Re: Stability Question

2005-01-17 Thread Manuel Mall
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:38, The Web Maestro wrote: Charles, I believe this is more a question for [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] to subscribe), but... On Jan 17, 2005, at 8:30 AM, Charles Griswold wrote: I've considering embedding FOP is a product I'm developing. How stable and

Re: Still need DOM Tree processing?

2004-07-04 Thread Manuel Mall
From: Glen Mazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] Team, But does anyone generate FO documents via DOM Trees anymore? Yes, we do in a back office fop intensive server application. Manuel

Re: Still need DOM Tree processing?

2004-07-04 Thread Manuel Mall
manipulations, and then send it off to be published into PDF? 2) Is using DOM Trees an optimal way for you to do your work, or is it just legacy code you don't wish to disturb? (I.e., if you had to rewrite it from the beginning, would you still use DOM Trees?) Glen --- Manuel Mall

RE: Fonts and Document

2004-03-16 Thread Manuel Mall
Simon, tried the URL you gave (http://www.leverkruid.nl/FOP/documentation.xml) and got the error (IE 6): The system cannot locate the object specified. Error processing resource 'http://www.leverkruid.nl/FOP/docbookx.dtd'. Mozilla Firefox fails as well. Manuel

fop-dev used to spread virus

2004-03-03 Thread Manuel Mall
The e-mail to fop-dev below which I received last night contained the Beagle virus and according to the SMTP headers it was distributed via the Apache mail server. This seems to indicate that a) The Apache list server has no virus scanner. b) As the fop-dev list is by subscription only that a

Re: FOs and Areas

2003-12-18 Thread Manuel Mall
As an active FOP user I have been monitoring the fop-dev list for the last 2 years or so. The recent discussion between Victor and Peter and Jrg's comment below seem to highlight a difference in opinion where the project is headed. Based on the various discussions on this list and the web site

RE: TIFF image rendering in pdf is lossy

2003-07-29 Thread Manuel Mall
will not read a tiff that we compress using group 3 1D or 2D encoding. For the time being will continue to use png images, however, still unhappy with the amount of memory and processing time this requires. Angus Manuel Mall wrote: Angus, have you got JAI (Java Advanced Imaging) in your FOP

RE: TIFF image rendering in pdf is lossy

2003-07-28 Thread Manuel Mall
Angus, have you got JAI (Java Advanced Imaging) in your FOP environment (see http://xml.apache.org/fop/graphics.html)? If not that may be the problem as the TIFF support relies on the presence of JAI. If JAI is not available it defaults to using JIMI and that again will DCT encode your images as

RE: PDF Encryption in HEAD

2003-03-12 Thread Manuel Mall
Patrick, I am following with much interest the integration of PDF encryption into FOP. While trying to understand how it is invoked (not configured) I got confused. We currently using a 3rd party external tool to encrypt our PDFs after creation through FOP. Each PDF is given its own different

RE: Alt-Design status: XML handling

2002-11-20 Thread Manuel Mall
Peter, thanks for the update and explanation on your Alt-Design. To be honest: I like it. Reminds me very much of my first exposure to programming language processing (Compilers) nearly 30 years ago = top-down recursive-decent parsing for Pascal. I still think its the best parsing model around

Cleaning up examples and tests

2002-10-21 Thread Manuel Mall
While working on a patch I ran the generation of the fo examples in docs/examples and noticed various warnings and errors being displayed (see below). I also noticed that the testsuite generation doesn't seem to work at all (test/createpdf.sh). Is it worthwhile cleaning this up? I have some time

RE: Encoding Filters(Formally Re: Hope this helps- RunLengthEncodeFilter)

2002-08-12 Thread Manuel Mall
I did (sort of) integrate the CCITT/TIFF compression based on JAI earlier this year. See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-devm=101125782918974w=2 But nobody seemed to be interested at the time. Manuel -Original Message- From: Stephen Wolke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 13

padding-start/end not working?

2002-04-22 Thread Manuel Mall
I wanted to create an indented block and started with using a fo:block element with padding-start/end and padding-before/after attributes. The padding-before/after worked fine but the padding-start/end seemed to be ignored. After some more experimentation I found a solution by putting the block

RE: Cleaning up bugzilla and next maintenance release

2002-04-22 Thread Manuel Mall
I am not a committer nor a developer of fop (but prepared to do some work) but mainly a user. However, here is my opinion on the matters raised. 1. I would like to see further maintenance releases on the 0.23 branch. Valuable (to various users) updates to the last release have been posted to

RE: Encryption

2002-03-06 Thread Manuel Mall
To apply encryption to FOP generated PDF files we post process the files with a command line tool called pdcat from a PDF tools set available from http://pdf.glance.ch. If you are looking for an all Java solution I believe iText from http://www.lowagie.com/iText/ also allows encryption (but no

RE: Encryption

2002-03-06 Thread Manuel Mall
] www.codenoevil.com Diversa ab illis virtute valemus. - Original Message - From: Manuel Mall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 8:17 PM Subject: RE: Encryption To apply encryption to FOP generated PDF files we post process the files with a command

RE: newbie needs help with relative address for image.

2002-01-28 Thread Manuel Mall
The error message complains about a missing protocol in the address. Have you tried: file:/../../companylogo/url? Manuel -Original Message- From: Troy Bottger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 29 January 2002 0:38 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: newbie needs help with

TIFF/CCITT Image Compression

2002-01-17 Thread Manuel Mall
A few month ago Eric Dalquist added support for storing JPEG images in DCT compressed format within a PDF file. This was triggered by his requirement to have PDF files containing many JPEG images. I have got a similar problem but I need to store many TIFF / CCITT Group 4 encoded images within a