xep-support: [xep-support] Re: Change absolute Positioning in HT

From: Kevin Brown <kevin_at_ADDRESS_REMOVED>
Date: Tue Sep 08 2015 - 11:53:23 PDT

I would also note that this is nothing new, it is exactly what you would
expect.

Take for instance Firefox browser which now have their own PDF viewer, that
PDF viewer is doing exactly what we essentially do (only theirs is parsing
PDF and we are parsing the XEP Intermediate File).

If I open a PDF with Firefox and I inspect the HTML that exists in their
viewer (which is being parsed from PDF), I see this below.

As you can see . every word in a <div> because that is how it is stored
inside the PDF in a post-composition world.

It looks strangely similar to exactly what RenderX's HTML output from our
engine.

-----Original Message-----
From: Xep-support [mailto:xep-support-bounces@renderx.com] On Behalf Of
Kevin Brown
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2015 11:42 AM
To: 'RenderX Community Support List' <xep-support@renderx.com>
Subject: [xep-support] Re: Change absolute Positioning in HTML Output

Alexander:

The HTML output was not built for simple display of textual content in web
sites.

It was built to specifically mimic the exact layout of the printed page.

Because the formatter is squeezing space characters to make content fit
within the line and the HTML output is being generated from that composed
format, you will get this ... always.

The best you could hope for would be setting word spacing to "0" and try to
get one line of text together.

But you would never be able to "gather" appropriate lines in <p> tags or
<div> tags, nor could you make a table into a <table> as no "table" exists
in the composed format.

It was not designed nor built for that.

If you want ... then ....

A) If you want a near exact representation of the page in HTML which would
probably not work well in many modern browsers because of all the absolute
positioning, then you use the HTML output from the engine

B) If you want a near exact representation of the page in SVG which does
work well in many modern browsers, then you use the SVG output from the
engine

C) If you wish simple HTML "chunks" (like <p> or <div> or <span> and flowing
text inside them), then you should look at a Stylesheet that converts XSL FO
to HTML and not converting the printed output from the engine

For the SVG output, you could look at this site which is RenderX at the
backend, converting that page in HTML+CSS to print output, one of which is
SVG and delivering that SVG back to the browser to display.

You could choose Open->As SVG and this would scrape the HTML and CSS, send
to a remote RenderX server, format it to SVG and return it to display in a
new window.

For an XSL that can take in XSL FO and make HTML, look here
<http://www.renderx.com/tools/freetools.html>
http://www.renderx.com/tools/freetools.html.

Kevin Brown

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-----Original Message-----

From: Xep-support [ <mailto:xep-support-bounces@renderx.com>
mailto:xep-support-bounces@renderx.com] On Behalf Of Alexander Reith

Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2015 5:01 AM

To: <mailto:xep-support@renderx.com> xep-support@renderx.com

Subject: [xep-support] Change absolute Positioning in HTML Output

Hello

Is it possible to change the output behaviour for Html Output ?

We have a flow layout rendering PDF and now we want to use the same layout
for html-output. But to reuse the html output on our website we need
relative positioned HTML Tags.

Is it also possible that not all words a single placed divs ???

We have switched off KERN to keep words together, but having a single
sentence divided in several div-containers cannot be the expected

result:

See following example:

Original text: "Damen-Pantolette, verstellbarer Klettverschluss, metallfrei,
Keilabsatz, Luftpolster-Korkfussbett; DIN EN 344-1."

Rendered HTML-Output:

<div class="shared" style="left: 54.0pt; top: 0.00000pt; font-family: