Maven Doxia Tools

totally no rich formatting in generated PDFs/RTFs

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  • Type: Bug Bug
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: None
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: Doxia Book Renderer
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  • Number of attachments :
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Description

We've decided to use Maven Doxia back in 2008.
2,5 years have passed but generated PDFs/RTFs still look unacceptably ugly.

Please see attached project.
PDFs/RTFs built from content

<p>No formatting.</p>
<p>font size 1: <font size="1">this</font></p>
<p>font size 20: <font size="20">this</font></p>
<p>font size=small: <font size="small">small</font> </p>
<p> small: <small>this</small> </p>
<p> font color red: <font color="red">this</font> </p>
<p> strike: <s>strike</s> </p>
<p><source> code line XXX </source> </p>

have totally no formatting while xhtml looks fine.

Frankly speaking I just can't believe Doxia Books plugin is so lame - could there be a misconfiguration in my sample project?

At least is there a workaround to make source code formatting differ from main text in PDF (e.g. have smaller size)? We need this badly.

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Lukas Theussl added a comment -

The book code is indeed unmaintained and in bad shape, we will probably deprecate it.

For pdf you should be happier with the maven-pdf-plugin [1], for rtf output, you might try the corresponding doxia module [2], but I am not sure how that works.

[1] http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-pdf-plugin/
[2] http://maven.apache.org/doxia/references/index.html

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Lukas Theussl added a comment - The book code is indeed unmaintained and in bad shape, we will probably deprecate it. For pdf you should be happier with the maven-pdf-plugin [1] , for rtf output, you might try the corresponding doxia module [2] , but I am not sure how that works. [1] http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-pdf-plugin/ [2] http://maven.apache.org/doxia/references/index.html
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Lazy Coder added a comment -

Thanks for the response!
It's really a pity as for Doxia Books, but thanks for maven-pdf-plugin.
As for rtf output I have 

<format>
   <id>rtf</id>
</format>

in my pom.xml so I assume I already use doxia RTF module.
Its output looks quite the same as PDF.

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Lazy Coder added a comment - Thanks for the response! It's really a pity as for Doxia Books, but thanks for maven-pdf-plugin. As for rtf output I have <format> <id> rtf </id> </format> in my pom.xml so I assume I already use doxia RTF module. Its output looks quite the same as PDF.

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