Would you be interested in trying out a fop backend? It could be just some spike to add fop as an alternative way to render the pdf, not a full replacement for the existing stuff. Then we can play around with it and see if it does a better job than xhtmlrender and switch over if it does.
On 19 Jul 2014, at 7:57 am, KARR, DAVID <dk0...@att.com> wrote: > It would be nice if we could get on-page footnotes, but the biggest problem I > see with the current rendering is that “literal” and similar elements aren’t > computed in line endings, resulting in many truncated literal strings in > paragraphs and overprinting of similar strings in tables. I tried to examine > the CSS configuration to see if this could be controlled, but I couldn’t find > anything obvious. > > > From: Adam Murdoch [mailto:adam.murd...@gradleware.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2014 7:18 PM > To: dev@gradle.codehaus.org > Subject: Re: [gradle-dev] user guide: Anyone ever look into displaying > footnotes on same page as reference? > > > We used to use FOP and switched to xhtmlrenderer a few years ago. Back then > it gave better PDF output. Perhaps things have improved with FOP now. > > On 9 Jul 2014, at 8:48 am, Luke Daley <luke.da...@gradleware.com> wrote: > > > I don’t think anyone would object to this change. It’s more that no one has > spent the time to make it happen. > > On 8 July 2014 at 10:43:56 am, KARR, DAVID (dk0...@att.com) wrote: > > > > From: Luke Daley [mailto:luke.da...@gradleware.com] > Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 5:06 PM > To: KARR, DAVID; dev@gradle.codehaus.org > Subject: Re: [gradle-dev] user guide: Anyone ever look into displaying > footnotes on same page as reference? > > > > On 8 July 2014 at 7:24:07 am, KARR, DAVID (dk0...@att.com) wrote: > > Footnotes in the user guide currently display at the end of the chapter. When > you're reading a document or publication that uses this convention, do you > ever go to the trouble of flipping to the end of the chapter, reading the > footnote, and then paging back to where you were? If we want people to > actually see those footnotes, we should figure out how to render this better. > > Unfortunately, I don't think this will be simple. It seems like the only > possibility is for a complete conversion to the FO stylesheets, or FOP, and > I'm not even certain we would get the the result I want. Perhaps there would > be other rendering advantages from FOP that we could benefit from, as opposed > to just the possibility of rendering footnotes better. > What’s FO and FOP? > > FOP is a print formatter for XSL-FO: > > http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ > > — > > Luke Daley > http://www.gradleware.com > — > > Luke Daley > http://www.gradleware.com > > > -- > Adam Murdoch > Gradle Co-founder > http://www.gradle.org > CTO Gradleware Inc. - Gradle Training, Support, Consulting > http://www.gradleware.com -- Adam Murdoch Gradle Co-founder http://www.gradle.org CTO Gradleware Inc. - Gradle Training, Support, Consulting http://www.gradleware.com
