XML to PDF with XSL-FO

Learn the skills required to build an FO (Formatting Objects) XML Style Sheet for automatically producing PDF versions of an XML document using a content-driven page layout approach.

Content

• Objectives of XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO)
• Types of page layouts where XSL-FO is suitable
• XSL-FO processors on the market
• Page Masters and Page Sequences
• Setting headers and footers
• Blocks, block containers, lists and tables
• Specifying text attributes: font, size and style
• Block attributes: margin, padding, background, borders, alignment, page breaks, widows and orphans
• Leaders and their alternatives
• Inserting bitmap and vector (SVG) images
• Inserting links and page number references, creating an index and a table of contents
• Rendering footnotes
• Configuring hyphenation
• Managing colour