HTML to PDF
Corda released a new product that will interest FOP users. Highwire is the first product, which actually interprets xHTML and converts it directly to pure vector PDF. If you dont need the extensive control of XSL-FO that FOP offers, this product may save you a lot of time. Speed ranges from 5-10+ pages/second. You can see examples of Highwire here: http://cordasolutions.com If you have any questions feel free to contact me directly. Josh Blackwelder CORDA Technologies, Inc.350 South 400 West, Suite 100Lindon, UT 84042(801) 805-9428(801) 805-9405 - fax[EMAIL PROTECTED] Corda also offers PopChart OptiMapdynamic vector graphing and mapping servers. Examples of their use available here: http://www.corda.com/examples/go/
svg as external graphic error
When I try to use a svg file as an extenal graphic I get this error: [ERROR] Could not load external SVG: http://xml.org/sax/features/validation [ERROR] Error while creating area : No ImageReader for this type of image (file: C:/resin-2.1.4/webapps/df/svg/boxes.svg). I am using it in the FopServlet example. The servlet container is resin with jdk1-4. This is the code snippet from my xsl:fo file: fo:block fo:external-graphic src=file:C:/resin-2.1.4/webapps/df/svg/boxes.svg/ /fo:block When I run the XSL file through the FO plugin of XMLSpy, the PDF is generated with no problems. Any suggestions? thanks, Josh
Re: Why is FO(P) a superior model than what most proprietary tool s propose
Are there any companies out there developing products base on FOP? Just curious. I've been looking at using FOP to get print versions of content from a number of web apps but I'm finding it too unstable at the moment to really offer as a solution. Coupled with the rather large resource required to realistically run Cocoon it's a pretty big commitment. The last major update to FOP made changes that rendered earlier .fo files useless without some tweaks. The work involved in ensuring all the .fo files are still working everytime FOP is updated would be a bit of a nightmare. It's a great idea and is going to be a killer solution for designers/developers but it's probably going to take a year or so before it's completely viable. What is FOP now - 0.20.3? Not very old really :-) Later Josh ZYPE - Graphical Interface Design Phone: 03 963 3735 Mobile: 021 400 472 Web: www.zype.co.nz
Re: Why is FO(P) a superior model than what most proprietary tool s propose
J.Pietschmann wrote: The last major update to FOP made changes that rendered earlier .fo files useless without some tweaks. The work involved in ensuring all the .fo files are still working everytime FOP is updated would be a bit of a nightmare. The problem with the last change you seem to refer to brought FOP into line with a last minute change in the standard. You wont see this kind of changes very often. Actually that's very good to know. From a designer perspective FOP has felt a bit like the themes for mozilla. It's like designing for a moving target (and hand coding the stuff doesn't make it much easier) so no one does. One day. Josh ZYPE - Graphical Interface Design Phone: 03 963 3735 Mobile: 021 400 472 Web: www.zype.co.nz
FOP 0.20.3 - master reference issue
Hi all I've updated my version of FOP to 0.20.3 (from Fop 0.20.1) and immediately got an issue with an existing .fo which was working nicely for a while there. The error I'm getting when kicking FOP into gear is: [INFO]: FOP 0.20.3 [INFO]: building formatting object tree [ERROR]: 'master-reference' for 'fo:page-sequence' matches no 'simple-page-master' or 'page-sequence-master' I take this to mean that either a reference name in my .fo is wrong or missing but the relevant bit of the .fo looks like this: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? fo:root xmlns:fo=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format; fo:layout-master-set fo:simple-page-master master-name=main margin-right=1cm margin-left=1cm margin-bottom=1.5cm margin-top=1cm page-width=21cm page-height=29.7cm fo:region-before extent=3cm/ fo:region-after extent=2.5cm/ fo:region-body margin-top=4cm margin-bottom=3.5cm margin-left=0cm margin-right=0cm/ /fo:simple-page-master /fo:layout-master-set fo:page-sequence master-name=main fo:static-content flow-name=xsl-region-before fo:table Am I missing something obvious here or has FOP changed the way it works in some subtle way? Thanks Josh ZYPE - Graphical Interface Design Phone: 03 963 3735 Mobile: 021 400 472 Web: www.zype.co.nz
Re: Background Color
I'm pretty sure you can't at this stage. FOP accepts it in the fo:region-body without errors but doesn't do anything about it. I used a table cell with a height attribute and put the color in that. Everything else went inside that cell. Josh Ian Taylor wrote: How do you change the background color of a whole page? I am applying it to all my tables at the moment but there are white areas between them that I would like to be blue. Josh Campbell ZYPE - Graphical Interface Design Phone: 03 3862094 Mobile: 021 400 472 Web: www.zype.co.nz
Re: Inline line-height
I was under the impression that line-height was a block attribute. I may be wrong as I've never really tried to use it inline. In CSS it's usually applied to div tags (as opposed to inline span tags). David Wood wrote: Now that I'm thinking about it, is it just me, or is the line-height attribute ignored for fo:inline/? Josh Campbell ZYPE - Graphical Interface Design Phone: 03 3862094 Mobile: 021 400 472 Web: www.zype.co.nz
Re: Inline
Another option would be to use a list -block to format it. You can then use fo:block to add in the indent. I found it useful having those fo:blocks in there as you can hang pretty much anything off them. Here's an example: fo:list-block color=#ff font-size=14pt font-family=Helvetica fo:list-item fo:list-item-label fo:blockName/fo:block /fo:list-item-label fo:list-item-body fo:block start-indent=4cm24/fo:block /fo:list-item-body /fo:list-item /fo:list-block Meena wrote: But if i want such an output, how could i acheive it? Josh Campbell ZYPE - Graphical Interface Design Phone: 03 3862094 Mobile: 021 400 472 Web: www.zype.co.nz
Re: Double space block vertical alignment
Mickey, John wrote: I am trying to simulate a double spaced document using the line-height attribute but I find that the lines of text are always centered vertically in the block, is there a way to have the first line start flush against the top of the block area ( all 12pts of extra space comes after the first line instead of having 6pts before and 6pts after each line.)? This has been bugging me as well so, sorry, no solution. I've been trying to find a way to control the height of a block (line-height seems to be the only thing that works) and have the text top aligned. Has anyone pulled this off yet? Thanks Josh ZYPE - Graphical Interface Design Phone: 03 3862094 Mobile: 021 400 472 Web: www.zype.co.nz
Getting started
I'm trying to use the commandline to turn a .fo into a pdf but am having some trouble getting FOP to kick into gear. I'm setting the classpath manually at this stage with the following: set CLASSPATH=c:\fop\build\fop.jar; c:\fop\lib\batik.jar; c:\fop\lib\jimi-1.0.jar; c:\xalan\bin\xalan.jar; c:\xalan\bin\xerces.jar and trying to invoke FOP with: fop invoice3.fo invoice3.pdf I'm using Fop-0.20.1 and have JRE 1.3.1 installed in Windows NT4 Whenever I hit FOP it comes back with the following message: The name specified is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Have I missed a step or got something set up wrong here. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Josh Campbell ZYPE - Graphical Interface Design Phone: 03 3862094 Mobile: 021 400 472 Web: www.zype.co.nz
Re: Question about position=relative
However, the second block-container is not positioned relative (= with
100pt offset to the left and the top) to the preceding one.
The second block-container is positioned at the bottom of the page, with a
100pt offset to the left and to the bottom. It seems as if the 'position
=relative' property is ignored.
In Cascading Style Sheet layouts the position:relative attribute means
the element is positioned relative to it's static position (ie. the
position it would appear without the CSS turned on).
{ position:relative; top:100pt; left:100pt; } would move the element
100pt from the top and 100pt from the left of it's static position. ie.
down and right 100pt.
In your example, assuming .fo uses similar rules, I'm guessing your
block container is appearing 100pt down and to the right of where it
would appear without the top and left attributes.
You could either change these to position the element where you want it,
use a position=absolute (if it's supported in .fo), or use a table
layout to position the element.
Hope this helps,
Josh
ZYPE - Graphical Interface Design
Phone: 03 3862094
Mobile: 021 400 472
Web: www.zype.co.nz
