which graphic file formats are supported ?

2002-02-01 Thread Nick Winger
hi ! anybody know where to get a list of which graphic file formats are supported in fop ( in fo:external graphic tag ) ? beside, i can't load the xml.apache.org site or www.apache.org at the moment seems to be the server is down ? greetings Nick Winger (Software-Developer)

Triggering XALAN/XERXES from a start routine

2002-02-01 Thread Matthias Fischer
Is it possible to program a start routine, let's say: in some programming language (preferably Visual Basic) to trigger an XSL transformation from the outside? Have XALAN/XERXES the necessary interface(s)? I would need to hand over the source and target paths of the XML instances and the path of

RE: Triggering XALAN/XERXES from a start routine

2002-02-01 Thread Stefan Weber
wrong group??? -Original Message- From: Matthias Fischer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 10:41 AM To: Liste, FOP Cc: Zelkanovic, Adnan; Thaler, Gregor Subject: Triggering XALAN/XERXES from a start routine Is it possible to program a start routine, let's say:

Re: transforming fo to pdf

2002-02-01 Thread Jeremias Maerki
After looking closer at your mail, when Jörg replied, I realized what's wrong. Bhawana, you're using the CVS version (main branch) of FOP which is currently in a redesign phase. That version is not intended to be used, yet. FOP 0.20.x does not have any LayoutManagers. I suggest you download a

RE: white-space

2002-02-01 Thread Rabi Shankar
Title: RE: white-space u can put #160; ( # 1 6 0 ;) this will work. rgds, Rabi. -Original Message- From: Joerg Pietschmann [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 5:37 PM To: FOP Dev Subject: Re: white-space I need white space between fields, how do I do

Re: making classes off your fonts...

2002-02-01 Thread Jochen . Maes
thanks... it worked but not the way i thought (lol) i think each space is used as a linebreak (nicxe view though :-]) and some characters aren't correct (like a ° in stead off an ë). do you know where i can find a tutorial for that (making metrix-files...)... and implementing correctly (must

Re: making classes off your fonts...

2002-02-01 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Everything on fonts is on the following page: http://xml.apache.org/fop/fonts.html Sometimes the metric files need some tweaking, especially for Type 1 fonts, but that requires reading into the font specs. I'm still quite sure you're making yourself a hard time with little profit. Good luck.

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 6178] New: - Color palette of .bmp files with 1 bit/pixel not used

2002-02-01 Thread bugzilla
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RE: Why do you use FOP instead of ...

2002-02-01 Thread Jim Urban
Our application is a servlet based web application. We have adopted the MVC approach. We found Cacoon over kill, so we implmented our own frame work. Our frame work requires all business components produce XML. We then use XSL:HTML to format HTML output for the browser. It was only a natural

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

2002-02-01 Thread Roland
At 10:32 AM 2/1/02 -0600, you wrote: step to use XSL:FO to generate PDF since we already had XML being generated. One of the real blessings of this approach is our clients can customize the look and feel of the application by changing the XSL files without our ever opening a Java source file. We

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

2002-02-01 Thread Roland
I will nail down the weaknesses of the XML-PDF approach: 1. XSL:FO is a very complicated and messy language 2. XSLT is also kinda complicated to use, at least if you have to do complicated formatting... I'm replying to my own email adding that of course I would be glad if someone can show

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

2002-02-01 Thread Ralph LaChance
At 04:06 PM 2/1/02 -0200, you wrote: I will nail down the weaknesses of the XML-PDF approach: 1. XSL:FO is a very complicated and messy language 2. XSLT is also kinda complicated to use, at least if you have to do complicated formatting... Sometimes it seems folks assume that FO is synomous

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

2002-02-01 Thread fred redf
Hi Roland, We had the very same prob cause the xsl that translate from our XML content to FO went quite messy as we made all modifications needed to paper export (we're usually building 50-200 pages in our pdfs, with many pictures, tables cause it's made of courses contents). So we made some

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

2002-02-01 Thread Patrick Andries
Ralph LaChance wrote: At 04:06 PM 2/1/02 -0200, you wrote: I will nail down the weaknesses of the XML-PDF approach: 1. XSL:FO is a very complicated and messy language 2. XSLT is also kinda complicated to use, at least if you have to do complicated formatting... Sometimes it seems

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

2002-02-01 Thread fred redf
Forgot to say that our fo formatting would be ready in 10 years when we'll have those *good* voice synthetizer that are supposed to *print* our fo code according to the XSL-FO specs. ;) Fred. --- Ralph LaChance [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : At 04:06 PM 2/1/02 -0200, you wrote: I will nail

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

2002-02-01 Thread Roland
At 12:59 PM 2/1/02 -0600, you wrote: 2. XSLT is also kinda complicated to use, at least if you have to do complicated formatting... So is any other kind of programming language. The more complex the task, the more lines of coded need to achieve the desired results. Wrong! Look at iText

fop dtd attached

2002-02-01 Thread Chuck Paussa
A couple of people have written in recently asking for an FOP dtd. I'm guessing so they can use it with PSGML. So, I made one using the standard document as well as I could read it. I tried to include lists of valid values for things like integer so, if you want to use it as a real validating