[Scilab-Dev] Contribute to Scilab

[Clément David]

Hi,

Yep feel free to take this subject. You can take a look at the gsoc ML
archive [1], we (me and calixte) detailled the subject but none of the
student were selected this year.

Basically the goal is to be able to generate XSL-FO [2] (kind of an XML
graphical dialect) from the Docbook pages (kind of XML content) and
then call Apache FOP [3] to generate the PDF files from the XSL-FO
ones. Note that you have to preserve compatibility with `xmltopdf' [4].

That's mainly a java class (FODocbookTagConverter.java) to implement.

[1]: http://mailinglists.scilab.org/Gsoc-Fwd-GSOC-IDEA-Improve-PDF
-generation-td4031833.html
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSL_Formatting_Objects
[3]: https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/
[4]: help xmltopdf

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Clément <davidcl> DAVID

Le jeudi 11 juin 2015 à 15:29 +0530, Shubheksha Jalan a écrit :
> Hi, I'd like to contribute to the "Improvement of PDF generation" 
> idea mentioned here: 
> http://wiki.scilab.org/Contributor%20-%20PDF%20generation
> 
> I've been looking through the Scilab source code lately. Any ideas 
> regarding how to go about it would be appreciated. 
> 
> Nothing has been mentioned under the "More Information" section of 
> "Docbook Viewer", can someone shed a little more light on what needs 
> to be done for it? 
> 
> Thanking you,
> Shubheksha Jalan
> 
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