RE: Column / character width question

2003-05-09 Thread Savino, Matt C
I can't read the text because I'm missing a font (Might want to look into that for your end users. I have the latest Acrobat 5.0 Exchange.) So if I understand, the problem is creating flow in the main/body two-column section around the top section two-column thing on page 2, which is different

Re: Column / character width question

2003-05-09 Thread Clay Leeds
Matt, Savino, Matt C wrote: I can't read the text because I'm missing a font (Might want to look into that for your end users. I have the latest Acrobat 5.0 Exchange.) FWIW, I can't read it either So if I understand, the problem is creating flow in the main/body two-column section around the top

RE: Column / character width question

2003-05-09 Thread Savino, Matt C
Thanks Clay, looks promising. I may have to finally upgrade from FOP .20.2 to test it. From what I understand markers weren't well-implemented in this version. Basically what I need is for the word 'Continued' to appear at the top a block (table) of results every time there is a page break. The

Re: xslt docbook stylesheets

2003-05-09 Thread Niklas Koponen
On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 12:11:44PM -0400, Stefan Seefeld wrote: Jason Novotny wrote: I've been using the standard Norman Walsh docbook fop stylesheets with mixed success. I'm wondering if anyone has any crafted, improved or more robust stylesheets they would be willing to share with

Re: Column / character width question

2003-05-09 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Actually, it does. FOP contains an SVG renderer. -svg on the command line. On 09.05.2003 00:10:46 Clay Leeds wrote: Ben Galbraith wrote: Hmm... does FOP - SVG? I'm open to that, baby. How can I generate the SVG (other than by hand like I'm doing now)? Not that I know of. You might be

PostScript

2003-05-09 Thread Leet, Ethan C
I first tried to render an image into PDF with the PDFRenderer. The image has text in it, the text was jumbled. So I used the PSRenderer to create a Postscript file. Yet I can't view the file in gv ghostview ? Can anyone provide any advice ? Thank you

Re: PostScript

2003-05-09 Thread Jeremias Maerki
What do you mean with I can't view the file in GhostView? Do you get error messages or what's wrong? I have no problems here. On 09.05.2003 12:38:54 Leet, Ethan C wrote: I first tried to render an image into PDF with the PDFRenderer. The image has text in it, the text was

RE: PostScript

2003-05-09 Thread Leet, Ethan C
There are no errors when I render the file. When I call gv test.ps to open ghost view, ghost view opens, with a blank page ? When I render with a PDF renderer, and open the file test.pdf in acrobat I see the image I want, but the image's text is

RE: PostScript

2003-05-09 Thread Leet, Ethan C
Sorry, ghostview doesn't seem to give an error messages. I tried to open the file in xemacs, but xemacs seemed like it went into an infinite loop ?? it locked up, so maybe the rendered file is corrupt ? Is there problems with the PSRenderer I

Re: PostScript

2003-05-09 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Send me the generated PS file (and FO) off-list. I'll have a look at it in about 3 hours, when I'm back. Got to go now... On 09.05.2003 13:04:48 Leet, Ethan C wrote: There are no errors when I render the file. When I call gv test.ps to open ghost view, ghost view

RE: PostScript

2003-05-09 Thread Leet, Ethan C
I can only send the ps file. The FO file is code, I create the Driver set an output stream set a render PDF or PS I then call getContentHandler() - which is the FOTreeBuilder I then manually send SAX (XSL-FO) events to generate to the

Re: PostScript

2003-05-09 Thread Olivier Imbert
I got the same thing with XPDF and Ghostview ... I have the right number of pages but every pages are white ... My FO-files are quite complex (100 pages, tables, tables in tables, a lot of graphics -PNG, BMP and EPS- ). Le Vendredi 09 Mai 2003 12:38, Leet, Ethan C a écrit : I first tried to

RE: PDF metadata (was: newbie querie)

2003-05-09 Thread Gary Marshall-Stevens
The Document Information Dictionary object should cover what I need. I can put the metadata I have into subject and keyword fields. Excuse my ignorance but what is the best tool to do this? Thanks Gary -Original Message- From: Jeremias Maerki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 May

Re: PostScript

2003-05-09 Thread Jeremias Maerki
I'm not so sure you've got the same problem. I've only seen the problem with images in SVG. The rest seems to work correctly. Could you also come up with a small (!) example showing your problem? I've run all the examples in examples/fo with the PS renderer. Most files just render fine. Some are

RE: PostScript

2003-05-09 Thread Leet, Ethan C
Yes this is correct :-) If I use fo:external-graphic, then I will have to write the SVG data to a tmp file then pass a URL to the fo:external-graphic to the tmp file ? I will try this out :-) Thank you. I looked at the PS file, and it has all

Re: Keep-with-next in tables

2003-05-09 Thread Ben Galbraith
Haitham, FWIW, I use fo:table-row keep-with-next=always/ and its works like a champ for me. Have you done various experiments with only two or three rows etc. to see under what conditions it does/doesn't work? In any event, I can assure you that under at least some conditions, it does work

Re: PDF metadata

2003-05-09 Thread Clay Leeds
Jeremias Maerki wrote: Well, I think there's two kinds of metadata available in PDF. The chapter 9.2.1 (PDF spec) Document Information Dictionary object (represented by PDFInfo.java) which takes the basic values such as creator, title, keywords, etc. And there are metadata streams (chapter 9.2.2).

RE: 1 - break-before; 2 - retrieve-marker

2003-05-09 Thread John Marshall
Thank you (1) I am sure if I thought hard enough I could find an XPath remedy for elements that cause initial or consecutive page breaks, at least in my application. (2) I tried FOP-0.20.5rc2, which fixed the retrieve-marker problem but, as you warned, I hit the data duplication bug. I don't

RE: PostScript

2003-05-09 Thread Leet, Ethan C
I change my code to use fo:external-graphic content-height=6in content-width=7in src=url(/tmp/tmp.svg)/ No the process locks some where ?? The last log from FOP [INFO] 1 usaully meaning one page has been generated. But my process now

RE: PDF metadata

2003-05-09 Thread Victor Mote
Clay Leeds wrote: I've read the chapter 9.2.1 (PDF spec) Document Information Dictionary and still don't know how to leverage this piece of information. Must I use Java to add this meta-data to the PDF file, or can I do it from the command line interface? In other words, can it be done from

Re: PostScript

2003-05-09 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 09.05.2003 17:07:29 Leet, Ethan C wrote: Yes this is correct :-) If I use fo:external-graphic, then I will have to write the SVG data to a tmp file then pass a URL to the fo:external-graphic to the tmp file ? No, if the only element in your SVG in an image element

Re: PostScript

2003-05-09 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 09.05.2003 18:00:34 Leet, Ethan C wrote: I change my code to use fo:external-graphic content-height=6in content-width=7in src=url(/tmp/tmp.svg)/ No the process locks some where ?? Did you close your temporary file? Anyway, I don't think you will have to write a

RE: multiple page-sequences per pdf page

2003-05-09 Thread Victor Mote
Partridge, Michael wrote: This should be pretty simple, but I don't have my books with me. I need to get multiple 3.25in payment 'coupons' per page, and I'm not sure of the best approach. I know I could do it with one page-master and page-sequence and just pile them on top of each other,

Question on wrapping

2003-05-09 Thread Ben Galbraith
Hey Foppers, So, I've got a two-column region-body that's working great. However, given the following content: Header Subheader - Item 1 - Item 2 - Item 3 I need to treat the Header, Subheader, and Item 1 as an atomic, non-breakable unit. No problems here -- I've wrapped these three in

Re: PDF metadata

2003-05-09 Thread Jeremias Maerki
The only thing close to metadata in XSL-FO is fo:title on fo:page-sequence, I think. We would have to write a FOP extension (similar to outlines) to bring metadata over to the PDF document. (Maybe this would also be a job for http://exslfo.sourceforge.net or XSL 1.1.) At the moment you can only

RE: PostScript

2003-05-09 Thread Leet, Ethan C
fo:external-graphic src=someimage.png blah blah/ Does it have to be a png ? I am creating the SVG with the SVGGraphics2D. I am supporting a 2D Graphics print formatter. I wanted to format the graphics into PDF, but the images are not clear or text

Re: PDF metadata

2003-05-09 Thread Clay Leeds
Victor Mote wrote: I think the best way to do this would be with our FO extension mechanism, using the fox namespace. There are no calls to do this right now, but it will be pretty doable after we get the redesign done. (Its actually pretty doable now, but the redesign needs to take priority).

RE: PDF metadata

2003-05-09 Thread Victor Mote
Clay Leeds wrote: Here're the supported PDF meta-data attributes: Title Author Subject Keywords Creator Producer CreationDate ModDate Trapped Here's the PDF Spec Example: Example 9.1 shows a typical document information dictionary. 1 0 obj /Title (PostScript Language

how to tell FOP to stop accessing the network?

2003-05-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ok, being a FOP beginner, i'm sure there's a reason that FOP insists on accessing the network when it's processing a FO file to PDF. can i tell it to stop? rday - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: xslt docbook stylesheets

2003-05-09 Thread J.Pietschmann
Niklas Koponen wrote: The section titles and the paragraphs following it don't keep together. I don't know if there is domething wrong fith FOP or is it the stylesheet. This is due to the problem mentioned here: http://xml.apache.org/fop/faq.html#keep-with The workaround is to finalize the

Re: PostScript

2003-05-09 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 09.05.2003 18:26:11 Leet, Ethan C wrote: fo:external-graphic src=someimage.png blah blah/ Does it have to be a png ? No. That was just an example. I am creating the SVG with the SVGGraphics2D. Not sure, but why don't you try to render directly with

Re: PostScript

2003-05-09 Thread J.Pietschmann
Leet, Ethan C wrote: I see the image I want, but the image's text is jumbled and not clear. Sounds like http://xml.apache.org/fop/faq.html#svg-text I guess SVG wont render to PS. J.Pietschmann - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: PostScript

2003-05-09 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 09.05.2003 21:29:18 J.Pietschmann wrote: Leet, Ethan C wrote: I see the image I want, but the image's text is jumbled and not clear. Sounds like http://xml.apache.org/fop/faq.html#svg-text You could be right. I guess SVG wont render to PS. It does (to a certain degree) and

fo-pdf header content and alternative headers

2003-05-09 Thread Steve Guo
Several books uses and talked about alternative headers (footers) for odd and even pages, in the context of FOP. I have two questions: 1. Maybe a dumb question Since the content of the header is specified by, fo:static-content element does it mean the content cannot be 'dynamic'?, such as pulling

Re: fo-pdf header content and alternative headers

2003-05-09 Thread J.Pietschmann
Steve Guo wrote: Several books uses and talked about alternative headers (footers) for odd and even pages, in the context of FOP. I have two questions:1. Maybe a dumb questionSince the content of the header is specified by,fo:static-content elementdoes it mean the content cannot be 'dynamic'?,