Throughout this documentation, we will often use the following concepts. For your convenience, we have defined them here.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is an industry standard for adding styles to web pages and other HTML/XHTML documents. It's template-based approach allows a web developer to change the look and feel of many web pages at once. Highwire supports many CSS features. You can learn more about CSS from http://www.w3c.org/Style/CSS/.
Corda Builder
A graphical design utility used to prepare content for use with Corda Server, as well as to create standalone graphs and maps. Although primarily intended for use with Corda Server's PopChart and OptiMap modules, it can also do standalone conversions of web pages and other HTML/XHTML documents.
Corda Embedder
An utility that simplifies communication between a web application and Corda Server. This programmatic interface is available for many different web environments, including ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, PHP, PERL, ColdFusion, and Java Servlets.
Corda Server
A Java-based server application that can, among many tasks, instantly convert HTML and XHTML documents (web pages) into PDF documents. It can then save these PDF documents, or serve them to web clients over the Internet. You can learn more about Corda Server from the Corda Server Getting Started manual.
Highwire
A Corda Server module that allows you to dynamically convert web pages and other HTML/XHTML documents into PDF documents.
Highwire document
A document generated using Highwire. This is synonymous with PDF Document.
Highwire Link
A link that, when clicked on, prompts Corda Server to generate a Highwire document and return that document to the browser. This link is typically placed somewhere within the same web document that Corda Server is asked to translate to PDF.
HTML Document
A document stored in the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) format. The majority of web documents are stored in this format, and most editing programs allow you to output documents in this format. For the most part, Highwire follows the HTML 4.0 specifications, as defined by WC3 at http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/.
OptiMap
A Corda Server module that allows you to dynamically generate maps in many different image formats. OptiMap images can easily be embedded in Highwire documents.
PDF Document
A document stored in the Portable Document Format (PDF). PDF is an industry standard, vector-based document format championed by Adobe Systems Incorporated. PDF documents can be opened and viewed using the free Adobe Reader application, available at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html.
PopChart
A Corda Server module that allows you to dynamically generate graphs in many different image formats. PopChart images can easily be embedded in Highwire documents.
XHTML Document
A document stored in the Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) format. An XHTML document is very similar to an HTML Document, only XHTML is more powerful because of its strictness. In fact, XHTML is the successor to the HTML format. To learn more about the XHTML 1.0 specification, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/.
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