A Python interface to XSL-FO libraries (Conversion HTML to PDF, RTF, DOCX, WML and ODT)
Project description
The zopyx.convert package helps you to convert HTML to PDF, RTF, ODT, DOCX and WML using XSL-FO technology.
Requirements
Java 1.5.0 or higher
csstoxslfo (included)
XFC-4.0 (XMLMind) for ODT, RTF, DOCX and WML support
XINC 2.0 (Lunasil) for PDF support
Installation
install zopyx.convert either using easy_install or by downloading the sources from the Python Cheeseshop
the environment variable $XFC_DIR must be set and point to the root of your XFC installation directory
the environment variable $XINC_HOME must be set and to point to the root of your XINC installation directory
Supported platforms
Windows, Unix
Subversion repository
Usage
Some examples from the Python command-line:
from zopyx.convert import Converter
C = Convert('/path/to/some/file.html')
pdf_filename = C('pdf')
rtf_filename = C('rtf')
pdt_filename = C('odt')
wml_filename = C('wml')
docx_filename = C('docx')
A very simple command-line converter is also available:
xslfo-convert --format rtf --output foo.rtf sample.html
xslfo-convert has a –test option that will convert some sample HTML. If everything is ok then you should see something like that:
>xslfo-convert --test Entering testmode pdf: /tmp/tmpuOb37m.html -> /tmp/tmpuOb37m.pdf rtf: /tmp/tmpuOb37m.html -> /tmp/tmpuOb37m.rtf docx: /tmp/tmpuOb37m.html -> /tmp/tmpuOb37m.docx odt: /tmp/tmpuOb37m.html -> /tmp/tmpuOb37m.odt wml: /tmp/tmpuOb37m.html -> /tmp/tmpuOb37m.wml pdf: /tmp/tmpZ6PGo9.html -> /tmp/tmpZ6PGo9.pdf rtf: /tmp/tmpZ6PGo9.html -> /tmp/tmpZ6PGo9.rtf docx: /tmp/tmpZ6PGo9.html -> /tmp/tmpZ6PGo9.docx odt: /tmp/tmpZ6PGo9.html -> /tmp/tmpZ6PGo9.odt wml: /tmp/tmpZ6PGo9.html -> /tmp/tmpZ6PGo9.wml
How zopyx.convert works internally
The source HTML file is converted to XHTML using mxTidy
the XHTML file is converted to FO using the great “csstoxslfo” converter written by Werner Donne.
the FO file is passed either to the external XINC or XFC converter to generated the desired output format
all converters are based on Java technology make the conversion solution highly portable across operating system (including Windows)
Why XINC/XFC and not FOP?
zopyx.convert is build on the commercial converters XINC/XFC because these converters just work. Depending on your needs to must make your choice between the several available additions. Why not Apache FOP? FOP has been evaluated in 2004 for the conversion to RTF/PDF and it was pretty much unusable at that time. Now in 2007 Apache FOP reached version 0.9.3 thinks are looking better. However open formats like ODT (Open-Office) and DOCX (Microsoft Office 2007) have come up and need to be supported. XFC fills the gap by supporting RTF, ODT, DOCX and WML.
License
zopyx.convert is published under the Lesser GNU Public License V 2.1 (LGPL 2.1). See LICENSE.txt.
Contact
Changes:
1.0.6 (14.10.2007)
html2fo: added workaround for generated FO code for PRE tags
1.0.5 (05.10.2007)
minor bugfixes
1.0.4 (05.10.2007)
Windows support added
1.0.3 (04.10.2007)
passing -Duser.language=en to java in order to prevent corrupted FO code caused by locales
1.0.2 (03.10.2007)
bugfix
1.0.1 (03.10.2007)
added –test option to command-line frontend
1.0.0 (30.09.2007)
update to css2xslfo V 1.5.0
official 1.0.0 release
0.5.0 (09.09.2007)
replaced mxTidy related code with the BeautifulSoup module (no longer requires any compiling)
html2fo checks the existence of images
0.4.9 (25.07.2007)
support for utidy lib (which is the preferred tidy library). Using mx.Tidy only as fallback
0.4.8 (unreleased)
unreleased
0.4.7 (08.07.2007)
reSTified documentation
0.4.6 (08.07.2007)
fixes in availableFormats()
0.4.5 (07.07.2007)
various FO fixes
0.4.4 (06.07.2007)
using logging module
0.4.3 (05.07.2007)
html2fo: using ElementTree for most FO modifications
0.4.2 (30.06.2007)
converting page-break-after: always back into break-after: page
0.4.1 (24.06.2007)
various fixes
0.4.0 (24.06.2007)
added zope interfaces
converters are now classes
added unittests
0.3.1 (18.06.2007)
html2fo() and the converter constructor got a new ‘encoding’ parameter in order to specify the input encoding of the HTML file. This parameter will be passed down to Tidy in order to perform a proper conversion of non-ascii characters.
0.3.0 (unreleased)
using subprocess module of Python
new Convert() class for high-level XSLFO access
logger added
better checks for XINC, XFC
updated documentation
0.2.0 (16.06.2007)
PDF support added
command line interface added
mxTidy integration
0.1.0 (16.06.2007)
initial release
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