Re: FOP vs RenderX

2002-03-26 Thread Matt Savino
I thought keep-together-with-next worked at the row level on .20.3. (W/o going into an endless loop like .20.2 did if the selected group of rows happened to span more than a page.) What is the final word on this? -Matt Patrick Andries wrote: > > To be frank, although I have the same experience

Re: FOP vs RenderX

2002-03-25 Thread Matt Savino
Search my threads a few months back. In my case XEP was 10 times slower than FOP. The RenderX guys looked at and said there was something weird about my tables. By most accounts RenderX and FOP should be about the same speed. I told them (RenderX) that if they could figure it out and XEP proved no

Re: problems with keep-with-next

2002-03-15 Thread Matt Savino
Isn't it true that keep-with-next is still only implemented for the table-row element? -Matt Stephen Bannasch wrote: > > keep-with-next still doesn't work on 0.20.3 > > I tried to add a comment to: > > http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5434 > > but i couldn't figure out how

Re: FW: [iText-questions] Re: merging two libraries

2002-03-12 Thread Matt Savino
Is it possible to use iText for post-FOP processing like encryption or adding conditional text based on page breaks? "New, Cecil (GEAE)" wrote: > > My suggestion was *not* to merge the two! > > iText is a Java API with a document creation focus. In this day and age, > XSL:FO can be viewed as j

Re: Acrobat 5.0 Error

2002-03-11 Thread Matt Savino
I can't really tell from this example, but I know I ran into an issue where I was trying to use a JSP page to generate either PDF or HTML. I finally realized I was getting an error when the output was PDF which was due to whitespace between the %><% tags. The JSP engine compiles whitespace as Syst

Re: Web site update request

2002-03-08 Thread Matt Savino
Weird. I posted a reply to this thread that I see on my work account, but my home Earthlink account never picked it up. This is the second time I've seen this. Anyone else experience this problem? -Matt Keiron Liddle wrote: > > Sure. I'll change that. > > Is there any chance that you could get

Re: Example extension

2002-03-01 Thread Matt Savino
I've been told than an extension is the way to go for these two needed features: 1. Add a string ['(Continued)'] to a table header if the table spans multiple pages. Note these tables are part of the content and can start anywhere in the page. They could be seen more like paragraphs or blocks wit

Re: Example extension

2002-03-01 Thread Matt Savino
I've been told than an extension is the way to go for these two needed features: 1. Add a string ['(Continued)'] to a table header if the table spans multiple pages. Note these tables are part of the content and can start anywhere in the page. They could be seen more like paragraphs or blocks wit

Crazy question

2002-02-10 Thread Matt Savino
age breaks that I can use to begin a new page-sequence at the XSLT level. I do have section breaks that I can use, but these sections could end one line into the page. I think this would look a little odd if I have to do it every 20 pages or so. Thanks a lot, M

Re: Why do you use FOP instead of ...

2002-02-04 Thread Matt Savino
Well since you said please and it is a sunny day (at least in LA)... Roland wrote: > > At 11:58 AM 2/1/02 -0800, you wrote: > >I've attached an XSLT stylesheet that we use to create a PDF version of > >a clinical trial participant's lab report. It uses some fairly > > Can you please send us an

Re: Why do you use FOP instead of ...

2002-02-01 Thread Matt Savino
I've attached an XSLT stylesheet that we use to create a PDF version of a clinical trial participant's lab report. It uses some fairly complicated presentation logic that by necessity needs take place in the last stage of processing. The FO output that it produces is also somewhat involved, making

Re: Clueless Newbie is lost!

2002-01-29 Thread Matt Savino
The general path is to convert XML->FO via XSLT, then run FOP on the FO file. FO is XML, but it contains much more than just the data, so it ends up looking more like HTML. See the FOP examples. Hope I'm interpreting the problem right! -Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thierry, > I guess I am

Re: Choice of a XSL-Fo processor

2002-01-25 Thread Matt Savino
Thanks Betty for filling in some of the blanks. (I was mixing up XEP and PassiveTex in a post I made earlier. I forgot XEP is RenderX.) I just had a couple of questions: Antenna House is Windows-only right? Do you think XEP's command line-driven approach would work within a J2EE internet applic

Re: Seeking Comments on Status of Project

2002-01-25 Thread Matt Savino
Actually I am willing to volunteer a few hours a week towards anything the group needs done. I know it's not much, but if there's some admin or minor programming task that no one wants to do, etc. Matt Savino wrote: > > Thanks Alex, point taken. I would love nothing more than to

Re: Seeking Comments on Status of Project

2002-01-25 Thread Matt Savino
for a third clone at this time. I'm sure you hear this sob story all the time. As far as paying some third-party to address performance concerns, do you think that would make sense before the redesign is completed? thx, -Matt alex wrote: > > At 03:37 25/01/02, Matt Savino wrote: > &g

Re: Seeking Comments on Status of Project

2002-01-24 Thread Matt Savino
r generating PDFs of very large, relatively simple reports. I'd love to stay within xsl:fo though. Thanks for all your hard work, Matt Savino Arved Sandstrom wrote: > > Hi, Pete > > I think that it would be most accurate to say that there is a relatively > stable core of

Re: FOP Extensions

2002-01-11 Thread Matt Savino
I'm still planning to write my Table-header with "Continued" extension sometime in the mythical future when I get my head above water. Does this fall into #1 or #3? Is it really realisitic that I'll be able to get this done in a few days? I'm pretty good with Java and I have access to a couple of

Re: Table layout

2002-01-11 Thread Matt Savino
will do Christian Geisert wrote: > > Matt Savino wrote: > > > > Right now keep-with-next at the row level is the only thing that works. > > But if you have more rows than can fit on a page, FOP goes into an > > endless loop. > > > > This issue isn'

Re: Table layout

2002-01-10 Thread Matt Savino
Right now keep-with-next at the row level is the only thing that works. But if you have more rows than can fit on a page, FOP goes into an endless loop. This issue isn't adressed at all in the upocoming maintenance release is it? Phillips Tony wrote: > > Thanks, still can't seem to get it g

Re: AW: FOP-XSL:dynamic external graphics

2002-01-07 Thread Matt Savino
My problem is that I need to change the filepath between environments. (NT and Unix). In all of my Java/JSP code I use an environment-level (Weblogic domain-level) properties file for any values that must change from across environments and which I haven't figured out a way to get by with somethin

Re: How can i optimize memory consumtion?

2002-01-07 Thread Matt Savino
Try breaking your document into multiple page-sequences. Luigi Savini wrote: > > I need to produce a very large PDF document (about 1300 pages!), no images, > just plain text. > I set JVM memory parameters (Xms and Xmx) but i can't process this document > anyway. > > Did anyone try to modify so

Re: conditional characters?

2001-12-10 Thread Matt Savino
I've been meddling on this board for several months now and this has to be the 5-6th time that some variation of this problem has come up. (In my case I need to put the word 'Continued' in every instance of a table header that occurs after the first page break.) It still amazes me that with all th

Re: xsl:choice

2001-12-09 Thread Matt Savino
:" in > Java or C++. > > I use this construct all the time, especially when I need something similiar > to "if then else" or a switch statement. > > Scott > > - Original Message - > From: "Matt Savino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To

Re: xsl:choice

2001-12-07 Thread Matt Savino
Sorry, I didn't read the bottom. You can only include one as a child of . (There is no concept of a case switch or elsif in XSLT.) test="//eraname" returns true if there is an element anywhere in the document. To search only the children of the current node, take out the '//' part. To do wh

Re: xsl:choice

2001-12-07 Thread Matt Savino
Try xsl:choose. I'm available for consulting. > Edward Dowgiallo wrote: > > I seem to be not getting the intended use of xsl:choice. > > The following stylesheet segment causes fop to terminate with the > message: ...; Line 78 Column 25; [ERROR]: null > >text-align="end"> >

Re: Problems with seeing pdf-files in IE 5.0

2001-12-07 Thread Matt Savino
All my urls are .jsp and I don't have a problem with IE 4-5-6 recognizing them as PDF--as long as I set the response contentType. I have a myriad of other problems with older verisons of IE, but this is not one of them. Cyril Rognon wrote: > > It has been reported many times that IE5.0 needs som

Re: fo:external-graphic question

2001-12-04 Thread Matt Savino
Ours is an SSL site. Like I wrote I just sue the absolute file path below. It works for all the Unix boxes. PDF imbeds the image anyway, rather than just linking to it and letting the browser server it up like HTML does. So you shouldn't see that secure-to-insecure error. Todd McGrath wrote:

Re: Line break in FO

2001-11-21 Thread Matt Savino
Matthias Fischer wrote: > > How do I generate a line break, such as is generated by in HTML, in FO? > > Matthias > > Dott. Matthias Fischer > abc.Mediaservice GmbH > > Nebelhornstraße 8 > 86807 Buchloe > Tel. (08241) 9686-38 > Fax (08241) 9686-26 > http://www.abc-media.de > e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: horizontal line won't print?

2001-11-15 Thread Matt Savino
horizental line , i am using this code and it is working for me , u can try also >, might be it help u > > > color="green" /> > > > thanks > > Message History >

horizontal line won't print?

2001-11-13 Thread Matt Savino
I've been using this constriction for the occasional horizontal line in my reports: I like it because it's independent of any table structures I insert it into. Problem is, while it looks fine in the PDF viewer, the line doesn't print. Also, no matter what I set the line-height to, it seems

Re: FOP memory usage

2001-11-09 Thread Matt Savino
references. These eat up a bit > > memory, but > > nothing as bad as all of the area references needed to draw the page :> > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > > > Lloyd > > > > Lloyd McKenzie, P.Eng. I/T Architect, IBM Globa

Re: FOP memory usage

2001-11-09 Thread Matt Savino
Make sure you're using -hotspot. Try setting the initial and max heap size to 256M if you have it. Turn on verbose garbage collection to see what's happening. Even though it says 'No garbage collection was performed, I'm not sure that's accurate (see below). Also sometimes the total memory used is

Re: FOP: Critical Problem

2001-11-02 Thread Matt Savino
that enable the physician to > edit, view a "read only" copy and/or print a final PDF copy of the document. > We also offer a batch printing, sorting and searching capabilities. > > After a certain period of time specified by the client, we archive the data and > can do very

Re: FOP: Critical Problem

2001-11-02 Thread Matt Savino
I work for a giant healthcare company, and it's still hard for me to imagine how the data comes from --somewhere-- then is inserted into an fo: document with no chance for any text manipulation. Not saying I don't believe it, Id just love to hear the situation. So what about some kind of quick n

Re: FOP: Critical Problem

2001-11-02 Thread Matt Savino
ove (ie some sort of Perl-style replace, or Java-style string tokenizer functionality), please chime in. thx, Matt Savino Rachael Blank wrote: > > Hello! > > I have seen many posts regarding the lack of support of the > linefeed-preserve tag. Since August, I have been correspo

Re: table-header with (Con't)

2001-10-26 Thread Matt Savino
occurrence may be the best way for me to go). Thanks in advance for any ideas. -Matt Arved Sandstrom wrote: > > At 09:33 PM 10/24/01 -0400, Matt Savino wrote: > >Jim, I'm doing the same thing with my report. Add a different last-page id > >block at the end of each se

table-header with (Con't)

2001-10-22 Thread Matt Savino
Is there anyway to get a table header to print differently after the first time/page? Namely I want to reprint the title above a particular table everytime the page breaks, but I want to add '(Con't)' to the end of the title. I'm already using a page header and then a table header within that. The

Re: Unknown header extent?

2001-10-22 Thread Matt Savino
ue. > > So your options are: > 1) make extent large enough to contain your biggest possible header > 2) depending on the structure of your documents, put the entire document > into an fo:table and put the header part into the fo:table-header. > > Regards, > Karen > > Matt

Unknown header extent?

2001-10-20 Thread Matt Savino
Is there any to avoid explicitly setting the extent of header (region-before)? I have a report that requires a varied number of data rows and possibly a comment field of unknown size within the header. I've looked through the examples, but all of them seem to have the header size hard-coded. Than

Total page count?

2001-10-18 Thread Matt Savino
Is there any way to get the total page count before the end of the document? IE - the requirements for a particular report we have call for a little box that shows: "Page 1 of 4", "Page 2 of 4", etc. Thanks for any help, Matt -

Re: Performance

2001-10-18 Thread Matt Savino
Just in case anyone is interested, see this benchmarking from an earlier post. I still haven't figured out what causes the serious degradation on Unix with two or more concurrent reports. But I did find out it only occurs when running FOP on a servlet inside Weblogic! Two separate Java processes d

Re: XSLTInputHandler constructor for InputSources?

2001-09-28 Thread Matt Savino
I am in the exact same situation as far as my xml source. I've currently been using a DOM XSLT transform and sending that result to FOP. I built the latest CVS so I could try SAX (since the SAX input is broken in .20.1). But as you'll see below, the times seem about the same. I also don't know w

Re: Anything wrong with this code (please look at attachements)

2001-09-26 Thread Matt Savino
For one thing it looks like you are mixing PDF and HTML content in your response: ServletOutputStream out = response.getOutputStream(); try { out.println("\n"); out.println("\n"); out.println("\n"); out.println("FOP and PDF Creation.\n"); render