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Most digital cameras have a black and white shooting mode. However, this usually does nothing more than create identical Red, Green, and Blue channels in the final picture file. Black and white film aficionados generally find the results from digital cameras lacking, though--you can do much better in Photoshop.

Clone, synchronize, backup. Schedule and forget it. Try it 'til you trust it.

The key to a successful backup plan is to actually do the backups regularly. When left to a human, the task often gets tacked on to the end of a very long list of other things to do. When you eventually have a catastrophe, the data is simply gone. You know that feeling -- you just lost six years of family photos. Your kids being born, their first birthdays, their first everything. The answer to this is consistent and regular backups, placed on a schedule and handled automatically by your computer.

CCC 3 features an interface designed to make the cloning and backup procedure very intuitive. In addition to general backup, CCC can also clone one hard drive to another, copying every single block or file to create an exact replica of your source hard drive. CCC's block-level copy offers the absolute best fidelity in the industry!

Need help converting HTML documents to PDF? This reference guide shows by example how to use XSLT templates to convert 45 commonly used HTML elements to formatting objects (from the XSL-FO vocabulary) for easy transformation to PDF using XSLT. The examples assume that you're using the Java-based XSLT processor Xalan and the Apache XML Project's FOP tool, but most of the methods would work just as well with other tools.



We all design our HTML pages to look good on the screen, but printing those Web pages is usually an afterthought. To create printable versions of Web pages, the best approach is to use XSLT and XSL-FO to generate a PDF file. You can do the job with an open-source XSLT processor, the XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) vocabulary, and a formatting-object engine. If you already know how to work with XSL-FO and XSLT, this guide provides a valuable resource: It goes through the most common HTML tags and defines how to convert each of them into formatting objects. (If you need background on using XSL-FO, try the developerWorks tutorials on the subject, easily found through Resources.)

This guide includes dozens of examples that illustrate how to write XSLT style sheets to do the conversion from HTML element to the corresponding formatting object, the basic building block of documents rendered with XSL-FO.

This document gives a quick, learn-by-example introduction to XSL Formatting Objects. I don't discuss subtle details of implementation, but rather provide a series of examples of how to perform routine tasks with XEP — an XSL formatter developed by RenderX, Inc. It is not a manual of XSL FO (XSLFO) in general, and some examples given here may not work in other XSL FO (XSLFO) formatters, or give different results.

This section contains content relating to my XSL-FO book. Initially it is only the examples extracted from the book.

Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX includes over 25 elegant UI controls that seamlessly integrate into MOSS and WSS. From the leading AJAX data grid to the HTML editor, you will have all the building blocks for creating rich, SEO-friendly, highly-responsive interfaces for your SharePoint and WSS projects.

Today's reporting applications use XML extensively to format data, regardless of the different data sources. More specifically, Web-based reporting applications usually use XSL transformations to present this XML data to different clients. The standard flow for current reporting systems is more or less represented by this chain: legacy data source > XML > XSL transformation > Web browser. Note that you can perform the XSL transformation step either on the server side or the client side (the browser). The choice generally depends on nonfunctional requirements; for example, in a system with a high request rate, moving the XSL transformation to the client could result in performance and scalability benefits. The Web page coming from the XSL transformation must be internationalized. However, when the XSL transformation is performed on the client, the internationalization should be handled during the transformation itself. This means that the XSL transformation should manage the translation of the messages dynamically. In this article, we propose a general solution to address this issue.

Rather than explain XSL FO in its entirety, this article will give you enough information to use the major features of XSL FO. Our case study will be a short review handbook of Spanish that will be printed as an insert for a Spanish language learning CD-ROM. We'll use the Apache Software Foundation's FOP tool to convert the FO file to a PDF file.

XSL-FO is similar to HTML in that it allows documents to be created in a markup language. The fundamental difference between the two is that XSL-FO is intended for creating paged, printable documents, whilst HTML is more suited to onscreen documents.

FO.NET processes XML documents that conform to the XSL-FO specification and produces Adobe PDF documents. Typically an XSLT style sheet is used to transform raw XML data into XSL-FO.

FO.NET has been written for the Microsoft .NET Framework and is suitable for use from any .NET compatible language such as C#, VB.NET or C#.