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New Printing Options from RTF

Overview

Trns•port Reports

Why Plain Text and RTF?

Some Users Chafe at Limitations

What Can be Done About It?

Desired Printing System

How Do We Get PDF from Text?

Try XML Printing Tools

Sample DocBook File

Real DocBook Examples

RTF to PDF via DocBook

First Try

Second Try: Use the DocBook Infrastructure (without DocBook)

RTF to PDF via XSL-FO

Results Were Very Encouraging

One Last Potential Refinement

Actual RTF to PDF via XSL-FO and XSLT

Next, Do This Inside Trns•port

Enhance Trns•port for This?

From Idea to Release in 2004

Example: New CES Program Summary Report

Summary

Author: Charles Engelke

E-mail: charles.engelke@infotechfl.com

Homepage: http://www.infotechfl.com/

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