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Beginner's Corner
Generating PDF Files
Issue: 6.3 (March/April 2008)
Author: Marc Zeedar
editor-at-rbdeveloper.com
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Article Length (in bytes): 15,597
Starting Page Number: 34
RBD Number: 6315
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6315.zip Updated: Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 12:35 PM
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Are you as sick of hierarchal listboxes as I am? I hope you don't mind, but I thought I'd cover a different topic this issue. Recently I had a project that involved me creating a slew of PDF files. This was essentially a conversion project, translating XML files to PDF.
Now there are a variety of ways this could be accomplished. For instance, the graphic designer in me thought I could write some scripts to automate Adobe InDesign to read in the XML, generate a layout from a template, and output the result as PDF. The problem with this idea is that I haven't had time to do much InDesign scripting, and it's in Javascript, which is too much like C for me to be comfortable. Also, I have experience in automating publishing tools and I knew that such a complicated script wouldn't be easy.
Another method is to use an XLST template to translate the XML to PDF. Here again is an area outside of my expertise: it'd probably take me months to learn how to make a proper XLST and though I might be able to find an existing XML-to-PDF XLST out there, I'd have to customize it for my precise needs, which sounds like I'd need to know what I was doing.
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