where can I find the javadoc

2003-03-12 Thread Steve Vanspall
Hello, I have tried to hunt through both the source code tar and the binary tar, and can't find the javadoc for FOP. Am I blind, or is it somewhere else. Any help would be great Steve - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: can FOP generate .fo from the original XML?

2003-03-12 Thread Clay Leeds
Robert, FOP uses XALAN to do its XSLT processing. Using xalan.bat (it's in the BINARY of 0.20.5rc2 and I think the SOURCE, too), you can output to FO. The command line is: xalan.bat -in (XML_FILE.xml) -xsl (XSL_FILE.xsl) -out (NEW_FO_FILE.fo) For more information, simply run xalan.bat from the

Re: can FOP generate .fo from the original XML?

2003-03-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Clay Leeds wrote: Robert, FOP uses XALAN to do its XSLT processing. Using xalan.bat (it's in the BINARY of 0.20.5rc2 and I think the SOURCE, too), you can output to FO. The command line is: xalan.bat -in (XML_FILE.xml) -xsl (XSL_FILE.xsl) -out (NEW_FO_FILE.fo)

RE: where can I find the javadoc

2003-03-12 Thread Victor Mote
Steve Vanspall wrote: I have tried to hunt through both the source code tar and the binary tar, and can't find the javadoc for FOP. Am I blind, or is it somewhere else. Good question. Currently, the only way to get the javadocs is to build them from the sources, using the ant target javadocs,

RE: where can I find the javadoc

2003-03-12 Thread Steve Vanspall
Thanks, scrolled through the source doe, got the info I wanted. Regards Steve -Original Message- From: Victor Mote [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 12 March 2003 12:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: where can I find the javadoc Steve Vanspall wrote: I have tried to

Line-wrap in fo:leader

2003-03-12 Thread Rob Staveley \(Tom\)
How can I handle line-wrap in fo:leader? I'd like to get: blahref,ref blahref,ref,ref blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,... .ref,ref,ref However, the

RE: fo:leader weird output (again) ;o)

2003-03-12 Thread Rob Staveley \(Tom\)
I do apologise. I've unfirewalled port 8080. I hadn't realised that it was set up like that. -Original Message- From: laurent marot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 March 2003 17:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: fo:leader weird output (again) ;o) sorry but url doesn't work when

Re: embedded svg with blank anchor elements causes NullPointerException in 1.0Dev

2003-03-12 Thread Jeremias Maerki
More bad SVG, if you ask me, but FOP shouldn't crash because of that. I've fixed the bug in CVS. Thanks for reporting it. I still have to find out why it doesn't crash in 0.20.5rc2. The code is almost the same. On 11.03.2003 23:59:16 Krautbauer, Bruce wrote: The following document processes

Re: SVG to PDF: CMYK conversion / Can't open PDF in Adobe Illustrator

2003-03-12 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 11.03.2003 16:04:00 Hans Stoessel wrote: If I convert the SVG file with the version of FOP, the PDF file is much bigger (about 5 times). And a font I use (Arial) in the SVG file is changed in the PDF file. With the version 0.20.5 works this correct. I think I use the old version for the

RE: Question about Word character encoding.

2003-03-12 Thread Dennis Myrén
I am interested in your MS Word cleaner. Actually, I would like to see it right away if it is possible. Regards, Dennis Myrén -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11. mars 2003 19:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Question about Word character

Letter-spacing / kerning between words in PDFRenderer

2003-03-12 Thread Joop Vriend
Hi, To begin with: we use FOP 0.20.4, and this mail is about a partly fix for missing letter-spacing/kerning between words in PDF's. In PDF's produced with FOP compared to PDF's from other an other source, we noticed that FOP doesn't apply kerning (letter-spacing) to spaces between words, most

using FOP for docbook

2003-03-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
for the folks who want to play along with testing what does and does not work with docbook-PDF rendering, one of the test environments i find useful is tim waugh's selfdocbookx example, that you can download from www.cyberelk.net/tim/docbook/index.html. at the bottom of that page, you can

xsl-region-before flow control

2003-03-12 Thread Jochen . Maes
Hi all, I have been using FOP for more then a year and a half. Till now i needed to put something on the first page but not on the others, and i solved this with a variable. But as you all might know it's not really clean programming. So without having to define a new page-sequence, is there a

RE: FOP in production app

2003-03-12 Thread Van Camp, Kenneth (Exchange)
I saw a number of posted responses to David's query but it seems like most respondents are using FOP on the server side. Is there much experience in using FOP on the client side, say inside of an applet? I am interested in streaming XSLT to the user's browser and having an applet transform it

RE: Question about Word character encoding.

2003-03-12 Thread s-oualid
I am interested in your MS Word cleaner. Actually, I would like to see it right away if it is possible. Regards, Dennis Myrén Hi Dennis, Here is the function I just coded to resolve my issue with the Word's specific characters (appearing as # in the resulting PDF). As I said, I did'nt

AW: FOP in production app (clienside)

2003-03-12 Thread Müller, Markus
Hi, You have to consider the additional JARs used by FOP (Xalan, Avalon, ...). IMHO you get somewhat around 5 MB of JARs. It will take a long time for your users to download so much stuff (at least the first time they use the applet). This was the reason for us to have FOP on the server and send

RE: Question about Word character encoding.

2003-03-12 Thread Dennis Myrén
Thank you Simon! I have got use for it! Regards, Dennis Myrén -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12. mars 2003 15:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Question about Word character encoding. I am interested in your MS Word cleaner. Actually,

AW: FOP in production app (clienside)

2003-03-12 Thread s-oualid
I agree with Markus. FOP needs so much JARs and rendering PDF take so much ressources that I think it's better to do the transformations server side and then send the result to the client. That is my opinion about using FOP clientside with an applet (for web app, I think the servlet approach

AW: FOP in production app

2003-03-12 Thread Alexander Koppelhuber
I use FOP on the client side. The application (not applet) offers templates for different kinds of documents e.g. invitations, advertisements etc. The user can enter text and choose from an image list (remote db and local files) and the app produces a pdf. In my case it was better to use fop on

RE: Question about Word character encoding.

2003-03-12 Thread Philip Semanchuk
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 09:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the function I just coded to resolve my issue with the Word's specific characters (appearing as # in the resulting PDF). As I said, I did'nt find any complete table of the M$ Word's specific characters, so this function is not

RE: FOP in production app (clienside)

2003-03-12 Thread Van Camp, Kenneth (Exchange)
Good point. Here's my problem: I need to generate on-demand some good-size PDFs (a few hundred pages) for a lot of users. Our tests with FOP indicate it is too resource intensive to do on my web servers for this many users, so I'd like to generate XSLT and somehow let the client's PC do the

Re: FOP in production app (clienside)

2003-03-12 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Van Camp, Kenneth (Exchange) wrote: If applet is not practical, I wonder if there are any browser plug-ins that can do it (hopefully much smaller than 5MB)? I'd look to Java Web Start. 5MB is required, but it can be downloaded once only. It would be great if Adobe produced a version of Acrobat

RE: FOP in production app (clienside)

2003-03-12 Thread Philip Semanchuk
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 11:03, Van Camp, Kenneth (Exchange) wrote: If applet is not practical, I wonder if there are any browser plug-ins that can do it (hopefully much smaller than 5MB)? It would be great if Adobe produced a version of Acrobat that can consume XSLT and render the PDF directly,

RE: FOP in production app (clienside)

2003-03-12 Thread s-oualid
We had the same needs, generate on-demand big PDF with some images (between 200 and 500 pages), fop is mostly used here by the employees in their usual apps, but there was also a few need for our websites' users. We first have integrated FOP in our front apps using SHELL32.DLL in Visual Basic

Réf. : RE: Question about Word character encoding.

2003-03-12 Thread s-oualid
Many thanks for your answer, and your expertise ! I didn't know about that unused range, it will help me a lot since I just have to focus my attention on it now. Simon Philip Semanchuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/03/2003 15:53 Veuillez répondre à fop-user Pour : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

tab characters alignment

2003-03-12 Thread Claudio De Bernardi
Hi, does anybody know how FOP works with tab characters? I'm trying to generate a PDF file starting from a simple text which contains tab characters, and I want to keep them in the resulting PDF. I put the text into a block tag with the attribute white-space-collapse=false ( the text to be

RE: FOP in production app (clienside)

2003-03-12 Thread Patrick Dean Rusk
I use Java Web Start to deliver a Java application embedding FOP and it works great. I consider a one-time 5M download to be small these days, compared to lots of other internet practices people frequently use (like downloading game demos). Besides, you can quickly surpass 5M in PDF downloads by

RE: tab characters alignment

2003-03-12 Thread Victor Mote
Claudio De Bernardi does anybody know how FOP works with tab characters? I'm trying to generate a PDF file starting from a simple text which contains tab characters, and I want to keep them in the resulting PDF. I put the text into a block tag with the attribute white-space-collapse=false (

Re: tab characters alignment

2003-03-12 Thread Claudio De Bernardi
Victor, thanks for your reply. I agree with your opinion about tabs modernity, but it sound strange that a modern tool like FOP isn't backward compatible with a so simple features, consider that most editors support tabs in the rigth way and people still use them my aim is to have the most

Installing to FOP / Tomcat

2003-03-12 Thread Adam Shelley
Hello, First I must admit that as far as getting this up and running I failed miserably and i'm having troubles finding a good guide to get this up and running. What i've tried to do is install jakarta-tomcat-4.1.18 on my win2k server. This seems to be working. As per the documentation on fop

Re: tab characters alignment

2003-03-12 Thread Clay Leeds
Claudio, Claudio De Bernardi wrote: my aim is to have the most simple editor to create a PDF file based on an HTML textarea, obviuosly users should be free to use the poor ways provided by textareas to format a text which I think are only tabs (if the user use copy and paste), white spaces and

RE: FOP in production app

2003-03-12 Thread Savino, Matt C
FYI - we use FOP in an online production app to deliver on-demand print verions of our managment reports and lab reports. Our clients (drug companies) use the app to log on and see how their clinical trials are going. Luckily we haven't had much demand for large (50+ pages) PDFs or many

Re: PDF boomarks not created due to location?

2003-03-12 Thread J.Pietschmann
Philip Semanchuk wrote: Thank you very much Jeremias. The documentation that I have not been able to find is something that states whether this feature is WAD (working as designed) or if it is just a known quirk/bug. If patches are welcome then I guess it is the latter. =) I believe when bookmars

Re: Question about Word character encoding.

2003-03-12 Thread J.Pietschmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a little query : I am looking for a table with the hexadecimal code for the MS Word specific characters (eg: ... or the ' character). You should probably take a look at jakarta POI http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/index.html The claim to be able to read/write Word

RE: Installing to FOP / Tomcat

2003-03-12 Thread Adam Shelley
Hello, thanks for the reply Phillip I just reinstalled tomcat (to start from scratch) and placed the war file in the webapps dir. This seemed to get processed right away then I copied the supporting .jar files into the web-inf/lib directory. This is from the log file. 2003-03-12 12:21:05

Re: Line-wrap in fo:leader

2003-03-12 Thread J.Pietschmann
Rob Staveley (Tom) wrote: blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,... ref,ref,ref Add text-align=justify. I'd like to get: blahref,ref blahref,ref,ref blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,...

Re: xsl-region-before flow control

2003-03-12 Thread J.Pietschmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using FOP for more then a year and a half. Till now i needed to put something on the first page but not on the others, and i solved this with a variable. But as you all might know it's not really clean programming. So without having to define a new

Re: Letter-spacing / kerning between words in PDFRenderer

2003-03-12 Thread J.Pietschmann
Joop Vriend wrote: To begin with: we use FOP 0.20.4, and this mail is about a partly fix for missing letter-spacing/kerning between words in PDF's. Well, thanks for the effort but this patch wont make it into FOP soon, mainly because the layout core doesn't take kerning into account at all, which

RE: Installing to FOP / Tomcat

2003-03-12 Thread Koes, Derrick
The web.xml in the web app does not adhere to the DTD. Look at the servlet-mapping element in the web.xml. Is it and its children in the correct place according to the DTD? -Original Message- From: Adam Shelley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 3:34 PM To:

Re: tab characters alignment

2003-03-12 Thread Rodolfo M. Raya
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 14:06, Claudio De Bernardi wrote: Hi, does anybody know how FOP works with tab characters? TAB characters are replaced with 8 white spaces. Effective width depends on the font used. I'm trying to generate a PDF file starting from a simple text which contains tab

Re: tab characters alignment

2003-03-12 Thread J.Pietschmann
Claudio De Bernardi wrote: I agree with your opinion about tabs modernity, but it sound strange that a modern tool like FOP isn't backward compatible with a so simple features, consider that most editors support tabs in the rigth way and people still use them Backward compatibility or not,

xsl:fo to svg rendering with raster images

2003-03-12 Thread Alexander Koppelhuber
I tried to render my fo files to svg, which works fine for text. But none of the external images makes it to the svg file. Batik can produce image tags with links to external images. Is this a limitation in fop? (producing a pdf with the same fo file works fine). Regards Alex

Re: xsl:fo to svg rendering with raster images

2003-03-12 Thread J.Pietschmann
Alexander Koppelhuber wrote: I tried to render my fo files to svg, which works fine for text. But none of the external images makes it to the svg file. Batik can produce image tags with links to external images. Is this a limitation in fop? (producing a pdf with the same fo file works fine). Most