#Text to pdf creator how to#

The XSL used in this example looks like this: īasically what this XSL does it output the element of the FO file, which contains the fo:layout-master-set defining the page structure, and then output each element from the XML inside an FO block element. And changing the XSL is simple because we don't need to recompile it and can just use a text editor to maintain it. If we add new elements to the XML which we want to appear in the PDF file, then we will need to change the XSL stylesheet, but we won't have to change the C# program. Using a stylesheet means that when the data changes (in the XML file) we do not have to make any changes to the C# program or the XSL stylesheet. It looks like this: Īn XSL stylesheet is used to transform the XML into XSL-FO syntax. The XML used in this example contains text held in one or more paragraph elements. In this example we use an XML file containing the data we want to get into the PDF file, and and XSL stylesheet which transforms the XML into the FO syntax which Ibex understands.

#Text to pdf creator how to#

This example shows how to call Ibex from a C# program and create a PDF file from XML and XSL files. Ibex supports SVG images including transparency, linear and radial gradients, and SVG images which contain other bitmap images: Including cells which span multiple rows and columns, aligning data on decimal points regardless of font size, conditional headers and footers (for saying 'continued on next page'), conditional borders at page breaks and lots more.īookmarks can be automatically generated using XSLT, including clickable page numbers which link to the correct page in the document: Ibex supports complex table layouts like this: Ibex supports a wide range of layout functionality including page headers and footers, multi-column pages, page numbering, cross-referencing, footnotes, index creation and much more. Ibex helps you quickly create complex documents providing complete control over page layout and content. Ibex is a scalable standards-compliant PDF creation component for.