Re: diffs for on-the-fly image support

2002-05-22 Thread Keiron Liddle
A normal cvs checkout gives you the development, which is different from current maintenance releases. What you are describing can definitely be done with an extension (in the devel code only, so this is for later). in your fo: This small bit of xml will then be passed to your extension avai

Re: build changes

2002-05-22 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 17:30, Peter B. West wrote: > Are you *trying* to annoy me, or does it just happen? I don't want to > jump to conclusions. Relax, I'm not trying to annoy you. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: forceloading batik svg

2002-05-24 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 20:48, Paul Reavis wrote: > This is probably a question for the batik list, but I'm not on that at > present so thought I'd ask here. I'm sure they would know better... > What's the best way to get an SVG loaded so I can draw it to a > buffered image? I basically want to l

Structure Handlers - RTF Renderer

2002-05-24 Thread Keiron Liddle
rendering process as well. Does this sound like a suitable approach? Will it make the rtf rendering possible (Bertrand?)? Keiron. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: build changes

2002-05-24 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi Peter, On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 12:51, Peter B. West wrote: > The full range of what I want to do with versioning I am not sure of; > the minimum I am sure of. I canvassed this a short time ago. That is, > to eliminate the situation where the identification of a build depends > on manual int

Re: Structure Handlers - RTF Renderer

2002-05-27 Thread Keiron Liddle
nd). I'm not sure about the best way to do things like the table columns. It would be simpler if it could do a start table after it has all the table columns rather than needing to get each table column individually through method calls. Keiron. ---

Re: diffs and new files for tempfile-based PDFStream support

2002-05-27 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi Paul, Thanks for the patch. I have committed it. For the testing, it works for a simple file. Eventually this sort of testing could be done with the area tree xml -> pdf conversion but this is not fully working right now. Eventually we should try to use some common caching system that will al

Re: Structure Handlers - RTF Renderer

2002-05-27 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 11:37, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Would this scenario be easy to implement? > > startTable > startRow (maybe after all FOs for the row have been parsed) > startCell (maybe after all FOs for the cell have been parsed) > start/end stuff for cell contents > e

Re: Structure Handlers - RTF Renderer

2002-05-27 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 14:22, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > What about: > > a) base class with all start/end methods but most of them are empty (costs > very little to call IMHO compared to the whole rendering process) > > b) derived class for RTFHandler and such, where most or all methods do >

Re: Structure Handlers - RTF Renderer

2002-05-29 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 01:20, Peter B. West wrote: > < > I started writing this before the flurry of messages in the last day or > two, so it may now be redundant. If so, however, I have missed part of > the conversation. My recollection of consensus of opinion some months > ago was as I state

[REDESIGN] configuration

2002-05-29 Thread Keiron Liddle
oes and when embedding it would setup its own logger. The image cache and other cache are similar. These can be set with a static method and through the driver respectively. Keiron. flate ascii

Re: [REDESIGN] configuration

2002-05-29 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 16:32, Peter B. West wrote: > Keiron, > > I can't comment on the details of this unless and until I look at > avalon. I notice, though, that version is still given as a > configuration parameter. Does that mean that a user can arbitrarily > chan

Re: [REDESIGN] configuration

2002-05-29 Thread Keiron Liddle
applications and we love the result. I'm > sure Nicola Ken Barozzi can help here. I can help, too, I want to. I > just can't invest so much time as would be necessary at the moment. I'll > have 5 weeks off in August from which I intend to invest at least a week > into FOP.

Re: FOP 0.20.3 doesn't build

2002-05-29 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 17:48, IvanLatysh wrote: > Hi. > > I am trying to compile FOP 0.20.3 (Windows, Linux RH - same result ) > java -version > java version "1.4.0" > Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.0-b92) > Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.0-b92, mixed mode) Du

Caching

2002-06-03 Thread Keiron Liddle
mechanisms. Well, that's may take. Keiron. On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 23:34, J.Pietschmann wrote: > = Caching = > Caching is an interesting topic. It comes in two flavours: > 1. Caching of stuff like images within a rendering run. > 2. Caching across multiple rendering runs on reused ob

Re: Exploring the FOP API design space

2002-06-04 Thread Keiron Liddle
I agree that mime types would be appropriate to select the output format. How would you use a mime type to select a special type or an alternative renderer or do you think it is unlikely that there would be two renderers for the same mime type. Some people do have a sub-class of the awt renderer

Re: Exploring the FOP API design space

2002-06-04 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi Jeremias, That sounds reasonable. The actual interface may not be the render interface since we also need to include the rtf, mif handlers. On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 11:32, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > I'd compose the role name using the Renderer interfaces role name > ("org.apache.fop.render.Rendere

Re: Antw: Re: Embedded FOP From fo-Document to PDF

2002-06-05 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 08:45, Juergen Lippold wrote: > OK so let's start, > > now I have got a Method to create the document, after this part I add some rows and >colomns to the table. > So I'm allways adding Elements with or without attributes. > The result is the fo-file I already sent. > >

Re: Redesign Goals and XSmiles

2002-06-05 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi Jason, Does this mean that XSmiles is no longer jdk1.1 dependant? Thats good. On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 04:05, Jason Foster wrote: > I have been working with the XSmiles browser and have been quite enjoying > the experience of mixing XML content. In their documentation, the XSmiles > team men

Target Interface (was: Re: Exploring the FOP API design space)

2002-06-05 Thread Keiron Liddle
data output: output stream, objects Apart from that we'll see what develops. On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 14:02, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > Hi Keiron > > Oh, that's right. And there's AWT that might some kind of a speciality. > I mean, some will simply want to start the preview

RE: Redesign Goals and XSmiles

2002-06-05 Thread Keiron Liddle
searching for x-smiles I found these references: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-dev&m=100125807329894&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-dev&m=98396722404144&w=2 In particular an announcement and a request for jdk1.1 continued support (hence my reference earlier). So there has been som

Re: Exploring the FOP API design space

2002-06-05 Thread Keiron Liddle
maybe this could answer your question: http://xml.apache.org/fop/design/useragent.html ie. FOP is the user agent but in some cases people might want to alter certain behaviour. So we provide a class to enable this. On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 19:29, Peter B. West wrote: > As a result of this exercise

Re: Exploring the FOP API design space

2002-06-06 Thread Keiron Liddle
n the values and decisions are determined by FOP. My point is that these are typically things that *may* take one value or another so we should allow users of FOP to alter what values are used. Keiron. On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 03:59, Peter B. West wrote: > Keiron, > > You have nicely

Re: Big FOP FAQ

2002-06-06 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi Joerg, I have had a quick look over the document. Looks very good and comprehensive. I have attached a diff with some changes, mostly typos. Should this be checked into the cvs trunk so it can be with the current docs. There was no commit email that I could find (not that it always works).

Re: Status on http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html

2002-06-07 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 16:03, patrick andries wrote: > I think it was about a month ago, a status section was added to the FOP main page. A >good idea. > > Four questions : > > 1) Could it be possible to add a date to this status : "[last updated >xx-March-2002]" ? Yes > 2) Could it be possib

Re: [REDESIGN - LAYOUTMGR] Status request/update

2002-06-07 Thread Keiron Liddle
ASAP processing. Keiron. On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 22:38, Karen Lease wrote: > Keiron, > > I see you're currently occupied with lots of non-layout changes > (structure renderer, IDs, etc). Are you also doing background work in > the layoutmgr area or are you leaving the field ope

Re: Status on http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html

2002-06-07 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 15:14, patrick andries wrote: > [PA] Don't take my remarks wrong : I don't mind not having much information, > I just don't want to be misled. I do simply not understand the sentence. > > What is « this » in « this is roughly » ? Do you mean that the redesign will > end up w

Re: header image of http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html

2002-06-10 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 16:29, Peter B. West wrote: > Oleg, > > Known problem, which has actually been solved, as you can see if you > build htmldoc in a CVS HEAD checkout. Some of the graphics haven't made > their way into the website tree yet. I'll have a look at it. Actually I think this de

Re: Exploring the FOP API design space

2002-06-10 Thread Keiron Liddle
tes a single renderer that it reuses (for each serializer object). Overhead needed to lookup, construct and configure new renderer every time. It doesn't really follow the avalon concepts of configuration, logging etc. Keiron --

Re: Image Cache issue - Latest Release after 0.20.3

2002-06-13 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi Rishi, The changes to the image caching you are referring to are in the redesign code and not in the maintenance branch where releases are currently coming from. Unfortunately that code won't help you if you need it soon. On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 00:48, Athalye, Rishi wrote: > Hi, > > We are u

image support (was: RE: Fop and JDK1.2 (using ant copy tasks toselect implementations))

2002-06-13 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 11:05, Rob Smith wrote: > Everyone who needs PNG support? Batik has a png decoder, a png encoder, a tiff encoder and a tiff decoder. While we are stuck with a obselete library that we can't distribute. If only there was a good image library that we could use and distribute.

[REDESIGN] inline objects

2002-06-13 Thread Keiron Liddle
want to be able to get some of the inline things going, like leader, image, ifo. Regards, Keiron - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AW: image support

2002-06-13 Thread Keiron Liddle
I'm not certain but I think we cannot distribute JAI either for license reasons. >From a quick look it appears to have a similar license to jimi. On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 15:24, J.U. Anderegg wrote: > The good library is here: Java Advanced Imaging. In a few days I will have a > sample PDF renderer

Re: test cases

2002-06-21 Thread Keiron Liddle
test/resources/fop/svg and we could have other resources for images etc. (the docs/examples/tests directory is the old place) Regards, Keiron On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 08:35, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > Hi Jörg > > I think there is one: test. Keiron, was that you who created it in the > fi

FOP in the forrest

2002-06-21 Thread Keiron Liddle
hings better? Forrest is not live yet so after the release would be a good time to get this started. For those who don't know about forrest, here is the site: http://xml.apache.org/forrest Any questions, comments? Regar

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] FOP 0.20.4 Release Candidate available

2002-06-24 Thread Keiron Liddle
easier to download and use. Keiron. On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 18:10, Christian Geisert wrote: > the Release Candidate for 0.20.4 is available at > http://xml.apache.org/dist/fop for downloading and testing. - To unsubscr

Re: Design Documentation Question

2002-06-24 Thread Keiron Liddle
wn problem with, but I cannot for the life of me re-locate that in > the archive. How does one get at the latest faq for development? The faq is really for user issues. What do you want to know? > - Dave Penton - Keiron. -

Re: FOP in the forrest

2002-06-24 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 22:22, J.Pietschmann wrote: > Christian Geisert wrote: > > Keiron Liddle schrieb: > >> Any questions, comments? > > I'm already adapting the docs to the forrest 1.1 DTDs Thanks. > > There are some issues with the (old) documentation for

Re: [GUMP] Build Failure - xml-fop

2002-06-24 Thread Keiron Liddle
the problem: The first transform is working correctly (so if I keep running it it will eventually transform all of the files) but the second transform gets the exception. So it would appear to be a problem with some value not being res

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] FOP 0.20.4 Release Candidate available

2002-06-24 Thread Keiron Liddle
rrently > reworking some parts of the examples, I'll fix this too. This > will take one or two more days though. I've already fixed this particular problem. Keiron. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: table-omit-header-at-break

2002-06-26 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 15:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > hi guyz... > > I just saw in one of the documents i make that the table header isn't shown > @ every page break... :-( > > this is how i set it: > keep-together="always"> You have set it to omit the table header at the break. I hope th

Re: documentation for the maintenance branch

2002-06-27 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 14:39, Joerg Pietschmann wrote: > +1 on omitting the design doc completely in bin distributions. > Should probably omit skin source and xsl too. +1 also. > I'm not sure about PDF, apparently there are not much requests > for this format. > What's larger: > - PDF > - xdocs +

Re: [PATCH] Proper use of font encodings for "native" fonts

2002-06-28 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi Rainer, Thanks alot. I have committed the patch. It all looks fine and appears to be working how it should (as far as I can see). Keiron. On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 23:42, Rainer Garus wrote: > Attached is the patch for the development version of fop. > > Some remarks: > > 1) W

Re: Could not compile

2002-07-01 Thread Keiron Liddle
You probably have your JAVA_HOME pointing to a jre directory. It needs to be a jdk directory that contains extra jars. On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 13:01, RamanaJV wrote: > Hi everyone, > I'm trying to compile the source files through build.bat and it > fails saying the following error > > F:\fo

Re: Links between PDFs

2002-07-01 Thread Keiron Liddle
the other pdf is generated it would need to create a named object at the position of the table, figure etc. So I think it is possible in theory but it is not implemented. Keiron. On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 15:52, Gilles Beaugeais wrote: > Hello, > Is is possible to create links between identified &

Re: System.exit stuff

2002-07-01 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 16:54, Christian Geisert wrote: > Simplest solution seems to be to remove System.exit(0) from Fop.java > (I'll committ this together with Oleg's patch) You do know that every second person will complain that FOP "hangs" if you remove this. :/ > Christian

Re: System.exit stuff

2002-07-01 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 21:25, J.Pietschmann wrote: > Keiron Liddle wrote: > > You do know that every second person will complain that FOP "hangs" if > > you remove this. :/ > > The exit() Oleg complained about was inserted by me. > No problem with removin

[REDESIGN] pdf changes

2002-07-01 Thread Keiron Liddle
inside the pattern cannot be added to the document resources. Unfortunately I have broken the xref table and I can't figure out what is wrong. It needs improvement with the gstate dictionaries and testing to ensure objects are not added too early. K

Re: AW: [REDESIGN] pdf changes

2002-07-02 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 11:48, J.U. Anderegg wrote: > Keiron wrote: > > >- added transparency for shapes and alpha mask for images > > well, what has to be transparent? Background images or overlaying text? > - 82 pages: Transparency in PDF, Technical Note #5407, Adobe Dev

Re: CVS problems

2002-07-03 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 15:44, Peter B. West wrote: > Devs, > > Is anyone else experiencing cvs acces problems? I think the server is down or can't be reached. > Peter - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: Line breaking and Hyphenation

2002-07-04 Thread Keiron Liddle
These (and other) problems are precisely why certain areas have been redesigned. Wouldn't it be better to put the effort into getting the new code to work? On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 10:57, Joerg Pietschmann wrote: > I put a StringBuffer into FObjMixed to accumulate > consecutive addCharacters() even

Re: STATUS OF FOP ? the new re-engineered FOP?

2002-07-04 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 11:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I used the maintenance release of FOP last year and I noticed that there is > now a new re-engineered version. How is it, and will i be able to re-use my > previous FOP stuff? There isn't a release of the re-engineered version.

[REDESIGN] image/svg viewports

2002-07-08 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi all, I have implemented the inline viewport part for images and instream foreign object. This means that the images can be scaled and aligned in the viewport including the clipping if specified. Still need to sort out things like the writing direction. Keiron

Re: how to use org.apache.fop.layout.AreaTree

2002-07-08 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi Baptiste, What exactly are you trying to achieve. If you want to find out the size of the table that is only known at layout time. The layout is done at the end of the page sequence so if you are hoping to alter some fo object (through SAX or whatever) after the table is laid out then it will

Re: Usage of UML Diagrams

2002-07-08 Thread Keiron Liddle
esn't mean anything. If you feel this could be useful area to explore, go ahead. The tools such as ArgoUML have improved and I just tried it out again. Keiron. On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 16:38, RamanaJV wrote: > To FOP Developers, > There is a lot amount of work going on and lot

Re: how to use org.apache.fop.layout.AreaTree

2002-07-08 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 15:14, Baptiste Burgaud wrote: > True! Actually I surfed again fop website and I found > http://xml.apache.org/fop/design/understanding/renderers.html where is > explained how to add a new renderer. So it's what I'm doing to get this Area > you talked about. This should work

[REDESIGN] table layout

2002-07-09 Thread Keiron Liddle
page... Keiron. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Big problem with printing from adobe Reader 4

2002-07-09 Thread Keiron Liddle
of acrobat are seem to handle things differently at times. Sorry I can't help. Maybe you could try to find out what the postscript/pdf error is? Keiron. On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 16:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi guyz, > > all my files that i made with fop (about 1 each run) won

Re: Big problem with printing from adobe Reader 4

2002-07-10 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 17:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think i might have found it... good. [snip] > one more question, what font is used by the adobe when you don't specify > nor embed another font In pdf it must specify a font otherwise it is an error. I presume you mean in FOP. If ther

RE: Usage of UML Diagrams

2002-07-16 Thread Keiron Liddle
integration. Jeremias or Joerg may be able to help you in this area. In particular I believe the renderers will be created using mime types. Once you have some diagrams we can try to sort these things out. Keiron. On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 06:17, RamanaJV wrote: > Hi Keiron, > We can create a

Re: Feasibility of creating signed PDF files

2002-07-17 Thread Keiron Liddle
need to be done: - implement the encrypt pdf object that contains the various dictionary values - implement the PDFFilter that does the encryption, using JCE - organise the configuration for password etc. I hope that answer your quesations. Keiron. On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 12:17, Miguel A Paraz

Re: Feasibility of creating signed PDF files

2002-07-18 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 17:55, Miguel A Paraz wrote: > Thanks for the reply! > > My project is simpler - I only have to generate a signature for the stream, > not encrypt it. Same principle anyway. > I haven't started coding, but there is java.security.Signature.update(byte[]) > which is used t

font state and associates

2002-07-18 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi All, Has anyone looked at the font state stuff. It appears we could make some changes to improve the way fonts are handled. - handle font information easily - handle font lists, resolving on a char basis - reduce number of FontState objects if information is the same (or similar?) - allow for

Re: font state and associates

2002-07-18 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 14:30, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > Hi Keiron > > Not enough to be of any help right now. But reading this the Flyweight > pattern from the Design Patterns book comes to my mind immediately. The > list of all font states is the consequence of this pattern which

Re: font state and associates

2002-07-18 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 16:05, Oleg Tkachenko wrote: > Keiron Liddle wrote: > > > - handle font lists, resolving on a char basis > Do we really need it? It'll slow down rendering. btw, neither xep nor antenna > don't support it. Normally it does a lookup on every

RE: font state and associates

2002-07-19 Thread Keiron Liddle
code will need to supply these. Mostly it needs to get the various heights and the character widths (look in org.apache.fop.layout.FontMetric). I think the AWTRenderer does this for java fonts already. On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 17:06, Victor Mote wrote: > Keiron: > > I am new to this list, to

Re: Image renders blurred

2002-07-19 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 11:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a jpeg straight from the EPS vectorformat, and when i render it with > fop it looks very blurred, is there a way to change that? (size is ok) > i use the external-graphic tag... > should i convert my image to another format for better

Re: Need advice in implementing signed PDF files

2002-07-22 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 16:55, Miguel A Paraz wrote: > Hi, > I've been reading the code and I hope to get some tips. > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 02:58:13PM +0200, Keiron Liddle wrote: > > If I understand it properly you would need to add an Encrypt pdf object > &

Re: Latest FO Schema and DTD

2002-07-22 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi Chuck, Thanks alot. It has been added to cvs under docs/foschema/ both on trunk and branch. On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 21:32, Chuck Paussa wrote: > Hi, > > I haven't made any changes to this schema for a month now so, it looks > like its as good as its going to get. The only thing left on my >

RE: FOP Specialized Classloader

2002-07-22 Thread Keiron Liddle
jdks. But it still needs a place to start. Sorry I can't give a definite yes or no answer. Will it be useful, quite possibly. Will it cause trouble, I don't think so. Is it the best solution, no idea. Hope that helps. Keiron. On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 21:09, Rhett Aultman wrote: > I

Re: Need advice in implementing signed PDF files

2002-07-22 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 19:12, Miguel A Paraz wrote: > > I don't know. What do you think it should do? > > Sorry, let me rephrase that. My question is, what is the proper way for > a PDFFilter subclass to read values from the configuration file? > The signing system would need access to the name o

Re: FOP doc

2002-07-22 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 22:26, Victor Mote wrote: > FOP developers: > > As I am trying to get my arms around FOP, I am finding some things that I > probably ought to propose as changes to the documentation, but I am confused > about the mechanism for doing so. Hope you have long arms. > 1. It app

Re: PDF output driver

2002-07-22 Thread Keiron Liddle
t the additional XSL:FO components? I don't see why not. In general it is a good idea to keep independant parts of the code separate. This will promote that more. We now have a pdf-transcoder target that builds just a jar that can be used as a transcoder for batik.

Re: page break

2002-07-22 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 08:47, RamanaJV wrote: > > Devs, > Is it possible to tell FOP to clip the text, when the block will not > fit in the respctive region? I don't want the block to span across lines.. Currently no. This is something that will be implemented in the new design. --

RE: page break

2002-07-23 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 09:08, RamanaJV wrote: > Then, > Is it possible to know, without actually rendering, how many lines a > block is expected to span. I really need this now in my application to get > away from the pagination problem that are occuring. Also, is it possible to > know, how m

Re: FO to RTF

2002-07-23 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 05:41, Keen Tim wrote: > Hi all, > > The FOP documentation suggests that the RTF renderer will be integrated > soon. When might we expect this to happen? I'm not sure when this will happen. We seem to be stalled at the moment. I think we just need to get the ball rolling to

RE: FO to RTF

2002-07-23 Thread Keiron Liddle
hings. If you have any more questions, fire away. This area could do with some documentation. Keiron. On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 13:43, RamanaJV wrote: > Keiron, > I have been experimenting with several FO to RTF tools. The developer is > required to have the knowledge of RTF and the FOP a

Re: FOP extension elements

2002-07-23 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 22:20, Matthew L. Avizinis wrote: > Hello all, > The following is stated on the FOP website: > > "These extension are available by default. They are automatically loaded and > you only need to provide the correct namespace for your embedded xml > markup." > > OK, so and a

RE: FOP extension elements

2002-07-24 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 15:55, Matthew L. Avizinis wrote: > What I mean is that when I run FOP and use my own extension element I do not > want to have to have extra jar files hanging around. I would like the class > for my own element contained in the fop.jar just like outline and label. > So what

RE: FOP extension elements

2002-07-24 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 17:23, Matthew L. Avizinis wrote: > > > > There are examples in cvs but these work slightly different than what > > you need. > Are you referring to outline and label or are there other extensions > examples? Are they in some folder other than "extensions"? Path to them > p

Re: CTM - e (tx) and f (ty) divided by 1000

2002-07-29 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 01:40, Kevin O'Neill wrote: > Ok, so the millipoints conversion is specific to the xsl:fo to pdf > conversion, the fo tree being in millipoints (correct me if I'm wrong). All lengths are in millipoints from the properties, fo tree to area tree. The renderers usually work in

Re: Maintenance: Java 1.2 Containers, HEAD PDF Renderer

2002-07-29 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 10:45, Joerg Pietschmann wrote: > > Hello, > I tried to clean up a bit in the maintenance branch, with focus on > reducing memory load and improving performance. > I'd like to discuss the following issues: > - Java 1.2 containers (HashMap) sneaked into the maintenance branch

RE: [PDF Viewer] Utility request

2002-07-29 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 11:40, RamanaJV wrote: > Ralph, > Your idea of "Fixing the awt renderer" is the correct one. After a > deep thought, I too came to the conclusion that instead of writing a PDF > renderer, if we can tune up the AWT renderer, it will be great. The main > problem with AWT

Re: AW: AW: any limitation to "generate-id()"

2002-07-30 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi Kutz, First thing I would suggest is to generate the fo file. Then search the file to see if the id is repeated twice (or more). Then use the fo file as the input to fop. Note where the error occurs, id, page. Then delete everything (keeping valid xml) after that id. If possible delete everyth

Re: any limitation to "generate-id()"

2002-07-30 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 11:14, Kutz Clemens (PEA-FE2/BA-T) wrote: > Good idea. How can I do this? AFAIK fop doesn't have this output option. > (I think it's a silly newbie question for the one's, who are familiar with > xalan, xerces, ... but I think I only need a sample commandline) do this: java

Re: FO to RTF, request for a systematic approach

2002-07-30 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 17:52, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > I'd go for 2.2 as this avoids having to maintain two RTF document libraries > (jfor and FOP) during the transition. I think that's what Chris Scott is > working on, but I haven't seen his code or design yet, hence my request to > him for

Re: [PATCH] CTM - PDF CTMHelper

2002-07-30 Thread Keiron Liddle
Thanks Kevin, Patch committed. On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 13:57, Kevin O'Neill wrote: > I've separated the specific PDFRender functionality from the CTM class > and created a small utility class for the renderer to use. > > This solves the problem I was having using the CTM and PDF classes > outside

RE: javadocs

2002-07-30 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 04:28, Victor Mote wrote: > FOP Committers: > > The underlying problem was that lib/bin/antRun had DOS line endings in it (I > am running on Linux 6.1), causing it to fail when used by javadoc from > within Ant. This cannot be fixed from within the build.xml file using > fix

Re: real-life "big" document example, add it to the samples?

2002-07-31 Thread Keiron Liddle
+1 The more samples the better. On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 10:04, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > A while ago [1] Jochen Maes gave feedback about his application that > generates 14000 PDFs. He was kind enough to send me the corresponding > documents for study. > > Under [2] you can find his XSL-FO d

RE: javadocs

2002-07-31 Thread Keiron Liddle
ave noticed a number of people try to look at the javadocs and get lost trying to find what they want. So work in this area is needed. Keiron. An appropriate quote: "Excuse me, teacher? May I be excused? My brain is full." - Larson

Re: Getting the tests to run

2002-07-31 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 06:53, Peter Kullmann wrote: > If you are using the MAIN branch there's one thing that could help: > > in org.apache.fop.tools.TestConverter.java the following line 232 is > missing in the cvs revision 1.18 (i.e. the driver isn't initialized): > > 226 XMLRe

Re: [DOCUMENTATION] Re: [Understanding] Layout Managers [10.0]

2002-07-31 Thread Keiron Liddle
Going for the record on the worlds slowest commit :/ I have put this in cvs now. Thanks for you patience. Keiron. On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 17:21, Cyril Rognon wrote: > oops > > Sorry for those who receive this twice, > > I have already sent this message but I have forgotten th

RE: javadocs

2002-07-31 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi Victor, Usually it is a good idea to follow those guidelines. I hope you didn't get the idea that I was ignoring the patch. It is just that it is for the branch and it can be a pain to get things set up. Hopefully another committer with the branch can give a look at it. On Wed, 2002-07-31 a

Re: JDK 1.2 containers in maintenance branch

2002-08-02 Thread Keiron Liddle
to me > like starting to take its breath away. As Keiron pointed out we have to > somehow get the new ball rolling. We have to make the redesign > attractive so more people start helping there and so we can finish one > day. I intend to help in this direction during my holidays, especia

Re: FOP memory usage

2002-08-12 Thread Keiron Liddle
should be redone. Once a page is complete that is it. Those problems should be solved during the layout of a page only and not considering furture pages. Keiron. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Tasks - layout

2002-08-12 Thread Keiron Liddle
Now that we have some pagination there are lots of areas that people can work on. If you want to implement any of these and have any questions then just ask. Once we can get a few of these done then we could do a developers release. - Add static areas to page The static areas will need to

AW: Tasks - layout

2002-08-13 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 21:17, J.U. Anderegg wrote: > o Are there specified packages, classes to be programmed? Are the > interfaces/interface objects specified? Mostly yes, and if someone wants more information I can go into more detail. > o Are prerequisite packages or test drivers available?

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-13 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 13:44, Kevin O'Neill wrote: > > These are just some of the things, I will add them to the todo list. > > If there is a decent response then there are more that can be added. > > Any PDF tasks? - Encryption and signing - Reusing pdf objects that links create - form XObject

Re: Property handling

2002-08-13 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 01:36, Peter B. West wrote: > J.Pietschmann wrote: > ... > > > Keiron Liddle wrote: > > > Does that mean we should not attempt to solve this problem? > > > Or that we should attempt to solve the problem twice independantly. > > >

Re: FOP components (was: Re: Avalon integration: First batch ofchanges, Logging)

2002-08-13 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 23:15, J.Pietschmann wrote: > Well, I'm not a real Avalon guru (and actually not the > greatest of the Avalon fans, after several dozen hours > of stepping through Excalibur stuff in a Cocoon > application). Therefore I need some explanations (read past > the questions first)

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