Ashley, To stop editing you can use this: http://xml.apache.org/fop/pdfencryption.html
To wrap at 80 chars there are several solutions, but it really depends on your
situation: as Jay suggested you might be trying to do
something XSL-FO does automatically & better.
For a preformatted text file, you could also experiment with these
fo:block-container attributes:
white-space-collapse="false"
linefeed-treatment="preserve"
white-space-treatment="preserve"
Cheers,
Roland
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ashley Martens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 22 April 2005 4:23 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Basic help needed
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> 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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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thu 4/21/2005 2:02 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Basic help needed
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> 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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