Re: Running FOP 'headless' FAQ

2003-07-02 Thread Clay Leeds
On 7/1/2003 2:06 PM, J.Pietschmann wrote: Running the print renderer in a headless environment works the same way as running Batik, given the printer is installed correctly (not quite trivial). This and any additional ideas like creating PostScript and piping it to lp should be added to a sort of u

Re: Running FOP 'headless' FAQ

2003-07-01 Thread J.Pietschmann
Clay Leeds wrote: As for using '-print' headless, some of my clients have attempted to use such a set up. IIRC, we set them up to output to '-ps' and then piped that to the 'lp'. Should we add this "workaround" to the FAQ, or is outputting to '-ps' an option when SVG is one of the inputs? Runni

Re: Running FOP 'headless' FAQ

2003-07-01 Thread Clay Leeds
On 7/1/2003 12:35 PM, J.Pietschmann wrote: This is silly, nobody will start the AWT renderer on a headless workstation. If you login via a text console and expect a window to pop up, you have already missed something important. Well, using the print renderer on a headless station, that's another th

Re: Running FOP 'headless' FAQ

2003-07-01 Thread J.Pietschmann
Clay Leeds wrote: Unless I'm reading this wrong, this means the "headless" problem is directly related to AWT, and because Batik "uses AWT classes for rendering SVG" it is also indirectly affected. Am I correct? If so, should the "headless" FAQ really be in an AWT section, and the Batik section

Re: Running FOP 'headless' FAQ

2003-07-01 Thread Clay Leeds
On 7/1/2003 9:10 AM, Arnd Beißner wrote: If so, should the "headless" FAQ really be in an AWT section, and the Batik section provide a reference to the AWT headless issue, rather than the current way it's shown? That's debatable, I think, and depends on whether you put on a user's hat or a technica

Re: Running FOP 'headless' FAQ

2003-07-01 Thread Arnd Beißner
Clay Leeds wrote: > Unless I'm reading this wrong, this means the > "headless" problem is directly related to AWT, > and because Batik "uses AWT classes for rendering SVG" > it is also indirectly affected. Am I correct? Yes. Exactly. > If so, should the "headless" FAQ really be in > an AWT secti

Re: Running FOP 'headless' FAQ

2003-07-01 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 01.07.2003 17:50:24 Clay Leeds wrote: > On 7/1/2003 8:22 AM, Clay Leeds wrote: > > This is just a guess, but perhaps you're running FOP headless (there's > > no monitor?). This FAQ might provide a workaround: > > > > http://xml.apache.org/fop/graphics.html#batik > > I have a question or two