How does one unsubscribe

2004-04-24 Thread John Austin
I'll be changing to a new e-mail address and am cancelling my list subscriptions. fop-user has instructions at the bottom of messages but fop-dev doesn't. I guess I'll have to read the web page.

Re: [Fwd: Re: cvs commit: xml-fop/src/java/org/apache/fop/apps CommandLineOptions.java Fop.java]

2004-04-12 Thread John Austin
here; AU because we got in first. And the Austrians don'd call it Austria ... Isn't it Osterreich John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: urgent help needed using FOP

2004-04-01 Thread John Austin
) at org.apache.fop.apps.Driver.run(Driver.java:565) __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 27901] - TextCharIterator.remove() does not work properly

2004-03-25 Thread John Austin
identities ? My excuse is, I used that e-mail address years ago when I opened my first Bugzilla account. -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Java thory and proctice: Garbase collection and performance

2004-02-20 Thread John Austin
the Canadian Military were suing a supplier about something as trivial nowadays as 8K of memory. -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Java thory and proctice: Garbase collection and performance

2004-02-19 Thread John Austin
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 17:53, J.Pietschmann wrote: John Austin wrote: I noticed this artcle on Developer Works: Java theory and practice: Garbage collection and performance http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-jtp01274.html Something to read on Thursday. Nice read

Java thory and proctice: Garbase collection and performance

2004-02-18 Thread John Austin
I noticed this artcle on Developer Works: Java theory and practice: Garbage collection and performance http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-jtp01274.html Something to read on Thursday. -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Just a small question...

2004-02-05 Thread John Austin
as some student in netland and submit some provably proprietary code as original. Six months later, MS sues Linus for malfeasance with the vigorous support of Homeland Security ... Of course, conspiracies never succeed for long. Some small fish would rat them out. -- John Austin [EMAIL

Re: (FOP examples) XSLT question

2004-02-04 Thread John Austin
think value-of implies some kind of conversion ... My reference is upstairs. -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Unnesting properties and makers.

2004-01-26 Thread John Austin
instanceof 651 Very, very interesting... When did the choice of JVM (java -client | java -server) appear ? Wasn't it 1.3 ? -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Unnesting properties and makers.

2004-01-26 Thread John Austin
version 1.4.2 Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2-b28) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2-b28, mixed mode) H. -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie committer questions.

2004-01-20 Thread John Austin
, he plays that faster than I can READ it ... -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Quote of the Day

2004-01-19 Thread John Austin
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 16:17, Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: When I hear Bill Gates bragging about how his programmers can code up to 72 There's the world's richest hermit again. Maybe he'll end up nuttier than Howard Hughes. -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Servlet Examples in HEAD v.s. 0.20.5

2004-01-18 Thread John Austin
On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 08:49, J.Pietschmann wrote: John Austin wrote: (is Content-length: required for any reason other than placating Acrobat and that rich hermit who lives outside Redmond WA ?) Not really a FOP topic but anyway. Setting content-length is considered good style

Servlet Examples in HEAD v.s. 0.20.5

2004-01-17 Thread John Austin
for potential users to have an out-of-box webapp that runs a large number of our examples. -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Servlet Examples in HEAD v.s. 0.20.5

2004-01-17 Thread John Austin
or twice since. [I stopped overnight in Lahr about 1978.] As a Canadian I understand 'donut' (see http://www.timhortons.com/) but I always think of brotchen as a German pastry. -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HashMap

2004-01-14 Thread John Austin
, eh! Anyway ... the former Molson's brewery in Barrie Ontario next to Highway 400 (Interstate/Motorway/Autobahn) ... had everything they needed ... huge metal kettles ... loading docks ... -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Bug 25480] - Experimental performance improvements.

2004-01-13 Thread John Austin
for the XSL-FO specification (RenderX) and I wanted to generate the XSL-FO file for it, as a more appropriate 'challenge' for the project. -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PropertySets - target-locks on SDK 1.4

2004-01-05 Thread John Austin
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 21:11, Glen Mazza wrote: It's probably not *yet* time to set 1.4 as the JDK to code against for 1.0, but it probably wouldn't be much of a disaster if we did so either. Does a target-lock commitment like this require a vote ? John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AW: Regression tests was: Re: Output from NIST test suite

2003-12-26 Thread John Austin
On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 05:29, Peter Kullmann wrote: J. Pietschmann wrote: John Austin wrote: RedHat 9.0 (my system anyhow) includes a command 'pdftopbm' that will convert a PDF to multiple PBM (protable Bit Map) files that might be comparable. ... It would certainly help

Re: Output from NIST test suite

2003-12-25 Thread John Austin
the side-by-side comparison ? -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Output from NIST test suite

2003-12-25 Thread John Austin
. There are suggestions on the Net that Ghostcript can do this sort of conversion as well. GIMP can read a PDF as well. When I tried it, I got a graphic for every pair of pages (my doc was over 133 pages). Perhaps some script-fu ... ? regards, finn -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is this a coding flaw ?

2003-12-19 Thread John Austin
-oriented angle but it's not that it's called many times anyway. Do you think we should rename it? As long as we are certain that it is being used correctly, probably not necessary. Just jumped a bit when I saw the possibility that it would be easily mis-used. On 19.12.2003 13:13:45 John Austin

Re: Is this a coding flaw ?

2003-12-19 Thread John Austin
On 19.12.2003 13:57:26 John Austin wrote: And of course, I missed the fact that the last method in the class contains a pathological use. To get the name of this class, we create a parser ? /** * Returns the fully qualified classname of the standard XML parser for FOP

Re: FOs and Areas

2003-12-17 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 15:56, J.Pietschmann wrote: I've got a lot of ideas myself, perhaps too many. What the project needs is *working* *code*. Amen! [but a short one, not drawn out like the final chorus of Messiah!] -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What should I be doing ?

2003-12-16 Thread John Austin
territory. The discussions are lively and quite enlightening but they seem to peter out or double back on themselves. I don't see any state changes from Bugzilla indicating that anything is getting fixed and my experience tells me that this is not healthy. -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (Victor et al) Re: Performance improvements.

2003-12-13 Thread John Austin
and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Testing for main development stream.

2003-12-07 Thread John Austin
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 06:25, J.Pietschmann wrote: John Austin wrote: It seems that the relative file reference ../graphics/page.gif is computed by the program relative to the 'current directory' not relative to the file: 'test/xml/bugtests/image.fo'. I'm sure the spec has an opinion

Testing for main development stream.

2003-12-06 Thread John Austin
-- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Measure (accurately) before optimizing.

2003-12-03 Thread John Austin
also decided to use the command line class for future performance measurements. -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: String.intern() test and measurement

2003-12-02 Thread John Austin
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 12:59, Finn Bock wrote: I'm resending this mail since it hasn't yet shown up in the archives. I'm sorry about any duplicates. [John Austin] 4) Changed the handling of strings at the for-loop storing the attributes received from the parser in startElement

Re: String.intern() test and measurement

2003-12-02 Thread John Austin
objects, BorderAndPadding and especially FontInfo come to mind, although there is more variation. -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: String.intern() test and measurement

2003-12-02 Thread John Austin
implementation. I want to be able to plug in a new Property implementation and test it independantly of the rest of FOP. -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Properties Implementation and Canonical Mappings

2003-12-01 Thread John Austin
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 02:45, Glen Mazza wrote: --- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The property strings are given to the Property object constructor by some path beginning with a SAX parser. It is reasonable to assume that the SAX parser loses refs to most of these strings

Re: String.intern() thoughts

2003-12-01 Thread John Austin
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 02:11, Glen Mazza wrote: --- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mentioned yesterday that I thought I had read a BTW, The third drawback listed in the link above gave weak references as an alternative implmentation--I'm unsure what that construct is about

Re: String.intern() thoughts and more stats

2003-12-01 Thread John Austin
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 02:11, Glen Mazza wrote: --- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mentioned yesterday that I thought I had read a comment by Bruce Eckel suggesting that String.intern() might be avoided. I could not find the reference in either the 2nd or 3rd editions

String.intern() test and measurement

2003-12-01 Thread John Austin
. -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Properties Implementation and Canonical Mappings

2003-11-30 Thread John Austin
19225 fo:table-footer 1 fo:table-header 29 fo:table-row 15301 fo:wrapper 1799 Properties: 526648 Tags: 285223 num_keys: 117 num_vals: 13520 -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

String.intern() thoughts

2003-11-30 Thread John Austin
. -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Properties Implementation and Canonical Mappings

2003-11-29 Thread John Austin
thinking again along the lines of handling properties more like C++ virtual function table (vTable). This object is larger than Peter's ordered Property array, but would be faster. That's a reason C++ has fast virtual function dispatching. -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Properties Implementation and Canonical Mappings

2003-11-29 Thread John Austin
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 16:35, J.Pietschmann wrote: Darn, racall the last post. John Austin wrote: Note that storing the property name and value refs supplied to the Property constructor will use 45,620 strings. If the Property implementation employs canonical mapping to ensure that only

RE: [VOTE] Properties API

2003-11-27 Thread John Austin
. And just to say something completely ludicrous, because someone will take it seriously ... You could convert those expressions to a Java class, compile, load and invoke it with Reflection ... -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [VOTE] Properties API

2003-11-27 Thread John Austin
On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 14:57, Victor Mote wrote: John Austin wrote: I am critical Now, if you can figure out how to digest an FO document without building a tree that represents a page-sequence object, I hope you'll share it with the rest of us. That could be a breakthrough indeed. I am

Re: [VOTE] Properties API

2003-11-26 Thread John Austin
resolving properties. That would help clarify things, and we can use it for testing. And there are reasons to create a set of XSL-FO documents providing test cases. I am concerned that some of Peter's NameSpace code hasn't been tested (or is just hard to grok). -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [VOTE] Properties API

2003-11-25 Thread John Austin
no suggestion for implementation and my earlier submission is not relevant except as an indication that this issue is linked to performance. -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [VOTE] Properties API

2003-11-25 Thread John Austin
Victor, I was mostly backing away from my earlier posting which was off-target. On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 13:26, Victor Mote wrote: John Austin wrote: After thinking about the proposal, I'm not sure it solves anything. you might make to the implementation would require (I think) changes

Property classes and eventually, new Property handling.

2003-11-25 Thread John Austin
to the XSL files that generate the code. -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Memory measurement -- importance of Driver.reset() in Cocoon - NOT!

2003-11-24 Thread John Austin
for cocoon-2.1.3 supplies the defaults: JAVA_OPTIONS=-Xms32m -Xmx512m but does not specify '-server'. -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Memory measurement -- importance of Driver.reset() in Cocoon - NOT!

2003-11-24 Thread John Austin
On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 16:23, Glen Mazza wrote: --- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My own feeling is that FOP will remain problematic for large documents and this will be especially so in server environments such as Cocoon. We hear you, and we do emphasize performance

Re: [VOTE] Properties API

2003-11-24 Thread John Austin
the 'steenkin badges' quote originated with WKRP's Dr. Johnny Fever. -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Memory measurement -- importance of Driver.reset()

2003-11-23 Thread John Austin
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 15:50, J.Pietschmann wrote: John Austin wrote: It is clear that there is a fair bit of memory freed by Driver.reset(). After thinking it over, I modified the same test to skip reset() and just null the reference and issue System.gc(). This should be the same

Development Environment suggestions ?

2003-11-20 Thread John Austin
and Saxons ?. John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Memory measurement -- importance of Driver.reset()

2003-11-20 Thread John Austin
memory allocated from inside Driver() (and therefore inside FOP). This approach is of little help to the developer who builds an application that dies of memory exhaustion in production. We will have to fix the logical leaks inside FOP to improve the user experience. -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Memory measurement -- importance of Driver.reset()

2003-11-20 Thread John Austin
they use Driver.reset(). Hmm. I wonder what would Jimmy Buffet do ? I mean, I wonder what Cocoon does ? -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Memory measurement -- importance of Driver.reset() in Cocoon - NOT!

2003-11-20 Thread John Austin
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 00:43, John Austin wrote: I mean, I wonder what Cocoon does ? In FOPSerializer: /** * Recycle serializer by removing references */ public void recycle() { super.recycle(); this.driver = null; this.renderer = null

RE: FOP ~ PropertyList search gives linear performance (FROM:fop-user)

2003-11-19 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 15:22, Victor Mote wrote: John Austin wrote: to work on this but I don't want to walk in to a firefight. FWIW, I don't think there is really a firefight. Our discussions are usually at least robust, maybe even rowdy, but AFAICT, there is a large amount of mutual

Re: ANN: alt-design can now be integrated??

2003-11-19 Thread John Austin
integrating it. I don't expect fast-track to committer status, I would hope to work with one or two current participants and package the changes so that they 'drop in' to place. (We'll see) -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FOP ~ PropertyList search gives linear performance (FROM: fop-user)

2003-11-19 Thread John Austin
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 19:50, Peter B. West wrote: John Austin wrote: ... My apologies to everyone on the list for the testy tone ... You mean I might have help p*ss*ng people off ? Peter -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FOP ~ PropertyList search gives linear performance (FROM: fop-user)

2003-11-18 Thread John Austin
down. -- John Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Confused with Fop extensions, distinct.

2002-04-17 Thread John Austin
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 11:13, you wrote: I have tried to read the docs. I had used distinct before but not in an embedded application. Function not supported. Is my error message. I have inclued my stack Trace. My includes in my application. and my stylesheet. Thanks in advance for

Re: Unix and FOP ?

2002-04-13 Thread John Austin
On Friday 12 April 2002 22:43, you wrote: yep The only area that Windows is (arguably) superior to Unix is in Graphics and especially FONTS. A consequence of Windows success is the fact that almost all computers have Windows licenses. This lets us use the Windows fonts. You need to have

Re: Unix and FOP ?

2002-04-12 Thread John Austin
On Thursday 11 April 2002 09:37, you wrote: Hi, I need information the file xsl:fo transformation in UNIX. What's I need by uses XSL:FO in UNIX? Can I do? You can use xsl:fo in ANY system that has an implementation of the Java VM. This includes any reasonable implementation of Unix

Re: License Issue Inquiry

2002-04-05 Thread John Austin
On Thursday 04 April 2002 14:47, you wrote: At 08:34 AM 4/4/02 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote: like it could be the answer. The only question is, can OOo use it? license of it's software. My question is why does OOo require FOP to be LGPLed? You can integrate it into OpenOffice without it