2.1 Hello World

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Hello World!

As most programmers will testify, it is customary to begin with a "Hello, World!" example. Here is the XSL-FO document that FO.NET will render as a PDF:

XSL-FO File (hello.fo):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">

  <fo:layout-master-set>
	<fo:simple-page-master master-name="simple"
				  page-height="29.7cm"
				  page-width="21cm"
				  margin-top="1cm"
				  margin-bottom="2cm"
				  margin-left="2.5cm"
				  margin-right="2.5cm">
	  <fo:region-body margin-top="3cm"/>
	  <fo:region-before extent="3cm"/>
	  <fo:region-after extent="1.5cm"/>
	</fo:simple-page-master>
  </fo:layout-master-set>

  <fo:page-sequence master-reference="simple">
	<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
	  <fo:block font-size="18pt" color="black" text-align="center">
		Hello, World!
	  </fo:block>
	</fo:flow>
  </fo:page-sequence>

</fo:root>

The following code can be used to convert the above XSL-FO document to a PDF file: Hello World C# Example

 using System.IO;
 using Fonet;

 namespace FonetExample {
     class HelloWorld {
         static void Main(string[] args) {
             FonetDriver driver = FonetDriver.Make();
             driver.Render("hello.fo", "hello.pdf");
         }
    }
 }

The above class will create a file called hello.pdf from the file hello.fo located in the current working directory.

Last edited Jan 31, 2009 at 12:45 PM by griffm, version 3