RE: Colon character problematic in ??

2002-03-18 Thread Adrian Edwards
Dear Joe,   You have opened a can of worms.  See the last Q&A at:     http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk/htm/xslt_starter_8f3o.asp   which shows you how to make the transformation work with MSXML, but I'm not sure the fragment identifier as namespace ide

Re: Logging work: MessageHandler patch

2002-03-18 Thread Michael Gratton
Michael Gratton wrote: > > Attached is a patch (for the 'fop-0_20_2-maintain' branch) for > MessageHandler There was a problem with MessageHandler.error() in that patch. The attached patch fixes that and makes MessageHandler.log() a bit more readable. It also includes a fix for the outstand

Logging work: examples compilation fixes

2002-03-18 Thread Michael Gratton
The attached patch fixes the embedding examples so they compile again. Mike. -- Michael Gratton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Recall Design s: 53 Gilbert Street Adelaide SA 5000 Australia t: +61 8 8217 0500 f: +61 8 8217 0555 Index: docs/examples/embedding/FopServlet.jav

Logging work: MessageHandler patch

2002-03-18 Thread Michael Gratton
Guys, Attached is a patch (for the 'fop-0_20_2-maintain' branch) for MessageHandler which improves support for screen logging, and makes the command line tool, the Ant task and TestConverter make use of the fix. The problem with MessageHandler is that it was obtaining it's Logkit Logger dire

RE: Colon character problematic in ??

2002-03-18 Thread Marylynne Henry
Similarly, I am having problems with the '&' character. Is there a way to escape this character when it appears in the text?   Thank you   Marylynne Henry   -Original Message-From: Joe Sytniak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 5:22 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Plan for page-height and writing-mode

2002-03-18 Thread Miya Chiharu
Hello, I want to use "indefinite" for page-height and "rl-tb" for writing-mode, but I can't use these value in fop. Is there any plan to implement these features ? - Miya Chiharu - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Using FOP with xmlspy

2002-03-18 Thread Joe Sytniak
No - it is an xmlspy limitation. To me, it appears that they do not support the hook into the java vm with anything but win2k. I too am running NT. FOP from the command line works fine. Cannot call it from xmlspy. - Original Message - From: "Art Welch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PR

RE: Using FOP with xmlspy

2002-03-18 Thread Art Welch
Is that XMLSpy that only works with Win2k? FOP most definitely is NOT limited to Win2k. FOP should work on any platform with full JDK 1.2+ and AWT support. -Original Message- From: Joe Sytniak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 6:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Colon character problematic in ??

2002-03-18 Thread Joe Sytniak
All -I am using ADO to produce XML. This tends to get created as such:            xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882"    xmlns:rs="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset" xmlns:z="#RowsetSchema">        . clipped schema elements                I am able to

RE: Using FOP with xmlspy

2002-03-18 Thread Malcolm Sinclair
Thanks Matt -- since I'm using NT, that's certainly shortened my suffering! Malcolm - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using FOP with xmlspy

2002-03-18 Thread Joe Sytniak
According to tech support, FOP only works with Win2k - Original Message - From: "Savino, Matt C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 6:11 PM Subject: RE: Using FOP with xmlspy > I know FOP through XMLSpy doesn't work on NT, I think that may apply to

RE: URI resolving

2002-03-18 Thread Arved Sandstrom
Comments below. -Original Message- From: Joerg Pietschmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: March 18, 2002 12:09 PM To: FOP Dev Subject: URI resolving [ SNIP ] The fo:externalGraphics handling code would somehow have to decide whether the graphics is XML and invoke theXMLURIResolver.res

RE: Using FOP with xmlspy

2002-03-18 Thread Savino, Matt C
I know FOP through XMLSpy doesn't work on NT, I think that may apply to Win98/95 as well. Matt Savino > -Original Message- > From: Malcolm Sinclair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 3:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Using FOP with xmlspy > > > Please

Using FOP with xmlspy

2002-03-18 Thread Malcolm Sinclair
Please excuse my asking this question on a developer's forum -- I realise it's off-topic. Can you give me some hints, or can you put me in touch with someone who has successfully produced PDFs from .xml files in xmlspy? I have done this quite satisfactorily with fop-0.20.3 from the command lin

Suggestions for the "How to get Help" page

2002-03-18 Thread Peter S. Housel
1. In item 1, the word "embed" is spelled incorrectly. 2. The word "get" in the title should probably be capitalized. 3. A link to ESR's "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way" (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html) might be helpful. Cheers, -Peter S. Housel- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Area tree -> renderer ("pr.fo" for structure renderers)

2002-03-18 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Peter, On Monday 18 March 2002 22:06, Peter B. West wrote: >. . . > There's another gotcha - markers. The properties in markers are > resolved relative to the retrieve-marker invocation point. >. . . Thanks - I'll keep this in mind when I get to play with this stuff.. -Bertrand ---

Re: Area tree -> renderer ("pr.fo" for structure renderers)

2002-03-18 Thread Peter B. West
Bertrand, There's another gotcha - markers. The properties in markers are resolved relative to the retrieve-marker invocation point. Peter Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: >On Monday 18 March 2002 13:37, Peter B. West wrote: > >>The big problem is in defining the p.res step. How far do you need >

Re: FO to PDF XSL tranformation

2002-03-18 Thread alex
At 17:16 18/03/02, Libor Kramolis wrote: > > Does anybody know about some XSL tranformation from Formatting Objects > to PDF or other > formats? FOP is an implementation of part of the XSL spec - so is Xalan, but different parts of the spec. Xalan converts XML to XML, and FOP converts XSL:FO (

FO to PDF XSL tranformation

2002-03-18 Thread Libor Kramolis
Hello all, I am new to this mailing list, so excuse me if I ask already answered question. Does anybody know about some XSL tranformation from Formatting Objects to PDF or other formats? If I correctly understand FOP is java implementation of such transformation. Don't you plan to rewrite FOP

printing problem with generated pdf

2002-03-18 Thread Joerg Zielsdorf
Hello, I have got this problem: when I generate a pdf via fop 0.20.03rc and want to print it from Acrobat Reader on a post script printer HP LJ 8000, the characters in bold where printed not in the right way. I use Win2K and Acrobat Reader 4.0. One thing is that I use Arial font as in this list de

URI resolving

2002-03-18 Thread Joerg Pietschmann
Hi, i did some thinking about FOP interfaces and especially the URI resolving problem last weekend. In JAXP you can do some rather geeky things with the URIResolver: - implement caches - implement URL redirections - implement your own protocols for synthetic XML As an example for the latter, use

Triggering WH2FO from inside Word(R)

2002-03-18 Thread Matthias Fischer
Would you think it a good idea to write a VB for Word(R) which: 1) Finds out the path/name of the active file 2) Automatically triggers WH2FO to transform the Word file As an extension of this idea, would you consider it useful to insert into the Word(R) menu a series of commands such as: - Gener

Re: Area tree -> renderer ("pr.fo" for structure renderers)

2002-03-18 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Monday 18 March 2002 13:37, Peter B. West wrote: >. . . > Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > >In conclusion, I think an interface based on XML documents (possibly > >this "pr.fo" discussed above) is the best choice to use between the > > FOP "property resolution" stage and the "structure renderers" l

Going in the _Forrest_ (was Re: FAQ Answers please)

2002-03-18 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
From: "Joerg Pietschmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Nicola Ken Barozzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is a new project in Apache called Forrest, that is redesigning the > > whole xml.apache.org site to become useful as a Sourceforge on steroids. > > We are at the beginning, and it would be co

Re: problems with keep-with-next

2002-03-18 Thread Joerg Pietschmann
Stephen Bannasch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > keep-with-next still doesn't work on 0.20.3 It is implemented only for table rows. > The problem is very annoying when I have a figure > with a title on one page and the image on the next. Put stuff that should be kept together in a one column blind

Re: FAQ Answers please

2002-03-18 Thread Joerg Pietschmann
"Nicola Ken Barozzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a new project in Apache called Forrest, that is redesigning the > whole xml.apache.org site to become useful as a Sourceforge on steroids. > We are at the beginning, and it would be cool if you join us there! Well, there are already GNUfo

need help in generating PDF and WordFiles...

2002-03-18 Thread AjayKumar Kanukuntla
Title: Message   Can some body help me with the procedures, on creating pdf and word documents from xml files using FO. i tried doing it using Fop.class file, but the generated pdf file was not readable.  The following error message is flashed when the program is run...   E:\FOP>java org.ap

Re: FAQ Answers please

2002-03-18 Thread Joerg Pietschmann
alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Firstly lets set up a mailing list for discussing Apache FAQs. I think it > would be a Good Thing. I think public discussions relevant to the FOP FAQ could be held on this list, everything else by email. Or did you think of a discussion on how to do FAQs in gener

Re: [PROPOSAL] FOP+iText = FOP-NG

2002-03-18 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
From: "Matthias Fischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In other terms: IMO, the legal dispositions of an open source software > shouldn't be more complex than those of their commercial competitors. You're right. In fact, the ASF is less complex. The ASF distributes software that can be 100% sure to be

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 4510] - fo:inline common properties ignored?

2002-03-18 Thread bugzilla
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Re: Image Handling Question

2002-03-18 Thread Keiron Liddle
On 2002.03.18 12:45 Arved Sandstrom wrote: > So I don't disagree, although I'd get pedantic and point out that, yes, > we're setting _a_ size on the viewport, but that is not necessarily the > size of the image. But layout doesn't care - it only cares about the size > of > the viewport. Yes ther

RE: [PROPOSAL] FOP+iText = FOP-NG

2002-03-18 Thread Matthias Fischer
Nicola, you've been right at least to the extent that I have been well inclined to take another glance at the ASL ;-) at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE My comment did not reflect my intent to ask for any approach or specific legal "outfit" of the Apache Software in particular; it aimed a

Re: Area tree -> renderer ("pr.fo" for structure renderers)

2002-03-18 Thread Peter B. West
Bertrand, See below... Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: >On Saturday 16 March 2002 14:52, Peter B. West wrote: > >>. . . >>The last stage of the FOP process translates one page >>description (the area tree) into another (the input to the target >>renderer.) >> > >ok > >>So why would anyone want to in

cvs commit: xml-fop/src/org/apache/fop/render/pdf PDFXMLHandler.java

2002-03-18 Thread keiron
keiron 02/03/18 04:30:46 Modified:src/org/apache/fop/apps Driver.java src/org/apache/fop/fo FOTreeBuilder.java src/org/apache/fop/render/pdf PDFXMLHandler.java Log: made it easier to add xml handlers Revision ChangesPath 1.44 +9 -4

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 7200] New: - loading config.xml

2002-03-18 Thread bugzilla
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RE: Image Handling Question

2002-03-18 Thread Arved Sandstrom
Hi, Keiron OK, I'll buy all of this. I need to get used to the idea that we are actually doing viewports. :-) That changes things. :-) With viewports being used then the ImageArea becomes a relatively unimportant thing. Except right at the beginning, where odds are pretty good that the author wi

Re: Updates to xml docs

2002-03-18 Thread Keiron Liddle
I have applied your patch and also updated the live website. Thanks to all those who have contributed to various parts of the site. For those interested the html is checked into the xml-site cvs module (which is a small 148Mb) under targets/fop/. Some time in the future, hopefully real soon no

cvs commit: xml-fop/docs/xml-docs/fop output.xml

2002-03-18 Thread keiron
keiron 02/03/18 00:58:05 Modified:.build.xml docs/design book.xml docs/xml-docs/fop output.xml Log: updates to docs with build target for understanding and alt.design Submitted by: "Peter B. West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reviewed by: Keiron

Re: Image Handling Question

2002-03-18 Thread Jeremias Maerki
I've got a comment below concerning the PS renderer which I think may be important when working on the image stuff. > So in the FOTree it only grabs the image (using the URL) if the size of > the image is needed. The image is then in the cache with the URL as the > key. When the renderer comes

Re: Area tree -> renderer ("pr.fo" for structure renderers)

2002-03-18 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Saturday 16 March 2002 14:52, Peter B. West wrote: >. . . >The last stage of the FOP process translates one page > description (the area tree) into another (the input to the target > renderer.) ok > So why would anyone want to interpose another translation step into > this tightly coupled arr

Re: Image Handling Question

2002-03-18 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi Arved, There are a couple of reasons that it only has a URL. If the page is going to be serialized we don't want to serialize an image. There is no advantage to having a reference to the image and it would make it harder to keep track of references for caching. The URL is used as a key to get