create READ_ONLY PDF from FOP ??

[Jie Wang]

Title: Possibility of converting from XML to PDF without the intermediate stage of FO format

Can we create READ_ONLY PDF from FOP ?? Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jie Wang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 3:57 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Possibility of converting from XML to PDF without the interm ediate stage of FO format

Yes, we are doing the xml to pdf transformation in memeory. The xml file size is 330K and pdf file is 56 page.

-----Original Message-----
From: Buonincontri, Steve (CAP, MMF, ITSS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 3:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Possibility of converting from XML to PDF without the intermediate stage of FO format

I have also noticed that doing the XML to FO to PDF in memory as opposed to writing to disk reduces time by about 80% in the samples that I tried.

 

I was using iTEXT, XEP, FOP, RTF2FO etc.

 

Below you say that a 56 page PDF from XML files takes about 2 minutes. That sounds really good - I was working with 2 pages and 2 XML files generating FO doing an XSLT transform to merge and coverting to PDF and that was taking me about 1.5 minutes on a 333MHZ machine.

 

I was just curoius what the total sizes of the XML, the FOs and the PDF were. Did you concate the FOs? how did you get a single PDF (what tool)?

 

steveb

-----Original Message-----
From: Jie Wang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 6:37 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Possibility of converting from XML to PDF without the intermediate stage of FO format

The size of xml file is 330K.

-----Original Message-----
From: Buonincontri, Steve (CAP, MMF, ITSS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 3:37 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Possibility of converting from XML to PDF without the intermediate stage of FO format

Just curious - what are the sizes of the XML, FO and PDF files?

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jie Wang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 5:31 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Possibility of converting from XML to PDF without the intermediate stage of FO format

How to decrease the responding time of converting from XML to PDF ? Currently it took me about 2 Mins to generate my 56 page PDF from XML files. Is that possible to convert from XML to PDF without the intermediate stage of FO format ?

Thanks,
Jie

-----Original Message-----
From: Oleg Tkachenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 11:47 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FOP error with <xsl:copy-of .../>

There are no chapter_title or sub formatting objects in xsl-fo, you have to
transform it in xslt to fo objects, like <fo:inline> rather than just copying
them to the fo.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>   Hi,
>
>   I am attaching the test xsl,xml and the java files.  The problem is that the description of any node could have tags and text mixed.  If I use <xsl:value-of> (with FOP), I get only

>   the text and when I use <xsl:copy-of> (without FOP embeded), I get the desired result, but with FOP I am getting 'error 10231'   I have tried everything that I could think of and could not come up with the correct stylesheet. 

>   I truly could use your help!!!!
>   I am anxiously waiting for a solution.
>
>   Thank you so much in advance.
>   Norm
>
>   --- ERROR ---------
>   ERROR   10231   [fop     ] (): Unknown formatting object null^chapter_title
>   Exception in thread "main" org.apache.fop.apps.FOPException: java.lang.NullPoin
>   erException
>          at org.apache.fop.apps.Driver.render(Driver.java:486)
>          at test1.main(test1.java:102)
>
>   -------------------- test.xml ----------------------------------
>   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
>   <?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href=''?>
>   <document id="DOCUMENT 810-005_103">
>      <chapter id="test">
>          <chapter_title>Testing Chapter ₃</chapter_title>           
>      </chapter>
>   </document>
>
>   ------------------  test.xsl ---------------------------
>   <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"
>   xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
>     <xsl:template match="document">
>      <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"> 
>        <fo:layout-master-set>
>          <fo:simple-page-master page-width="200mm" master-name="Page1" page-height="280mm"
>   margin-top="10mm" margin-bottom="10mm" margin-left="20mm" margin-right="20mm">
>            <fo:region-body margin-top="0mm" margin-bottom="10mm"
>                         margin-left="0mm" margin-right="0mm"/>
>          </fo:simple-page-master>
>          <fo:page-sequence-master master-name="PS1">
>            <fo:single-page-master-reference master-name="Page1"/>
>          </fo:page-sequence-master>     
>        </fo:layout-master-set>
>       
>        <fo:page-sequence  master-reference="Page1">
>          <fo:flow  flow-name="xsl-region-body">
>               <xsl:apply-templates/>
>          </fo:flow >
>        </fo:page-sequence >     
>      </fo:root>
>    </xsl:template>
>   
>   <xsl:template match="document/chapter/chapter_title">
>          <fo:block space-after="3mm" font-size="14pt" text-align="center" break-before="page"
>   break-after="page">
>            <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
>           </fo:block>
>     </xsl:template>
>   </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>   --------------- test.java file just the main()----------------
>   public static void main () {   
>
>              File xmlFile=new File("test.xml");
>              File xslFile=new File("test.xsl");
>              File pdfFile=new File("test.pdf");
>
>              Logger log = null;
>
>                if(log == null) {
>                  Hierarchy hierarchy = Hierarchy.getDefaultHierarchy();
>                  log = hierarchy.getLoggerFor("fop");
>                  log.setPriority(Priority.WARN);
>                }
>                      FileOutputStream OutFile = new FileOutputStream(pdfFile);
>                      ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
>                      Driver driver=new Driver();
>                     
>                      driver.setLogger(log);
>                      driver.setRenderer(Driver.RENDER_PDF);
>                      InputHandler ih=new XSLTInputHandler(xmlFile,xslFile);
>                      XMLReader p=ih.getParser();
>                      driver.setOutputStream(OutFile);
>                      driver.render(p, ih.getInputSource());
>                      OutFile.close();
>               }
>      }//main
>
>
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Oleg Tkachenko
Multiconn International, Israel