RE: 0.20.5 release
Hi Fopers, I can understand your requirements, but I would like to know what memory limit you are looking for and what are the filters you two are talking about. As for me, I have been using FOP for BIG reports (fromm 100 to 2000 pages) with big tables (like you, more than 500 pages long tables). I have used some iText Features to deal with forward reference (see the list archive for more details) and this has been giving me a nice solution. I can produce a 1500 pages doc on a simple machine with 256Mo in a few minutes (yes, it swaps) and we use 1 or 2 Go Ram servers for huge documents. Anyway, we all would welcome some new solution to this problem, but surely you reckon there has been loads of workarounb in this list ? Can you be more specific about the performance threshold you are looking for ? Regards Cyril At 09:02 08/07/2003 +0430, you wrote: Dear Thomas Sporbeck It's good to see someone else is using FOP for big reports. I also using tables for inventory lists near to 600 pages and my user do not accept to use filters. This FOP is killing my user business and if I could not find a solution to it, we would trough away the FOP for good, for ever. Then it would be a shame on FOP open source developers since I would go and buy none open, commercial product. I would really appreciate if you inform me of your ideas. Regards Ali Farahani -Original Message- From: Thomas Sporbeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 3:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: 0.20.5 release I would agree to Ricardo. We're using tables for inventory lists containing about 500 pages. The memory situation in that reports is really critical and we cannot force the users to set filters. On the other hand: to us it doesn't matter if this enhancement comes with 0.20.5 or with a later version (0.20.5a ?), which has of course to be decided by the developers and will possibly delay refactoring. Thomas Sporbeck - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: OutofMemoryException
Lou is right. could you tell us what FOP outputs when you use the debug mode ? (-d option in command line). Cyril At 10:53 25/07/2002 -0400, you wrote: Ramana: Is it dumping out FOP error messages even though the report seems to be working? I think these errors can be related to overflows within your context areas which I have seen posted as causing increased memory consumption. -Lou - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: OutofMemoryException
I have had some similar problem with one document : Some hyphenated text in a cell that was on two rows (row span) : FOP warned me about some I cannot hyphenate!. I have not seen this with small documents (bellow 500 pages) but with large ones FOP went on an infinite loop. I did exactly like Hansuli Anderegg is telling you : tried to noarrow the problem by lowering the FO size and hard testing the troubleshooting part. I know it is not some magic method that will help you to solve your problem in twelve seconds but this is the best we have. You have to try with debug on. Good luck. Cyril At 20:22 25/07/2002 +0530, you wrote: No Louis, It is saying java.lang.OutOfMemoryError in the Driver.render(...) statement. If, I print some pages below than 70, it is fine. But, if I try more than 70, the OutOfMemoryError. Ramana. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: page-number-citation
Hi, (Remark : This is a XSL issue, nothing particular with XSL FO nor FOP. :) you can simply use some other template (usually they use some toc named template) to generate your table of content using the same nodes. This wat, you can use the same xsl:generate-id function to generate the same internal created id here. If you need more explanation, here is some sample code in the antennahouse fo tutorial here (http://www.antennahouse.com/XSLsample/XSLsample.htm) even if it is more complicated than your basic need. Cyril At 14:11 02/07/2002 +0200, you wrote: Therefore I automatically create id-attributes for each new headline using xsl:generate-id.. but the problem is I cannot refer to this generated ids!! The command fo:page-number-citation contains ref-id= but I don`t know how to tell FOP that it should use the internal created id-attributes here! I didn`t find any documentation about this kind of problem. Maybe you could help me? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: page-number-citation
Again, I must ell you that your issue is XSLT related, not FO nor FOP.
You must be sure that the current context node is the same when you
generate the fo:block id={generate-id()}
and the fo:page-number-citation ref-id={generate-id()}/ !
different ids mean different nodes used by the generate-id function.
Be sure you have the same nodes means that if you use xsl:for-each
select=//headline to gather your nodeset, you have to use some equal
stuff to parse your headlines to generate your block with ids . It has to
be the exat same nodes.
Cyril
At 17:34 02/07/2002 +0200, you wrote:
I have tried it like described by Antenna House:
the headline of each article is placed in a fo:block id={generate-id()}
in the table of content I used
xsl:for-each select=//headline
...
fo:page-number-citation ref-id={generate-id()}/
...
like Antenna House
but the function in ref-id generates completely NEW ids which surely don`t
match with the ones generated in fo:block..
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Re: Getting an error when using an XHTML file??
Chad, Fop can render a FO file to PDF. Fop can render a XML file to PDF if you provide the convenient XSL file to transform the XML to FO. Anthena house tutorial gives some XHTML2FO stylesheet you could use or enhance to fit yur need. Cyril At 10:44 07/05/2002 -0400, you wrote: Yes, correct. Since FOP ships with an XSLT processor, I believe that FOP can take XML and XSL:FO as inputs to render a pdf file. Which I have tested successfully. Because XHTML is XML, I would also expect that FOP could render a pdf file with an XHTML (saved as XML) and XSL:FO file as input. I guess I should have been more clear. Chad - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Understanding] Layout Managers [10.0]
Keiron, Here is the Layout Lanagers section win the xml corresponding format. I have added the book.xml as well with a little change. (tell me if you prefer diff file) These two files are to be put in the ../design/understanding/ directory. ;-) Cyril book.xml Description: application/xml layout_managers.xml Description: application/xml - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[DOCUMENTATION] Re: [Understanding] Layout Managers [10.0]
oops Sorry for those who receive this twice, I have already sent this message but I have forgotten the DOCUMENTATION Subject header. _ Keiron, Here is the Layout Lanagers section in the corresponding xml format. I have added the book.xml as well with a little change. (tell me if you prefer diff file) These two files are to be put in the ../design/understanding/ directory. ;-) Cyril book.xml Description: application/xml layout_managers.xml Description: application/xml - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: build failure with J2SDK1.4
Thanks Keiron, I think you may be right. I have successfully done the build by processing the codegen target with a JDK1.3 JVM and the package target with the new JSDK1.4.0. It worked out well. It appears the XML parser that comes with this last JVM is interfering. Maybe further distro will have to watch out for this problem. thx Cyril At 09:26 23/04/2002 +0200, you wrote: This is either a problem with the xml+xsl files we are using or a problem with the parser, I'm not usre which. Note that jdk1.4 comes with an xml parser which could be interfering with the xml parser in the lib directory. Sorry I can't be of more help. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[DOCUMENTATION] Understanding part 8+9
Hi Fopers, I have read my name on the FO status thread and I have realized I have forgotten some of my work :) Here are the Understanding series part 8 and 9 formated in xml acording document-v10.dtd. congratulation to the newly voted commiters ! Hope it helps Cyril area_tree.xml Description: application/xml renderers.xml Description: application/xml - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Servlet problems
Hi, I have not done what you are trying to do but I have used java enough to spot a class load precedence error when it comes. I think That the org.w3c.dom.svg.SVGPaint is needed by some other class that has been loaded from a specific level wich is not the batik.jar. I have had the same problem when using a updated xerces version inside a Websphere application Server : There was an older version of xerces loaded by WAS. The error was the same : NoDefClassFound anytime there was a need for a new class. I think it has to do with the classpath setting in Tomcat or your Java environnement. I hope this helps. At 10:13 26/03/2002 -0500, you wrote: Ok, I have been messing with this problem for a day or so now and can't find a reasonable solution. I am using Tomcat 4.0.3 and FOP 0.20.3. I have deployed the servlet into the container and copied the fop.jar along with the other jars in the FOP library directory to the servlets WEB-INF/lib directory. I can producer documents containing plaintext with no problems. However, when I try to render the embedding.fo SVG example I get the following exception: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/w3c/dom/svg/SVGPaint at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:509) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappClassLo ader.java:1631) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.jav a:926) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.jav a:1360) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass . The class org.w3c.dom.svg.SVGPaint is located in batik.jar with the rest of the jars. Anyone have any clue what I am doing wrong? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AW: Outputstream with PDF from FOP is going cutted
It looks like you have some illegal character in your String. At least, illegal from the point of view of the code that reads/uses this String. What plateform/encoding do you use ? You said you want to put the binary date into a DB field. Do you use some outpustream that can hold these bytes ? My last comment wil be : This doesn't look like a Fop question but rather like a Java Byte Stream issue. I hope this helps Cyril At 09:11 06/03/2002 +0100, you wrote: Thanks for your answer, but that doesn't help. The same problem I have, when I give up this outputStream to the console. There it seems to be uncutted, but when I mark the whole String and copy it in the notepad, it will be cutted. Regards Priska - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Documentation volunteer?
Peter, I would gladly start this, but I have not found any docs nor htmldocs target in the build.xml I have started to decorate Keiron's Understanding series following the sample xml files that can be found in the xmldocs directory but I would like to test it now. any clue ? By the way, if I succed in this documentation writing, I might have time to produce a french version of this stuff if anyone is interested. Thanks Cyril Rognon At 07:06 08/02/2002 +1000, you wrote: Check the htmldoc target in xml-fop/build.xml, - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Re[4]: FOP section and page breaks
Hi all, I would like to know if this 7Mb XML (1200 pages document, you mentioned ?) contains much tables. I have far much longer processing time using the same type of machine or even more powerfull ones. Many people have told me that I cannot avoid long times and huge memory footprint. what about you Aleksandar ? Cyril At 08:12 07/02/2002 -0800, you wrote: Hi Aleksandar, Can you send me the sample XSL file? Thanks. Swathi Reddy -Original Message- From: Aleksandar Zivkovic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Hello Swathi, So far, I did test on PIII/850 with 256Mb Ram. Input (xml) file = 7Mb, produces .fo file and then pdf. This (all together) process take about 5 min. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Seeking Comments on Status of Project
I think you are right Keiron, I would like to contribute to this software, I would of course like to begin with the code that is an issue for me but I am ready to hear where to look and what to do either in the maintenance branch or in the redesign one. (For the story, my fop issues are with multipage table eating too much memory) At 15:54 05/02/2002 +0100, you wrote: The only thing that will improve FOP is more people doing something positive even if it is small. Regards, Keiron Liddle Cyril Rognon - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FOP and table issue
Hi all, I have been following this list from some time now, and I am using FOP for a few month. This piece of software totally respond to my formatting needs. The only issue is with memory consumption as soon as I use tables wich use more than one page. I beleive there might be some memory leak here (I have not checked that, just a feeling) since I have tried the use as many page sequence you can trick and yet the more multi page table my file have (even though they do not belong to the same page sequence), the more memory it eats to render to PDF. I use 0.20.3rc, I am going to use fop because I think it fits my needs. If anyone have some clue about lowering the memory waste, I would be very very thankfull. I can even investigate some java code if someone show me where to look. Thanks for the great job, any hints welcome. Cyril - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FOP internet explorer
Mauro, I think this strang IE behaviour is fixed from IE 5.5. Anyway, some people said it would be a good idea to add info for IE to help it solving the content-type. try adding name=dummy.pdf at the end of your query string in your firt url you mentioned. I have never verified if this works but people (in this list) have said so... I hope this helps Cyril At 12:58 28/01/2002 +0100, you wrote: We would like definitly resolve the neverending problem about Internet explorer and pdf files. Cocoon version 1.8.2 Tomcat version 3.2.1 In our application the XML files are created by an COCOON XMLproducer and transformed using a xslfo stylesheet. As you know, everything works fine in Netscape while in Internet Explorer there are some problems. It seems IE doesn't consider so much the document content type. The producer is invoked in this way: http://w2k5500/prod/comune/dummy.xml?producer=CIExslfile=tryme.xsl note that dummy.xml doesn't exist but the producer need it to start. I think the problem could be resolved calling the producer in this way http://w2k5500/prod/comune/dummy.pdf?producer=CIExslfile=tryme.xsl but explorer send me a http error 404 - File not found Is there a configuration parameter that enable me to call a producer in this way? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
maintenance branch
Hello every one, great thanks to the Fop developpers for their job. I hear here and there about the maintenance branch CVS... is there any chance for a maintenance release in the next weeks ? I don't want to disturb anyone with my question. I am just asking because I don't know what is the status of the REC compliance with fop dist. The doc says 0.20.2RC is REC, but... Thanks Cyril - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can i optimize memory consumtion?
Does it really work ? I have tried with my own documents, but it seems the memory usage still depends on the total page number. Maybe I use something that bugs memory. I would be glad to hear if it works for you, Luigi. Cyril At 06:52 07/01/2002 -0800, you wrote: 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. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Page numbering, FOP version
You can do the page 1/(total nb of pages) using some last block reference. I mean you can generate a block with a special id, like my-very-last-paragraph within the last page. then, you can use a page-number-citation that refers to your my-very-last-paragraph block. as for the last FOP dist, I have the very same question you ask ... where is the last REC dist ? Hope that helps Cyril At 11:46 07/01/2002 -0500, you wrote: I'm sorry if this topic has been addressed before, but I couldn't find it in the archives -- can FOP render page numbers as page 1/(n[total number of pages])? Also, the index page at xml.apache.org/fop states The latest version of Fop is 0.20.2 and it supports the xsl:fo XSL-FO Version 1.0 W3C Recommendation (with a link to XSL1.0), but the distribution directory lists the download as Fop-0.20.2RC with a date of 29-Sep-2001 (which, when I downloaded it in September, still used the CR syntax). Has this file been updated to use the Rec syntax, or is that available from CVS, or is this a typo? Thanks in advance, John - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Performance difference between Unix and PC
Java performance has never been the same on Unix or NT. It depends on the JVM you are using. There have been several comparison of JVM on various OS. I don't remember where it was nor who did it but IBM was a good choice under UNIX systems. Hope it helps Cyril At 18:02 18/12/2001 +0100, you wrote: Hi Guilbert, very interesting. If you're experiencing that FOP runs faster on a NT-machine than on a UNIX machine then we are experiencing the same here. The same page on my NT machine takes 1 sec whereas on the UNIX machine it takes 10 seconds. So far I assumed it's just a load problem of this UNIX machineas it has to handle the load of 30 developers, everybody with own processes of our backend system which is very performance consuming. But would be interesting to know wether this is the case or if FOP is really slower on UNIX. Does anybody know? Jens GUILBERT Nicolas SIReS schrieb: Who can explain the huge performance difference we experience between using FOP on a NT server or a PC on one side, or on a unix platform on the other side. Is it normal ? Is FOP built to run on PC or NT ? As it is a java library, it is supposed to work on all platform ? Thanks. Nicolas - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Maintenance release
I think Xmas release if it is done in the rush may appear to be Halloween release ;-) You should consider it will be new year's release. Even if I would be glad to have some maintenance (REC and so on) I would not want you to jeopardize this maintenance branch's quality. Thanks Cyril At 18:19 17/12/2001 +0100, you wrote: Hi, so many things to do, so little time... As mentioned earlier I would like to do some more things for the maintenance release but I have almost no spare time this week. Thus my question is: should we release now (X-Mas release ;-) or wait some more days ? Christian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FOP performance on Win98/JRE 1.3.1
relax, before making any modification to your docbook stylesheet, I suggest you simply use some XML parser feature to deactivate the DTD validation and DTD loading. Every major XML parser use these feature that you can configure (see Xerces for instance). This way you will not endenger the docbook code you are using or introduce any bugs :) By the way, apart from the lack of speed, do docbook stylesheet generate a good looking FO ? (I mean PDF) At 14:35 12/12/2001 +0100, you wrote: On Wednesday 12 December 2001 12:24, Lukas Pietsch wrote: What's still slow is the preceding docbook-to-.fo conversion. One thing I've seen is document referring to a DTD using an http:// URL. This is ok, but usually the parser will go out to the Internet to fetch the DTD, which can slow down the process noticeably. I'd suggest checking your documents or remove any DOCTYPE declarations to see if it makes a difference. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need help
Keiron, Maybe Ed went a little too far about this. of course I do not request immediate magical memory solution that would enable me to generate my pdf on a cell phone :) I have read in this list that some people have 200+ pages documents with low memory footprint (around 20-50 Mo). I just want to know if someone could give me any hints of achieving a nice FOP generation within 128 Mo knowing that I am using page sequences under 15 pages. Thanks in advance. As for me, the speed of FOP is not an issue. The memory would not be an issue if I had not a physical limit of 128Mo for now (too many units involved). At 15:54 12/12/2001 +0100, you wrote: On 2001.12.12 15:39 Ed Howland wrote: In researching this, I found the Driver.setBufferFile(File buf) method. I've set this, but it doesn't seem to work. There are no Javadocs on it. I've looked at the code but I don't think its being actively called by the renderer. Does anybody know the intent and design of this function? Do any developers know if it will be implemented soon? This was not a full or solid solution and was disabled due to problems. FOP is great, but it requires way too much kid gloving when it comes to performance and memory utilization. I read a note a while back (2000 I think) that someone said they were trying to achieve 100% conformance with the spec before they addressed these issues. I might agree with that, but few web browsers were 100% compliant with W3C standards before they were used daily by 10s of millions of users. FOP is in a good enough state to be useful in production environments. Isn't it time to address the scalability aspects of FOP to meet those needs? I suggest that out of the box FOP needs to manage its own resources much better. XSLT is already a drain. While that is true there are certain things you need to realise. - there are serious layout issues that need to be addressed - performance and memory is very much tied up to how the whole system works, this makes it difficult to fix - getting FOP to a stage where there is a clear development direction is difficult - none of this will happen by itself - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need help
Keiron, I would gladly share this info in order to contribute to FOP. here is the last transcript from FOP : [DEBUG]: Initial heap size: 1828Kb [DEBUG]: Current heap size: 127392Kb [DEBUG]: Total memory used: 125564Kb [DEBUG]: Memory use is indicative; no GC was performed [DEBUG]: These figures should not be used comparatively [DEBUG]: Total time used: 67054ms [DEBUG]: Pages rendererd: 85 [DEBUG]: Avg render time: 788ms/page As everyone see, speed is ok, but memory ? I thought Fop would dispose of all the objects inside a page sequence when it's done. I have tested the following : adding some content to generate more page sequences and fop did you more memory. so there might be a leak somewhere. anyway, I would gladly participate in whatever plan ther is to improve this great FO processor. Thanks Cyril I think first you need to understand what is goind on. So we need to provide information: - what the plans and issues are - what is currently being done I will be working on this! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fo:table question
Steve, what you are willing to do must be done in XSLT. if you know the width of each column, then you will have no trouble writing a test in your xslt stylesheet that will generate a new continuing table with the remaining columns. You mentioned a new page, take care, what if your table is on more than one page already ? anyway, XSLT offers you arithmetic to test your case, and the template rules to generate your table(s). I do not have sample, sorry. Hope this helps Cyril Rognon At 10:33 11/12/2001 +0100, you wrote: Hello, just a small problem about fo:table. I want create a table with many columns and the total amount width of the column will be bigger than the width of the page... How do I have to do to tell fop that i want a new page if the total amount of the column width is bigger than the page width If someone has an example, thanks in advance Steve Favez [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with seeing pdf-files in IE 5.0
It has been reported many times that IE5.0 needs some strong mime type information : not only you must set the content-type HTTP header to application/pdf but you also have to use an url with .pdf at the end... Cyril Rognon At 14:05 07/12/2001 +0100, you wrote: I'm trying to see a pdf-report, created dinamically with an XML-XSL process. But if I try to see it with an IE 5.0, I see just a blank page with an icon. If I try it with an IE 5.5, I can see it with no problem. Why is it? And there is a solution, because I cannot change the browser to 5.5?
Re: Problems with seeing pdf-files in IE 5.0
That's the trick if you have to use .pdf ended url, use the query string like Jamestold you to. This is a particular IE5.0 pb, and some times it does not appear, the response content type may be enough. Cyril Rognon At 15:05 07/12/2001 +, you wrote: Jim Urban wrote: So how do you use a url that ends with .pdf when using servlets? I think you can do http://any.url/servlets/Blah?stuff=.pdf but not certain James - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a custom header according to page number
Your question is a little underspecified ... if you want to distinguish odd and even pages, the page master conditionnal part is for you (see the page master fo definition : chapter 6.4.11 http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/slice6.html#fo_conditional-page-master-reference). I think you may handle more than just odd-even with this. Use this with different header section... Don't think about using some predicate considering the page number, xsl fo and fop are loosely coupled, it is meant to be that way. So it forbids the user to use the internal page number programaticaly (some FO processor provide extension to do this, fop does not). if your need is more complex and you have some magic formula to guess wich page is affected, conditionnal master-page may be to low level ... Good luck. At 13:13 03/12/2001 +, you wrote: Hello everybody I am a FOP beginner, can somebody help me please with this problem I need to put a cutsomized header in my pages, the header should contain a different block (of text) according to the page currently being generated, so the condition will be based on the page number 1. is there an fo property I can use (say for the static-content or the block elemtents) that makes certain blocks appear/disappear from headers according to page number 2. how can I use FOP to generate this content Cyril Rognon http://www.objectiva.fr
RE: a custom header according to page number
If you only need to ditinguish the first page from the other ones, simply use a different page-master (reference or name ;-) according to the spec conformance) and use this page master for your cover page only. This will do the trick easily. one page-master for the cover (one page-sequence using this page-master-reference) , and different page-master for the rest of the page sequences. I strongly recomend you to read some FO tutorial, this will spare you a lot of research work (you'll find some ref on http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/) At 14:18 03/12/2001 +, you wrote: Thanks Cyril, please see answers below Your question is a little underspecified ... ... [Ismaeil, Sameh] no, I don't want to distinguish odd and even pages, specifically, I need to distinguish the frist page from the rest of the pages, any clue? Don't think about using some predicate considering the page number, xsl fo and fop are loosely coupled, it is meant to be that way. So it forbids the user to use the internal page number programaticaly (some FO processor provide extension to do this, fop does not). [Ismaeil, Sameh] yes, I kind of noticed that , it is usually one way: FOP code - fo XSL -pdf document if your need is more complex and you have some magic formula to guess wich page is affected, conditionnal master-page may be to low level ... [Ismaeil, Sameh] I'll give conditional-master-page some insight and hope it will work, thanks a lot Good luck. ... Cyril Rognon http://www.objectiva.fr
Re: a custom header according to page number
Jens, I think you are trying to do too much in the fo stage. It is aknowledged that you have the power of xsl fo to take care of formatting. The feature you are talking about is a document structure decision. It is meant to be done by XSLT code. When you decide to create your fo document, you must have a way to know wether you are writing the cover page or some of the content after. Thus, you can have one xsl template that will create a different page-sequence with the appropriate header in the static-content and some other template that will use a regular page-sequence for the rest of the document. this is definitely a job for XSLT. Not to be done in fo only. You need two explicit page-sequence and you drive this by XSLT. I hope my explaination is as clear as in my mind... ;-) At 16:21 03/12/2001 +0100, you wrote: I do have a similar (or the same?) problem. I have a flow that runs through all the pages. On the first page, though, I'd like to have a different header (static content). So far I defined two simple-page masters and a page-sequence-master that uses a simple-page master for the first page and the other one for the rest. But where do I specify where which (static content) header to use? In the page-masters I can only set margins etc.(?) I tried to use two page-sequences, one for each page master, but then I get the XML-content twice: once for the first page sequence once for the second. Can I specify static content in the page-master? Cyril Rognon http://www.objectiva.fr
problem : centered table in FO
Hi list, I am looking for a way to center a table (not the data in the table cells) in a page. I have tried to set padding and margin to a surrounding block but FOP doesn't pay attention to this... I have also tried a start-indent but it changes nothing. I am using FOP 0.20.2RC. What am I doing wrong ? Thanks Cyril Rognon
Fop ignores my unicode character
Hi again list ! thanks to Chris, I have discovered two unicode character to represent checked and unchecked checkboxes. Now I am trying to use it in my xsl style sheet to produce them checkboxes in my pdf output but all I get with fop is a # character. I am using xsl:text #x2611;/xsl:text to insert this U^2611 character (checkbox), like I have seen it done with the euro sign (wich works by the way, with the U^20AC character). all I have in return is a # ! Should I do some configuration change to my Fop ? Should I use some new font ? Thanks - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need Working Sample
There is a FOP servlet example in the distribution of FOP : /docs/examples/embedding/FopServlet.java I think it will answer all the beginners questions. See the example section on the FOP site to see all pre-answered question you might have in your beginning journey. (starting with http://xml.apache.org/fop/embedding.html) Cyril At 10:08 06/07/01 -0500, you wrote: Hi, I am new to FOP. I have a servlet which dynamically generates XML. I need to apply an XSL stylesheet containing FO tags to generate a FO version of the XML and then I need to run this FO version of the XML through FOP (or Driver) so the servlet can return a dynamically created PDF to the browser. Does anyone have a working example of how to do this? Only the XSL style sheet containing the FO tags used in the initial transform will be on disk. Please help, I have to get this working. Thanks, - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
