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From: Ben Galbraith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 3:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Column / character width question
Savino, Matt C wrote:
So I'm guessing the text below the pics in the upper split
section is
a continuous
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
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
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
Ben Galbraith wrote:
Unfortunately, I need to create a block in a region-before that's
divided into two columns. As this notion is not supported by XSL 1.0, I
needn't wonder if FOP supports this in some way.
Can you use fo:table to create 2 columns?
fo:static-content flow-name=xsl-region-before
Clay Leeds wrote:
Wait a minute... Are you trying to do layout like in a newspaper? Where
the end of one column at the bottom of the page will flow to the top
of the next column? As far as I know ( I consider my knowledge of FOP a
bit above that of a newbie), that isn't supported in FOP. To do
Stefan Seefeld wrote:
How is the above different from flowing text across pages ? Just imagine
each column to be a (narrow) page, then tile two such boxes
horizontally. What is needed to make two column pages work that is not
yet needed when doing 'ordinary' pages ?
Yeah, sounds good to me, but
Ben Galbraith wrote:
Yep, that's what I need. I was pretty sure that FOP didn't support it,
but hey, neither does any other XSL 1.0 compliant tool.
I think I will just approximate the lengths of lines (thanks to JP's
comment) unless it proves woefully inaccurate. If it does, I think I
may
Oops! That was supposed to be:
Running it in fop-0.20.4 doesn't output exactly what is output with
RenderX's XEP (not to mention the few errors you get w/ fonts, footnotes
such--which could be problems on my system like not having the fonts
installed or not using a userconfig.xml file or
The RenderX demo is cool enough, but it doesn't circumvent the basic XSL
limitation: 1 column layout per page. None of the pages have two or
more separate multi-column regions.
Here's a mock-up of what I want:
=
| Page header |
=
| 2 column region
Ben,
To make things clearer, I've uploaded the PDF in question to:
http://www.galbraiths.org/preview.pdf
I wonder if something like this could be done in SVG and then included
in an FO file output by FOP?
BTW, are you saying this file was created with FOP?
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Clay Leeds - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On page 2, look at the box labeled Key Facts. This is where I want
to
create a two column region. Warning: it's a 3 MB PDF, but it is a demo
of what FOP can do.
Is the text in Key Facts dynamic? Why can't you use a 2 column table
in that region? If the text is always the same, you should
I wonder if something like this could be done in SVG and then included
in an FO file output by FOP?
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)?
BTW, are you saying this file was created with FOP?
Yep!
Scott Moore wrote:
Is the text in Key Facts dynamic? Why can't you use a 2 column table
in that region? If the text is always the same, you should be able to
format it in such a way so that it looks like it flows from one column
to the other.
Sadly, it is quite dynamic. 1000's of PDFs just like
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 able to use the Apache Foundation's
Batik project:
http://xml.apache.org/batik/
In particular, their SVG Generator:
I'm missing a font so I can't see the text. Does the upper two-column section
need to flow like the lower one? Can it be the same height every time? Is there
a new upper two-column section on every page? That's some complicated layout
you have there, almost looks more like a catalog you would
Savino, Matt C wrote:
I'm missing a font so I can't see the text. Does the upper two-column
section need to flow like the lower one? Can it be the same height
every time? Is there a new upper two-column section on every page?
Fortunately, the section only appears on page 2, and its contents are
So I'm guessing the text below the pics in the upper split section is a
continuous paragraph? If you don't mind my asking, can you just divide the
content in half? Or do you really need the split between the text part?
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Savino, Matt C wrote:
So I'm guessing the text below the pics in the upper split section is
a continuous paragraph? If you don't mind my asking, can you just
divide the content in half? Or do you really need the split between
the text part?
Don't mind you asking, but your assertion is wrong. They
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