potpourri questions

2003-02-10 Thread joni santoso
hi, i just started learning cocoon seriously for about 1 month. i have several questions: is it possible 1. to overlap several images from jpg/gif files? what will be the output? i mean will the colour of the output be a mixture of the colours of the original images? 2. to overlap text over

RE: potpourri questions

2003-02-10 Thread Roland Neilands
Joni, 1. to overlap several images from jpg/gif files? what will be the output? i mean will the colour of the output be a mixture of the colours of the original images? Try it see - you can easily overlap regions by changing margins/extents and/or blocks using position=absolute. I would be

RE : How to stop a render FOP ?

2003-02-10 Thread Philippe PITHON
Thank you for your answer! therefore, the only means of stopping a render, it's to put FOP in Thread (and to stop the Thread) But, how did you make to redirect the logger towards a dialog box? Philippe. -Message d'origine- De : Patrick Dean Rusk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé :

RE : Generating ASCII output

2003-02-10 Thread Philippe PITHON
to want to create pure XSL (for ASCII output) after having made XSLFO is perhaps not either the good solution! for example, in XSLFO, if a table overflows on another page, the heading of page it's repeated it's XSLFO which automatically calculates the number of line per page But, in pure

RE: Page numbering

2003-02-10 Thread H. krishna
thanks all. Regards, H. Balakrishnan --- Patrick Dean Rusk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: now, the pagenumber is not displayed in the first page. But, i need the page number start with 2 page is left alignment and 3 page is right alignment. The same way, create different page

Re: PNG question, and Link to cgi script that generates image example

2003-02-10 Thread Christian Geisert
Christian Geisert wrote: Christian Geisert wrote: J.Pietschmann wrote: [..] Hm. Maybe there is something wrong with the precompiled version of FOP. FOP 0.20.5rc should work with either Jimi or JAI without recompiling. Just tried it and it doesn't work. Will have a closer look at it. This is now

new error using 0.20rc5

2003-02-10 Thread Gerard BUNEL
Hello, I'm using FOP 0.20rc5 and have the following problem in my trials. this error didn't appear using 0.20.4. What does that mean ? D:\Projets\GCLFSBV2\Etudes\Testsfop -c userconfig.xml test.fo -pdf test.pdf [INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser [INFO] Using

getParser deprecated but still in sevelt example?

2003-02-10 Thread Matthew Lancashire
Why do I get the errors getParser is deprecated and getInputSource is not a class within XSLTInputHandler? public void convertXML2PDF(String xml, String xslt) throws IOException, FOPException, TransformerException {

Re: getParser deprecated but still in sevelt example?

2003-02-10 Thread Laurent Forêt
There are new example without deprecated apis accessible from cvs at this url : http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-fop/examples/embedding/java/embedding/ Attic/ regards, Laurent. - Original Message - From: Matthew Lancashire [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Fop-User-Help (E-mail) [EMAIL

Re: Generating ASCII output

2003-02-10 Thread Fabrizio Tringali
I agree on in general terms an XSL Formatting engine is the wrong tool for generating Character Text output, but if you must use TXTRenderer because you need something that simulate PdfOutput etc. etc. you can set textCPI and textLPI so: TXTRenderer renderer = new TXTRenderer();

RE: getParser deprecated but still in sevelt example?

2003-02-10 Thread Matthew Lancashire
its the servlet i want so that i can stream data in and out withiut using files. The CVS servlet still uses these methods (getInputSource,...) -Original Message- From: Laurent Forêt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 Feb 2003 10:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: getParser deprecated

Fop and multithreading.

2003-02-10 Thread frederic . kieffer
Hi everybody. I experience issues when using Fop (0.20.4 / 0.20.5rc) in a multithreaded application. I designed a function which transforms a dom into pdf (using a xslt), then prints it. This function is used in each thread. I'm embedding fonts in this pdf. The printed sheets of paper display

Antwort: Fop and multithreading.

2003-02-10 Thread reto . blunschi
Salut Frederic, I am experiencing the same kind of problem as you do. In a multithreaded env. (multiprocessor UNIX box, executing FOP in an EJB on weblogic) I see that font sizes in different threads are messed up. In difference to your problem I am producing TIFF output (using AWTRenderer). I

provisional-label-separation

2003-02-10 Thread Karen Mergner
Hi all, in my list I can see no changes if I specify a provisional-label-separation or not. If the label is too long it overwrites with list-body. Here is the part of the xsl file: fo:list-block provisional-distance-between-starts=3cm provisional-label-separation=1cm fo:list-item

embedding fop

2003-02-10 Thread Marisol Garcia
Hello, Where could I find the source of the examples: ExampleFO2PDF.java, ExampleXML2FO.java, ExampleXML2PDF.java, ExampleObj2XML.java and ExampleObj2PDF.java ? Thanks in advance.

RE: Antwort: Fop and multithreading.

2003-02-10 Thread frederic . kieffer
Thanks for your help. In addition, I'm in the same kind of situation as you are (multiprocessor Unix box, executing FOP in a Message Driven EJB on JBoss). I designed a singleton class which is used by this ejb each time a message is being consumed. I'm going to try to synchronize its methods.

RE: How to stop a render FOP ?

2003-02-10 Thread Patrick Dean Rusk
Be careful when you say stop the Thread. Threads are no longer supposed to be directly stopped. I am, instead, throwing an Error in the thread, catching it in the same thread, and exiting the thread cleanly. The log messages are only going to System.out in the first place because the default

RE: embedding fop

2003-02-10 Thread Matthew Lancashire
Try this http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-fop/examples/embedding/java/embedding/Attic/ -Original Message-From: Marisol Garcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 10 Feb 2003 11:50To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: embedding fop Hello, Where could I find the

Antwort: RE: Antwort: Fop and multithreading.

2003-02-10 Thread reto . blunschi
I suspect that the singelton approach with synchronized method will solve the issue. But I am not sure whether it is acceptable, because that would mean to execute FOP synchroized, not using the multi-processor box. Rendering is one of the most processing-intensive opertations we do, so

Antwort: RE: Antwort: Fop and multithreading.

2003-02-10 Thread reto . blunschi
ok, that makes more and more sense. That was also the feedback I got from the FOP devs, that AWTRenderer is probably not threadsave, since it was never designed to be - it was only designed to be a kind of testing tool, to be used on the client. What kind of graphics environment are you on? Is

File not found error

2003-02-10 Thread Matthew Lancashire
I get a file not found error when I do the .transform javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\m1\Project1\ (The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect) at

Re: new error using 0.20rc5

2003-02-10 Thread Jeremias Maerki
You've probably used a region-name on the fo:region-body in the blank page-master, and that doesn't correspond with the flow anymore. If deleting the region-name doesn't help show us your layout-master-set and the fo:flow elements. On 10.02.2003 10:07:22 Gerard BUNEL wrote: I'm using FOP 0.20rc5

Picture files without extension

2003-02-10 Thread Jiri_Nejedly
Some function (which I cannot modify) in my appliaction generates picture files in jpg format, but the files don't have .jpg extension. Am I able somehow to render them in fop ? I tried this: fo:external-graphic width=2cm height=2.5cm content-type=image/jpeg xsl:attribute name=srcxsl:value-of

Need help

2003-02-10 Thread Gerard BUNEL
I already posted about this problem but got no answer. Can anyone help ? I've made the test with the attached test.fo file with XEP and with FOP. With XEP everything is OK but with FOP it fails with the following error: D:\Projets\GCLFSBV2\Etudes\Testsfop -d -c userconfig.xml test.fo -pdf

Re: Antwort: Fop and multithreading.

2003-02-10 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Frédéric and Reto, having read the 24.1.2 Programming restrictions of the EJB 2.0 specification, I'd recommend you guys don't call FOP from an EJB. The programming restrictions forbid among other things the following: - Reading or writing of static variables (FOP still does this too often) - Use

Re: getParser deprecated but still in sevelt example?

2003-02-10 Thread Jeremias Maerki
I've refactored the servlet last week for the redesign branch. You could try that one. Since it's for the redesign, you might have to adjust a few things for the maintenance branch. Here it is:

Re: File not found error

2003-02-10 Thread Fabrizio Tringali
this for me works String xsltSystemId = file:///C:/m1/Project1/someFile.xsl; Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer(new StreamSource(xsltSystemId)); bye From: Matthew Lancashire [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get a file not found error when I do the .transform

Re: File not found error

2003-02-10 Thread Jeremias Maerki
See below On 10.02.2003 13:48:58 Matthew Lancashire wrote: I get a file not found error when I do the .transform javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\m1\Project1\ (The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect) at

Re: SVG

2003-02-10 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Could you provide a little snippet of your FO file where you reference the SVG file? And can you please run the transformation using the -d option when callong fop.bat/fop.sh? That way you will get a stacktrace which lets us help tracking down what's going wrong. On 09.02.2003 11:08:24 H. krishna

Re: Need help - One more info

2003-02-10 Thread Gerard BUNEL
One more info about my problem. The result is different using FOP 0.20.4. It does not fail with an exception as in 20.0rc5 but does not display a label on the last Blank page. Maybe that will help -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Atlantide - http://www.ago.fr/atlantide/ Technopole Brest Iroise BP 80802 -

Re: Need help - One more info

2003-02-10 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Try deleting the region-name on the fo:region-body for blank and delete the static-content named blank-label. When a page is blank it doesn't use the flow anway, so you don't have to specify a different region-name. (Strange delays today on the mailing lists) On 10.02.2003 15:53:24 Gerard BUNEL

Re: Picture files without extension

2003-02-10 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Remove the content-type attribute (It's not properly implemented AFAIK). FOP should be able to correctly identify that your file is JPEG. On 10.02.2003 14:43:26 Jiri_Nejedly wrote: Some function (which I cannot modify) in my appliaction generates picture files in jpg format, but the files don't

Antwort: Re: Antwort: Fop and multithreading.

2003-02-10 Thread reto . blunschi
Hi Jeremias, I do agree very much with you about the concerns on EJB usage, though unfortunately drop the EJB idea is not an option. EJB is the chosen environment in this company (my client). Since XSL:FO has also been chosen as strategic technology, we are bound to find a way for the two to

RE: File not found error

2003-02-10 Thread Matthew Lancashire
I just read more of the example on the cvs site and it seems that I cannot have anything other than a source of type file. I wish I had read that bitearlier as I need to have source of type streamed xml -Original Message- From: Fabrizio Tringali [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 Feb

FOP and IIS4/5

2003-02-10 Thread Matthew Lancashire
Can Fop be used in Server Side Java on an IIS4/IIS5 server Matthew Lancashire IT Project Manager Intitial Electronic Security Ltd Tel: +44 1282 473554 Fax: +44 1254 267552 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

RE: Antwort: Fop and multithreading.

2003-02-10 Thread frederic . kieffer
Thanks for your help -Message d'origine- De: Jeremias Maerki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: lundi 10 février 2003 14:08 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet: Re: Antwort: Fop and multithreading. Frédéric and Reto, having read the 24.1.2 Programming restrictions of the EJB 2.0 specification, I'd

Re: Need help - One more info

2003-02-10 Thread Gerard BUNEL
OK, Thank you. Given your help and the example in the FAQ, I've understood my mistake. My 'blank Label' was put into the region-body instead of 'region-before' (I think it should also work with the region-after ?). Gerard Jeremias Maerki a écrit : Try deleting the region-name on the

RE: File not found error

2003-02-10 Thread Matthew Lancashire
Thanks for the stringreader tip. Where can I find better Java docs -Original Message- From: Matthew Lancashire [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 Feb 2003 15:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: File not found error I just read more of the example on the cvs site and it seems that I

Could not load external SVG

2003-02-10 Thread Jiri_Nejedly
Recently I used FOP embedded in my aplication to make PDFs with pictures. I did it this way: fo:external-graphic width=2cm height=2.5cm xsl:attribute name=srcxsl:value-of select=Photo//xsl:attribute /fo:external-graphic ... and it worked OK. Now I upgraded my Oracle's JDeveloper from version

Re: FOP and IIS4/5

2003-02-10 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Matthew Lancashire wrote: Can Fop be used in Server Side Java on an IIS4/IIS5 server Have no idea what is Server Side Java on an IIS4/IIS5 server, but FOP requires at least JRE 1.2 level of compatibility. Note, FOP doesn't work under Microsoft JVM, because latest MS JVM only corresponds to JRE

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Fop and multithreading.

2003-02-10 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 10.02.2003 16:15:48 reto.blunschi wrote: I do agree very much with you about the concerns on EJB usage, though unfortunately drop the EJB idea is not an option. EJB is the chosen environment in this company (my client). Since XSL:FO has also been chosen as strategic technology, we are

Re: File not found error

2003-02-10 Thread Jeremias Maerki
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/api/index.html On 10.02.2003 16:41:55 Matthew Lancashire wrote: Thanks for the stringreader tip. Where can I find better Java docs Jeremias Maerki - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: FOP and IIS4/5

2003-02-10 Thread Jeff_Mitchell
Matthew- I've used FOP (with Sun's JRE, not Microsoft's -- see Oleg's note) with IIS 5 (and I would assume it would work with IIS 4) by basically writing an ActiveX DLL that shells out to a call to the fop.bat file, and monitors a log file of the output from the batch file to see when it's

RE: FOP and IIS4/5

2003-02-10 Thread Adam Shelley
Hello, I just recently started playing with this approach (calling FOP.bat from the web, shelled out). I noticed that things were taking a while to complete but it seems to me that It waits for one to finish before it completes the next. Is this the case? Do I need to modify the .bat file so

embedding example

2003-02-10 Thread Philippe Caya
Where can I find the source code for the embedding examples listed on page: http://xml.apache.org/fop/embedding.html I looked in the cvs but it not there. Philippe - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

RE: FOP and IIS4/5

2003-02-10 Thread Matthew Lancashire
I have been struggling with this for some time. I have a java class that will do what I want now I need to integrate it with my IIS server via asp. Man this java is tough for us dumb VB ers -Original Message- From: Adam Shelley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 Feb 2003 16:04 To: [EMAIL

RE: FOP and IIS4/5

2003-02-10 Thread Matthew Lancashire
How do I query the archives? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 Feb 2003 15:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FOP and IIS4/5 Matthew- I've used FOP (with Sun's JRE, not Microsoft's -- see Oleg's note) with IIS 5 (and I would assume it

Re: embedding example

2003-02-10 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Oh, it's there in the CVS. You need to download from CVS using the tag fop-0_20_2-maintain because it's only in the maintenance branch, not in trunk. You will find it under /examples/embedding. On 10.02.2003 17:15:41 Philippe Caya wrote: Where can I find the source code for the embedding

RE: Web site for FOP List Archives (was Re: FOP and IIS4/5)

2003-02-10 Thread Matthew Lancashire
Thanks. I will need it. Me thinks SOAP is the way to go as I have already got my render class working (yay) Thanks -Original Message- From: Clay Leeds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 Feb 2003 16:37 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Web site for FOP List Archives (was Re: FOP and IIS4/5)

RE: FOP and IIS4/5

2003-02-10 Thread Jeff_Mitchell
All right, I'll cop to being a dumb VB er, but it's company mandated, not me. Anyway, here's how my app works: A user comes into the site, and makes a request. (Clicks a button saying, Gimme a PDF) This request is added to a DB, and the ASP immediately returns with a status page for the

Re: Web site for FOP List Archives (was Re: FOP and IIS4/5)

2003-02-10 Thread Jeff_Mitchell
(I found it challenging to find this myself--there isn't exactly a blink tag pointing to this spot :-) Thank god. (In reference to the blink tag, not a pointer to the archive.) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: Picture files without extension

2003-02-10 Thread J.Pietschmann
Jeremias Maerki wrote: Remove the content-type attribute (It's not properly implemented AFAIK). I'm not sure whether content-type is used at all, but this content-type=image/jpeg is illegal, according to the spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/slice7.html#content-type is should be

Re: Could not load external SVG

2003-02-10 Thread J.Pietschmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I upgraded my Oracle's JDeveloper from version 9.0.2 to 9.0.3 and now FOP reports this error: [ERROR]: Could not load external SVG: SAX2 driver class org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser not found The library xerces.jar (distributed with FOP) containing mentioned class

Re: provisional-label-separation

2003-02-10 Thread J.Pietschmann
Karen Mergner wrote: in my list I can see no changes if I specify a provisional-label-separation or not. If the label is too long it overwrites with list-body. FOP will overflow the area if it can't insert a line break. You'll see this if your label is a long word without spaces. You can insert

RE: XSL_FO generator

2003-02-10 Thread Savino, Matt C
The new XMLSpy is supposed to contain a graphical xsl:fo generator. We haven't received our licenses yet so I haven't had a chance to play with it. And no unfortunately it's not cheap. -Original Message- From: Steve Pitchford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003

RE: Postscript Error when RIPing document created with FOP

2003-02-10 Thread Patrick Branley
The RIP can accept a PDF file, which then im assuming converts it to postscript before output. If you open a PDF in Acrobat with distiller set up as a printer device you can print a PDF to another PDF file. Using this process the new PDF file will pass through the RIP with no problems. Patrick