[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-311?page=comments#action_12455082 ] Jacopo Cappellato commented on OFBIZ-311: -----------------------------------------
Christian, thanks for all your hard work. No problem for the reports in the manufacturing component: they are there as examples of how you can pull data out of OFBiz and create manufacturing docs useful for the manufacturing facility but before they can really be used in production they'll need some serious customizations. > Upgrade the Apache FOP rendering engine from .20.5 to .92 > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: OFBIZ-311 > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-311 > Project: OFBiz (The Open for Business Project) > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: framework > Environment: Windows / Java 1.5 > Reporter: John Martin > Assigned To: Jacopo Cappellato > Attachments: fop-0.92-upgrade-patch.zip, > patch_ofbiz_fop-0.92upgrade-fix_xslfo.diff, patch_ofbiz_fop-0.92upgrade.diff > > > Working on upgrading the FOP (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/) rendering > engine used in ofBiz to generate PDF documents. > We had the need to use more advanced layout functionality than what 0.20.5 > offered. Version 0.92 offers a lot of improvements. From the apache site: > * More than half of the codebase has been rewritten over the last three > years. The code is relatively new and possibly not as stable as version > 0.20.5 in every regard. But the code is quickly approaching production level, > especially when you're happy with only PDF and PostScript output. > * The API of FOP has changed considerably and is not backwards-compatible > with version 0.20.5. > * There have been changes to the end-user API between 0.91 beta and 0.92 > beta. With version 0.92, the API is now considered stable. Some methods have > been deprecated and will be removed with the next release. If you upgrade > from 0.91 beta, you will need to adjust your Java code. > * The new code is much more strict about the interpretation of the XSL-FO 1.0 > specification. Things that worked fine in version 0.20.5 might start to > produce warnings or even errors now. FOP 0.20.5 contains many bugs which have > been corrected in the new code. > NOTE: > - The last bullet point was accurate and some of the fo.ftl templates were > broken (i.e. invoicePDF.fo.ftl). <fo:table-row> must contain > <fo:table-column> and <fo:table-column> must contain <fo:block>. > - Rendering of images are now done at their "natural" size unless you use the > properties content-width or content-height. The height and width attributes > don't seem to have any effect on the rendering. > - Some of the XSL-FO documentation that I read also recommended avoiding the > use of 'px' (pixels) to define the size of objects since pixels is a screen > resolution and may not translate well to other devices. They recommend using > mm or in for dimensions. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
