Hello, about fop
Hi guys, I've been around the installation of trunk's version of FOP, which I've ended up by not being able to use beacuse of my system is too old (libc-2.2, gcc 2.95.3), and the java version you've lately updated to, doesn't run here. Actually, the only version I'd able to use, would be 0.20.5. The thing is this version doesn't respect my custom footers (the body overrides it), body text doesn't start neither at the same possition when using this footers, etc. So I'm just wondering whether could anyone please tell about other resources? I'd like to be able to generate nice-looking documents, I mean with svg or anyother scalable imaging format, etc. For this time, I'll be publishing in C5 (paper size), don't know whether this would a problem or not. I understand dockbook/XML-XSLT/SGML-DSSSL and it's customization layers as a good way of working, although I'd like an expert to advise me. I'd be working on a pdf output basis or any other format that would be better for a press to work with. I'm within a linux system, and have no troubles at all when starting to learn all over again, tex or any other format any one could advise me as the most proffesional one when dealing with presses (is that how you call those places that actually print out your book, isn't it?), sorry my english anyway. I've been for a while away from any of this, but I do remember there are formats such as dvi, postscript, I know one can have pdf from sgml + jadetex, that one can use it even with dsssl or xslt style-sheets (IIRC). I'd really appreciate, though, if someone could advise when getting into something that's gonna be stable, robust, and is not gonna break any of my work beacuse of thirdy-party dependencies, whilst being able to generate good-looking documents as well as dealing with presses, or printing-presses at highest level. Kind Regards,
Re: Hello, about fop
Well, I got both jdk, and jre installed (1_3_1_17), I mean, the did decompress. They need at least glibc-2.2.4, whilst mine is 2.2.1. Could not even build fop because of this, therefore there's no way it would run either, so I got rid of all. I wouldn't say this is any odd problem at all, but a simple glibc dependency issue, though. My compiler and glibc are a bit older, as in my opninion, nobody needs a glibc eating a hundred more megabytes of memory after each release, and I can compile new applications as they come out (and I need them), but the rest of my system is up to date, and haven't had any problem I couldn't solve. Anyway, I've only used java because of fop, and is just that we don't need to, this is unix. Ahm, yes I'm sure that 0.91 is a proper production tool, but I cannot say same of 0.20.5. It's alright for simple documents, though. But when you start dealing with tables, or footers or headers, and you need precision, there's no way, or that's been my experience. Well, you didn't point out me anywhere, I've been reading about tex, and it looks quite powerfull and robust, I whish I would have started with it from the begining, so I'll do it now. Best Regards guys, ___ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, about fop
Hi, I've been around the installation of trunk's version of FOP, which I've ended up by not being able to use beacuse of my system is too old (libc-2.2, gcc 2.95.3), and the java version you've lately updated to, doesn't run here. Actually, very likely, the only version I'd able to use, would be 0.20.5. The thing is this version doesn't respect my custom footers (the body overrides it), body text doesn't start neither at the same possition when using this footers, etc. So I'm just wondering whether could anyone please tell about other resources? I'd like to be able to generate nice-looking documents, I mean with svg or anyother scalable imaging format, etc. For this time, I'll be publishing in C5 (paper size), don't know whether this would a problem or not. I understand dockbook/XML-XSLT/SGML-DSSSL and it's customization layers as a good way of working, although I'd like an expert to advise me. I'd be working on a pdf output basis or any other format that would be better for a press to work with. I'm within a linux system, and have no troubles at all when starting to learn all over again, tex or any other format any one could advise me as the most proffesional one when dealing with presses (is that how you call those places that actually print out your book, isn't it?), sorry my english anyway. I've been for a while away from any of this, but I do remember there are formats such as dvi, postscript, I know one can have pdf from sgml + jadetex, that one can use it even with dsssl or xslt style-sheets (IIRC). I'd really appreciate, though, if someone could advise when getting into something that's gonna be stable, robust, and is not gonna break any of my work beacuse of thirdy-party dependencies (don't want to bother off anyone, I just mean and independent doc-system), whilst being able to generate good-looking documents as well as dealing with presses, or printing-presses at a highest level, probably a backend for postscript whatever it is, don't really know how it works nowadays. Kind Regards, ___ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Page breaking handling
Hi guys,I placed a question a time back regarding how to handle page-breaking, but anybody said anything.I´ve just uploaded some images, and I´m just wondering whether anyone could let me know which is the normal procedure for this cases, you can see them here:http://www10.brinkster.com/repos/default.htmAs I said, I´m using as many profiling this way:para condition="hard-copy"/As I need, but it normally breaks "justify-effect" on the last line of the page, and I get some extra pages at the end of some chapters as well. Also, using as many para´s as needed casuses the begining text of the page no to be always at the same possition.I would like to know how this is usually worked around, so any comments about would be much appreciated. Once more, sorry my english.Thanks very much. Win a Yahoo! Vespa NEW - Yahoo! Cars has 3 Vespa LX125s to be won Enter Now!
Page breaking problem with fop
Hi there, I´m using FOP to render XML through DockBook XSL, and I´m having the problem that even when I´ve set up all the margins, and extent regions, FOP doesn´t look to be respecting them. When I have a parapraph which would finished on top of the footers, I can see how the fist line ox text starts before of what I´ve specified, being really close to the header. I´ve been trying to use proccessing instructions, but then, I loose justify on the last paragraph line´s. I´ve been trying to use break-before and some other attributes, which doesn´t look to do anything on the output, contrasting it with the fop´s compilance that came with my distro (0.20.5). How is this problem usually worked out? Kind Regards, Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail
Re: Page breaking problem with fop
Hi, thanks, No sorry, I meant profiling. What I´m actually doing is placing one or more: para condition="pdf"/ Inside the paragrah bellow mentioned till I force the page´s break, and is then when I loose last´s line justify. Sorry about that. Kind Regards, Andreas L Delmelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 10, 2005, at 21:11, chinlu chinawa wrote:Hi, I´m using FOP to render XML through DockBook XSL, and I´m having the problem that even when I´ve set up all the margins, and extent regions, FOP doesn´t look to be respecting them. When I have a parapraph which would finished on top of the footers, I can see how the fist line ox text starts before of what I´ve specified, being really close to the header.Can you post an example FO file demonstrating the problem? I think I understand, but finding the cause based on your description would involve a lot of guessing which I don't really feel like ATM :-) I´ve been trying to use proccessing instructions, but then, I loose justify on the last paragraph line´s.Processing instructions? Are you sure you're using the right set of DocBook stylesheets? FOP doesn't use processing instructions, but I know RenderX does. Maybe you're using stylesheets that are meant to be used with XEP?HTH!Greetz,Andreas-To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail
