Re: Problem with TTFReader FileNotFoundException
Klearchou Klearchos wrote: Hello all, I am trying to generate the xml file from a ttf file in order to use it with my FOP Engine. I run win2k. I run it exactly as the instructions write but I always take a FileNotFoundException. java -cp fop.jar;avalon-framework.jar;xml-apis.jar;xercesImpl.jar;xalan.jar org.apache.fop.fonts.apps.TTFReader -enc ansi f/pala.ttf f/palattf.xml Here I use relative paths. I tried absolute as wellusing the syntax file:/// as the FAQ page instructs. When the website is talking about URIs and URLs, it means as metric file reference inside user-config.xml, not when running TTFReader. When calling the TTFReader from the command line you should always use file paths and *not* URLs, or URIs. Relative paths work for me provided the shell is in the right directory, but if you are having trouble getting relative paths working use absolute paths, e.g. java -cp fop.jar;avalon-framework.jar;xml-apis.jar;xercesImpl.jar;xalan.jar org.apache.fop.fonts.apps.TTFReader -enc ansi C:\downloads\FADO\PDFBox\fonts\f\pala.ttf C:\downloads\FADO\PDFBox\fonts\f\pala.xml snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Inserting a background image.
Ramakrishnan, Deivanayagam wrote: Hi, I have a new requirement and would like to know if anyone of you have done this before. I have a PDF already generated. There is an image strored as a TIF file. Now, on request I have to programmatically insert the TIF as a BACKGROUND to the pdf file. Any suggestion or pointer will he highly appreciated. I think you are asking how to insert a TIF as a background of an already existing PDF? Whats that got to do with XSL-FO or FOP? You can try looking at iText which is a Java API for manipulating PDFs? http://www.lowagie.com/iText/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HTML Tables converted to FO Tables
Eckbert P. Dollhofer wrote: snip/ Hm? Are there any FO Formatters alternativ to apache-fop that will render tables with table-layout=auto to pdf? Would be off a big help! Yes. Try XEP 4 from RenderX Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Leader dots not showing up and Compilation exited abnormally with code 255 at Wed Mar 09 14:20:11
Glen Mazza wrote: snip/ (2) fo:blockSIGNITEKfo:leader rule-thickness=1pt leader-pattern=dots/ does not seem to be producing a complete row of dots for my table of contents. It did in 0.19. In our /examples directory, we have a leader.fo sample somewhere. Run that and see if it works, if so look in that file to see what needs to be done. I think the problem is that 0.20.5 is more conformant to the spec than 0.19 used to be. You need to justify the block containing the leader in order for the leader to stretch to the full width of the block. Use text-align-last=justify rather than text-align (as I'm guessing from your example that the block only has 1 line) snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple form?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to produce a PDF-version of a simple html form and want to write labels and draw lines with specific length like: Name ___ Address___ Phone ___ (I am using a fo:table) What is the best way to do this? I could not find any example with thois feature. Have you tried fo:leader? E.g. fo:leader leader-length=5cm leader-pattern=_/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to adjust row width for overflowing text ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an issue where the text in a row is so long that it overflows to the next line and the top of the characters touch the lower part of the upper line. The 2 lines therefore appears squished. I have tried everything to set this right but nothing seems to be working..I have also tried the fo:inline line-height=16pt property but this doesnt work... Unfortunately line-height hasnt yet been implemented on fo:inline/. Try putting line-height on parent fo:block Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FopServlet
Ben Gill wrote: Hi, I am trying to use the FopServlet, but ideally, dont want to have to produce the XML file on disk, and then load it up again, just to pass in File, File into XSLTHandler (or TraxInputHandler)... So, I was trying to just pass in InputSources..(ie): ProjectTeam projectTeam = new ProjectTeam(); InputSource projectTeamInputSource = new ProjectTeamInputSource(projectTeam); Is this possible? or do I *have* to save the XML to disk? Yes this is easy to achieve. (I was getting a malformed URL exception when trying to do this) You must have made a mistake somewhere, difficult to guess where. See the website for more examples: http://xml.apache.org/fop/embedding.html Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Images and https
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is very clear . The FOP transformation fails when the fo:external-graphics tag has a source to an image which is in secured site(ex: https:///someimage.jpg;. ) . Please let me know if you have any ideas for this. Joerg has already stated his ideas. This is a problem with the configuration of HTTPS in Java. I dont know anything about configuring HTTPS for Java, as this is the FOP user list. Post your error on a Java/HTTPS forum. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: impositions
Mike Sierra wrote: This is not directly related to fop, but wonder if someone can help me out. Is there a batch utility available that allows you to create impositions from PDF input? I dimly remember seeing something like that for plain PostScript. Thanks, You mean like psup utility? Have you looked at iText Java API? Its a tool that manipulates PDF. Might be a bit too low level for your needs, but I havent come across a pdfup utility. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do you switch between page-sequences?
Talken, Patrick (AGRE) wrote: Is it possible to switch between page-sequences based on an xml tag? What I need to have is a document that starts with pages in portrait and then at some point in the document switch to landscape for an unknown number of pages and then back into portrait for an unknown number of pages. The switching between portrait and landscape and then back to portrait will be determined by the presence or absence of the tag xmltable. If xmltag present use page-sequence for landscape If xmltag is not present use page-sequence for portrait Hi Patrick, your question is a pure XSLT question and the lack of response is because this sort of question is better suited to an XSLT list. Try posting on the mulberry list: http://lists.mulberrytech.com/xsl-list/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using FOP with docbook
Peter Harrison wrote: We have started using docbook and using our existing FOP processing along with Ant. It appears that certain things are not supported in the currently released FOP - such as keeping a heading and the first paragraph together, not breaking up paragraphs, and not breaking figure headings from the figure. keep-* properties are not implemented on fo:block, which I guess Docbook uses most of the time. However, keep-* properties have been implemented on table-rows in FOP 0.20.5. So FOP is not totally without support of this feature, as regular content can be wrapped into a blind table if necessary. Is the new FOP in development ready to be used, or should I stick with the current released version? Unfortunately the development version of FOP is not ready for production use, and keep-* properties havent been implemented there yet. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Blank Pages between Page Sequences.
Puppala, Kumar (LNG-DAY) wrote: snip/ Does anyone know if there is a way to get the correct behavior in Case 1. I have tested this using AntennaHouse and found similar results. I am not sure if this is a bug in both Apache and AntennaHouse (0R) if it is the desired behavior. Any input is greatly appreciated. This is a FAQ. See: http://xml.apache.org/fop/faq.html#blank-page-between-page-sequences Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Out of Memory problem
Manisha Sathe wrote: I am trying for one Chinese PDF. When i do not make use of Arial Unicode MS font then i do not get this error. All chinese characters are displayed as #. Once i use this font then i get this error (even if it is just 2-3 pages long - sometimes at very beginning i get the 1 page report - after that even not that) I tried the the things mentined such as reduce the size of image, page sequence (do not know how to increase the JVM memory on fly) - also reset the Cache etc what ever given in docs, but still same. To increase JVM memory, just change your FOP.bat or whatever script starts your Java VM and specify command line parameter -Xmx256M. The default is 64Mb, which isnt sufficient due to the large number of glyphs in The Arial Unicode font. snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with report tail
Miroslav Pukhalsky wrote: Hi! Chris Bowditch wrote: If you need to ensure content is always placed at the bottom of the last page, then I suggest you try putting this content into a fo:footnote. Sorry, but footnotes not workin properly. If body has more than one page, footnote prints on the first page, but footnote inline there is after body. I dont understand what you mean. If you insert footnote at end of body, then footnote should appear on last page that content spills onto. Are you sure you are putting the footnote at end of your content? Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing PDF with background image
Jeremias Maerki wrote: On 18.02.2005 11:18:21 Chris Bowditch wrote: Java 1.5, also has support for printing PDFs. Although other users on this list have reported problems rendering XSL-FO using FOP on JDK 1.5 Others may know of other tools that can be used to print a PDF That Java 1.5 has PDF printing support is only a rumour, I'm afraid. I've heard that myself and went looking for it. Found nothing. Some of the packages found following the link above claim to support a JPS (Java Printing System) plug-in that allows to print PDF, however. D'oh! You are right. I saw someone post some code a while ago and just assumed it would work on 1.5, I never actually tried it. JPS allows to print arbitrary objects, although each print service only supports a certain subset of DocFlavors. See the attached jdk15JPSEnum.txt which is a log of the JPSEnum.java I've also attached. It shows what JPS printing services (streaming and non-streaming) are available on my system under JDK 1.5. BTW, JPS is included in JDK 1.4! Yes I know JPS is available on 1.4, I just thought the PDF print service had been provided in 1.5. snip/ Further down you can see the streaming print services. JDK 1.4 and 1.5 support generation of PostScript files. Sun created a Graphics2D subclass which allows that. Similar to FOP's PSGraphics2D. Speaking of which: Just below that entry you can see two print services that I wrote as a proof of concept which add PDF and PS output support to JPS by delegating to FOP's PSGraphics2D and PDFGraphics2D. This would allow any Java application to generate PDF files via JPS with FOP. Thanks for the info/code, Jeremias. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing PDF with background image
Neil Guinto wrote: Jeremias, Thanks for taking the interest. Ok I'm looking for a quick solution at this point without me going into the nitty gritty of implementing a method (crunch time :-( ). I've got the actual PDF's rendered somewhere on the server side and wanted to route it straight to a network printer. Please advise. If you havent got time to change FOP's source code as Jeremias suggested then you are going to need a tool that will print a PDF for you. FOP cant help except by using the AWTRenderer-which as youve already found out has missing functionality. One tool that can print PDFs is Adobe Server, which is expensive. I seem to recall you used to be able to make command line calls to the Acrobat Reader to print a PDF, but I thought Adobe dropped this feature in later releases. Java 1.5, also has support for printing PDFs. Although other users on this list have reported problems rendering XSL-FO using FOP on JDK 1.5 Others may know of other tools that can be used to print a PDF Chris snip/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with report tail
Arun Sinha wrote: Hi, Alternatively you can say that you are trying to make last page special. Have a look on the following link that makes first page special. http://xml.apache.org/fop/fo.html#fo-first-page You can replace first page with last page. page-position=last is not supported by FOP 0.20.5 Hope that solves your problem of last page/footer. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with report tail
Miroslav Pukhalsky wrote: Hi, there! I have problem. I should generate PDF file. This report has 2 parts e.g. body and tail. If there is enough space for tail on a page after body, tail should be on the same page like page footer. If there is not enough space for tail on a page after body, tail should be on the next page like page footer. If body has one and half page, tail should be on the second place like page footer. It sounds to me like you need to keep the tail together, i.e. so there are no page-breaks part way through the tail. In XSL-FO, you can put keep-together=always on a block to achieve what you want. However, keep-together is only supported on a table-row in FOP. You can place your tail content into a table with 1 row and 1 cell, and put keep-together=always on the table-row. This should have the desired effect. snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with report tail
David Causse wrote: Chris Bowditch wrote: You can place your tail content into a table with 1 row and 1 cell, and put keep-together=always on the table-row. This should have the desired effect. Hi, but how do you force the tail to be placed at the bottom of the page 2 if 2 pages are needed? If I understood what Miroslav asked. I think you misunderstood what Miroslav wanted. He replied saying the keep-together worked for him. I'm very interested in the solution because I need the same functionnality but I use fo:block-container with absolute position but I have to manage overlap problems... If you need to ensure content is always placed at the bottom of the last page, then I suggest you try putting this content into a fo:footnote. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Version from CVS building...
J.Pietschmann wrote: The CVS head still hasn't keeps, footnotes, multi-column layout and proper table footer layout and will probably choke on a lot of features the current DocBook style sheets generate. OTOH there's a better block layout and a nearly compliant vertical alignment in lines... minor correction: table footers have been implemented thanks to Jeremias. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why none replies to FOA experience
Subbiah wrote: I have never got a single reply whenver I ask an question on FOA. I know this is FOP mailing list but only the guys on FOP will ever think of using FOA so definately this is worth asking here and I have been on this is list for quite some time and it is quite active. So please do care to reply :) Well, I havent tried the later versions of it, but when I tried it a couple of years ago I thought it had a very clunky interface which got in the way of doing what I wanted. So I went back to creating XSL-FO in Xml Spy. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: are there alternatives to Apache FOP?
Kai Hackemesser wrote: Hello, all, I am looking for a good FO-PDF converter. I tried so far FOP from Apache, but it looks like it currently doesn't support all features I would like to use (for example all border styles I tried result in solid borders, and the border collapsing sometimes doesn't look nice) So what are the currently available alternatives? Well there are a few commercial alternatives, the most established being; - Antenna House has already been mentioned, - RenderX's XEP www.renderx.com Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HTML Tables converted to FO Tables
Chris Greene wrote: Folks, I'm hoping that someone has already solved this problem... --- I have an input XML file that has a Body tag which contains an HTML Table as its content. --- If I save the HTML content to a file and open it in a browser, the browser very nicely formats the table with, I suspect, some heuristically computed column widths. --- Since FO requires that you explicitly specify the column-width of each column in a table I suppose that my XSL file needs to do something like a browser does to compute the column-widths. This is not true, the property table-layout=auto will compute column widths automatically. Note, however, that not all FO Formatters implement automatic table layouts. snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: list in list
Tommaso Taglioni wrote: snip/ I tried to consider it as simple lists but it doesn't work. Why doesnt it work? What does the generated FO look like? your xml and xsl look ok to me. snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Space betweens columns
Sönke Ruempler wrote: Hi, is it possible to control the space / margin between columns in multi-column documents? specify column-gap on region-body. snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Page background color
Dennis Myrén wrote: snip/ Is there a way to set the background color of the entire page, regardless of whether objects are placed No, you cant set background color on the entire page. But you can set it on region-*. So in your case, as well as setting background color on region-body you will need to set it on region-before too. snip/ I would like not to repeat that static content, but rather have it rendered only at the first page. This is straigt forward to achieve. You will need to create two fo:simple-page-master objects, one with a region-before defined and the other without. Then create a fo:page-sequence-master which uses defines which simple-page-master is used based on page-position. The fo:page-sequence then references the page-sequence-master. E.g. fo:simple-page-master master-name=first page-width=210mm page-height=297mm fo:region-body margin-top=20mm background-color=blue/ fo:region-before region-name=firstHeader extent=20mm background-color=blue/ /fo:simple-page-master fo:simple-page-master master-name=rest page-width=210mm page-height=297mm fo:region-body margin-top=20mm background-color=blue/ fo:region-before region-name=restHeader extent=20mm background-color=blue/ /fo:simple-page-master fo:page-sequence-master name=all fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-reference=first page-position=first/ fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-reference=rest page-position=rest/ /fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives /fo:page-sequence-master then the page-sequence element references the page-sequence-master, e.g. fo:page-sequence master-reference=all fo:static-content flow-name=firstHeader fo:blockThis will only appear on page 1/fo:block /fo:static-content fo:flow !-- your table as usual -- /fo:flow /fo:page-sequence HTH! Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Image Problem in FOP url(...)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to resolve my images dynamically. When I perform the
following:
fo:block
xsl:variable name=pic select=../[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
fo:external-graphic src=url(quot;$picquot;) content-height=201in
scaling=uniform/fo:external-graphic
Image= xsl:value-of select=$pic/
/fo:block
Variables inside an attribute are not resolved by default, in xsl terms you
have to use an attribute template: this means just put {} around the variable,
e.g.
fo:external-graphic src=url('{$pic}')/
I have just used single quotes instead of trying to use $quot; entity as its
easier. Note that content-height doesnt have any effect in FOP 0.20.5.
snip/
Chris
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Re: multi-column page and background colors
Sönke Ruempler wrote: Hi, I want to setup a page layout with 2 columns. The page background should have a background-color while the columns' backgrounds remain white. How is that possible? I did not find how to set the background for the whole page, but only for the columns, maybe it's a mix of padding's and backgrounds. Not totally clear on what you are trying to achieve, but couldnt you just set background color on the static regions and leave the body region without a background color? Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PDF that is printed and folded
Sönke Ruempler wrote: Hi, I'm creating a flyer filled with events using fop. It's a A3 formatted page with 4 columns printed on both sides. After the flyer is printed, it's folded in the middle (to A4) and the order of pages changes. The start page (the first column of the original first page) is now the the first row of the back page. Do you understand me? ;-) Yes, I understand the requirement. There is no facility for this in XSL-FO. As already suggested, you will need to post process the generated PDF using iText or other PDF manipulation library. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Column Span
Sajeesh N Kakkat wrote: How do I add a row in a table that spans multiple cells after adding the regular rows which have the individual cells. This row with span has the total on it. put number-columns-spanned=@number on the fo:table-cell, replacing @number with an expression that evalutes to the appropriate number of rows. The structure of rows above and below the row containing this cell are irrelevant. Just make sure you dont try to span more columns that have been defined at top of the table. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Column Span
Chris Bowditch wrote: Sajeesh N Kakkat wrote: How do I add a row in a table that spans multiple cells after adding the regular rows which have the individual cells. This row with span has the total on it. Sorry for the noise, slight typo in my previous message: put number-columns-spanned=@number on the fo:table-cell, replacing @number with an expression that evalutes to the appropriate number of rows. The structure of rows above and below the row containing this cell I meant columns are irrelevant. Just make sure you dont try to span more columns that have been defined at top of the table. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FOP distorting images
Saptarshi Sen wrote: Hi, I am trying to generate PDF images (charts with embedded fonts) using FOP version 0.20.5. We first generate a SVG image using a charting tool called PopChart (version 5.1.0). We then create the 'fo' file from this SVG. This is finally fed to FOP to generate the PDF. In doing so, legends in the chart are overlapping - the chart is getting cutoff on the right hand side. The SVG image is actually fine - which leads me to believe that the problem crops up at the 'fo to pdf' stage. Attached alongwith are the SVG and FO files as well as the PDF generated using FOP. Why couldnt the problem be with the SVG to FO conversion that you mention above? snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to preserve new line
Yann Bonnaillie wrote: I generate a DOM by using Java, with values that can be long text with new line inside... But when i apply transformation with FOP, new line contained in my texts are not preserved. How can i do to keep them ? Should i replace them by some special code representing new line in pdf format ? Hi Yann - this is a FAQ. See: http://xml.apache.org/fop/faq.html#fo-preformat Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Font style problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So does it mean that I create an xml file for every required ttf font file ? Yes you must create font metrics xml files for every font you wish to use, except for the standard adobe 14 fonts. Generally this is not a problem as most documents tend to use at most 3 or 4 fonts outside of the adobe 14. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [fop] linefeed-treatment=preserve doesn't preserve the linefeed
Gunter D'Hondt wrote: snip/ which still outputs Line1Line2 so it replaces the newline character instead of preserving it Anybody who gots an idea what I'm doing wrong here? Any help is welcome... This is a FAQ. See: http://xml.apache.org/fop/faq.html#fo-preformat Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [fop] linefeed-treatment=preserve doesn't preserve the linefeed
Gunter D'Hondt wrote: Looking at the FAQ I think I don't do anything wrong in my code coz I'm placing the attrbute linefeed-treatment=preserve into it. The attr white-space-collapse I don't need or has nothing to do with the linefeed (I assume). Incorrect assumption, the FAQ says you need to specify white-space-collapse=false snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: intelligent page breaks with fop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everybody, i am generating pdf using fop, the problem now is, that if e.g. the content of a table cell is longer than a page fop doesnt manage to split this up in an intelligent way, so it just extends the table cell on the next page, which looks really bad. in other words, i want to tell fop: if the content of the table cell goes beyond the extent of the page, close the table cell at the end of the page and continue printing the content on the next page in a new tablecell. i have searched for this in some tutorials, but found nothing, is there a way i can solve the problem? It is not clear exactly what you mean. At a guess, I would say you are referring to borders on a table cell not being closed at the bottom of the first page and then redrawn at the top of the second. In XSL-FO, the property to control this behaviour is border.conditionality=retain The default is dicard, which means dont draw at start/end of a reference area. However, I dont believe FOP implements conditionality on either borders or spacing, so you are out of luck. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: References on same page
Sven Waibel wrote: My problem is that i don't know how many details i will have, so i can't say id=detail1, id=detail2. The way to tackle this problem is use the generate-id() in your xsl stylesheet. I cant really be more specific without seeing an example of your XML. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Current CVS - break-after/before=page not working?
Tom Frey wrote: Hi, I don't seem to get break-after=page working with the current CVS snapshot. Is there something I might be doing wrong or is there something broken? Here's some test xsl which renders page breaks with v0.20.5 but not with the current CVS snapshot: There are currently two lines of development in FOP, the redesigned code and 0.20.x. The reason break-after isnt working in the current snapshot is because the snapshot is of CVS Head which just happens to be the redesigned code, whilst the 0.20.x code is available on a CVS branch. If you want to get the latest 0.20.x code then you will need to download a CVS client and do an update from the correct branch. To be honest though no that much has changed since 0.20.5, only a little bit of tweaking to the amount of memory consumed by tables. snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XSL-FO Specification
Balamuraly wrote: Hello All, We are very interested in XSL-FO concepts. Can you please clarify the Specification version of XSL-FO as per W3C. What are the limitations in this version? See the compliance page for details: http://xml.apache.org/fop/compliance.html When is the next version is going to be released? Open Source Development is very different to commercial development. There are no project plans. It is likely to be a long time before the redesigned code is ready for release. What are the points that will be addressed in the next version in the current limitations? The main purpose of the redesigned code is to facilitate the implementation of keep-* properties. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Footer placement...
Anil R. Pinto wrote: snip/ But with the marker approach I noticed that the footer area has to be allocated to the other pages (using the layout and region-after values applicable to the pages) irrespective. So, untimately although no footer is printed on the middle pages, the area is consumed by a blank portion and so paper will not really be saved (the main intention of this exercise :-) ) Sounds to me like you can fulfill your requirement using a footnote. A footnote only takes up space if present. So just put a footnote in your last paragraph and it should appear at the bottom of the last page. No need to define a region-after. The only problem with footnotes is that they are a bit buggy in current version of FOP. Certain scenarios may produce strange effects, e.g. if last paragraph in document happens to be at bottom of page, then there will be room for footnote. What should happen is FOP should move last paragraph to next page along with footnote, but I dont think this works. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bold font
Mark Donnelly wrote: Im trying to get a bold font using the following snip block font-style=boldblah blah blah/block This should be: block font-weight=boldblah blah blah/block snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MICR font in FOP as an embedded application..
Anil R. Pinto wrote: snip/ But, the main requirement is to use this behavior with FOp running as an embeded application (using fop.jar). Can someone please guide me to a thread that covers this ? How to use a config file in an embedded environment is described on the website: http://xml.apache.org/fop/embedding.html#config-external I am lost as to where should the custom font-metrics xml and userconfig.xml file reside when using the standard fop.jar (as the userconfig.xml already exists in the jar) Yes, there is indeed a userconfig.xml in FOP.jar, but its not used! snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Conversion of a SVG image (RGB) into PDF (CMYK)
Saptarshi Sen wrote: Hi, What exactly is the org.apache.fop.dataTypes.ColorSpace.java file for? Does is provide any kind of support for CMYK? This is the java class that is used to represent the colour space specified in the FO. Although it clearly has enumerations for CMYK, the renderers always work with RGB values. Take a look at PDFRenderer.renderWordArea method and you will see a PDFColor object constructed based only on RGB values with no test for CMYK. CMYK is supported for JPEG images, so that if an image has CMYK colours these are preserved in the generated PDF. Is there any other way by which I could convert the RGB colors to CMYK? FOP is open source, you could download the source and change the PDFRenderer to support CMYK. The PDFColor object looks like it supports CMYK, so it may be straight forward to implement. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need your help
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, This is a pure XSLT question and probably best asked on the XSLT list: http://xml.apache.org/fop/maillist.html#xslt-mulberry This new tag can go n times each time I need the value of cureent tag vaue new and it immediate previous. The following XSL snippet should give you an idea of how to do it: xsl:template match=new xsl:choose xsl:when test=preceding-sibling::new xsl:value-of select=preceding-sibling::new/ /xsl:when xsl:otherwise0/xsl:otherwise /xsl:choose xsl:value-of select=./ /xsl:template Since you didnt say what you were trying to do with these values I have done anything with them. snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need your help
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, This is a pure XSLT question and probably best asked on the XSLT list: http://xml.apache.org/fop/maillist.html#xslt-mulberry This new tag can go n times each time I need the value of cureent tag vaue new and it immediate previous. The following XSL snippet should give you an idea of how to do it: xsl:template match=new xsl:choose xsl:when test=preceding-sibling::new xsl:value-of select=preceding-sibling::new/ /xsl:when xsl:otherwise0/xsl:otherwise /xsl:choose xsl:value-of select=./ /xsl:template Since you didnt say what you were trying to do with these values I havent done anything with them. snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: text alignment
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i got a problem which hasn 't been described in the mailing list archives. i have a standard block article, what i know want is that the right-most char of every line of text output is exactly aligned to every other right-most char of the other lines of this article. in other words, is there a way i can tell fop to adjust char padding in a way that the left-most / right-most char of a line is exactly aligned to that of the other lines? This is the definition of justified text. To justify a block of text, use the text-align=justify attribute, e.g. fo:block text-align=justify The fox jumped over the lazy cow. The fox jumped over the lazy cow. The fox jumped over the lazy cow. The fox jumped over the lazy cow. The fox jumped over the lazy cow. The fox jumped over the lazy cow. The fox jumped over the lazy cow. The fox jumped over the lazy cow. The fox jumped over the lazy cow. The fox jumped over the lazy cow. /fo:block snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Base font and russian
Cédric Augustin wrote: snip/ Does fop use the X11 font ? No. In fop configuration it says that fop need X11 to be installed. Thats right, or if you have Java 1.4 you can run with the -headless option. If not, which font does fop is using ? Depends on what you specified in font-family property? Default is Helvetica. Definition of this is the Adobe Helvetica. If yes why the fop servlet doesn't found the cyrillic char and display ? This means the font you are using via font-family doesnt have a glyph for the requested code point. I don't want to use special font and embed it in the pdf. Base font should be enough. Russian pdf created with Acrobat are well displayed on the client computer, so I should be able to use standard font with fop. I dont think any of the 14 base Adobe fonts have glyphs for all the languages you need. I think for russian you will need to specify a different font to the other languages and embed it into the PDF. snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing from multiple trays with FOP generated output
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am looking into implementing a XML--XSLFO--PS or PDF process, but need the ability to have different pages of the output print from different printer trays ( one with letterhead, one on blank paper). Is there a way to instruct FOP to insert the printer tray selection directives into the PS output? Another idea could be to get the postscript commands embedded in the XSLFO, but I don't know how to get them in the FO so that FOP will just include them as is. I dont think its possible to get FOP to just copy postscript from the source FO to the generated Postscript. The exact commands I want to embed are: statusdict begin 1 setpapertray end for the top tray, and statusdict begin 2 setpapertray end for the middle tray. The way we achieve this is to post-process the generated postscript with a custom program. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with headers
Philip Snyder wrote: I have a problem with the headers not showing on any even numbered pages on 1 of my pdfs. The XSL can be seen here: http://comstar.dotgeek.org/period_report.pdf.xsl I can't figure out what is wrong - the header is written almost exactly the same as my other report and I definitely don't have anything in there about numbering only odd #'d pages. Any ideas? Thanks! This problem could be caused by the fact that you have too much content for the header. I believe in this scenario FOP tries to place remaining content on next page. If the remaining content is just a small 1 pt space for example it will look like you have a blank header. Try increasing size of header until problem goes away. If you cant live with a larger header then you can reduce the content of the header afterwards. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: different header on first page
Robert Guggenberger wrote: i got pages with a JPG on the top (in the region before) now this JPG-header should only be visible on the first page there is no special content on the first page ( a must not for a page break - otherwise i would do it with 2 page sequences, flows) i found how to use differnt layouts (margins ...) with different page-masters. But i havnt found a way how to show, in my case a LOGO, on the first page and not on the others this is straight forward. create a layout-set something like: fo:layout-set fo:simple-page-master master-name=firstpage fo:region-body margin-top=30mm/ fo:region-before region-name=firstheader extent=30mm/ /fo:simple-page-master fo:simple-page-master master-name=otherpages fo:region-body/ /fo:simple-page-master fo:page-sequence-master name=all fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-reference=firstpage page-position=firstpage/ fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-reference=otherpages page-position=rest/ /fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives /fo:page-sequence-master /fo:layout-set then the page-sequence will be: fo:page-sequence master-reference=all fo:static-content flow-name=firstheader !-- put content for first header here -- /fo:static-content fo:flow flow-name=xsl-region-body !-- put your regular flowing content here -- /fo:flow /fo:page-sequence I hope this is clear, Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TeX output in FOP
Ganesh Babu Nallamothu, Integra-India wrote: Dear All, In my project I have to display TeX, MathML and GIF output to PDF. For MathML, I have taken new snap shot from apache site. and it is working fine. For GIF, Any how this is external image we can able to display. Do you mean how can you include the binary data inside the xml file and get FOP to render it as an image? Im not sure how to do it, you may be able to do something cleaver with URI resolvers and the data: protocol. Others on this list may be able to help more with this. For TeX, How we can display? My idea is compile TeX and get DVI file using dvips convert into ps and then include in the file. But the new build fop is stating error: Could not find a set of breaking points. What is this error and how to rectify this. This is the lines from the -d option of FOP. Building formatting object tree Current heap size: 590Kb Starting layout null implementation of getWordSpaceIPD() called! No set of breaking points found with maxAdjustment = 1.0 No set of breaking points found with maxAdjustment = 5.0 Could not find a set of breaking points This is output from the development code which isnt ready for production use. You probably mean to get the latest maintenance code. You need to specify the branch tag fop-0_20_2-maintain when using CVS to download the source Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: margin-bottom, region-before ingnored by region-body with column
Johannes Wolfgang Woger wrote: Does that mean that the whole page is reserved for region-body and other regions can only exist when the region-body provides enough margin space ? Even the outer margins are consummed by region-body ? is this XSL-FO compliant? Yes this is correct and as presecribed by the XSL-FO spec. It is useful to be able to overlap the outer regions with region body in some circumstances. If this is not required then the extent of the regions should match the corresponding margin on the region-body. I hope this is clear. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adjacent tables
Mark Donnelly wrote: Been looking through the FO documentation and cant find anything to do with creating adjacent tables. Id like to have one table on the left and then two tables on top of each other next to the first (ie to the right of the first). Anyone know of any methods? Create an outer table with two columns and two rows and nest the 3 inner tables in the table cells of the outer table. You will need to put number-rows-spanned=2 on the first cell of the first column to merge the two cells in the first column. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Preserving blank table rows
Mark Donnelly wrote: Does anyone know how to preserve blank table rows? If I create a table with a bunch of empty table rows at the end, they do not appear in the resulting pdf doc. If however, I put a full stop in one table cell of each of these rows then they appear. Does anyone know, is this decision to clip empty table rows a fop thing or a Acrobat setting? If a fop thing, is there a work around? More specifically its the correct behaviour of XSL-FO. The workaround is to put: fo:blocknbsp;/fo:block inside the table cell. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Preserving blank table rows
Mark Donnelly wrote: Im using an xslt/fo transform of an xml document and dont have any html in it. As such nbsp; isnt recognised. Ive also tried the UTF-8 sequence: #xa0; but that is then not recognised by the fop parser. #xA0; should work. Can you post the error here, along with a snippet of the XSLT you are using. snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ERROR -2
Mark Donnelly wrote: snip/ java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: -2 at org.apache.fop.fo.flow.TableRow$CellArray.getNextFreeCell(TableRow.ja va:130) This is the key to solving the problem. Looks like you have defined a table row with more cells than columns have been defined in the table. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with function
Eldho George wrote: Hai all The following is my code snippet.Here I am passing html string for making its xhtml But its showing error like the function should return string.A tried with diff possibilities.But its not get solved .If anyone know please help me I'm struggling to understand how this problem is directly related to FOP. Perhaps your question would be better suited posted to a list relating to the HTML tidy utility ... If you paste the error message rather than your interpretation of the error, we might stand a better a chance of being able to help you. snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: Problem with font
Eldho George wrote:
I have a problem with font.The following is my font template
fo:inline font-size={$size} font-family={$face}
color={$color} line-height=12pt
xsl:apply-templates select=*|text()/
/fo:inline
The problem is FOP doesnt handle fo:inlines properly. It should generate its
own area whose height depends on font size but it isnt implemented yet.
Currently the line height can only be different for block level constructs.
Chris
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Re: Probably simple build issue
Thomson, Alisa wrote: I have installed FOP 0.20.5 and ant 1.6.1 running JDK 1.4.2_03. I was just trying to run build -projecthelp and I received the error below. ant.jar is in my Classpath. I know why I am receiving the error...it is because org/apache/tools/ant/launch/AntMain does not exist in that jar file. I looked in build.bat that came with the FOP installation and it is looking for ant 1.5.1, so for grins I downloaded that version and org/apache/tools/ant/launch/AntMain does not exist in that jar file either. I did find it in my current ant installation in ant-launcher.jar. Any ideas why it is looking for this class and how do I get around this? To build FOP 0.20.5 you dont need a separate install of Ant. The JAR file Ant-1.5.1.jar is distributed in FOP's lib sub directory. The build.bat, sets the ANT_HOME to FOP's lib sub directory and thats all you should need to do. As a guess I would say its not working for you because you have ANT_HOME set to the root directory of the Ant install and not Ant\lib sub directory. Chris snip/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Error while building FOP dev1
Pascal Sancho wrote: snip/ codegen: [echo] Resetting codegen directory [echo] Generating the java files from xml resources [style] Processing D:\cvs\xml-fop\src\codegen\encodings.xml to D:\cvs\xml-fop\build\gensrc\o rg\apache\fop\fonts\CodePointMapping.java [style] Loading stylesheet D:\cvs\xml-fop\src\codegen\code-point-mapping.xsl BUILD FAILED I have just run the build now and it was successful. javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactoryConfigurationError: Provider org.apache.xalan.processor.Tr ansformerFactoryImpl not found Looks like a classpath problem: the build cannot find Xalan. Check your classpath. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Error while building FOP dev1
Jeremias Maerki wrote: Chris, have you tried under JDK 1.3? Because Pascal tries to compile under 1.3. Unfortunately, I'm at work on my notebook where I don't have a current FOP HEAD to try. I can check this out this evening. I'm running 1.4 at the moment. Ive just tried 1.3 and it fails! Not with a TransformerFactoryImpl class not found exception, but with the later errors that pascal reported. snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Error while building FOP dev1
Jeremias Maerki wrote: Looks like we don't have JDK 1.3 compatibility at the moment. I think I have seen this myself under JDk 1.3 lately. Yes, I agree. snip/ Note to Devs: We should see to it that at least the Transcoders compile again under JDK 1.3 as Batik still depends on it. Unless there is a vote on dropping JDK 1.3 support for the rest I regard the current state as a bug. I may have time this week to have a look at it. We should be supporting 1.3, and I agree that it is a bug if FOP no longer compiles on 1.3. snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with the combination of numberation and sort
Dirk Sonne wrote: Hello List, i have a little problem with the combination of numberation (xsl:number format=1.1 level=multiple count= value | anOtherValue /) and sort (xsl:sort select=value/) If I use only xsl:number or xsl:sort, it works fine. But a combination of both won't work. The sort works but the nuberation is the same like in the orginal XML file. The sorted List is not renumbert. Your problem is a pure XSLT one. This list is focused on FOP and XSL-FO, and so you will receive a better response on an XSLT list, e.g. Mulberry http://xml.apache.org/fop/maillist.html#xslt-mulberry Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2 images with different sizes in a table row
Sven Waibel wrote: Hello, i've two images with different sizes, one 2cm the other one max. 2cm. Table-row --- | Image1 |Image2 | --- So should be the height 2cm, but it doesn't work: fo:external-graphic src=y:\bilder\im_2cm.jpg content-height=2cm/ content-height attribute hasnt been implemented. Try height instead. snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2 images with different sizes in a table row
Sven Waibel wrote: It doesn't work. I don't understand it. What behaviour are you observing? What is the dpi of your image? Without width/height specified, FOP defaults to 72dpi and sizes the image accordingly. To scale your image to a particular size, I find that specifying both width and height on fo:external-graphic works for me. snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: use already existing PDF for XSL:FO
Peter wrote: Hello lists, I know it's probably not the right list. situation: on a client i have a C++ application that creates a pdf by list labels. the data from the client application ist transferd by webservice to a server, the server make out of the object an xml file. problem: Can I make a XSL:FO out of the PDF that already exists? otherwise I have to recreate the layout, structure and design of the document. This is a bit like asking if you can reverse engineer some assembly code into C++. Except its probably more complicated. The tool would have to examine PDF commands like rectangle (125, 60, 100, 100) and decide what XSL-FO element could have created that result! And for this reason, there are currently no tools available to do it. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AW: Create special Last Page
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip/ Could you tell me please a little bit more about the workaround with markers? Place the contents for the last footer inside fo:marker tags after the rest of your content. In the region-after, retrieve this marker for every page. Now, because in previous pages the marker hasnt been set yet, this wont appear. Alternatively if you need a footer in the middle pages, then use fo:marker at the start to set what the footer for the middle pages. For example: fo:page-sequence master-reference=all fo:static-content flow-name=first-footer fo:blockFirst Page/fo:block /fo:static-content fo:static-content flow-name=rest-footer fo:blockfo:retrieve-marker retrieve-class-name=footer retrieve-boundary=document//fo:block /fo:static-content fo:flow flow-name=xsl-region-body fo:marker marker-class-name=footerThis is a middle page/fo:marker !-- several pages of content -- fo:marker marker-class-name=footerThis is the last page/fo:marker /fo:flow /fo:page-sequence Note: this sample hasnt been tested, and might contain a typo, but hopefully you will get the idea. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuration Details
Ryan Eldridge wrote: I apologize if this is document somewhere but I was unable to locate it. I need to be able to turn on and off the Flate and ascii-85 filters. as far as i understand this should be achieved via the userconfig.xml file imported using the Options method. I do not know the correct values to put in this file to turn these off. This was answered a while ago. See the archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-userm=108239654802077w=2 Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FOP 1.0 Dev.
Sun, Tiffany (Tong) wrote: Chris, Thanks for your reply. Is there a planned release date for FOP-1.0? The software I'm working on will be in Production early next year, guess I'll have to do all my modifications based on FOP-0.20.5. There are no deadlines in the Open Source world. Volunteers make code contributions when they please. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FOP 1.0 Dev.
Sun, Tiffany (Tong) wrote: Hi, I'm currently using FOP 0.20.5, but when I downloaded FOP1.0 Dev from CVS in hope it will fix some of my problems, I ran into more problems: Yes, you will. The 1.0 Dev branch isnt ready yet. First, I have to change most of the method calls for it to compile, then I found that some of the old EPS files are not working using the newly built FOP, it just hangs there and the generated PS file size keeps growing into a few MB, before it's around 30KB; The block-container position also doesn't work, I defined left, top, width and height, position=absolute, which worked in 0.20.5. block-containers is on the FOP 1.0 TODO list before we can do a release. See: http://xml.apache.org/fop/design/layout.html#status-todo At this point I'm confused: if I want to modify some features, should I start to work on the released version or the newest 1.0dev? Please advise. Any patches you submit to 0.20.5 are unlikely to be committed to the code base. Any work you do on FOP 1.0 dev will be highly welcome. However, as you've already noticed the development branch is not yet up to 0.20.5 so we need to do a lot more work on core features before it is ready for tweaking The reason for this situation is that FOP 1.0 dev is not just an evolution of FOP 0.20.5, but was a ground up re-write. This was necessary because the structure of the code in 0.20.5 did not allow for key features such as keep-* properties. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where to find FOP 1.0 Dev
Dennis Myrén wrote: Hi. Where can I find and download the FOP 1.0 Dev sources? You will need to install a CVS client and connect anonymously to the Apache CVS server. it is all described on the website: http://xml.apache.org/fop/dev/index.html#dev-code Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Table-of-Contents Headlines
Johannes Franz wrote: Hi is it possible to declare certain sentences as a headline and generate autmatically a table-of-contents in JFOR/FOP? Perhaps somebody could send me an example. No this is not possible in general within XSL-FO. You can do something in XSLT. Using markers and page-number-citation its possible create a table of Contents at back of document, but not at the front :-( Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with table and borders.
Johan Andersson wrote: Hi all, I'm using FOP 0.20.5 to create a PDF document. The document contains a table with 5 columns and varying number of rows. There is a line drawn around the table using the border-* properties of the cells at the edge of the table. The line drawn however appears to contain gaps which lies just between two neighboring cells. Does anybody know what cause this? I've attached a small image which illustrates the problem. If your aim to draw border round whole table, you should not place borders on the individual cells. Instead set border on table element, e.g. fo:table border-style=solid border-width=1pt border-color=rgb(114, 114, 114) !-- table contents -- /fo:table Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Having trouble removing linefeeds
Glen Mazza wrote: snip/ fo:table-cell fo:block text-align=end System Codes fo:retrieve-marker retrieve-position=first-starting-within-page retrieve-boundary=page retrieve-class-name=code/ fo:block-/fo:block Glen, I think this is your problem. Try placing the minus inside a fo:inline instead of a fo:block. fo:retrieve-marker retrieve-position=last-ending-within-page retrieve-boundary=page retrieve-class-name=code/ /fo:block /fo:table-cell snip/ Question: What is the combination of white-space-collapse, white-space-treatment, and/or linefeed-treatment I need to use, and where should I specify them in the snippet above, in order to get the output as desired? linefeeds are discarded by default, playing with these properties will only introduce extra linefeeds into your output. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: different input type to org.apache.fop.apps.XSLTInputHandler;
Andrew S Moy wrote: The constructor of org.apache.fop.apps.XSLTInputHandler takes the XML file and XSL file. I was wondering if anyone knows other XSLTInputHandler which takes some source of input stream objects. This way we don't have to write the data to a physical file and knowing that it will be read again from the InputHandler. Reading/writing from/to a physically media is always slower that from/to the system memory. In FOP 0.20.5 XSLInputHandler has three public constructors: public XSLTInputHandler(File xmlfile, File xsltfile) public XSLTInputHandler(String xmlURL, String xsltURL) public XSLTInputHandler(InputSource xmlSource, InputSource xsltSource) either of the the later two can be used to process data that is already in memory, without the need to write to disk. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: different input type to org.apache.fop.apps.XSLTInputHandler;
Chris Bowditch wrote: In FOP 0.20.5 XSLInputHandler has three public constructors: public XSLTInputHandler(File xmlfile, File xsltfile) public XSLTInputHandler(String xmlURL, String xsltURL) public XSLTInputHandler(InputSource xmlSource, InputSource xsltSource) either of the the later two can be used to process data that is already in memory, without the need to write to disk. Oops, didnt look closely enough. Its only the last one that can be used for reading in memory data. e.g. ByteArrayInputStream xmlin = new ByteArrayInputStream(xml.getBytes()); ByteArrayInputStream xslin = new ByteArrayInputStream(xsl.getBytes()); XSLTInputHandler transform = new XSLTInputHandler(xmlin, xslin); Hope this makes sense, Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: different input type to org.apache.fop.apps.XSLTInputHandler;
Chris Bowditch wrote: Sorry about all the noise, but I got it wrong again. ByteArrayInputStream xmlin = new ByteArrayInputStream(xml.getBytes()); ByteArrayInputStream xslin = new ByteArrayInputStream(xsl.getBytes()); XSLTInputHandler transform = new XSLTInputHandler(xmlin, xslin); Correct version is: ByteArrayInputStream xmlin = new ByteArrayInputStream(xml.getBytes()); ByteArrayInputStream xslin = new ByteArrayInputStream(xsl.getBytes()); XSLTInputHandler transform = new XSLTInputHandler(new InputSource(xmlin), new InputSource(xslin)); Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fo:table-header - between 2 pages
Philippe PITHON wrote: snip/ For example if a table (and fo:table-header) must start in the medium of the page And FOP thinks that the contents of the fo:table-header will not have enough place, there will be a page break and the fo:table-header will be written at the beginning of the next page its normal ? Sounds normal to me. Would you prefer the header to be split across pages? That wouldnt make sense to me at all? Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Java App using FOP : How to communicate on the number of pages generated ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip/ Is there a better way than using a specific logger ? Implementing a logger class that looks for the [INFO] [1] [INFO] [2] etc messages is the only way to report progress to the user. There is no way to know the total page count before hand either. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: generating PDFs in non-english
Nuno Lopes wrote: Hello, I was trying to make some PDFs of the PHP manual when I got some problems. The manual is written in docbook and then I have a XSL sheet. I can generate the manual in english, portuguese, french,... but not in russian. Firstly, please post user related questions to the user list. The Development list is for code related issues. The developers are all subscribed to the user list anyway. When I open the file I only get #. What am I doing wrong? I've tried using FOP directly with XML, and with a FOP file generated by xsltproc, but noone works. This means that the font-family you are using does not have any glyphs for the russian code points. It is a FAQ, with more details on the web site: http://xml.apache.org/fop/faq.html#pdf-characters Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Enhancing FOP command line speed
Markus wrote: snip/ so we would like to see a very fast pdf generation. our environment is perl on linux. whicht tipps to speed up generation? so far it seems to make not much differnce wheter i call fop fop -xsl ticket.xsl -xml ticket.xml -c myconfig.xml -pdf ticket.pdf or first produce the fo-file with xalan and then do fop -fo ticket.fo -pdf ticket.pdf so it seems that the xslt-transformation is not time consuming, it is only one page of pdf, so it should be no problem... Thats right, the xslt will only take a small percentage of processing time compared with the XSL-FO formatting process. Calling FOP from command line each time means there is the overhead of starting the Java JVM for each ticket. The way around this is to write a Java program which can receive requests via some mechanism, e.g. JMS Queues, watching disk files, database tables, etc etc. And then change your perl program to send a request using your choosen communication method. The details of linking Java to Perl are well off topic for this discussion group, but you should find once completed that the average ticket generation time is reduced by a good margin. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: throttle the quality of images
Johannes Franz wrote: Hi there, i would like to throttle the quality of images, because the created pdf grows to big. Is there a formatting objects command to do this? Or is the only solution to throttle the quality of the images before converting? There is no XSL-FO property to reduce the amount of data in an image. You will need to do this processing before presenting the image to FOP Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Feature Request / Bug Report (XEP vs. FOP)
Alexander Lohse wrote: First off, please do not mail FOP committers directly. Use the mailing list, we all monitor the user list. Hi, I have a urgent need to get a certain rendering done, where FOP fails badly. It is about block-containers/columns and fixed heights. It is a very simple xsl:fo. I sent along a complete test case together with two PDFs: one from XEP, which is exactly as expected and one from FOP. Can anyone please take a look at these files? And tell me how big the effort would be to make FOP render this correctly, if stuff like this is in progress, and maybe if there is anything I could do to come closer to what I need. Ive looked at your XSL-FO and the reason content does not flow into the second column is because you've used block-containers. block-containers are not properly implemented in FOP 0.20.5. However, maybe you dont need to use block-containers. In your sample, it looks like you are using block-containers to fix the height of a paragraph. Well, you can achieve the same affect using a table, and the good news is tables will flow onto the second column. To fix the height of a row in a table, just specify height on the fo:table-row element. snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Absolute path of font file ...
Varadharajan Sethuraman wrote: Thank you very much ... is It possible to refer metrics-file attribute for one directory, and embed-file attribute for another directory? for example ... I have metrics xml file in c:\my\metrics-base\dir\fontmetrics1.xml and ttf file in c:\my\embed-base\dir\arial.ttf Yes this is possible. Suppose the fontBaseDir is c:\my\metrics-base\dir then font entry in userconfig.xml would be: font metrics-file=fontmetrics1.xml kerning=yes embed-file=..\embed-base\dir\arial.ttf font-triplet name=Arial style=normal weight=normal/ /font So every path to do with fonts is resolved *relative* to the fontBaseDir setting. snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No of pages in fop package
Chandrasekhar Sanku wrote: I found that , fop is restricted to 50 pages by default. This is not true. What makes you think FOP is limited to 50 pages? If you are getting an error please post the text of error message here so we can help. snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: table height problem
Chandrasekhar Sanku wrote: snip/ I am creating a pdf using fop. In the generated pdf, the height of the table is stretched very long even the content is small. Why this happened? Does anybody faced this problem? No, I havent seen this problem. To help us help you, please post a *small* snippet of your FO showing the table with the problem. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Absolute path of font file ...
Varadharajan Sethuraman wrote: snip/ org.apache.fop.configuration.Configuration.put(baseDir,/my/base/dir); Here is another that sets baseDir in a Windows environment: org.apache.fop.configuration.Configuration.put(baseDir,C:\my\base\dir); How do I use that values for /font-metrics or embed-file attribute /in the userconfig.xml? Just specify relative paths in the font metrics or embed file attributes in the userconfig.xml file and the relative paths will be resolved against the base directory. So for example, if you want to reference a metrics file at c:\my\base\dir\fontmetrics1.xml and ttf file c:\my\base\dir\arial.ttf then specify org.apache.fop.configuration.Configuration.put(fontBaseDir,/my/base/dir); and in the userconfig.xml font metrics-file=fontmetrics1.xml kerning=yes embed-file=arial.ttf font-triplet name=Arial style=normal weight=normal/ /font snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xml schema question
Peter Menzel wrote: snip/ My xml schema snippet for this element: xsd:element name='element' xsd:complexType xsd:choice xsd:element ref='dd' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='unbounded'/ xsd:element ref='cc' minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='unbounded'/ xsd:element ref='aa' minOccurs='1' maxOccurs=1/ xsd:element ref='bb' minOccurs='1' maxOccurs=1/ /xsd:choice /xsd:complexType /xsd:element Unfortunately this wont work. xmllint says that the above xml document is not valid. You are unlikely to receive help for this question on this list. This list is about XSL-FO. Perhaps your question would be better suited to a XML Parser or Schema specific list. Has anybody any idea concerning this problem? Is it generally possible to mix elements in a complexType with different minOccurs/maxOccurs ? Yes this is possible, but not under xs:choice, I believe xs:any is the compositor you are looking for. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adding Blind Tables for Figures
David Shevitz wrote: snip/ I understand that if I want to keep my captions with my figures in a given document, I should use a blind table. However, all the examples I see were posted around 2 years ago (granted I might be looking in the wrong place). I tried using them, but they don't seem to work. Doesnt matter that its 2 years old, there have been very few releases of FOP in that time. The blind table approach should work to keep a figure with FOP. Perhaps you should explain why it doesnt work for you, and we will try to help solve the problem. snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xref to mediaobject or imageobject doesn't work
Thomas Richter wrote: Hi, if I have sect id=x1 xreflabel=label1 and xref linkend=x1 I got in the pdf a link label1. If I click on it the reader jumps to the section. But if I try it with mediaobject id=x2 xreflabel=label2 and xref linkend=x2 I got only the link but can't jump. It also not possible to the the id in the imageobject inside the mediaobject. Are you using docbook? I'm not familar with the sect and mediaobject elements. To help you, I need to see the XSL-FO. Perhaps you can run your docbook style sheet using xalan.bat to generate the XSL-FO. Otherwise, you might get a better response asking docbook questions on the docbook user list. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adding Blind Tables for Figures
David Shevitz wrote: Thanks. I hadn't realized there have been so few updates to FOP. I noticed on a post that to implement a blind table within a template, I should add the following to my customization layer: customization layer? Isnt that a docbook term? I'm not familiar with docbook. The basic concepts of a table-caption in FOP are very simple. table-caption isnt implemented, so to keep a piece of text, either above or below a table, simply create an outer table that has no borders (aka 'blind table'). The outer table will need a single column and 2 rows. The inner table is then placed either inside the top or bottom cell and the caption in the other cell depending on whether the caption is required above or below the original table. Make sense? How to achieve this within docbook is another issue, which I suggest you ask on the docbook user list. snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: supported lists of FOP_0.20.5
Varadharajan Sethuraman wrote: Hi, Where do I find the supported lists of FOP_0.20.5 Its the standard 14 supported by Adobe: font name=Courier-Bold/ font name=Courier-BoldOblique/ font name=Courier-Oblique/ font name=Courier/ font name=Helvetica-Bold/ font name=Helvetica-BoldOblique/ font name=Helvetica-Oblique/ font name=Helvetica/ font name=Times-Bold/ font name=Times-BoldItalic/ font name=Times-Italic/ font name=Times-Roman/ font name=Symbol/ font name=ZapfDingbats/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: adding fonts to fop applet
John Root wrote: Edward, Actually, this is not that difficult, however it's not well documented. You'll need to set up a configuration file for FOP, convert the fonts that you plan to use for your application, and add the info for the converted fonts to the config file. This procedure is fairly well documented (adding fonts to FOP). Actually you missed the point of this thread. What you've described is how to set up fonts for FOP 0.20.5. But the OP is trying to set up fonts for development version of FOP, which is very different. Sorry to nitpick, just want to be clear for the archives. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fo:region-end graphics anomaly
Clay Leeds wrote: snip/ I've tried: - giving the 3 graphics different width values (e.g., .5cm .5cm .5cm; 5cm 5cm 5cm; etc.) - using every combination of attributes imaginable (width/height; content-width/content-height; width/height/content-width/content-height; width; height; content-width; content-height) - placing the graphics in 3 tables - placing the graphics in 3 table-rows - placing the graphics in 3 blocks Just an observation, as I havent tried to do this, but you said you tried setting width on external-graphic, but your example only showed height being set. snip/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: printing on dot matrix printer
Neil Guinto wrote: Ver: FOP 0.20.5 I need to print a report using a dot matrix printer. The paper size that I'll be using is 8.5in x 14.875in. I initially test it on our laser printer using a letter size paper. The output looks good. On a dot matrix printer (Lexmark 2381+) the font size and line height is totally wrong and its printed sideways. You don't say which renderer you are using? As a guess I would say you are trying to use Text Renderer, which has a very poor quality of output. This report will be generated by a batch program. In most cases it will be sent to the printer without user intervention. (this part I have a handle by following the servlet example). Other reports will have to use pre-printed forms. I would appreciate it if anybody could respond to this problem and point out some best practice concerning the use of dot matrix printer on FOP. My old dot matrix used to support PCL. Have you tried generating PCL output and sending that instead of plain Text? It may also be useful if posted a snippet of the code you use to send the generated output to the printer. snip/ Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: linking the font (not embeded font) with pdf
Varadharajan Sethuraman wrote: Hi All, I have a problem with linking the font (not embeded font) with pdf. In the userconfig.xml file I have specified only metric-file attribute. I haven't specified embed-file attribute value. Following highlighted paragraph from taken from http://xml.apache.org/fop/fonts.html It says that particular font file should be there in the local system. Yes, Its there. But eventhough it is not working... By local system, the quote doesnt mean in the Windows directory. It means the Acrobat Reader must have the font registered. I cant tell you more about this process, I just know that the Windows fonts are not necessarily the same as fonts registered with acrobat reader. Search on google to find out how to register a font with acrobat reader. snip/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: out of memory exception while creating font metrics
Chandrasekhar Sanku wrote: Hi all, To use system fonts in FOP, I am creating metrics files for each font. While doing this process, my program is giving out of memory exception. How to resolve this problem.. I am attaching the method what I have written. Some of the fonts in the Windows System area are fairly chunky, Arial Unicode has loads of glyphs in it, and 64M probably isnt enough to process it. Increase your JVM heap to 256M, and try again. If it still fails, do a System.out on each font/style to show progress so you can see which font causes the OutOfMemoryException. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: table spanned over a 2 columns page
Pascal Sancho wrote: snip/ fo:flow flow-name=xsl-region-body ... fo:table span=all ... /fo:table ... /fo:flow FOP doesnt support span=all on fo:table, only on fo:block elements that are direct descendents of fo:flow. snip/ I wonder wether it is a normal behaviour (I've checked the xsl rec, and I have understood that fo:table should be handled as a fo:block) or not. In the 2nd case, this should be a bug. Why should this be a bug? span=all works on a block, and you get the result you want. I dont see the problem? Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HTML Renderer
Helg Bredow wrote: Does anyone know if there is an HTML renderer available for FOP? We want to use FOP as file type independent output tool and want users to just be able to select a layout (i.e. XSLT file) and then a renderer. I know you can just write a transformation from XML to HTML directly but going via XSL:FO means that we only need one transform to support multiple output formats. There is no HTML Renderer in FOP. As you have pointed out, you can simply generate HTML directly from XSLT. Generating HTML from XSL-FO would be inefficient as there are two processing steps instead of one. Also XSL-FO formatting is complex and therefore takes a relatively long time, compared with an XSL transform. If you are worried about having to write a XSL stylesheet for HTML, dont be, plently of people have already written one. Just search Google for one. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
