Problem Installing fop under Linux
Greetings!, I'm trying to install fop. When I try to run it I get this error: java org.apache.fop.apps.Fop -fo bgimage.fo -pdf myfile.pdf Exception in thread main java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/avalon/framework/logger/Logger at org.apache.fop.apps.Fop.main(Unknown Source) Does this mean I am missing a .jar file from my CLASSPATH? If so which one do I need to include? This is my class path: CLASSPATH=/usr/local/src/fop-0.20.4rc/build/fop.jar:/usr/local/src/fop-0.20. 4rc/lib/ant-1.4 .1.jar:/usr/local/src/fop-0.20.4rc/lib/batik.jar:/usr/local/src/fop-0.20.4rc /lib/xalan-2.3. 1.jar:/usr/local/src/fop-0.20.4rc/xercesImpl-2.0.1.jar:/usr/local/src/fop-0. 20.4rc/xml-apis .jar:/usr/local/src/fop-0.20.4rc/avalon-framework-cvs-20020315.jar Thank you!
RE: Problem Installing fop under Linux
David, I'm trying to install fop. 0.20.4 is the newest version. RC means Release Candidate. java org.apache.fop.apps.Fop -fo bgimage.fo -pdf myfile.pdf Exception in thread main java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/avalon/framework/logger/Logger at org.apache.fop.apps.Fop.main(Unknown Source) Does this mean I am missing a .jar file from my CLASSPATH? Probably. Get 0.20.4 1st, then compare the CLASSPATH with the actual command line. Regards, Roland
RE: Problem Installing fop under Linux
0.20.4 is what I am trying to install. then compare the CLASSPATH with the actual command line. not sure what you mean. This is my command line: java org.apache.fop.apps.Fop -fo bgimage.fo -pdf myfile.pdf
RE: Problem Installing fop under Linux
David, 0.20.4 is what I am trying to install. then compare the CLASSPATH with the actual command line. not sure what you mean. Have a look in fop.bat : uses the -cp parameter to pass in the classpath. I think you're missing logkit-1.0.jar. This is my command line: java org.apache.fop.apps.Fop -fo bgimage.fo -pdf myfile.pdf Your CLASSPATH still points to 0.20.4rc. Change each path to the correct directory. Regards, Roland
RE: Problem Installing fop under Linux
I apologize Roland, I didn't quite catch the distinction between 0.20.4 and 0.20.4rc. I have now installed the correct version of fop and updated the directories appropriately. Unfortunately I still get the same error. Have a look in fop.bat : uses the -cp parameter to pass in the classpath. I think you're missing logkit-1.0.jar. logkit-1.0.jar doesn't seem to come with the linux version of fop. Is that file just for windows os's? If not, where could I download it from? Regards, David
RE: Problem Installing fop under Linux
David, logkit-1.0.jar doesn't seem to come with the linux version of fop. My mistake; Open mouth, change foot. Check each jar in the 'build' 'lib' dirs are in your CLASSPATH. If you're happy this is correct, check the current value `echo $CLASSPATH` when you run it. Other suggestions: Run it on one of the docs/examples instead. Try `fop.sh` Cheers, Roland
RE: Problem Installing fop under Linux
Doh! I see the problem: /usr/local/src/fop-0.20.4rc/avalon-framework-cvs-20020315.jar should be: /usr/local/src/fop-0.20.4rc/lib/avalon-framework-cvs-20020315.jar Thank you very much for your help Roland. Regards, David
Problem reading userconfig.xml on UNIX
Hi there, I have trouble using the userconfig.xml on UNIX. FOP generates these messages: -- some lines omitted -- [DEBUG] OPTIONS [DEBUG] user configuration file: /u/BSK27/fop0.20.4/conf/userconfig.xml [DEBUG] debug mode on [DEBUG] dump configuration [DEBUG] quiet mode on [DEBUG] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser [DEBUG] reading user configuration file [DEBUG] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser [ERROR] Could not load user configuration file /u/BSK27/fop0.20.4/conf/userconfig.xml - error: Content is not allowed in prolog. [ERROR] using default values -- snip -- Who has problems with my config file? SAX2? FOP? What's wrong? The userconfig.xml looks like this (and works fine on Windows): -- begin -- !--!DOCTYPE configuration SYSTEM config.dtd-- !-- this file contains templates which allow an user easy configuration of Fop. Actually normally you don't need this configuration file, but if you need to change configuration, you should always use this file and *not* config.xml. Usage: java org.apache.fop.apps.Fop -c userconfig.xml -fo fo-file -pdf pdf-file -- -- ... -- Suggestions welcome... Markus
Re: dynamic sizing of label-end() body-start()
Eric Smith wrote: I cannot see in the docs how to have the label size automatcally set by the width of the label. I am using with level=multiple. Accordingly the label may be 1. or 1.4 or 1.4.2.7 or whatever. Anyone know how to do this? Well, fo lists are not very smart objects and without a careful planning labels may wrap or overlap body. It's a stylesheet author responsibility to provide provisional-distance-between-starts property value that is big enough to cater the biggest label may occur in the list, otherwise a label value will be wrapped. You may consider calculating of provisional-distance-between-starts at xslt stage according to label length in em units, for example. See http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect3/bk/ch07.html#d0e5755. -- Oleg Tkachenko eXperanto team Multiconn Technologies, Israel
Re: Table and first/last page
Here's a sample of a layout-master-set that has different page headers for the first and other pages. The important hint is the region-name that is overridden in fo:region-before. fo:layout-master-set fo:simple-page-master master-name=IS-11 page-height=29.7cm page-width=21cm margin-left=1.5cm margin-right=1.3cm margin-top=12mm margin-bottom=0mm fo:region-before region-name=doc-header extent=71mm/ fo:region-body margin-top=73mm margin-bottom=10mm/ fo:region-after extent=10mm/ /fo:simple-page-master fo:simple-page-master master-name=IS-12 page-height=29.7cm page-width=21cm margin-left=1.5cm margin-right=1.3cm margin-top=34mm margin-bottom=0mm fo:region-before region-name=other-page-header extent=17mm/ fo:region-body margin-top=19mm margin-bottom=10mm/ fo:region-after extent=10mm/ /fo:simple-page-master fo:page-sequence-master master-name=invoice fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-reference=IS-11 page-position=first/ fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-reference=IS-12/ /fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives /fo:page-sequence-master /fo:layout-master-set Further down the document you'll then have the following: fo:static-content flow-name=doc-header fo:static-content flow-name=other-page-header instead of fo:static-content flow-name=xsl-region-before This lets you define separate page headers. What you currently can't do is define a conditional-page-master-reference for page-position=last. This is not implemented. On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 11:07:35 +0100 Nwilan Glirt wrote: I am using FO to transform an XML document into a nice business form (like an invoice). I am thinking of presenting all the postings in a table that runs across as many pages as needed. My problem is, that I want to make the top and bottom of the document to be different for the first page (should contain address etc.), last pages (should contain a total amount) and all the pages in between (should just list the postings). I have been playing around with fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives and conditional-page-master-reference, but that only seems to be affecting the selection of the page-master, which only deals with the pysical aspects of the page (size, margins etc), and those don't differ across the pages. I feel I got something basically wrong here. I would appreciate any help! Jeremias Maerki
Space After fo:block
Hi All, In my generated PDF file from FO... within the fo:flow element continuous fo:block elements are separated with some space but continuous fo:table elements are not separated by any space.. my element descriptions in fo are as follows Table fo:table inline-progression-dimension.minimum=1pt table-layout=fixed width=100% fo:table-column column-width=proportional-column-width(1) column-number=1/ fo:table-header fo:table-row fo:table-cell fo:block text-align=start font-size=7pt font-family=Courier line-height=9pt xsl:textSome Text/xsl:text /fo:block /fo:table-cell /fo:table-row fo:table-header fo:table-body fo:table-row fo:table-cell fo:block text-align=start font-size=7pt font-family=Courier line-height=9pt xsl:textSome Text/xsl:text /fo:block /fo:table-cell /fo:table-row fo:table-body /fo:table === Block fo:block text-align=start font-size=7pt font-family=Courier line-height=9pt xsl:textSome Text/xsl:text /fo:block == How can I make FOP stop adding the spaces after fo:block??? thanks in advance regards Balajee Chandrasekaran Software Engineer Majesco Software Inc. Phone : 91-22-5695 Extn No 7911 Belief Everything is possible for him who believes. Bible MASTEK Investing in relationships In the US, we're called MAJESCO ~~ Opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the individual and not that of Mastek Limited, unless specifically indicated to that effect. Mastek Limited does not accept any responsibility or liability for it. This e-mail and attachments (if any) transmitted with it are confidential and/or privileged and solely for the use of the intended person or entity to which it is addressed. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. This e-mail and its attachments have been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. It is the responsibility of the recipient to run the virus check on e-mails and attachments before opening them. If you have received this e-mail in error, kindly delete this e-mail from all computers. ~~
Re: Problem reading userconfig.xml on UNIX
Müller, Markus wrote: I have trouble using the userconfig.xml on UNIX. FOP generates these messages: [DEBUG] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser [ERROR] Could not load user configuration file /u/BSK27/fop0.20.4/conf/userconfig.xml - error: Content is not allowed in prolog. Who has problems with my config file? SAX2? FOP? What's wrong? That's xml parser, particularly xerces as can be seen in debug. Somehow xerces found character data during prolog parsing (only xml declaration, doctype declaration, comments, pi's and whitespace allowed in a prolog, which is all stuff before root element start tag). Usually that means encoding problem. Have you changed userconfig.xml encoding? Try to define encoding explicitly in the xml declaration. -- Oleg Tkachenko eXperanto team Multiconn Technologies, Israel
Re: Space After fo:block
Balajee Chandrasekaran wrote: In my generated PDF file from FO... within the fo:flow element continuous fo:block elements are separated with some space but continuous fo:table elements are not separated by any space.. I cannot reproduce your problem, I multiplied your table and then block and those were formatted into uniformly stacked tables and blocks. Post small fo example that illustrates your problem. -- Oleg Tkachenko eXperanto team Multiconn Technologies, Israel
page-position=last, FOP vs XEP
It has come to my attention that page-position=last is not yet implemented in FOP. That is a big problem for the purpose I have. I tried with XEP (from RenderX) and it seems to work here. The problem with XEP is a) it does note support pcl output, which I need, and b) it is a Windows-only-thing, which is also a problem. I want to stick with FOP. Can anybody tell me when page-position=last will be supported in FOP? _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
page-position=last vs. conditional blocks
Now that I discovered that page-position=last is not implemented in FOP, I am looking for alternative ways to produce first, middle and last specific pages. Is there any way to do some conditional stuff on blocks such as testing if we are currently writing the last page? _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
Re: page-position=last, FOP vs XEP
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 14:33:22 +0100 Nwilan Glirt wrote: It has come to my attention that page-position=last is not yet implemented in FOP. That is a big problem for the purpose I have. I tried with XEP (from RenderX) and it seems to work here. The problem with XEP is a) it does note support pcl output, which I need, and b) it is a Windows-only-thing, which is also a problem. I want to stick with FOP. Can anybody tell me when page-position=last will be supported in FOP? No, it will be done during the redesign phase, but we can't give you a date, yet. We were facing the same problem and therefore tried to change (or to make our customers change) the layout so we didn't need the page-position=last functionality. Maybe it's also possible with your layout. Jeremias Maerki
Re: page-position=last vs. conditional blocks
If you know what's exactly on your last page (ex. the last page is a form that the recipient of the document has to fill out) you could try to use two page-sequences, where the second page-sequence only defines a single page-master for the last page. But that won't work if content flows from the n-1th page to the last page. Anyway, during XSLT you don't get any information from FOP (even if it had it) to determine the last page. You can do that only if in the way outlined above. Perhaps, you have a situation like that. I hope this helps anyway. On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:17:19 +0100 Nwilan Glirt wrote: Now that I discovered that page-position=last is not implemented in FOP, I am looking for alternative ways to produce first, middle and last specific pages. Is there any way to do some conditional stuff on blocks such as testing if we are currently writing the last page? Jeremias Maerki
RE: page-position=last, FOP vs XEP, business forms
Would it be posible to iterate over your list of invoices (by using recursion with the head and tail approach in the xslt translation). But keep a counter of the number of invoices processed this page. When the counter hits a certain level start a new page by doing the carried forward/brought forward part of the page break. That way if there are no page breaks all of the invoice lines will appear on the one page, and if there are more invoice lines that can appear on a single page the appropriate page break will appear. This approach will however mean that you have a page sequence for each page. It will also mean that you have to know how many invoice lines can appear on a single page. regards, Chris -Original Message- From: Jeremias Maerki [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 3:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: page-position=last, FOP vs XEP, business forms :-) We're doing mostly invoices and such but that's exactly the kind of requirements that I've always tried to avoid. If you can figure out a good (general) solution I'd be glad if you could post it. I regret that I never took the time to figure it out myself. I hope somebody on this list has a few good ideas. I've thought about markers for the subtotals, but I don't know if they can help here. On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:33:08 +0100 Nwilan Glirt wrote: I hope that it is possible to work around the missing page-position=last. What I am doing is producing a classic invoice-type document which needs: Special first page with adresses in the header and amount tranferred to next page in case of more than one page. Middle pages with amount transferred from prev. page and amount tranferred to next page Special last page with amount transferred from prev. page and total amount etc. On top of this I need a page design for first page also beeing last page, with both the adress part and the total part! I'm not even sure this can be acchived using FO as such. Does anyone have experiences with producing business forms such as invoices? Wanna share? Jeremias Maerki
Re: page-position=last vs. conditional blocks
Nwilan Glirt wrote: Now that I discovered that page-position=last is not implemented in FOP, I am looking for alternative ways to produce first, middle and last specific pages. Is there any way to do some conditional stuff on blocks such as testing if we are currently writing the last page? No, even FOP itself is unable to know if it's the last page - that's the core problem. Actually it probably requires lookahead, the only way I can imagine is to try to layout *every* page as last and if flow is not exhausted, relayout it again as not last, anyway it's a topic for fop-dev. If you know explicitly what objects would be on the last page and you are sure it fits exactly 1 page you can move last page objects into a different fo:page-sequence object with appropriate master-reference to the last page master. -- Oleg Tkachenko eXperanto team Multiconn Technologies, Israel
Re: page-position=last, FOP vs XEP, business forms
Of course. This approach has been proposed a number of times, but that only works if you really know the height of each invoice position in advance. But at least for me, it's not that general solution I'm looking for. Let's hope this helps at least Nwilan Glirt. On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:49:00 + Ward, Christopher wrote: Would it be posible to iterate over your list of invoices (by using recursion with the head and tail approach in the xslt translation). But keep a counter of the number of invoices processed this page. When the counter hits a certain level start a new page by doing the carried forward/brought forward part of the page break. That way if there are no page breaks all of the invoice lines will appear on the one page, and if there are more invoice lines that can appear on a single page the appropriate page break will appear. This approach will however mean that you have a page sequence for each page. It will also mean that you have to know how many invoice lines can appear on a single page. Jeremias Maerki
Re: page-position=last, FOP vs XEP, business forms
Another *hypothetical* workaround for the last page problem might be the idea to use area tree output. FOP in xml output mode produces area tree xml document and in this document one can select /AreaTree/Page[last()] - that's exactly areas on the last page. Then fo should be changed somehow taking into acount this information. -- Oleg Tkachenko eXperanto team Multiconn Technologies, Israel
Page subsequences exhausted. Using previous subsequence.
Hi, I'm having weird problem... I get error message Page subsequences exhausted. Using previous subsequence. when renderin xml xsl to pcl. PDF and PS is ok. Has somebody had this kind of problem? I attached my files... eka.xml eka.xsl jep.svg Regards, Juha Moisio / Tietonauha Oy [ERROR] unknown font Helvetica-Bold,normal,normal so defaulted font to any [ERROR] unknown font Helvetica-Bold,normal,normal so defaulted font to any [ERROR] unknown font Helvetica-Bold,normal,normal so defaulted font to any [ERROR] unknown font Helvetica-Bold,normal,normal so defaulted font to any [ERROR] unknown font Helvetica-Bold,normal,normal so defaulted font to any [ERROR] Page subsequences exhausted. Using previous subsequence. [INFO] [2] [ERROR] java.lang.NullPointerException org.apache.fop.apps.FOPException: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.fop.apps.CommandLineStarter.run(Unknown Source) at org.apache.fop.apps.Fop.main(Unknown Source) - java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerImpl.run(TransformerImpl.java:3231) at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerHandlerImpl.endDocument(TransformerH andlerImpl.java:436) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endDocument(AbstractSAXParser.ja va:715) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNamespaceBinder.endDocument(XMLNamespaceBinder.jav a:704) at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.endDocument(XMLDTDValidator.java: 985) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.endEntity(XMLDocumentScannerIm pl.java:437) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.endEntity(XMLEntityManager.java:1159 ) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager$EntityScanner.load(XMLEntityManager. java:3204) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager$EntityScanner.skipSpaces(XMLEntityMa nager.java:2876) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$TrailingMiscDispatcher.dispatc h(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:987) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocume ntFragmentScannerImpl.java:333) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.StandardParserConfiguration.parse(StandardParserCo nfiguration.java:529) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.StandardParserConfiguration.parse(StandardParserCo nfiguration.java:585) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:147) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:114 8) at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TrAXFilter.parse(TrAXFilter.java:134) at org.apache.fop.apps.Driver.render(Unknown Source) at org.apache.fop.apps.CommandLineStarter.run(Unknown Source) at org.apache.fop.apps.Fop.main(Unknown Source) ### This message has been scanned by F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange. For more information, connect to http://www.F-Secure.com/ eka.xml Description: Binary data eka.xsl Description: Binary data jep.svg Description: Binary data
page-position=first
As mentioned, page-position=last does not work. But does page-position=first? Scott
Re: Page subsequences exhausted. Using previous subsequence.
Moisio Juha wrote: I'm having weird problem... I get error message Page subsequences exhausted. Using previous subsequence. when renderin xml xsl to pcl. PDF and PS is ok. Well, error message about page sequences seems to have nothing to do with a real problem - you are trying to render svg image to pcl, but PCLRenderer doesn't support svg, see today's topic on fop-dev list: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-devm=103703269815513w=2. -- Oleg Tkachenko eXperanto team Multiconn Technologies, Israel
Re: how to center a table horizontally on the page
Biying Huang wrote: I have a table which has dynamic table-width. I need to put it in the center of the page horizontally so I put the fo:table in a fo:block and set text-align=center to the fo:block. But this doesn't work. The table is always on the left. text-align is about aligning *inline* content. In a pure xsl-fo exist at least 2 different methods of centering a table on a page, both are actually tricks and unfortunately FOP doesn't support both of them. Therefore the only way is using a blind table, see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-userm=102952965830886w=2. -- Oleg Tkachenko eXperanto team Multiconn Technologies, Israel
