It's really silly. I'm creating this software to interface another company. 
That company returns a report as a text file, however, my client does not want 
his employees to be able to change the text file so he wants it converted to a 
PDF.


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Subject: Re: Basic help needed
 
Well, FO doesn't have any sense of breaking at an arbitrary number of 
characters. The FO idiom is to fill the line until the end of the line or 
the end of the text is reached.

If you really want to break the text every eighty lines, you can do it 
with XSLT and then put each chunk in its own block. Getting the line break 
to be at the last space before 80 characters will be a bit more 
interesting, but not impossible.

I'm curious why you would want to create a PDF representation of what is 
usually a pure-text representation method. Why not let PDF do what PDF 
does well (make paragraphs, have bold for emphasis, and so on)?

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services
(presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies)




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I trying to convert a simple text document, with no line feeds, into a 
simple PDF that is wrapped at 80 characters. Can anyone suggest the FO 
syntax to do this? 

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