO?

regards

Sa