[Typo3-dev] PDFlib and Typo3

[Sebastian Kurfuerst]

Hi,
if I understand services correctly (I just read the doc) it could be 
implemented like this:
There will be an extension for PDF export of pages. This extension 
instanciates a service for PDF export and passes for example the ID of 
the page to the service. Then the service could read the page, the 
HTMLdoc service would read the HTML and the pdflib service would read 
out all content elements of the page and reformat them for PDF. 
Basically, it is important that all service with one servicetype (pdf 
for example) have the same public API, so all should have a method for 
outputting a webpage or for outputting "custom" content.

This was my understanding of it, I hope I made my ideas clear.


> I just browsed the R&OS pdf class faq, and I wondered if it makes sense 
> to abstract such a complicated api as pdf generation.
Hm I don't understand your question. Do you see it as a problem that it 
doesn't take HTML and converts it to PDF? I think the quality would be 
much higher if we generate the content from the raw page data and not 
out of HTML. Of course this would be quite much work to do, but 
hopefully this would result in a high quality PDF.

Sebastian


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