Fop MiniScribus XSL-Fo

XSL Formatting Objects markup language WYSIWYG editor (xsl-fo).
XML document formatting which is most often used to generate PDFs.

released MiniScribus Scribe version 2.0.0 beta
It's a complete rewrite from version 1.03
Latest version on SVN tree

Stable version 1.3 download 1800 time at google code


Features:
The following format's are read-only:
OpenOffice 1.1 file format *.sxw *.stw
OpenOffice 2.4 file format *.odt *.ott
As import xslt transform
XHTML file format *.htm *.html

The following format's are write-only:
Rich Text Format , free document file format developed by Microsoft *.rtf
Tagged Image File Format multipage *.tiff

The following format's are read-write:
FOP file .fop *.fop.gz *.fo *.fo.gz *.xml
MiniScribus binary stream file *.page
Internal binary format to not loast nothing on beta tester is a QTextDocument
serializer

Print Preview:
The Print Preview is Original Apache FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) to enable to debug all fo document

PDF Bookmarks are rendered only on Apache FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) major
as 0.90

It can read and edit 95% from all sample file from Apache fop project
Only table / cell border and markers and page footer note not is possibel to display at this moment.

Supported tag are:
page format
fo:region-before
fo:region-after
fo:region-start
fo:region-end

PDF BookMark:
fo:bookmark-tree fo:bookmark


fo:simple-page-master
fo:block fo:table table-footer table-header fo:table-body fo:table-column fo:table-row fo:table-cell fo:block-container fo:inline fo:inline-container fo:basic-link fo:external-graphic fo:instream-foreign-object fo:list-block fo:list-item fo:list-item-body fo:list-item-label fo:root fo:character fo:leader fo:footnote fo:page-number-citation fo:page-number fo:float


The Application read all this Attributes on fo:block-container:

"position" "top" "left" "width" "min-height" "degree-rotation" "rotate" "reference-orientation" "opacity"
"height" "background-color" "z-index" "id" "border-width" "border-color"
"absolute-position" "top" "right" "bottom" "left" "background-attachment" "background-image"
"background-repeat" "background-position-horizontal" "background-position-vertical"
"border-before-color" "border-before-style" "border-before-width" "border-after-color"
"border-after-style" "border-after-width" "border-start-color" "border-start-style"
"border-start-width" "border-end-color" "border-end-style" "border-end-width"
"border-top-color" "border-top-style" "border-top-width" "border-bottom-color"
"border-bottom-style" "border-bottom-width" "border-left-color" "border-left-style"
"border-left-width" "border-right-color" "border-right-style" "border-right-width"
"padding-before" "padding-after" "padding-start" "padding-end" "padding-top" "padding-bottom"
"padding-left" "padding-right" "margin-top" "margin-bottom" "margin-left" "margin-right"
"space-before" "space-after" "start-indent" "end-indent" "block-progression-dimension"
"break-after" "break-before" "clip" "display-align" "height" "id" "inline-progression-dimension"
"intrusion-displace" "keep-together" "keep-with-next" "keep-with-previous" "overflow"
"border-style" "docversion" "l-lock"

If the attribute are know it handle and draw its, otherwise it resave the original attribute to not destroy document layer.

Bugs report please send it!
Bugs are unexpected defects, faults, flaws, or imperfections in a computer program. MiniScribus Software wants to know about all defects that may be encountered in the XSL-FO editor.

The are two way:
If you having a Gmail account go to http://code.google.com/p/fop-miniscribus/issues/list and write a new Issues, and write what steps will reproduce the problem? Window version ....

If you dont have a Gmail account report defects on PDF Form Ticket
http://ciz.ch/Ticket_Form.pdf .


Know Bugs:
Render or display more than 5-6 pages. QTextDocument has performance issues to
render and display it fast. A workaround is to slice/chapter your text and compose
xsl-fo source to a book or more as 100 pages and render on Apache FOP (Formatting
Objects Processor) to create professional PDF page
http://trolltech.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?method=entry&id=135240



A component called QTextPanel that provides paginated text editing is available on SVN
http://fop-miniscribus.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/QTextPanel/
Thanks to Luiz (http://www.qtcentre.org/forum/u-netuno-7350.html) who helped me to
make this sub-project (initially forked from MiniScribus).

02.09.08 Append Print Preview rtf,tiff format export , xsl-fo file debug powerded by Apache Fop
31.08.2008 release the first MiniScribus Scribe forks source
beta version 2.0.0
11.10.07 version 0.5.8 / Set table cell / paragraph to default 0 / not 12pt top and 12 bottom space
from default QTextDocument Set only selectable active item at top zindex/zvalue on the active QGraphicsScene
( append subclass GraphicsScene) on this case not having intersection problem from Floating Layer.
14.10.07 version 0.6.1 enable to open xsl-fo file without block-container (on prepend page as on
floating container helpfull to copy text and create new pages), draw page margin inside the work-area,
append the fo:character tag
09.11.07 version 0.8.1 Fix Render PDF on QTextDocument Fontmetric, append US-Letter format
29.11.07 version 1.0.0 append main argument to print direct pdf file from fop example: ./MiniScribus -pdf destination.pdf sourcefile.fop
other programm can access to pdf result and use miniscribus as template to invoice or other, other beta DB label programm
Export fop file to XHTML ready , only rotate layer not possibel on html css. HTML export background-color from layer write
opacity:%1; filter: alpha(opacity=%1); -moz-opacity:%1; if alpha color chanel is more as 44.
Prepare setup to import PostScript image on GhostScript. ref. http://qtforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5517 and generate Barcode.
29.12.07 version 1.0.3 Handle font point size more as 99 , optimize GhostScript controll and better start of friend programm
direct pdf render (rotate elements on 500 milli.sek) + make source compatible on MS Visual Studio 2008 beta2