Welcome to Blogpaper

BlogPaper is an online service that allows to create high-quality ready-for-print PDF documents from newsfeeds. Simple interface allows user to spend little time aggregating data from different sources. You can choose an appearance for PDF documents: either specially designed view for E-Book readers or a newspaper-like layout. BlogPaper is accessible from any device with Internet connection (PC, portable computers, mobile devices).

PDF is generated using RenderX DiType XML to PDF XSL-FO formatter.

For the moment the service is available for all Bloglines users. In some cases user's Bloglines password is necessary to access the Bloglines web services. We store the passwords on our server so that the user does not have to enter it next time. We guarantee the security of stored passwords.

In general terms the process consists of the following steps. BlogPaper retrieves RSS from Bloglines server using third-party libraries and saves it in internal XML structures. Then BlogPaper transforms it into XSL-FO using XSL transformation. Finally it is rendered to PDF.

BlogPaper uses Pybloglines library to access information about user's subscriptions from Bloglines. The information includes the list of user's feeds, unread messages and unread message count. We extended Pybloglines to access the list of user's shared feed and the feeds themselves from the web. To retrieve unread feeds from the server we use Universal Feed Parser. Universal Feed Parser uses the mxTidy library to convert any HTML contained in feeds to XHTML.

TODO: unicode annotations, images to floats, ','-joined item titles in TOC, html/css.