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Alexander,<br>
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Where can I get more information on doing this? What I'll try to do is
export a PDF from Adobe Illustrator that has the non-varying data
elements in it (graphics), with the correct color coding, then use this
PDF as a background to my varying data, which I need to be able to
place correctly.<br>
<br>
Obviously, alignment will be key - so that everything lines up
correctly. I can create an SVG that sets up the fonts & placement
of the varying data ... or should I just do everything in XSL-FO?<br>
<br>
Either way, I guess I need some pointers on where to look for
information on doing this. Since this is a new approach for this
project, I need to develop a proof-of-concept for my manager to view,
and produce a PDF from the process that I can have verified by our
printer to be "correct" for pre-press.<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
<br>
Brice<br>
<br>
p.s. Are you the only individual providing support for XEP?<br>
<br>
Alexander Peshkov wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Hello Brice,
Sorry for delay, I was slightly overloaded last week. When you use PDF
with spot colors as an image XEP will preserve color information in
the output. As for the insertion of data - it depends strongly on the
particular case. Surely with SVG you can do all kind of things (i.e.
using XSLT), but if you simply want to place some text in predefined
places of the page - then PDF image may work fine. I'm aware that
some our clients use PDF images as background and overwrite them with
data.
Best regards,
Alexander Peshkov <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:peshkov@renderx.com">mailto:peshkov@renderx.com</a>
RenderX
RB> Any further word on this? Anyone? Alexander?
RB> Ruth, Brice wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Alexander,
How would I go about encoding the use of CMYK and Pantone spot colors
in the PDF? I wouldn't mind skipping the SVG step from Illustrator
entirely, and using the PDF natively - but I have to admit, I'm very
much unsure how that works. I'm most familiar with XML & XSL, and know
next to nothing about PDF's native format.
Can I use Illustrator's native PDF and still use it as a template to
marry data into it and have XEP produce the final PDF?
One thing I noticed is that if I save from Illustrator, a PDF with
'PRESS' settings, it correctly encodes the Pantone colors and what not
... it also places the registration/crop marks which the print shop
would like to see (and I would have to do manually with an SVG).
Thanks!
Brice
Alexander Peshkov wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hello Brice,
Surely RenderX XEP is not supposed to be used as 'backend' for Batik.
But you can (and should :-) use XEP to achieve your goal. Simple
XSL-FO document below demonstrates how you can wrap SVG image into
XSL-FO:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<fo:root xmlns:fo="<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format</a>">
<fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:simple-page-master master-name="main">
<fo:region-body/>
</fo:simple-page-master>
</fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="main">
<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
<fo:block>
<fo:external-graphic src="url('your_image.svg')"/>
</fo:block>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>
(you can use fo:instream-foreign-object element instead of
fo:external-graphic if you want to embed SVG content inside of XSL-FO.)
One possible approach to your task is to write dedicated XSLT
stylesheet that takes as an input SVG exported by Illustrator and
required data, "marry" them and produce XSL-FO that then rendered into
PDF by XEP. XEP can also use PDFs as vector images so you can save your
Illustrator documents as PDF if you wish.
Vector graphical formats supported by XEP described in its
documentation (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://xep.xattic.com/xep/doc/spec.html#Vector">http://xep.xattic.com/xep/doc/spec.html#Vector</a>)
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Alexander Peshkov <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:peshkov@renderx.com">mailto:peshkov@renderx.com</a>
RenderX
RB> Greetings.
RB> I'm currently in the process of putting together a backend that
will RB> take Illustrator CS created template documents, exported to
SVG, then RB> married with data, to be output as a print-ready PDF.
By print-ready, I RB> mean that this will go to a print shop, not so
much a common printer RB> device. So, things like CMYK & Pantone spot
colors are important to RB> preserve.
RB> I've landed at RenderX, because I'm using Batik, which uses
Apache's FOP RB> backend to generate PDFs from SVG. However, Apache's
FOP doesn't handle RB> colors as well as RenderX supposedly does, so
I'm here.
RB> Now - my question to the list is quite simple: can I use RenderX
as a RB> backend to Batik? If not, or if the process would be
excessively RB> complex, can (should?) I use RenderX directly to
generate a PDF from RB> SVG? If so, I'm guessing I'll need to wrap a
bit of XML/XSL-FO around my RB> SVG. Without getting too deep into
XSL-FO, what would be the RB> base-minimum amount of markup I would
need to be able to start testing RB> the RenderX trial version?
RB> What type of documentation is out there for using the more
advanced RB> color extensions for RenderX? Does RenderX only support
CMYK, or is RB> there a way of generating a PDF with spot-color
information?! If this RB> latter point is not possible, what options
am I left with to generate a RB> press-ready PDF?
RB> TIA!
RB> Brice Ruth
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