Getting started

2003-11-21 Thread Joe DeVivo
Hello, I just stumbled on to Fop earlier this week and it looks like something I can really get into working on. I've been looking at the source and getting my feet wet, like with the patch I just submitted for the Ant Task. I also have an idea on max-height and max-width for external-graphic.

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 24906] - [PATCH] Added relativebase parameter to Ant Task

2003-11-21 Thread bugzilla
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Re: Font variant SmallCaps

2003-11-21 Thread Simon Pepping
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 07:54:07AM -0700, Victor Mote wrote: > No. Courier-Bold-Italic would be the Typeface, Courier would be the > TypefaceFamily. So my Font object that gets used by FOP would be > Courier-Bold-Italic at 12 points. It has a parent Typeface, which represents > the Courier-Bold "fo

Re: Font variant SmallCaps

2003-11-21 Thread Simon Pepping
I have taken a look at the way this question is dealt with in LaTeX (TeX does not have the notion of font families, LaTeX does). Here the question what to use for small caps font is deferred to the font setup. The font definition tables must define a small caps font. If they do not do so, a fallbac

Task list Was: Re: Font variant SmallCaps

2003-11-21 Thread J.Pietschmann
Chris Bowditch wrote: but my motivation is just to get something rather than nothing. You are bored? Oh! Some tasks: - Implement text-align-last - Implement text-align="justify" - Fix table headers. - Fix content rectangle computation for background filling - Fix bottom borders (and perhaps other

Re: Memory measurement -- importance of Driver.reset()

2003-11-21 Thread J.Pietschmann
John Austin wrote: It is clear that there is a fair bit of memory freed by Driver.reset(). After thinking it over, I modified the same test to skip reset() and just null the reference and issue System.gc(). This should be the same as letting it go out of scope (which happens afterwards but this w

Re: Development Environment suggestions ?

2003-11-21 Thread J.Pietschmann
John Austin wrote: Peter has mentioned Eclipse and I have used VisualAge for Java, and either NetBeans or the Sun form thereof. Eclipse is good enough, open source, and available for most Unixish platforms. Using the Eclipse CVS for dealing with FOP may prove to be a bit more difficult then it ou

Re: Font variant SmallCaps Was: Re: (Chris) Re: Traits

2003-11-21 Thread J.Pietschmann
Victor Mote wrote: No. Courier-Bold-Italic would be the Typeface, Courier would be the TypefaceFamily. So my Font object that gets used by FOP would be Courier-Bold-Italic at 12 points. It has a parent Typeface, which represents the Courier-Bold "font" file and its contents. This typeface has a par

RE: Font variant SmallCaps Was: Re: (Chris) Re: Traits

2003-11-21 Thread Victor Mote
Victor Mote wrote: > > Victor Mote wrote: > > > Typeface roughly corresponds to what is contained in a ttf of > > pfa font file. > > > > Hm hm. A TTF is typically Courier-bold-italic or so. Did you mean this > > or rather typeface==font-family? > > No. Courier-Bold-Italic would be the Typeface, C

RE: Font variant SmallCaps Was: Re: (Chris) Re: Traits

2003-11-21 Thread Victor Mote
J.Pietschmann wrote: > Victor Mote wrote: > > Typeface roughly corresponds to what is contained in a ttf of > pfa font file. > > Hm hm. A TTF is typically Courier-bold-italic or so. Did you mean this > or rather typeface==font-family? No. Courier-Bold-Italic would be the Typeface, Courier would b

RE: Development Environment suggestions ?

2003-11-21 Thread Arved Sandstrom
> -Original Message- > From: John Austin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: November 20, 2003 12:37 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Development Environment suggestions ? > > So far I have been playing around like the Neanderthal* > that I am. I use Sun Java 1.4.x with xterm, vi, emacs

Re: Memory measurement -- importance of Driver.reset()

2003-11-21 Thread Ben Galbraith
John Austin wrote: After reading the Sept 2003 thread about Memory Performance, leaks (and how wonderful ADA is), As one of the perpetrators of that thread, I need to mention that I never finished telling the story. The last analysis I ran seemed to indicate that it was my image loading code, no

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 24889] New: - Xalan Null Pointer Exception on Awt renderer

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Re: Font variant SmallCaps Was: Re: (Chris) Re: Traits

2003-11-21 Thread Chris Bowditch
From: "J.Pietschmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have done some investigation into emulating the Font-variant stuff in a similar way to the maintenance branch. Victor Mote wrote: Typeface roughly corresponds to what is contained in a ttf of pfa font file. Hm hm. A TTF is typically Courier-bold-itali

Re: Development Environment suggestions ?

2003-11-21 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, John Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So far I have been playing around like the Neanderthal* > that I am. I use Sun Java 1.4.x with xterm, vi, emacs and > occasionally Jedit when I feel modern urges. [snip] > > * Is that term Politically Correct ? Would it be offensiv