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  1. XWiki Platform
  2. XWIKI-14277

Make the PDF export less fragile

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      Right now the process is the following (see http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Configuration#HCustomizingthePDFexportLook26Feel for more details):

      • 1) Render the document to export as XHTML --> xmlA
      • 2) Apply some pdf CSS using CSS4J to xmlA --> xmlB
      • 3) Apply an XSL stylesheet to xmlB to generate XSL-FO (xhtml2fo.xsl) --> xmlC
      • 4) Apply another XSL stylesheet to perform some cleanup to xmlC --> xmlD
      • 5) Call FOP on xmlD to generate the PDF

      One major issue is that FOP requires a valid XSL-FO input and will fail with an exception if that's not the case, and our xhtml2fo.xsl content is transforming XHTML and removing unknown properties but it cannot know all unknown properties.

      There can be problems during steps 2 and 3/4.

      Example of problem in step 2:

      Example of problem in step 3/4:

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          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. XWIKI-14276 Error thrown when exporting as PDF/RTF a document imported from Word - '

          • Critical - Crashes, loss of data, severe memory leak.
          • Closed
          is related to

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. XWIKI-14271 Error thrown when exporting as PDF/RTF a document imported from Word

          • Critical - Crashes, loss of data, severe memory leak.
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. XWIKI-14241 background:white css style breaks css4j in pdf export

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed
          relates to

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. XWIKI-14280 Warnings displayed in the logs for some invalid XSL-FO properties

          • Trivial - Cosmetic problem like misspelt words or misaligned text.
          • Closed

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              vmassol Vincent Massol
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