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Betreff: Re: RTF and table/column widths
Gesendet: Mi 22 Feb 2006 08:27:18 CET
Von: "Jeremias Maerki"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> 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
Mkay, that's pretty cool but for the first shot I'll prefer the pure 
preview-technique *g*.

In addition to that I already hat a closer look to the rtf results, which are 
heavily under construction. For all my tests I use docbook sources and 1.68.1 
xml-stylesheets, create FOs from and run fop 0.91beta.
Tables got a serious problem with the block structure. Above the table there 
are indents (il960) to move all paragraphs a bit to the right, makes space for 
headings. Before opening a table, these indents won't be reset, so all table 
columns are indented like paragraphs. 960 in RTF-terms (A4 page, 217mm, 1in 
margin left&right) means about 20mm, a table with columns less than 2.5times 
the indent looks very strange, the letters stick to the right border of their 
column. And I couldn't transform a FO with images, everytime there was a 
RuntimeException with this PercentageContext-message (even after removing all 
the % and proportional settings as well as auto-sizing).

Tomorrow I'll have some further investigations, determining which part of the 
FO causes which RTF-block (there are some twice and even three times, 
absolutely identical AND empty!). When I know this, I'll have a look at the 
sources. If others work on that code: I wrote two perl scripts transforming 
fox:outlines and proportional values (faster than applying a stylesheet with 
xalan, even on HP-UX) - I could share them. To draw a conclusion: maybe on 
tuesday there'll be the first enhanced RTF classes (monday's holiday 'round 
here) but surely I'll write 1-2pages about RTF flaws until then.









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