RE: Alternatives to auto table layout

2004-05-26 Thread Andreas L. Delmelle
-Original Message- From: James Earl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi James, Thanks for the example. vMax is a string length in this example though, right? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think proportional-column-width() will work with a string length will it? Hmm.. Not sure

Where to download high-quality fonts

2004-05-26 Thread Paul Tremblay
I think I'm getting the hang of installing fonts in fop, but I can't find any site where I can download high-quality fonts. I think adobe Type 1 fonts are preferable? I would like to have some of the fonts I am use to, such as Bookman, New Century Schoolbook, etc. Can anyone point me to a site?

RE: Where to download high-quality fonts

2004-05-26 Thread Chris Warr
Can't you just grab them out of the windows/fonts directory? Or am I talking out my clack? Chris. -Original Message- From: Paul Tremblay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 26 May 2004 11:51 AM To: fop mailing list Subject: Where to download high-quality fonts I think I'm

Re: Where to download high-quality fonts

2004-05-26 Thread Paul Tremblay
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 11:45:04AM +1000, Chris Warr wrote: Can't you just grab them out of the windows/fonts directory? Or am I talking out my clack? Can you? I have a linux box. My girlfriend has a Macintosh, which puts fonts in some type of suitcase. If you can just grab those

RE: Where to download high-quality fonts

2004-05-26 Thread Chris Warr
Pretty sure that's how we got our Arial font in there, don't know about the legal issues though. -Original Message- From: Paul Tremblay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 26 May 2004 12:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Where to download high-quality fonts On Wed, May 26,

RE: Where to download high-quality fonts

2004-05-26 Thread Andreas L. Delmelle
-Original Message- From: Paul Tremblay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, snip / Anyone every take a Windows font and use it in fop? Sure! Happens all the time... Concerning Chris' question about the legal issues, that's a whole different story (--the details of which I'm not too

RE: Symbol ZapfDingats font doesn't render

2004-05-26 Thread Pascal Sancho
Hi,* I had a similar problem. These 2 special fonts are only available in a normal format (neither bold nor italic). You should check if inherited properties affect thes 2 traits. If this is the source problem, just add appropriate text-decoration=none and font-weight=normal. Tcho -Message

RE: Symbol ZapfDingats font doesn't render

2004-05-26 Thread Pascal Sancho
Hi (2) Alternative source problem: The native charsets are limited to some characters. For example, in the symbol font, normal letters (#x41; to #x7A;) are not implemented. If you need to use greek characters, you must use appropriate charcodes (i.e. #x0391; as Alpha to #x03D6; as omega). I

Re: unwanted blank page because of page count

2004-05-26 Thread Chris Bowditch
Clay Leeds wrote: snip/ I guess that's possible. It's also possible that whatever problem you're having is due to portions of fop-0.20.5 not yet in compliance with the spec (FOP is 'moving towards' the spec, but check the Compliance page[1] to (currently shows 'basic' compliance, but not

Re: spending too much time in PropertyList.findProperty

2004-05-26 Thread Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Steven McNeel wrote: (2) org.apache.fop.fo.PropertyList.findProperty - 26.4% - this is the other main culprit. The time spent here is divided fairly evenly among the following three methods of PropertyListBuilder: computeProperty - 8.8% isCorrespondingForced - 5.7%

AW: question about performance

2004-05-26 Thread Sandy . Soesilo
hi.. thanks guys for some answers... i think i'll doing some experiments with the performance using the xalan... i suspect that it was the FO-Processor that took the most resources, because i have some graphics in the header, and page-citation in the footer .. a little bit out of topic.. my

Re: spanning columns

2004-05-26 Thread A.M.
On May 25, 2004, at 14:42, Chris Bowditch wrote: A.M. wrote: Hi List- I am relatively new to FO. I am trying to create a 2-column page with text that wraps into the next column at a position on the page. I can see it is possible by putting a leader in as shown in one of the Apache FOP examples,

IPD error although width=100%

2004-05-26 Thread Sandy . Soesilo
... hi.. i got this error message everytime i run my fop : [WARNING] Sum of fixed column widths 793693 greater than maximum specified IPD 0 [ERROR] At least one of minimum, optimum, or maximum IPD must be specified on table. [ERROR] At least one of minimum, optimum, or maximum IPD must be

Re: IPD error although width=100%

2004-05-26 Thread Chris Bowditch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... hi.. i got this error message everytime i run my fop : [WARNING] Sum of fixed column widths 793693 greater than maximum specified IPD 0 This error is simply saying that youve declared columns whose total width is greater than the width of the page. Column widths need

RE: Alternatives to auto table layout

2004-05-26 Thread James Earl
On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 18:14, Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: -Original Message- From: James Earl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi James, Thanks for the example. vMax is a string length in this example though, right? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think

RE: Alternatives to auto table layout

2004-05-26 Thread James Earl
On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 10:08, James Earl wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 18:14, Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: Say you have a max record width (sum of all respective max field widths) of 65, then each column gets its width according to a calculation like [( proportional-width / 65 ) *

RE: Alternatives to auto table layout

2004-05-26 Thread James Earl
On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 11:12, James Earl wrote: On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 10:08, James Earl wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 18:14, Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: Say you have a max record width (sum of all respective max field widths) of 65, then each column gets its width according to a

Re: Alternatives to auto table layout

2004-05-26 Thread Julian Reschke
James Earl wrote: ... Well, at least now I understand why! Man, this is easy, who needs auto table layout!!! Well. If it's that easy, I don't understand why FOP can't do this on it's own rather than requiring special workarounds... Julian -- green/bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de --

Re: Alternatives to auto table layout

2004-05-26 Thread James Earl
On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 11:32, Julian Reschke wrote: James Earl wrote: ... Well, at least now I understand why! Man, this is easy, who needs auto table layout!!! Well. If it's that easy, I don't understand why FOP can't do this on it's own rather than requiring special workarounds...

Re: Alternatives to auto table layout

2004-05-26 Thread James Earl
On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 11:36, James Earl wrote: On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 11:32, Julian Reschke wrote: James Earl wrote: ... Well, at least now I understand why! Man, this is easy, who needs auto table layout!!! Well. If it's that easy, I don't understand why FOP can't do this on

RE: Alternatives to auto table layout

2004-05-26 Thread Andreas L. Delmelle
-Original Message- From: James Earl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi James, I'm not sure if I'm doing this right... but the following gave acceptable results: snip / Total: 53 So far, you're on the right track, but... Calculations: 1. (20 / 53) * 33 = 12.5 (e.g.

RE: Alternatives to auto table layout

2004-05-26 Thread James Earl
On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 11:50, Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: -Original Message- From: James Earl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi James, I'm not sure if I'm doing this right... but the following gave acceptable results: snip / Total: 53 So far, you're on the right track,

RE: Alternatives to auto table layout

2004-05-26 Thread Andreas L. Delmelle
-Original Message- From: Julian Reschke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Julian, James Earl wrote: ... Well, at least now I understand why! Man, this is easy, who needs auto table layout!!! Well. If it's that easy, I don't understand why FOP can't do this on it's own rather

Re: spending too much time in PropertyList.findProperty

2004-05-26 Thread J.Pietschmann
Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote: It also appears that I have CPU and memory problems with FOP due to too complex tables. I suspect this is be cause row and cell areas are referenced from their corresponding FOs itself and are therefore kept in memory together with all their descendants until the