Hi
I have a XML file and I want to transform it in a formatted text (ps, RTF... no HTML) ready to be printed. I want to put tables and bold text in this document.
I have already seen SAX in Java but I only find examples to transform XML in HTML or XHTML...
Could someone help me please?
Thanx in advance
Elena
Elena,
RTF is a Microsoft propietary format: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnrtfspec/html/rtfspec.asp, I suggest use some standard like PDF, you can generate PDF using Java & XSL-FO:
http://www.antennahouse.com/XSLsample/XSLsample.htm
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/10/16/fop.html
My main problem is that I have to convert in ps a very large number of data, so I found XSL-FO but also Java Printer Service (javax.print):
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/jps/index.html
I could have a HTML input source and then transform it into ps.
Now the problem is I can't locate a suitable factory:
/* Use the preEdefined flavor for a GIF from an InputStream */
DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.INPUT_STREAM.TEXT_HTML_US_ASCII;
/* Specify the type of the output stream */
String psMimeType = DocFlavor.BYTE_ARRAY.POSTSCRIPT.getMimeType();
/* Locate factory which can export a GIF image stream as Postscript */
StreamPrintServiceFactory[] factories = StreamPrintServiceFactory.lookupStreamPrintServiceFactories(flavor, psMimeType);
if (factories.length == 0)
{
System.err.println("No suitable factories");
System.exit(0);
}
What do you think?
Thank you very much!
Elena
Write code for print formmated documents is a hard work ! ... i.e. on my systems, a PDF document is generated, then my clients print it on your preferred PDF Viewer: Evince, Kpdf, Acrobat Reader ...
Anyway .. about your problem, that depends of your Hardware Printer Capabilities, read javax.print.PrintService ... maybe your hardware, driver effect it ....
