I hate CVS, too, but in case you haven't noticed, we're on Subversion for almost a year now. CVS services have been shut down within the ASF last month.
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download.html#source On 22.02.2006 08:07:57 b.ohnsorg wrote: > > ----- original Nachricht -------- > > Betreff: Re: RTF and table/column widths > Gesendet: Mo 20 Feb 2006 21:55:58 CET > Von: "Jeremias Maerki"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Hey, we certainly don't mind if you look at the sources. > That's pathetic, I could have coded it without your sources, but that would > have needed a few days more *g*. > > > On the contrary, > > we encourage people to look at it and to send in patches that help > > improve FOP. We're certainly reviewing the stuff that comes in. > Sure, no prob, I hate cvs and totally dislike commiting to such repos' > > > If you > > need any help to get started, just ask. The code-/design-level > > documentation may not be as extensive as you might wish sometimes, but > > there are always people around you can ask. > Mkay, maybe there'll be a few minutes on thursday, at least friday's gonna be > productive. So at least on monday you'll get either the first questions or > patches. > > > > On 20.02.2006 21:21:39 b.ohnsorg wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > > > besides the stats my second mail and special offer. I really like that > > > RTF-thingy and it's quite sophisticated documents. My RTF-XSLs were not > > > that neat. I've hacked some workaround for the proportional widths > > > coming from docbook transformations, but this is not really a good > > > sollution. > > > > > > So if you don't mind, I'd like to have a look at the sources and decide, > > > whether I have enough time for adding the necessary bits and bytes or > > > not. When it comes to java implementation I'm quite experienced, after a > > > few years of professional software development (sdk, j2ee). (Now I'm > > > part of the management, operating revision control systems, that sort of > > > thing and I'd like to return to the "classics".) > > > > > > I think it's nothing more than looking for the source of the runtime > > > exception, expand that code like the PDF export and there you go > > > (something like document.getWidth()*node.getWidthPercentage(), > > basically). > > > Hope there's enough documentation 'bout that and nobody out there being > > > faster than me. I wrote some very basic RTF renderer half a year ago and > > > had to cope with fancy tables, spannings and so on. Maybe there'll be > > > some free border-collapse-give-away, if there's enough time *g*. > > > > > > Thanks so far... Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
