GSOC - Generate PDF of Sakai Documents

[Hammad Malik]

Hey,

I was scrolling through the Sakai GSoC 2012 Ideas Page; the PDF generation idea seems quite do-able. 

Correct me if I am wrong, is it not simply a task of syntactic analysis of the Sakai Document? We analyze the tags used for formatting in the Sakai Document and replace them with equivalent tags for iText. The iText library can then create the pdf for us?

Let me know if my approach seems appropriate before I proceed with working it out in more detail.

Thanks

reference:

Idea 3: Generate PDF and thumbnail preview of Sakai Documents [OAE - server]

Sakai OAE generates thumbnail previews of content stored in the system but does not currently have a way to generate a thumbnail of our own content format; the Sakai Document. This project will dig into how to a) generate a PDF of a Sakai Document for on-demand delivery and b) generate a thumbnail preview of the Sakai Document.