Saving as XSL-FO

You can also save a DataWindow object as XSL-FO, then use the processor of your choice to convert the XSL-FO string to the format you want, applying your own customizations to the conversion. Processors such as the Apache XSL Formatting Objects processor (FOP) can convert XSL-FO documents into several output formats including PDF, PCL, and AWT.

In the DataWindow painter, select File>Save Rows As and select XSL-FO as the file type. In a script, you can use the SaveAs method with the SaveAsType XSLFO!.

For a DataWindow named dwemp, the following command lines show the FOP syntax for producing a PDF, a print preview rendered on screen (-awt), and printable output rendered and sent to a printer (-print):

Fop dwemp.fo dwemp.pdf
Fop dwemp.fo -awt
Fop dwemp.fo -print