Export Templates to XSL and generate PDF

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You can generate and preview your PDF output by presssing CTRL+F5 (or by clicking the Preview PDF command button from the Generate group).

Behind the scenes, XF Designer 2011 will first convert your XF template to a XSL stylesheet. The stylesheet is combined with your test XML by running a XSL transformation. The result is XSL-FO which is processed by the XF renderer into PDF.

 

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When you are ready to deploy your templates on the server you have two options:

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If using XF Rendering Server you can use directly the XF templates.

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For other rendering engines you can pre-generate the XSL templates and run the templates manually.

 

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