XML mapping, PDF output

Hi!
I am working with the latest JDeveloper release. Does JDeveloper have a tool to create custom layouts from xml data and
print(output) the results as a pdf file?

I do not think there is something in JDeveloper. XSL-FO is what you would use for converting from XML to PDF, you will find a good tutorial here:
http://www.w3schools.com/xslfo/default.asp
Apache FOP ( http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ ) is a free implementation of an XSL-FO engine.
If you want also a visual tool to avoid having to create your XSLFO file manually, you can look at some XSL-FO which are available, one of them is http://www.java4less.com/fopdesigner/fodesigner.php

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Mahi,
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===================
RDF:
=====
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DP_ERROR_CREATE = 11
DP_ERROR_SEND = 12
DP_ERROR_WRITE = 13
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ACCESS_DENIED = 15
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DISK_FULL = 17
DP_TIMEOUT = 18
FILE_NOT_FOUND = 19
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CONTROL_FLUSH_ERROR = 21
OTHERS = 22
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MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
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reward points if useful,
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jJ

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OT: XML, XSL, & PDF

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Lo mismo que te he dicho antes, optimiza primero las
im�genes y luego las
pasas a pdf (Pdf995).
Saludos,
Julio Barroso
"Paulina" <[email protected]> escribi�
en el mensaje
news:e7bmcc$lih$[email protected]..
| Gracias por la informacio,
| pero en el caso de que siga con la idea de usar PDF (el
cliente manda)...
| que resoluciones y pasos me aconsejais?
| Julio B. escribi�:
| > Cuando se trata de mostrar una noticia publicada en la
prensa y que ha
sido
| > escaneada para tal fin, lo mejor es usar una imagen
(jpg � gif) antes
que un
| > pdf, que siempre tendr� m�s peso que la
imagen original.
| >
| > Otra cosa ser�a si el texto de la noticia fuera
eso, texto, y no una
imagen,
| > en ese caso la opci�n m�s �ptima
ser�a el pdf (generado con Pdf995).
| >
| > Te recomiendo que una vez tengas la imagen en
Photoshop recortes todo lo
que
| > no sirva y la guardes como gif con la cantidad
m�nima de colores para
que se
| > pueda leer el texto. Acu�rdate de ajustar el
tama�o y la resoluci�n. As�
te
| > aseguras que la noticia tendr� el m�nimo
peso posible. Tambi�n puedes
probar
| > con jpg, pero para bajar el peso tendr�s
comprimir mucho, y al final se
| > pierde legibilidad en el texto.
| >
| > Saludos,
| >
| > Julio Barroso
| >
| > "Paulina" <[email protected]>
escribi� en el mensaje
| > news:e7bb88$80f$[email protected]..
| > | Buenos dias,
| > | necesito consejo.
| > | Un cliente me solicita tener un apartado en donde se
puedan ver las
| > | noticias que han publicado en prensa sobre su
empresa en PDF.
| > |
| > | Alguien me puede decir cual es el proceso mejor para
mantener buena
| > | calidad y poco peso? Estoy segura que hay alguna
combinacion
| > | idonea...pero no lo consigo.
| > |
| > | He probado escaneando desde Photoshop e imprimiendo
a Cute PDF...pero
me
| > | sale muy grande.
| > | espero vuestras sugerencias
| > |
| > | Gracias,
| > | Paulina
| >
| >

How to customize CHM and PDF output

I can easily generate CHM and PDF using the Generate Output option offered by DITA-FMx, but the output is just standard and I would like to customize it according to the company style. Which files should I work on to modify fonts, colours, indentation, etc, both for CHM and PDF?

For PDF output, you should be using the Generate Book from Map command. This is one of the main reasons to use FrameMaker for DITA .. the high quality PDF output. You'll never achieve the same level of quality through XSL-FO as you do through native Frame. See this video for info on leveraging DITA-FMx features for PDF publishing ..
http://blog.leximation.com/2010/03/pdf-publishing-with-dita-fmx-1-1/
To customize the formatting of any output generated through the DITA Open Toolkit (which is what is used by the Generate Output command), you have to modify the XSL and CSS files in the DITA-OT. The "proper" way to do this is to create an OT plugin that provides you with a custom Ant target that does exactly what you want. You can then deliver this plugin to others on your team who need to generate the same output, and you haven't mucked around with the core OT files. You can also just dive in and tweak the files directly, but when you break something you won't be able to test with the original files without restoring from backups.
You can start by tweaking the CSS files, but if you need to make structural modifications to the way the HTML is generated, you'll need to do some XSL work. Note that setting the @outputclass value on the DITA topic files, passes that value into the corresponding element in the @class attribute of the generated HTML. This is a good way to allow you to control formatting of specific elements.
The best place to go for instructions/info on exactly which files to modify in the OT and how to build a plugin, is the dita-users Yahoo group. This is definitely the list to be on for anything that relates to the DITA-OT.
Scriptorium Publishing has a nice whitepaper on customizing the OT ..
http://store.scriptorium.com/items/books/hacking-the-dita-open-toolkit-detail.htm
Also, the dita.xml.org website has some useful info.
Cheers,
...scott

XML mapping, PDF output

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