[OT] Any PDF Experts Out There in RevLand?

[david bovill]

I'm working on this at the moment - part time though. At the moment I  
am basing this on web services and the Apache Forrest project -  
http://forrest.apache.org/.


Rev Client (GUI Interface)
Basic outliner which can import / export a number of formats:

Rev writes XML files for:

     1) Hierarchical Navigation = site map (see later)
     2) Tab Navigation (for web site)
     3) XML files for contents of each web page - corresponds to a  
title in the outliner and site map.

Rev sends this information to Apache Forrest
This is a Java program which could run on OSX - I have it installed  
on a Linux server. Once you set this up you can use the xml files  
created above to both generate skinable web sites together with  
navigation as well as good PDF export with bookmarks and tables etc.

     1) Provide
         a) Basic web service (REST based) or
         b) Run Forrest as daemon and ftp or write xml files to  
directory

     2) Return (download) pdf document


Happy to work on it with you or anyone else on the list -  can chat  
online and talk through it if you want:

     fortyfoxes at jabber.org