Subject: [xsl] Embedding/merging external PDF files with XSL-FO From: Sebastien <kamui.rouch@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:39:46 +0100 |
Hi ! I have my main XML file with all the data coming from my application and i generate the PDF with FOP without any trouble. But I have "third-party" files, most of them in PDF format, which I have to import into the final PDF file. For images, I can use fo:external-graphic, but for PDF, i'm stuck for now. I thought it wasn't possible with XSL-FO to embed PDF, until i found this: - fox:external-document (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/extensions.html#external-document) which seems to support PDF as well as TIFF - hope for the future : "# add Added generic structures to the PDF library in order to support PDF file in fo:external-graphic later. Committed by JM." (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/changes.html#Changes+to+Renderers+(Output+Formats)-N1040C) I tried both (fox:external-document and fo:external-graphic) but fop fails for both with this message: Reason: org.apache.xmlgraphics.image.loader.ImageException: No ImagePreloader found for... I'm using FOP 0.95 but i tried with the trunk's revision 712855 too. I didn't really expect them to work as they seem to be work in progress, but i was wondering whether there will be a chance to have the capability to embed PDF with fop and xslfo anytime soon ? Otherwise, how can i proceed to achieve what i want ? -Using an external program to merge pdf is not excluded but will be a last resort solution as these external documents might not be always appended or prepended to the final PDF but, instead, imported in the middle of it, making the merge a real pain... -Asking my users to export their documents in JPG/PNG/TIFF makes little sense when it comes to text document... -Converting all the PDF files into images seems to be a good compromise but is a little bit "hackish"... I would really love to do it in a "full XML way" (ie. with xslfo) Here is a similar (short) discussion that happened a while ago: http://markmail.org/message/d42zsuppvbzldkbm Thanks in advance for your help.
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