FOP fails on Linux, but not on Windows

2002-12-03 Thread Kevin Flynn
Hi, I have a document that causes FOP to fail when run on our Linux build system, but works OK on my Windows machine. We use FOP 0.20.4 on both machines. It fails with the following errors: [java] Exception in thread main java.lang.InternalError: Can't connect to X11 window server using

Re: Native compile using GCJ or Kaffe to boost performance

2002-12-03 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Jeremiah Fisher wrote: I'm still trying to compile FOP to native code. This should provide a significant speed increase over Java byte code, but there are alot of issues (paths?) involved. Does anyone have experience in this matter or know of a resource I could turn to? Any help would be

Reuse of fo-tree

2002-12-03 Thread Henrik Olsson
Hi, are there any possibility to reuse a fo-tree in the fop and run it throw more then one renderer? For example I want a printout PCL or PostSript and then I want to store a pdf in an archive, since the document can be quite big I dont want to rebild the tree more than once. /Henrik Olsson

xsl variables

2002-12-03 Thread MARTIN Franck
Is there a way to change the value of a global xsl variable? is it possible to declare a vraiable at some location in the stylesheet and affect it a value at some other location? Thanks! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

AW: Reuse of fo-tree

2002-12-03 Thread Alexander Koppelhuber
I don't have an answer to your question, but my observation with fop is that subsequent rendering is much faster than the first one. Even if you change the content (texts, images). And also if you render to AWT first, and then to pdf. So I guess that reuse of a fop tree or caching is

Re: xsl variables

2002-12-03 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
MARTIN Franck wrote: Is there a way to change the value of a global xsl variable? No way as in any functional language. is it possible to declare a vraiable at some location in the stylesheet and affect it a value at some other location? No, it's not. Usually that means that you are not

Re: FOP fails on Linux, but not on Windows

2002-12-03 Thread Alex McLintock
At 09:52 03/12/02, Kevin Flynn wrote: Hi, I have a document that causes FOP to fail when run on our Linux build system, but works OK on my Windows machine. We use FOP 0.20.4 on both machines. It fails with the following errors: [java] Exception in thread main java.lang.InternalError: Can't

Re: Alignment

2002-12-03 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Evraire, Jonathan wrote: I have an unusual requirement for printing. We print in both English and French, side-by-side on the same page. Each section (ie: block) in one language must line up with the corresponding section in the other language (if one language is longer than it's counterpart

Strange irregularities in page breaking

2002-12-03 Thread Matthias Brunner
Hello, I have encountered the following problem: Input files and stylesheets are *exactly* the same. 73 pages are rendered regardless of whether calling from code/command line. (Tried with both PDF and XML renderer) But on page 63 and subsequent fop called from java code breaks differently,

Re: Native compile using GCJ or Kaffe to boost performance

2002-12-03 Thread Ryan . Asleson
Try Excelsior's JET product, it might be more user friendly: http://www.excelsior-usa.com/home.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

graphics in ouput format svg

2002-12-03 Thread Moebius, Yvonne
Hi, I am trying to create an SVG document with fop. My xsl stylesheet includes an fo:external-graphic: fo:external-graphic src=bild3.gif/ Fop puts the message Parsing of document complete, stopping renderer on the screen. But FOP doesn't stop properly. Anyway it creates an SVG document which

RE: Native compile using GCJ or Kaffe to boost performance

2002-12-03 Thread Jeremiah Fisher
I'm aware of JIT, but compiling to native can still increase performance and eliminates the java interpreter, so it may be worth a shot. -Original Message- From: Oleg Tkachenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 5:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Native

Re: Reuse of fo-tree

2002-12-03 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Henrik Olsson wrote: Rewriting the Driver and the StreamRenderer with a cache will do the trick I think. Are there any things of impotance You know that I have to bother aboute? It's supposed to be addressed by redesign currently under way, but you can implement it yourself, it's open source

Re: Strange irregularities in page breaking

2002-12-03 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Matthias Brunner wrote: I have encountered the following problem: Input files and stylesheets are *exactly* the same. 73 pages are rendered regardless of whether calling from code/command line. (Tried with both PDF and XML renderer) But on page 63 and subsequent fop called from java code breaks

Re: graphics in ouput format svg

2002-12-03 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Moebius, Yvonne wrote: I am trying to create an SVG document with fop. My xsl stylesheet includes an fo:external-graphic: fo:external-graphic src=bild3.gif/ Fop puts the message Parsing of document complete, stopping renderer on the screen. But FOP doesn't stop properly. Hmmm, looks like a bug.

Re: Best XSL-FO WYSIWYG editor

2002-12-03 Thread IvanLatysh
Hello, ANIL! You wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 02 Dec 2002 18:54:22 +: AB What is the simplest way of converting file.xml = file.fo = AB file.pdf XML + XSLT - FOP - PDF Simplest way. --- Yours sincerely, Ivan Latysh. IvanLatysh[a]yahoo.ca

Re: Alignment

2002-12-03 Thread J.Pietschmann
Evraire, Jonathan wrote: We print in both English and French, side-by-side on the same page I've gotten the left-hand page hacked by using tables, but I don't know how to get the right-hand page aligned with the left. Any suggestions? There is no possiblity to have this kind of two flows in

Re: AW: Reuse of fo-tree

2002-12-03 Thread J.Pietschmann
Alexander Koppelhuber wrote: I don't have an answer to your question, but my observation with fop is that subsequent rendering is much faster than the first one. Even if you change the content (texts, images). And also if you render to AWT first, and then to pdf. So I guess that reuse of a fop

Re: Strange irregularities in page breaking

2002-12-03 Thread Matthias Brunner
On Tuesday 03 December 2002 20:11, Oleg Tkachenko wrote: And fop -x ... did not even work! Did you mean -c? No, -x for dump all configuration settings. Why are these differences? Make sure you are embedding FOP in the same way you are running it from command line (I mean the same

RE: xsl variables

2002-12-03 Thread Calero, Roberto
Title: RE: xsl variables NO!!! Variables are SAFE in XSLT. You can't change de value of a variable which is out of the scope of your current template block. BTW... Your question is a very newbie one :-) -Original Message- From: MARTIN Franck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: xsl variables

2002-12-03 Thread Clay Leeds
Howdy, Forgive my 'newbie' answer, but it seems like what you're trying to do would be better suited to xsl:param than xsl:variable. Why not try using an xsl:param instead? You don't need to read further (move along folks, there's nothing interesting to see here), but as I understand it, an