small wishlist

[Alexander Fischer]

Hello,


and thanks for response.

> On Sunday 25 January 2009, Alexander Fischer wrote:
>> * It would be cool to have the opportunity to export directly against an
>> xsl-fo transformation to get pdfs directly.
>
> I'm not familiar with xsl-fo. There's a generic xsl transform, but I  
> think
> right now, the output is expected to be text. Do you know if libxslt
> supports xsl-fo, or could maybe point me to an example?

As far as I know, libxslt does not support fo. The process works like:
Transform tellico-xml via xslt into xsl-fo document (normally .fo
extension).
Fo-Processor (like apache fop or xmlroff) converts xsl-fo document into
pdf.

This is for example done with xslroff like:
xmlroff --format=pdf --out-file="result.pdf" "tellico.xml"
"XslTransformationToFo.xsl"
or
xmlroff --format=pdf --out-file="result.pdf" "tellico.fo"

The Tellico xslt export menu could check if xmlroff or apache fop is
available and then add an option to do this.

I know, this is not that important because it could be done after the
simple xslt transformation in a shell, but it would be more comfortable
and would make tellico, mmh, let's say "more integrated". Another solution
would be is using Cups. But going this way, you are not able to position
elements as precisly as needed and cool thinks like special page numbering
or special paper sizes dependend on the contents can not be done.

>
>> * It would be cool to be able to invert a selection.
>
> Good point, I'll add that to my list...

Thanks a lot!

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