Converting XSL-FO to PDF

In this section, we will convert the XSL-FO document generated in the previous section to a PDF document using the FOP driver. In the Java application XMLToPDF.java, import the FOP Driver class and the logger classes required to convert an XML document to a PDF document.

import org.apache.fop.apps.Driver;
import org.apache.avalon.framework.logger.Logger;
import org.apache.avalon.framework.logger.ConsoleLogger;

Creating the FOP driver

Create an FOP driver object using the constructor for the Driver class.

Driver driver=new Driver();

Create a logger with level setting LEVEL_INFO using the ConsoleLogger constructor.

Logger logger=new ConsoleLogger(ConsoleLogger.LEVEL_INFO);

Set the logger on the FOP driver using the setLogger method, and set the logger on the MessageHandler using the setScreenLogger method.

driver.setLogger(logger);
org.apache.fop.messaging.MessageHandler.setScreenLogger(logger);

Set the renderer for the FOP driver using the setRenderer method. For conversion...