[Typo3-dev] PDFlib and Typo3

[Wolfgang Klinger]

 *hiya!*

 On Tue, 04 May 2004, Sebastian Kurfuerst wrote the following:
> 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.

 Hmm, 
 think about a "Layout engine" that prepares the content before passing
 it on to the actual e.g. pdflib wrapper (that should really just
 "write" the PDF).. so you can easily replace pdflib with something
 else without the need to write all the layout stuff again...
 (though not required in case of htmldoc)

 Extension -> Layout engine (service) -> PDF Wrapper (service)
                                             |
                                      pdflib, htmldoc

 Do you know something about a standardised way to describe a "Layout"?
 (XML)

 Maybe you can create a list of free PDF tools...
 (and their requirements (PHP, Python, pdflib, ...))

 tia
 Wolfgang

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