Issue 5145 - add export to XSL-FO (xslfo)
Summary: add export to XSL-FO (xslfo)
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: xml
Classification: Code
Component: external filters (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.0.0
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial with 4 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: AOO Later
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Keywords: oooqa, rfe_eval_ok
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Reported: 2002-05-22 11:26 UTC by carfield
Modified: 2013-02-07 22:35 UTC (History)
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Description carfield 2002-05-22 11:26:46 UTC 
Currently Openoffice only support a very limited, it only a short hand
for the user to use ghostscript more convenience.

As Openoffice office use an open XML format, why don't just use XSLT to
convert Openoffice file to XML(docbook first, and then XSL-FO??), then
convert it to pdf? I think it is a more cross-platform and long term
solution. It should be a very complex and not difficult programming.

Is there any similar project exist?
Comment 1 michael.brauer 2002-05-31 12:20:30 UTC 
Though the idea is not bad, I assume it won't work.
When converting OOo to XSL-FO, there will be a loss of information,
because XSL-FO does not support all OOo features. Printing hat document
therefor will result in a different page layout.
Comment 2 horkana 2003-05-15 14:38:03 UTC 
The OpenOffice.org 1.1 betas have PDF export.  
Is this issue still relevant?
Comment 3 hesse 2003-05-16 09:49:40 UTC 
XSL-FO is very powerfull and woulfd still be a very important export
format. It is a company independend standard. This makes an export to
it so interessting.
The export to pdf upto now is very basic (no linking, no meta
information AFAIK). But having started the other way, it is more
important to improve the direct export to pdf.
So probably this issue should be closed and split in two issues one
for docbook
(http://www.openoffice.org/project/www/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2386)
and one for XSL-FO. From XSL-FO there is other software if one wants
to transform it to pdf.
Comment 4 falko.tesch 2003-10-01 11:28:45 UTC 
We will add hyperlinks in PDF export in 2.0.

FT->MMP: Please mark this issue duplicate to your task on this. Thx.
Comment 5 falko.tesch 2003-10-01 11:29:03 UTC 
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Comment 6 matthias.mueller-prove 2003-10-01 17:07:07 UTC 
Hi Bettina! This is not a duplicate to the enhancements of PDF Export,
planned for OOo2.0. I rate it as a separate RFE.
Comment 7 lohmaier 2004-10-23 19:09:14 UTC 
original summary: "Propose a long term PDF solution"

As mentioned earlier in this issue, there already is native PDF-export and this
export will be enhanced for OOo 2.0 to support Hyperlinks and other features. So
I will change this into a RFE requesting XSL-FO export.
Comment 8 pagalmes.lists 2007-03-09 15:30:59 UTC 
That would be a nice feature to have XSL-FO export.
It would maybe make its way into ODF Toolkit, what do you think?