In Fop 0.20.2 if a table cell spans more rows than fit on a page it loops infinitely, presumably trying to find a page big enough to place the cell on. Looking through the archives of this list I found that I am not the only one who has been affected by this. David S. Dixon reported it as a problem on 21/9/01. At that time Karen Lease said that she was looking at this problem. So what is this current situation? Is it a priority to fix this bug? If so what sort of timescale are we looking at?
I can write a work around (although it will be messy) in my application but it would be nice to have a proper fix in FOP. I will take a look at the FOP code but as I am new to FOP any pointers on where to look and ideas of how this problem maybe solved would be much appreciated. I have included the original thread below. Taken from http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-dev&m=100117495412259&w=2 --- Paul Smith Karen, That's it -- thre spanning column has a long list-block that goes over to the next page. Okay, I can workaround by putting tables within tables. Thanks. -dd Karen Lease wrote: > David, > > I don't think it was in 0.19.0, which is consistent with the error > message. > The reason for the infinite loop may well be that some group of rows > which are held together by spans is too big to fit on the page. This is > a known bug, and I'm not currently working on it, as it's not that easy > to do. Like many difficult layout issues, we hope to attack this in the > "redesign". > However, just to make sure that there isn't some other wierd reason for > this problem, I'd be happy to look at your .fo file. > > Regards, > Karen > > "David S. Dixon" wrote: > > > > Karen, > > > > Was number-rows-spanned support in 0.19.0? I have an .fo file that turns into a > > .pdf file under 0.19.0 but complains of > > > > WARNING: Number of cell columns under table-row not equal to number of > > table-columns > > > > for the two rows corresponding to the spanned rows. Under 0.20.1, fop goes into > > an infinite loop on this file. > > > > -dd > > > > Karen Lease wrote: > > > > > Hi Amit, > > > > > > The number-rows-spanned property is now implemented in FOP, but it > > > wasn't yet in 0.18.1. If you want to use it, you should download the > > > latest version of FOP from the website - that's 0.20.1. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Karen > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask such a question... if not, I > > > > would appreciate some information on where to find a solution to this > > > > problem :- > > > > > > > > I've been trying to use the "number-rows-spanned" property to generate > > > > tables in my PDF file using FOP 0.18.1. However, I keep getting errors - is > > > > the "number-rows-spanned" property not implemented in FOP yet? > > > > > > > > Thanks for your help > > > > amit ******************************************************************* DISCLAIMER: The information contained in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the use of the named addressee. Access, copying or re-use of the information in it by any other person is not authorised. ******************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
