Re: Media or paper tray selection in FOP

2006-05-10 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 09.05.2006 23:57:24 J.Pietschmann wrote: Jeremias Maerki wrote: Attention: long post. :-) [snip stuff which reminds me on reinventing TeX/DVI] Using the page master name to map onto output media suggests that different page flows could be printed on different media. Is this correct?

Re: Media or paper tray selection in FOP

2006-05-10 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 09.05.2006 17:13:40 Chris Bowditch wrote: Jeremias Maerki wrote: On 09.05.2006 16:04:37 Chris Bowditch wrote: Jeremias Maerki wrote: On 09.05.2006 13:35:11 Chris Bowditch wrote: snip/ This renderer configuration is still implemented as an extension. It's just that the

Java2D renderer almost up to satisfying quality

2006-05-10 Thread Jeremias Maerki
I've just committed some changes which helps the Java2DRenderer narrow the gap to the PDF and PS renderers. The remaining problems are: - Font sizes are rounded down to the next integer when java.awt.Font instances are instantiated. - There's a coordinate system problem with block-containers which

Re: Media or paper tray selection in FOP

2006-05-10 Thread Simon Pepping
Hi, I read the long discussion between Jeremias and Chris, and Jörg's note. I do not like the idea of extension elements. I think, here I refer back to a recent post by Glen about standard FO files. I like the idea of a configuration file. Even a different configuration file for each single

Re: Media or paper tray selection in FOP

2006-05-10 Thread J.Pietschmann
Jeremias Maerki wrote: We can throw exceptions if no mapping is found, or the stuff is simply printed on the default paper and people will quickly figure out that they've done something wrong. Well, having printed large documents on partly manually fed special paper I know that even small