RE: XSL-FO Engine comparisons
I have used GhostScript for awhile. And it works great for that purpose. Steve Rybin. -Original Message- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 7:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XSL-FO Engine comparisons At 10:28 PM +0100 7/31/01, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: Elliotte Rusty Harold writes: The downside to this otherwise excellent engine is that it's Windows only and based on Windows graphics primitives rather than PostScript or PDF. It displays on the screen very nicely, and prints nicely too. However, it does not produce a PDF document that I can send to my editor or a typesetter. Cant you print PS to file and Distill it? I suppose I could, but only if somebody knows of an open source tool for distilling files. After the Skylarov fiasco, I'll be damned if I'm going to give Adobe one more penny. Hmm, after a little hunting around with Google it looks like GhostScript might actually do that. I'll have to give it a try. -- +---++---+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Writer/Programmer | +---++---+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +--+-+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +--+-+ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FOP install problem
Hi, I have install FOP version 0.19.0 and when I try to build I am having problem. I am not sure if you are part of news group or not but if I can get some help I will really appreciate. BUILD FAILED /Work/download/Fop/Fop-0.19.0-CVS/build.xml:542: Error starting classic compiler : Thanks, Mike Patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] 949-219-3539 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mailing list
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RE: XSL-FO Engine comparisons
Hmm, after a little hunting around with Google it looks like GhostScript might actually do that. I'll have to give it a try. Yes, I do it this way, I print into virtual postscript printer and convert resulting .ps to .pdf via ghostview (File/Convert) Martin -- Martin Krumpolec [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
slovak hyphenation
Hi, Please can you add slovak hyphenation patterns (attached) to the CVS and build ? It is converted from skhyphen.tex (from csplain) ... Thank you Martin -- Martin Krumpolec [EMAIL PROTECTED] sk.xml - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FOP failure
Hi Dane, The XSL-FO specification has changed a great deal, as has FOP in the interim between FOP 0.12 and FOP 0.19. You will need to either extensively update your FO document to conform to the specification, or downgrade to the old version of FOP. The latest spec (Candidate Recommendation) is here: http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/ -Steve -Original Message- From: Dane Foster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 12:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FOP failure Hello. I have an .fo file that fop 0.19 refuses to work with. The file was originally created against the 0.12 version of FOP. The document that the .fo file represents has been changed so I figured I should update FOP since I'm updating the .fo document. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Dane Foster Equity Technology Group, Inc http://www.equitytg.com. 954.360.9800 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XSL-FO Engine comparisons
At 10:28 PM +0100 7/31/01, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: Elliotte Rusty Harold writes: The downside to this otherwise excellent engine is that it's Windows only and based on Windows graphics primitives rather than PostScript or PDF. It displays on the screen very nicely, and prints nicely too. However, it does not produce a PDF document that I can send to my editor or a typesetter. Cant you print PS to file and Distill it? I suppose I could, but only if somebody knows of an open source tool for distilling files. After the Skylarov fiasco, I'll be damned if I'm going to give Adobe one more penny. Hmm, after a little hunting around with Google it looks like GhostScript might actually do that. I'll have to give it a try. -- +---++---+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Writer/Programmer | +---++---+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +--+-+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +--+-+ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Editor Worth Looking At
Hi, all Given the recent discussion over formatting, I thought it was worth pointing out the existence of the jEdit text editor, in case you are unaware of it, or haven't really looked at it, or looked at an early version and became disillusioned. I am neither a knee-jerk proponent of Java nor an evangelist of any particular text editor. I tend to prefer UltraEdit on Windows, Alpha on MacOS (BBEdit ain't bad), and jEdit on UNIX/Linux, but sometimes use vi, emacs, or anything else that works. Version 3.1final for jEdit has some really cool features and I recommend checking it out. Get as many of the plugins as you can; chief among them is the 'astyle' plugin, which is set up as a bean and therefore can have its properties edited (changed). So you can immediately beautify/format your code in your editor. jEdit is also one of the few editors I have found (ColdFusion is another) which is set up to do 'collapse' right out of the box. There is also a Java Class Wizard plugin; couple that with the Get/Set Method macros and the CodeAid plugin, and you will improve your productivity a lot. In fact, if you happen to be an aficionado of JBuilder then you will be getting a lot of familiar editing features in a package that is much smaller and appreciably faster. The other features are on a par with other leading text editors. Regards, Arved Sandstrom -- Fairly Senior Software Type e-plicity (http://www.e-plicity.com) Halifax, Nova Scotia Wireless * B2B * J2EE * XML - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PDF2PS
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, I have generated pdf file from xml by using FOP-0.19.0-CVS, but I don't know how to use Ghostscript to convert the pdf file to postscript file under Windows environment, can you help me? You do not need Ghostscript, FOP has a Postscript renderer ! Try 'fop test.fo -ps test.ps' from the commandline. Thanks for any help you can give. best rgds, ektan Christian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Bug 2987] New: - Large graphics put FOP 0.19 into an infinite loop
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE. TO FURTHER COMMENT ON THE STATUS OF THIS BUG PLEASE FOLLOW THE LINK BELOW AND USE THE ON-LINE APPLICATION. REPLYING TO THIS MESSAGE DOES NOT UPDATE THE DATABASE, AND SO YOUR COMMENT WILL BE LOST SOMEWHERE. http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2987 *** shadow/2987 Fri Aug 3 18:27:09 2001 --- shadow/2987.tmp.6099Fri Aug 3 18:27:09 2001 *** *** 0 --- 1,20 + ++ + | Large graphics put FOP 0.19 into an infinite loop | + ++ + |Bug #: 2987Product: Fop | + | Status: NEW Version: all | + | Resolution:Platform: Sun | + | Severity: Normal OS/Version: Solaris | + | Priority: Other Component: general | + ++ + | Assigned To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | + | Reported By: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | + | CC list: Cc: | + ++ + | URL: | + ++ + | DESCRIPTION | + When FOP attempts to render a large external graphic, it appears to enter an + infinite loop in the Formatting FOs into areas stage. It outputs area numbers + until it runs out of memory. Shrinking the offending file fixes the problem. + The limit appears to be the size of the area available on the page. \ No newline at end of file - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fix (not Patch) to changes on 26 July that broke Embedded Fontlayout
You're quite right, the characters was mapped twice.
I removed the boolean doMap argument to getWordWidth because it's not used
anymore. Then we don't need the getMappedCharWidth/getCharWidth
distinction.
Thanks
Tore
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Struan Judd wrote:
I've tracked down the reason for the problem I reported below.
Unfortunately, I've done this in the pre-codeformat sources and I don't have
access to a patch generator (well maybe but it's a minor fix).
In org.apache.fop.layout.LineArea towards the end of the function:
private int getWordWidth(String word, boolean doMap)
the line (992 in old code) was changed to be:
width += getCharWidth(currentChar);
This caused some characters to be mapped twice.
The fix I'm suggesting is to split the function:
private int getCharWidth(char c)
which begins
int width = currentFontState.width(currentFontState.mapChar(c));
if (width = 0) {
...
into two functions as follows:
private int getCharWidth(char c) {
return getMappedCharWidth(currentFontState.mapChar(c));
}
private int getMappedCharWidth(char c) {
int width = currentFontState.width(c);
if (width = 0) {
...
and then changed the above mentioned line in getWordWidth() to be:
width += getMappedCharWidth(currentChar);
I hope this can be checked and committed soon.
TTFN
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-Original Message-
From: Struan Judd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 27 July 2001 12:53
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Subject: The current CVS version seems to be seriously broken
It builds fine but the finally laid out PDF has overlapping areas and
non-lined up leading edges of table columns.
I am using an embedded font but that's all I can think of that different
from defaults.
If I checkout as at 25th of July it works fine.
So what's been checked in recently that might affect that.
TTFN
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Re: logging
Keiron Liddle wrote:
On Thu, 02 Aug 2001 17:45:56 Carlos Villegas wrote:
I think it's possible to do in FOP what was done in Velocity. They have
a middleware that decouples Velocity from the specific logging toolkit.
So they have drivers for logkit and log4j and you can even write your
own one. This is a better choice when embedding FOP since you'd want to
use whatever logging system you've already have in place. I think it's
worth taking a look at the Velocity log package, we might be able to
reuse it.
That would work, but I have a few problems with it.
- We would need to copy their code (and hence create two diverging
versions) because it has dependancies
- It adds an extra 3 layers to every log call, also has extra logic
- a logging system should do all of the targetting things itself (instead
of having an interface with multiple targets to an interface with multiple
targets that writes the logging)
- I want to avoid having extra code that only adds complexity
Well, it was just an idea. I don't think it's that much extra code
anyway, or that extra code necessarily adds complexity. My post was
motivated from my experience with Velocity. We're using Velocity in a
servlet environment. Our system already had its own logging system.
Velocity as shipped, logs to its own file, but we wanted to use our same
configuration file to configure Velocity logging as well and to merge
logs onto a single destination. It was very easy, all you you to do is
implement a very simple interface, basically:
interface VelocityLog {
void debug(String message);
void info(String message);
void error(String message);
...
}
and set a property in Velocity to point to your logging implementation
class.
Yes, it adds an extra layer and notice that some nice features of
systems like log4j are not used, like categories. It all depends of
course on your needs. Velocity is intended primarily to be embedded, so
you'd want that flexibility.
Nevertheless, I don't neccessarily think it's the best choice for FOP.
This is also related to a recent post about FOP APIs, there were some
complains about how inflexible FOP is when trying to embed it.
Carlos
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