Print templates

Flamingo uses a technology called XSL-FO (aka. FOP) in combination with XSLT to create printable (PDF) documents.

Out-of-the-box Flamingo has some example templates which are available in viewer/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/xsl/print These can be customized to suit your needs.

some useful links

While customizing some documentation and tools may come in handy

• https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/fo.html
• https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/examples.html
• https://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/FrontPage
• http://www.utilities-online.info/foprender/

tips and tricks

During development of new stylesheets it can be useful to set up debug logging for Flamingo viewer and FOP, see the log4j.properties file in /viewer/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/classes.