AW: PDF from FOP to database as BLOB
Hello Shawn, you can make FOP write to an ByteArrayOutputStream. By doing something like this: ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); ...(driver+FOP stuff)... driver.setOutputStream(os); InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(os.getBytes()); .. now read from stream... Hope this helps, greetings, Patrick Dipl. Inform. Patrick Chaumette T-Systems ITS GmbH Service Prozesse Retail Hausanschrift: Fasanenweg 9, 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Postanschrift: Postfach 100258, 70746 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Telefon: (0711)972-2437 Telefax: (0711)972-1949 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.t-systems.de -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 16. Mai 2002 17:52 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: PDF from FOP to database as BLOB Hi, Currently we are dynamically creating our PDF documents using FOP in real-time and displaying them on the browser without a problem. We've handled the CPU intensiveness of FOP by limiting the number of users that can concurrently create a report to 1 or 2 (depending on the server). BUT - As the number of users requesting PDF reports on our application scales up we'll need a better solution. Since our users can wait for these reports we've decided to run a nightly job to create them and store the PDFs in our database as a BLOB. That way during peak usage hours our servers will only need to deal with returning the PDF to the browser. My question is, HOW, using FOP and JDBC can I get my PDF into the database as a BLOB. The java.sql.PreparedStatement method setBinaryStream(int parameterIndex, InputStreamx, int length) requires an input stream - how can I get this from FOP? If I instead us the java.sql.PreparedStatement method setBlob (int i, Blob x) method - how can I create a BLOB from what I have from FOP? Any Ideas would be very helpful. Thank You! Shawn
AW: Newbie: Error trying to convert (standalone) the simple.fo ex ampl e after first installation...
Hello Gilson, the Exception means that the class org.apache.log.format.Formatter couldnt be found in the Classpath. Maybe you should check this. Greetings, Patrick Dipl. Inform. Patrick Chaumette T-Systems ITS GmbH Service Prozesse Retail Hausanschrift: Fasanenweg 9, 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Postanschrift: Postfach 100258, 70746 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Telefon: (0711)972-2437 Telefax: (0711)972-1949 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.t-systems.de -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Gilson Nascimento D Elrei [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 16. Mai 2002 18:22 An: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Betreff: RES: Newbie: Error trying to convert (standalone) the simple.fo exampl e after first installation... Thanks, i tried your first suggestion but i still didn't try rebuilding FOP.jar (i'll to do later).. i received this error. Do you know how resolve it ? Exception in thread main java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/log/format/Formatter at org.apache.fop.apps.Fop.main(Fop.java:16) Thanks in advance. - Mensagem original - De: J.Pietschmann [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada em: quarta-feira, 15 de maio de 2002 19:51 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assunto:Re: Newbie: Error trying to convert (standalone) the simple.fo exampl e after first installation... Gilson Nascimento D Elrei wrote: I have donwloaded and installed FOP, i tried to convert the simple.fo file using it like my first interaction with this tool, but i'm receiving this follow message error: [ERROR]: Don't know what to do with This is a known problem caused either by the DOS command processor or the JVM. It is specific to the 16bit Windows variants. Nobody has yet published a workaround, you'll have to experiment a bit by yourself. You can, for example, try java -jar bin\fop.jar nnn.fo nnn.pdf which might work (or not). If all else fails, get the source distribution, open the file src\org\apache\fop\apps\CommandLineOptions.java, kill the line throwing the exception wih the error message above and rebuild FOP. J.Pietschmann
AW: Awt for print preview
Hello Franck, seems to me this translator does the translation in different languages for the GUI texts.(English, German, etc...) Greetings, Patrick Dipl. Inform. Patrick Chaumette T-Systems ITS GmbH Service Prozesse Retail Hausanschrift: Fasanenweg 9, 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Postanschrift: Postfach 100258, 70746 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Telefon: (0711)972-2437 Telefax: (0711)972-1949 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.t-systems.de -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: MARTIN Franck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 14. Mai 2002 17:21 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Awt for print preview I'm trying to use the awt rendering in order to provide the user with a print preview but i can't figure out how fop works with awt. I have stumble upon a sample code but i don't understand what is translator: driver.setRenderer(new org.apache.fop.render.awt.AWTRenderer(translator)); driver.buildFOTree(parser, fileInputSource(args[0])); driver.format(); driver.render(); Please help! Franck
AW: Java 1.1.x
Hello, I had also problems compiling FOP-0.20.3 with JDK 1.2. For example some changes in AWTFontMetrics concerning Fonts are not portable on JDK1.2. The release notes should be changed to reflect this. They still say JDK 1.2(or later) is required. Since I didnt want i18n support I could take the older versions of those files and do a custom build. I also removed all batik related stuff, since I dont use any SVG, and so can use FOP on a Websphere in a EJB context. Greetings, Patrick Dipl. Inform. Patrick Chaumette T-Systems ITS GmbH Service Prozesse Retail Hausanschrift: Fasanenweg 9, 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Postanschrift: Postfach 100258, 70746 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Telefon: (0711)972-2437 Telefax: (0711)972-1949 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.t-systems.de -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Peter B. West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. Mai 2002 02:30 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Java 1.1.x Kendall, You might want to examine this thread: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-devm=101551941500565w=4 I don't know whether this is the only problem of the migration to 1.2/1.3. If it were, you could copy the source tree, and use a find and a perl one-liner to change all of the occurrences. Not nice, and nasty to keep up-to-date, but it may be a way out. If it were not, you will have to follow Joerg's suggestion. Does anyone else know what the relevant incompatibilities are? Peter J.Pietschmann wrote: Kendall Adkins wrote: I have a client who is using a Domino server. Domino only supports the Java 1.1.8 SDK. I have been unable to find a version of FOP that will run with this SDK. Does anyone have any suggestions? Recent FOP versions need JDK1.2, perhaps even 1.3. I think you should look for 0.18 or even 0.17 on the old versions archive.
AW: X-Y Text positioning
Hello John I use with FOP 0.20.3 the following: fo:static-content flow-name=xsl-region-before fo:block-container position=absolute top=4.5cm left=13cm width=7.2cm height=0.8cm fo:block border-style=solid border-color=redI am here/fo:block /fo:block-container /fo:static-content It positions where I set it, relative to the xsl-region-before margins. Hope this helps, greetings, Patrick. Dipl. Inform. Patrick Chaumette T-Systems ITS GmbH Service Prozesse Retail Hausanschrift: Fasanenweg 9, 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Postanschrift: Postfach 100258, 70746 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Telefon: (0711)972-2437 Telefax: (0711)972-1949 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.t-systems.de -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: John Bourke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. Mai 2002 17:29 An: Fop Users (E-mail) Betreff: X-Y Text positioning Guys, Do you know if FOP explicitly supports absolute X-Y placement of data on a page, i.e. put this text right here, 6 cm down from the top left corner and 4 cm in from the left edge? John ** * This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. Any unauthorised distribution or copying is strictly prohibited. Whilst Cedar Plc takes steps to prevent the transmission of viruses via e-mail, we can not guarantee that any email or attachment is free from computer viruses and you are strongly advised to undertake your own anti-virus precautions. Cedar Plc grants no warranties regarding performance, use or quality of any e-mail or attachment and undertakes no liability for loss or damage, howsoever caused. ** **
AW: Best coding practice.
Hello Balaji, I think if you don't use any xsl:template match=..., then the processing speed would be fastest, since the XSLT has nothing much to do just to write out what you have. If it is good practice is another story... Greetings, Patrick Dipl. Inform. Patrick Chaumette T-Systems ITS GmbH Service Prozesse Retail Hausanschrift: Fasanenweg 9, 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Postanschrift: Postfach 100258, 70746 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Telefon: (0711)972-2437 Telefax: (0711)972-1949 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.t-systems.de -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Balaji Loganathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Freitag, 3. Mai 2002 16:30 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Best coding practice. Hi, Is there is any best practice for coding the XSL:FO, that is always 1. use xsl:template 2. check whether the element exist or not even for mandatory elements. My xsl is of 578 lines,Suddenly i felt that my code is not object oriented beacuse no where i have used xsl:template. I construct the PDF line after line.Does this affect the processing speed. Does using xsl:template increases the processing speed. Please comment. Regards Balaji http://messenger.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger - A great way to communicate long-distance for FREE!
AW: Printing Page Setup
Hello Torsten, maybe you could use a xsl parameter for those settings which would be passed during the invocation of FOP. Greetings, Patrick Dipl. Inform. Patrick Chaumette T-Systems ITS GmbH Service Prozesse Retail Hausanschrift: Fasanenweg 9, 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Postanschrift: Postfach 100258, 70746 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Telefon: (0711)972-2437 Telefax: (0711)972-1949 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.t-systems.de -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Torsten Erler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 18. April 2002 17:46 An: Fop-Dev (E-mail) Betreff: Printing Page Setup Hi all I've a problem with setup the printed page sizes. In the Application the user (must have) has the possibility to change the papar format of the printed documents. I'm using AWTRenderer to preview some files on screen before printing. My xsl templates have an Page Master like this: fo:simple-page-master master-reference=A4 width=... If the user wants to print out the rendered page for example in letter format with defined margines I've to scale width and height of the rendered page before sending graphic to printer. I cannot using scalefactor because of the geometry of the page isn't compatible to the original. Can anyone explain me what I've todo. Writing different templates for each possible Paper-Size isn't acceptable. ThanX Torsten (German java-Developer) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Absolute positioning?
Hello, I tried using the bottom attribute in a block-container with position=absolute but doesnt work like I wished. This snippet puts a red box at the top of the page, I expected it to come aligned with the bottom of the region-before which I defined with fo:region-before extent=113.51mm/ Any ideas ? Is this a FOP problem or is my FO wrong ? fo:static-content flow-name=xsl-region-before fo:block-container height=25mm width=190mm bottom=0mm left=0mm text-align=center position=absolute border=solid 1px red /fo:block-container /fo:static-content Dipl. Inform. Patrick Chaumette T-Systems ITS GmbH Service Prozesse Retail Hausanschrift: Fasanenweg 9, 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Postanschrift: Postfach 100258, 70746 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Telefon: (0711)972-2437 Telefax: (0711)972-1949 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.t-systems.de -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Chuck Paussa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. April 2002 19:41 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Absolute positioning? Patrick, Sounds good to me. Try it and see if it works. (Then write to the list to tell us if it does.) The bottom attribute is definately part of the spec. Chuck
AW: Sending generated PDF directly to printer
Hello, if your printer supports PDF then calling -pdf \\ServerName\PrinterName should work. I am currently myself trying to directly send PostScript and this works really good (-ps \\ServerName\PrinterName) Greetings, Patrick Dipl. Inform. Patrick Chaumette T-Systems ITS GmbH Service Prozesse Retail Hausanschrift: Fasanenweg 9, 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Postanschrift: Postfach 100258, 70746 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Telefon: (0711)972-2437 Telefax: (0711)972-1949 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.t-systems.de -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: RAYMOND Romain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. April 2002 09:44 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Sending generated PDF directly to printer Hello, is there examples or docs to send the result of an FOP transformation to a printer ? thanks.
RE: Absolute positioning?
Hello Jerome, do you put the position attribute on a block-container or a block ? In fact I would like to be able to put a block in the bottom of a static xsl-region-before so that it glues with the start of the xsl-region-body. I thought of using a block-container with absolute-position=fixed bottom=0cm and thus get my block at the bottom of the xsl-region-before and fitting right above the beginning of the region-body. The body contains a table whose header should be tight to the bottom of a table in the region-before. Someone has a solution for this with FOP ? Thanks, greetings, Patrick Dipl. Inform. Patrick Chaumette T-Systems ITS GmbH Service Prozesse Retail Hausanschrift: Fasanenweg 9, 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Postanschrift: Postfach 100258, 70746 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Telefon: (0711)972-2437 Telefax: (0711)972-1949 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.t-systems.de -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Jerome Siour [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. April 2002 16:46 An: FO Cc: Esteban Gonzalez Betreff: RE: Absolute positioning? [INFO]: FOP 0.20.3 fo:block-container absolute-position=fixed top=240mm left=100mm FOP web site indicates that this attribute (absolute-position) is not supported (http://xml.apache.org/fop/implemented.html, but is the list up to date?) However, the position attribute seams to be allowed (for value fixed). May be should you try it... Hope this helps... Jerome.
RE: Absolute positioning?
Hi Chuck, thanks for the information, I thought it was some FOP implementation specific problem so I posted it into dev. Will try to do better next time, sorry. I tried like below your tipp but did do nothing. It only shows the first Test on the top of the page. Doesnt bottom refer to the distance between the bottom of the xsl-region and the bottom of the block-container ? Any ideas ? Greetings, Patrick fo:static-content flow-name=xsl-region-before fo:block-container height=8mm width=190mm bottom=0mm left=0mm text-align=center position=absolute border=solid 1px white fo:block border=solid Test /fo:block fo:block border=solidTest2 /fo:block fo:block border=solidTest3 /fo:block /fo:block-container /fo:static-content Dipl. Inform. Patrick Chaumette T-Systems ITS GmbH Service Prozesse Retail Hausanschrift: Fasanenweg 9, 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Postanschrift: Postfach 100258, 70746 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Telefon: (0711)972-2437 Telefax: (0711)972-1949 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.t-systems.de -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Chuck Paussa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. April 2002 18:11 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Absolute positioning? Patrick, First. Don't cross post to the dev and user list! This is a user list question and the user list is a great resource for your answers. Don't annoy the developers. Next. Try this or something like it. fo:block-container height=8mm width=190mm top=0mm left=0mm text-align=center position=absolute border=solid 1px white Chuck Chaumette, Patrick wrote: Hello Jerome, do you put the position attribute on a block-container or a block ? In fact I would like to be able to put a block in the bottom of a static xsl-region-before so that it glues with the start of the xsl-region-body. I thought of using a block-container with absolute-position=fixed bottom=0cm and thus get my block at the bottom of the xsl-region-before and fitting right above the beginning of the region-body. The body contains a table whose header should be tight to the bottom of a table in the region-before. Someone has a solution for this with FOP ? Thanks, greetings, Patrick -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Jerome Siour [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. April 2002 16:46 Cc: Esteban Gonzalez Betreff: RE: Absolute positioning? [INFO]: FOP 0.20.3 fo:block-container absolute-position=fixed top=240mm left=100mm FOP web site indicates that this attribute (absolute-position) is not supported (http://xml.apache.org/fop/implemented.html, but is the list up to date?) However, the position attribute seams to be allowed (for value fixed). May be should you try it... Hope this helps... Jerome.
RE: Absolute positioning?
Hi Chuck, sure I can set the top attribute, but then I will have to take care that the table in the block container will have to fit 100% with the start of the table of the xsl-region-body. I hoped with using bottom I was always sure to get the bottom of the last block element in xsl-region-before attached correctly to the first block of xsl-region-body. What do you think ? Dipl. Inform. Patrick Chaumette T-Systems ITS GmbH Service Prozesse Retail Hausanschrift: Fasanenweg 9, 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Postanschrift: Postfach 100258, 70746 Leinfelden-Echterdingen Telefon: (0711)972-2437 Telefax: (0711)972-1949 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.t-systems.de -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Chuck Paussa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. April 2002 18:38 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Absolute positioning? Patrick, The block container size needs to be big enough to fit the contents. Any contents that don't fit in the height and width get cut off. Make the height 24mm. The border attribute needs all 3 components, solid 1px black I'm not sure if bottom is implemented. You can calculate the top by using (region-before-height - block-container-height) I haven't gotten to the position elements in my testing. Chuck Chaumette, Patrick wrote: Hi Chuck, I tried like below your tipp but did do nothing. It only shows the first Test on the top of the page. Doesnt bottom refer to the distance between the bottom of the xsl-region and the bottom of the block-container ? Any ideas ? Greetings, Patrick fo:static-content flow-name=xsl-region-before fo:block-container height=8mm width=190mm bottom=0mm left=0mm text-align=center position=absolute border=solid 1px white fo:block border=solid Test /fo:block fo:block border=solidTest2 /fo:block fo:block border=solidTest3 /fo:block /fo:block-container /fo:static-content Dipl. Inform. Patrick Chaumette T-Systems ITS GmbH -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Chuck Paussa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. April 2002 18:11 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Absolute positioning? Patrick, Try this or something like it. fo:block-container height=8mm width=190mm top=0mm left=0mm text-align=center position=absolute border=solid 1px white Chuck Chaumette, Patrick wrote: Hello Jerome, do you put the position attribute on a block-container or a block ? In fact I would like to be able to put a block in the bottom of a static xsl-region-before so that it glues with the start of the xsl-region-body. I thought of using a block-container with absolute-position=fixed bottom=0cm and thus get my block at the bottom of the xsl-region-before and fitting right above the beginning of the region-body. The body contains a table whose header should be tight to the bottom of a table in the region-before. Someone has a solution for this with FOP ? Patrick -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Jerome Siour [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. April 2002 16:46 Cc: Esteban Gonzalez Betreff: RE: Absolute positioning? [INFO]: FOP 0.20.3 fo:block-container absolute-position=fixed top=240mm left=100mm FOP web site indicates that this attribute (absolute-position) is not supported (http://xml.apache.org/fop/implemented.html, but is the list up to date?) However, the position attribute seams to be allowed (for value fixed). May be should you try it... Hope this helps... Jerome.
