Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-22 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 23:29, Karen Lease wrote: > Hi Keiron, > > Keiron Liddle wrote: > > > > > > The line height calculation and alignment is only very basic at the moment. > > The idea is that the LineLM gets certain information to find the offset to > > baseline and total line height and w

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-21 Thread J.Pietschmann
Karen Lease wrote: > ..., since a BreakPoss is > really just a potential Area. Just nitpicking: It is the state of a LM tree, and in that sense certainly a bit more than a potential area. > The equivalent of that logic on the block stacking level could be to > have all block-level LM except th

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-21 Thread Karen Lease
Hi Keiron, Keiron Liddle wrote: > > The line height calculation and alignment is only very basic at the moment. > The idea is that the LineLM gets certain information to find the offset to > baseline and total line height and when the InlineLM add areas they use this > information to set the p

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-21 Thread Karen Lease
Hi Tony, Thanks for the advice. I have already started to look at the OpenType standard, in particular the parts describing the various baselines. Unfortunately I don't suppose I'll be attending the Unicode conference but perhaps someone here will be and could listen to Steve's talk and could

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-21 Thread Tony Graham
Karen Lease wrote at 20 Aug 2002 23:07:46 +0200: > That would be good. I haven't looked at it for a month or so, but I had > (as usual) some questions about various statements in the XSL-FO spec > concerning the interpretation of the various properties. Perhaps we > could go over those issu

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-21 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi Karen, On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 23:57, Karen Lease wrote: > Hi Keiron etc, > > I'm really happy to see all this movement going on and folks from the > "maintenance" branch getting into the redesign to help you out. I'm > hoping to be able to start contributing again too, perhaps not right >

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-20 Thread Karen Lease
wrote: >>-Original Message- >>From: Karen Lease [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: August 19, 2002 6:58 PM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: Tasks - layout >> >> > [ SNIP ] > >>With regard to the line-height calculations, is anybody in

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-20 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 23:13, J.Pietschmann wrote: > Keiron Liddle wrote: > > - Implement table layout > > The table layout will use the same technique as the block layout. It > > will locate suitable breaks between rows or inside rows until table > > finished or end of bpd reached. > > Actually

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-20 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 22:58, J.Pietschmann wrote: > Keiron Liddle wrote: > > - Add markers to page when areas added > Is this really a good idea? Markers may be referenced > long after they have been defined, tying them to the > Page object would require keeping the pages in memory > (see 0.20.5c

RE: Tasks - layout

2002-08-19 Thread Arved Sandstrom
> -Original Message- > From: Karen Lease [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: August 19, 2002 6:58 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Tasks - layout > [ SNIP ] > With regard to the line-height calculations, is anybody in the group > interested in getting into

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-19 Thread Karen Lease
Hi Keiron etc, I'm really happy to see all this movement going on and folks from the "maintenance" branch getting into the redesign to help you out. I'm hoping to be able to start contributing again too, perhaps not right away, but hopefully in September. There may even be some possibility of

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-19 Thread J.Pietschmann
Keiron Liddle wrote: > - Implement table layout > The table layout will use the same technique as the block layout. It > will locate suitable breaks between rows or inside rows until table > finished or end of bpd reached. Actually, what *are* valid breaks within a table apart from breaks betwe

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-19 Thread J.Pietschmann
Keiron Liddle wrote: > - Add markers to page when areas added Is this really a good idea? Markers may be referenced long after they have been defined, tying them to the Page object would require keeping the pages in memory (see 0.20.5cvs: forward page references are *required* to force keeping pa

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-19 Thread J.Pietschmann
Keiron Liddle wrote: > Of course, but how can we make it understandable. The problems I had - I was not able to follow the control flow. Too many classes/instances involved in even a few lines of code, too many indirections through custom iterators. I had to insert a few dumpStack(), whi

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-19 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 02:07, J.Pietschmann wrote: > Keiron Liddle wrote: > > I don't think we should expect or even want people to understand > > everything. > > I think it's preferable that people hacking around in the > code understand *something*. Of course, but how can we make it understanda

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-17 Thread J.Pietschmann
Keiron Liddle wrote: > I don't think we should expect or even want people to understand > everything. I think it's preferable that people hacking around in the code understand *something*. I took a stab at the static content layout and even get some text but AcrobatReader complains about "Font n

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-15 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 22:06, J.Pietschmann wrote: > Keiron Liddle wrote: > > - Add static areas to page > > The static areas will need to be handled in a similar way to the flow > > except the bpd is unlimited and it will need to reset and repeat for > > each page. > > I looked at it. Is static

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-14 Thread J.Pietschmann
Keiron Liddle wrote: > - Add static areas to page > The static areas will need to be handled in a similar way to the flow > except the bpd is unlimited and it will need to reset and repeat for > each page. I looked at it. Is static content supposed to be handled by a FlowLayoutManager too? It s

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-13 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 08:32, Kevin O'Neill wrote: > > - Reusing pdf objects that links create > > What do you mean ... sorry for being dim. The same as I did for the GState and patterns. If a link is added that has the same action or destination URL as a previous link. Then use the pdf objects w

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-13 Thread Kevin O'Neill
On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 16:16, Keiron Liddle wrote: > - Encryption and signing Started looking at it (though I'm not using it at the moment and I'm a little driven by the things I need :)). > - Reusing pdf objects that links create What do you mean ... sorry for being dim. > - form XObject Alr

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

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

2002-08-12 Thread J.Pietschmann
Kevin O'Neill wrote: > Any PDF tasks? > Encryption related stuff seems to be often asked for. J.Pietschmann - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

AW: Tasks - layout

2002-08-12 Thread J.U. Anderegg
o Are there specified packages, classes to be programmed? Are the interfaces/interface objects specified? o Are prerequisite packages or test drivers available? o Are the basic formatting rules documented: how are (collapsing) borders, margins, spaces added and adjusted in area calculations,passed

Re: Tasks - layout

2002-08-12 Thread Kevin O'Neill
> 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? -- If you don't test then your code is only a collection of bugs which apparently behave like a working program. Website: http://radio.

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