On 09.05.2008 12:05:13 paul womack wrote: > Jeremias Maerki wrote: > >> > >> q2) Is it possible to (somehow) use the same layout > >> for two renderers? in my particular circumstances > >> induividual character appearance is a moderately low > >> priority; whiat I do require is that line wrapping > >> and general layout is the same between the EPSF and > >> the preview. > >> > >> If the AT file specified the exact placement of each character > >> my purpose would be well served. > > > > The AT does that. Not with absolute coordinates for each glyph but the > > renderers will produce closely resembling output. > > I'm afraid not; since "whole lines" are commonly passed to the renderers > small changes in the character width can accumulate; this is > (sadly) more than enough to drive words (or at least parts of words) > off the right hand edge, or conversely to make justified > text extremely (intolerably) ragged.
Which is why I wrote "closely resembling output". There's no (efficient) way we can do any better with the current design. If it's a problem in your case, you're out of luck, I'm afraid. > I may have to use ghostscript to render the postscript to get > a preview, sadly. I'd rather have stayed in one "world". So help us improve FOP. Some time ago we started investigating a new intermediate format. What we've started outlining there would allow exact character placing: http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/AreaTreeIntermediateXml/NewDesign Just don't ask the "when" question. ;-) We've started the process but it's currently not active. We'll get back to it eventually, I think. > BugBear Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
