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: FO to RTF, request for a systematic approach

2002-07-29 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hello Hansuli, Here's my point of view regarding FO to RTF > FO to RTF > > 1. Requirements: Integrate the existing jfor code (www.jfor.org) into FOP so that FOP can become a better XSL-FO to RTF converter than jfor currently is. > 2 Candidate solutions 2.1 move all jfor code in the FOP codeb

Re: FO to RTF

2002-07-29 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Chris, On Tuesday 23 July 2002 15:52, Christopher Scott wrote: > I have been working on a few driver classes for FOP. >. . . > Expect a submission in a week or two. >. . . Would it be possible for you to submit (probably unfinished) code earlier, rather than waiting for it to be finished ?

Re: FO to RTF (new jfor license)

2002-07-29 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hello, On Friday 26 July 2002 10:20, Mulet, Jordi wrote: >. . . > We have started to experiment with jfor (FO->RTF) and we don't know the > best path to follow and if there are plans to integrate jfor in FOP as a > RTF renderer. >. . . Note that the jfor license was recently changed to allow it

Re: FO to RTF

2002-07-29 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Friday 26 July 2002 20:05, J.U. Anderegg wrote: >. . . > RTF is the format of yesterday: better generate MicroSoft Office XML or > Open Office XML. Depends on what you're aiming for. RTF is a terrible format, yes, but at least it allows documents to be opened by a fair number of wordprocessor

Re: FO to RTF

2002-07-26 Thread Christopher Scott
> RTF is the format of yesterday: better generate MicroSoft Office XML or Open > Office XML. I agree. I very much dislike RTF as a markup language. It is cumbersome, limited, verbose, awkward and terribly outdated. But RTF is a widely used standard, whose format is recognized by many lagacy pr

Re: FO to RTF

2002-07-23 Thread Peter B. West
Ramana, To all that Keiron has said, I would add: Talk to Bertrand Delacrétaz<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who is our resident RTF guru, and lead developer of jfor. Having said that, I notice that Chris Scott, who has also posted on this thread, has also contributed to jfor. The first step, it seems

Re: FO to RTF

2002-07-23 Thread Christopher Scott
. Chris Scott - Original Message - From: Keiron Liddle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: FOP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 8:20 AM Subject: RE: FO to RTF > Hi Ramana, > > Firs thing would be to decide on where to put the code eg. > org.apache.fop.rtf.*

RE: FO to RTF

2002-07-23 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi Ramana, Firs thing would be to decide on where to put the code eg. org.apache.fop.rtf.* It would appear that this area hasn't been documented much (there are some emails). A summary: - these types of formats (RTF, MIF) do not need the layout process - there is a StructureHandler that receive

RE: FO to RTF

2002-07-23 Thread RamanaJV
I'm a newbie. Ramana. -Original Message- From: Keiron Liddle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 4:55 PM To: FOP Subject: Re: FO to RTF On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 05:41, Keen Tim wrote: > Hi all, > > The FOP documentation suggests that the RTF renderer will b

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

2001-07-30 Thread Kin-Yip Tsang
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RE: FO to RTF

2001-07-30 Thread Steve Oney
lename[i] == '\\') os() << ""; else os() << char(filename[i]); } os() << "\" }{\\fldrslt }}"; } return 1; } return 0; } The part you may be interested in is: while((buf = fgetc(inFile)) != EOF)

Re: FO to RTF

2001-07-30 Thread Kin-Yip Tsang
i'm also looking for it. i'm a student working on this RTF converter. do you know anything about OLE? i want to try embedding a bmp image into RTF to see if it works, but i've found there's something more than that. what i mean is there seems to be some more hex data apart from the proper bmp data