Re: Background Color
I thought that when you define your fo:region-body in your fo:simple-page-master (in the fo:layout-master-set) you could define a background-color attribute... but unfortunately, it doesnt work :o/ Maybe it's not yet implemented ? - Original Message - From: Ian Taylor To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 10:33 AM Subject: Background Color How do you change the background color of a whole page? I am applying it to all my tables at the moment but there are white areas between them that I would like to be blue.Thanks
Re: Options
I saw the code pieces on the metioned website but I did not understand ist: Having the driver-object defined in the first box on the site and the option -object from the third box, how can I plug the option to the driver? Well, the documentation might be misleading. You don't have to plug in anything, because new Options... uses static stuff in the background. So, just do new Options somewhere before your call to FOP and it should work. Cheers, Jeremias Märki mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OUTLINE AG Postfach 3954 - Rhynauerstr. 15 - CH-6002 Luzern Fon +41 41 317 20 20 - Fax +41 41 317 20 29 Internet http://www.outline.ch
Problem with Charset
Hi, I have a problem with charset, I retrive from DB XML with charset ISO-8859-1. This XML contain some character like à è ì ò ù (I'm italian) When I exec Driver.Run() I obtain the seguent error: FOPException An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0xf9) was found in the element content (my xml tag) of the document! What is the way to solve this problem Regards DS. _ MSN Photos è il metodo più semplice per condividere, modificare e stampare le tue foto preferite. http://photos.msn.it/Support/WorldWide.aspx
Re: Options
So I can call options once (at application start) and it will affect all transformations thereafter? That's nice, as I think I was calling this every transformation. Brian On Wed, 27 February 2002, Jeremias Maerki wrote: I saw the code pieces on the metioned website but I did not understand ist: Having the driver-object defined in the first box on the site and the option -object from the third box, how can I plug the option to the driver? Well, the documentation might be misleading. You don't have to plug in anything, because new Options... uses static stuff in the background. So, just do new Options somewhere before your call to FOP and it should work. Cheers, Jeremias Märki mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OUTLINE AG Postfach 3954 - Rhynauerstr. 15 - CH-6002 Luzern Fon +41 41 317 20 20 - Fax +41 41 317 20 29 Internet http://www.outline.ch
Re: Options
Hi all, I think this thread would be more usefull on the dev list, but since it's here already... Usually, use of static classes can mess with server environnement that are able to elegantly restart themselves without shutting down the JVM they use. If classes are not taken off memory, values held by static classes remain There is a design pattern that is meant to handle this case : the Singleton. you make the class instanciable just once at a time. This is easily made in Java. I don't know if this answer the question, but that's my $0.02 thought. At 00:31 28/02/2002 +1000, you wrote: Jeremias, Pardon my ignorance, but could you sketch out the nature of the problem for me?
RE: region boundaries
Comments below. -Original Message- From: Alexandre Denes dos Santos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 27, 2002 11:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: region boundaries Hi all, I'm having a problem with regions. In the simplecol4 example, I changed the page layout as showed above: fo:layout-master-set !-- layout for the first page -- fo:simple-page-master master-name=only page-height=29.7cm page-width=21cm margin-top=3cm margin-bottom=2cm margin-left=2.5cm margin-right=2.5cm fo:region-body margin-top=1cm margin-bottom=1cm column-count=3 column-gap=0.15in/ fo:region-before extent=4cm/ fo:region-after extent=4cm/ /fo:simple-page-master /fo:layout-master-set The remaining of the example is the same. When I print the page using acroread, all the margins are ok, but the body overlapped the before and after regions (the init of the body is at 1.5cm from the top margin and 1cm from the bottom margin). The text of the after region was printed four lines before the end of the body region, like a watermark. In my understanding, the extent of the region-after and region-before is the length of the region, and the region-body should use all the remaining space in the center (something like the BorderLayout in Java). Is this correct? Can someone tell me how the extent works and how can I define a static length for the before and after regions? Thanks in advance Denes * Because of the margings on the page-master, you effectively have a working area of height (29.7cm - 3cm - 2cm) = 24.7cm, and a width of (21cm - 2.5cm - 2.5cm) = 16cm. There are no changes made to reference-orientation, so the margin directions on the *region-body* correspond to the page-master directions. As a result, the region-body (which does _not_ use all the remaining space in the centre) is inset 1cm from the top, 1cm from the bottom, and 0cm from both left and right, ending up with a height (also block-progression-dimension in this case, with the default 'paginate' 'overflow' settings) of (24.7cm - 1cm - 1cm) = 22.7cm, and a width (also inline-progression-dimension) of 16cm. The before after regions will overlap by 3cm because the extents on the outside regions, AND the margins on the region-body, are both measured from the edges of the content-rectangle of the page: the 24.7cm x 16cm rectangle. If you set the margin-top and margin-bottom on the region-body to 5cm you would have 1cm clearance. In which case the region-body height would be 14.7cm. AHS
newbie in town
Hi All, I have download FOB and want to use it as a standalone application to test XML transformnations to PDF using XSLT. Using this command line in command promt; D:\fop-0.20.3fob -xml test.xml -xsl test.xsl -pdf test.pdf it build the formatting object tree, parses the document and then stops the renderer giving the following error: 'master-reference' for 'fo:page-sequence' matches no 'simple-page-master' or 'page-sequence-master' here is the XML greeting Hello, World! /greeting and, here is the xsl ?xml version=1.0? xsl:stylesheet version=1.0 xmlns:xsl=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform; xmlns:fo=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format; xsl:output method=xml/ xsl:template match=/ fo:root xmlns:fo=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format; fo:layout-master-set fo:simple-page-master margin-right=75pt margin-left=75pt page-height=11in page-width=8.5in margin-bottom=25pt margin-top=25pt master-name=main fo:region-before extent=25pt/ fo:region-body margin-top=50pt margin-bottom=50pt/ fo:region-after extent=25pt/ /fo:simple-page-master fo:page-sequence-master master-name=standard fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-name=main odd-or-even=any/ /fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives /fo:page-sequence-master /fo:layout-master-set fo:page-sequence master-name=standard fo:flow flow-name=xsl-region-body xsl:apply-templates select=greeting/ /fo:flow /fo:page-sequence /fo:root /xsl:template xsl:template match=greeting fo:block line-height=76pt font-size=72pt text-align=center xsl:value-of select=./ /fo:block /xsl:template /xsl:stylesheet I cannot get the PDF output, please help. Meltem
Re: markers
Hi Bart, I've done some playing with markers also and gotten them to work pretty well. One of the things I've noticed is that FOP complains mightily about both fo:marker must be an initial child and marker-class-name' must be unique for same parent.but, they are recoverable errors and can be ignored. Here's an XML and XSL to demonstrate the capabilities. Notice that I place a marker at the beginning and end of each marked block (That's strictly illegal! But it works) I also have placed an x in the illegal marker contents so you can see the illegal retrieval. I do that so that the functions first-including-carryover and last-ending-within-page will work. Arved did a great job of implementing markers, you just have to break the rules for now (and be prepared to unbreak the rules when FOP has a correct implementation) fop -xsl dictionary.xsl -xml dictionary.xml -pdf dictionary.pdf Chuck Bart Locanthi wrote: does fop support markers? i'm having trouble getting them to work. my input looks like ... fo:flow fo:block fo:block fo:marker marker-class-name=chapchapter one/fo:marker ... /fo:block /fo:block fo:block fo:block fo:marker marker-class-name=chapchapter two/fo:marker ... note that the markers share a common great-grandparent. the error message i get from any fop-0.20.[23] is: [ERROR]: fo:marker must be an initial child,and 'marker-class-name' must be unique for same parent. i'm following all the rules, i think, but no joy. sounds like a simple misconception on my part but i'm stumped. root blockOne/block blockTwo/block blockThr/block blockFou/block blockFiv/block blockSix/block blockSev/block blockEig/block blockNin/block blockTen/block blockEle/block blockTwe/block blockThi/block blockFor/block blockFif/block blockSex/block blockSiv/block blockEgg/block blockNon/block /root?xml version=1.0? xsl:stylesheet version=1.0 xmlns:xsl=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform; xmlns:fo=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format; exclude-result-prefixes=fo xsl:output method=xml version=4.0 omit-xml-declaration=yes indent=yes/ xsl:template match=/ fo:root fo:layout-master-set fo:simple-page-master master-name =page-first page-height =8.5in page-width =11in fo:region-body margin-top =5cm margin-bottom=.5in margin-left =.5in margin-right =.5in column-count =3/ fo:region-before extent=6cm/ /fo:simple-page-master /fo:layout-master-set fo:page-sequence master-name=page-first fo:static-content flow-name=xsl-region-before fo:table fo:table-column column-width=5.5in/ fo:table-column column-width=5.5in/ fo:table-body fo:table-row fo:table-cell fo:block keep-together=auto first-starting-within-page: fo:retrieve-marker retrieve-class-name=entry retrieve-boundary=page retrieve-position=first-starting-within-page/ /fo:block /fo:table-cell fo:table-cell fo:block keep-together=auto text-align=end first-including-carryover : fo:retrieve-marker retrieve-class-name=entry retrieve-boundary=page retrieve-position=first-including-carryover/ /fo:block /fo:table-cell /fo:table-row fo:table-row fo:table-cell fo:block keep-together=auto last-starting-within-page : fo:retrieve-marker retrieve-class-name=entry retrieve-boundary=page retrieve-position=last-starting-within-page/ /fo:block /fo:table-cell fo:table-cell fo:block keep-together=auto text-align=end last-ending-within-page : fo:retrieve-marker retrieve-class-name=entry retrieve-boundary=page retrieve-position=last-ending-within-page/ /fo:block /fo:table-cell /fo:table-row /fo:table-body /fo:table /fo:static-content fo:flow flow-name=xsl-region-body xsl:for-each select=/root/block xsl:variable name=this select=./ fo:blockfo:marker marker-class-name=entryxsl:value-of select=.//fo:marker xsl:value-of select=concat($this,' ')/xsl:value-of select=concat($this,' ')/xsl:value-of select=concat($this,' ')/xsl:value-of select=concat($this,' ')/xsl:value-of select=concat($this,' ')/ xsl:value-of select=concat($this,' ')/xsl:value-of select=concat($this,' ')/xsl:value-of select=concat($this,' ')/xsl:value-of select=concat($this,' ')/xsl:value-of select=concat($this,' ')/ xsl:value-of select=concat($this,' ')/xsl:value-of select=concat($this,' ')/xsl:value-of select=concat($this,' ')/xsl:value-of select=concat($this,' ')/xsl:value-of select=concat($this,' ')/ xsl:value-of select=concat($this,' ')/xsl:value-of select=concat($this,' ')/xsl:value-of select=concat($this,' ')/xsl:value-of select=concat($this,' ')/xsl:value-of
Re: newbie in town
'master-reference' for 'fo:page-sequence' matches no 'simple-page-master' or 'page-sequence-master' You have to change some of the master-name attributes to master-reference to be conformant with the XSL REC. fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-name=main odd-or-even=any/ fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-reference=main odd-or-even=any/ fo:page-sequence master-reference=standard Cheers, Jeremias Märki mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OUTLINE AG Postfach 3954 - Rhynauerstr. 15 - CH-6002 Luzern Fon +41 41 317 20 20 - Fax +41 41 317 20 29 Internet http://www.outline.ch
dynamic image in PDF
Hi I have a servlet which creates imagery. I want to embed this in a PDF document and I've been playing around with FOP in JSP. I can get PDF generated but only on static image references, using external- graphic. What I need to know is - is there anyway of generating the image dynamically, with the reference to the servlet embedded in the .fo ? I can see there is a fo:instream- foreign-object but the examples just show examples of SVG. Is there anyway to extend this and if so, doesanyone have examples ? Thanks Chris
Have anyone used FOA tool
I am having problem with bringing up the main window Formatting Object Authoring Tool window. All the other windows come up ok. Thanks Mathy
RE: markers
Interesting...I didn't realise that that much was still functional. :-) I will have to revisit and see what the scope of potential fixes is. AHS -Original Message- From: Chuck Paussa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 27, 2002 12:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: markers Hi Bart, I've done some playing with markers also and gotten them to work pretty well. One of the things I've noticed is that FOP complains mightily about both fo:marker must be an initial child and marker-class-name' must be unique for same parent.but, they are recoverable errors and can be ignored. Here's an XML and XSL to demonstrate the capabilities. Notice that I place a marker at the beginning and end of each marked block (That's strictly illegal! But it works) I also have placed an x in the illegal marker contents so you can see the illegal retrieval. I do that so that the functions first-including-carryover and last-ending-within-page will work. Arved did a great job of implementing markers, you just have to break the rules for now (and be prepared to unbreak the rules when FOP has a correct implementation) fop -xsl dictionary.xsl -xml dictionary.xml -pdf dictionary.pdf Chuck
Re: region boundaries
Thanks to Arved Sandstrom for the explanation. I have only one more question: if the extention of the region-before is defined by the magin-top extention of the region body, what is the use of the parameter extent in the declaration of the region-before? It´s just for clipping? Denes - Original Message - From: Arved Sandstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 12:27 PM Subject: RE: region boundaries Comments below. -Original Message- From: Alexandre Denes dos Santos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 27, 2002 11:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: region boundaries Hi all, I'm having a problem with regions. In the simplecol4 example, I changed the page layout as showed above: fo:layout-master-set !-- layout for the first page -- fo:simple-page-master master-name=only page-height=29.7cm page-width=21cm margin-top=3cm margin-bottom=2cm margin-left=2.5cm margin-right=2.5cm fo:region-body margin-top=1cm margin-bottom=1cm column-count=3 column-gap=0.15in/ fo:region-before extent=4cm/ fo:region-after extent=4cm/ /fo:simple-page-master /fo:layout-master-set The remaining of the example is the same. When I print the page using acroread, all the margins are ok, but the body overlapped the before and after regions (the init of the body is at 1.5cm from the top margin and 1cm from the bottom margin). The text of the after region was printed four lines before the end of the body region, like a watermark. In my understanding, the extent of the region-after and region-before is the length of the region, and the region-body should use all the remaining space in the center (something like the BorderLayout in Java). Is this correct? Can someone tell me how the extent works and how can I define a static length for the before and after regions? Thanks in advance Denes * Because of the margings on the page-master, you effectively have a working area of height (29.7cm - 3cm - 2cm) = 24.7cm, and a width of (21cm - 2.5cm - 2.5cm) = 16cm. There are no changes made to reference-orientation, so the margin directions on the *region-body* correspond to the page-master directions. As a result, the region-body (which does _not_ use all the remaining space in the centre) is inset 1cm from the top, 1cm from the bottom, and 0cm from both left and right, ending up with a height (also block-progression-dimension in this case, with the default 'paginate' 'overflow' settings) of (24.7cm - 1cm - 1cm) = 22.7cm, and a width (also inline-progression-dimension) of 16cm. The before after regions will overlap by 3cm because the extents on the outside regions, AND the margins on the region-body, are both measured from the edges of the content-rectangle of the page: the 24.7cm x 16cm rectangle. If you set the margin-top and margin-bottom on the region-body to 5cm you would have 1cm clearance. In which case the region-body height would be 14.7cm. AHS
RE: region boundaries
The margins on the region-body define only the insets of the edges of the region-body from the edges of the page content rectangle. The dimensions of the outside regions, perpendicular to the edges, are defined by the extent value. If we have this SPM: fo:simple-page-master master-name=only page-height=29.7cm page-width=21cm margin-top=3cm margin-bottom=2cm margin-left=2.5cm margin-right=2.5cm fo:region-body margin-top=5cm margin-bottom=5cm column-count=3 column-gap=0.15in/ fo:region-before extent=4cm/ fo:region-after extent=4cm/ /fo:simple-page-master then we end up with a layout like I picture in the attached figure. Regards, AHS -Original Message- From: Alexandre Denes dos Santos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 27, 2002 1:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: region boundaries Thanks to Arved Sandstrom for the explanation. I have only one more question: if the extention of the region-before is defined by the magin-top extention of the region body, what is the use of the parameter extent in the declaration of the region-before? It´s just for clipping? Denes - Original Message - From: Arved Sandstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 12:27 PM Subject: RE: region boundaries Comments below. -Original Message- From: Alexandre Denes dos Santos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 27, 2002 11:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: region boundaries Hi all, I'm having a problem with regions. In the simplecol4 example, I changed the page layout as showed above: fo:layout-master-set !-- layout for the first page -- fo:simple-page-master master-name=only page-height=29.7cm page-width=21cm margin-top=3cm margin-bottom=2cm margin-left=2.5cm margin-right=2.5cm fo:region-body margin-top=1cm margin-bottom=1cm column-count=3 column-gap=0.15in/ fo:region-before extent=4cm/ fo:region-after extent=4cm/ /fo:simple-page-master /fo:layout-master-set The remaining of the example is the same. When I print the page using acroread, all the margins are ok, but the body overlapped the before and after regions (the init of the body is at 1.5cm from the top margin and 1cm from the bottom margin). The text of the after region was printed four lines before the end of the body region, like a watermark. In my understanding, the extent of the region-after and region-before is the length of the region, and the region-body should use all the remaining space in the center (something like the BorderLayout in Java). Is this correct? Can someone tell me how the extent works and how can I define a static length for the before and after regions? Thanks in advance Denes * Because of the margings on the page-master, you effectively have a working area of height (29.7cm - 3cm - 2cm) = 24.7cm, and a width of (21cm - 2.5cm - 2.5cm) = 16cm. There are no changes made to reference-orientation, so the margin directions on the *region-body* correspond to the page-master directions. As a result, the region-body (which does _not_ use all the remaining space in the centre) is inset 1cm from the top, 1cm from the bottom, and 0cm from both left and right, ending up with a height (also block-progression-dimension in this case, with the default 'paginate' 'overflow' settings) of (24.7cm - 1cm - 1cm) = 22.7cm, and a width (also inline-progression-dimension) of 16cm. The before after regions will overlap by 3cm because the extents on the outside regions, AND the margins on the region-body, are both measured from the edges of the content-rectangle of the page: the 24.7cm x 16cm rectangle. If you set the margin-top and margin-bottom on the region-body to 5cm you would have 1cm clearance. In which case the region-body height would be 14.7cm. AHS attachment: spm1.jpg
Re: Background Color
I'm pretty sure you can't at this stage. FOP accepts it in the fo:region-body without errors but doesn't do anything about it. I used a table cell with a height attribute and put the color in that. Everything else went inside that cell. Josh Ian Taylor wrote: How do you change the background color of a whole page? I am applying it to all my tables at the moment but there are white areas between them that I would like to be blue. Josh Campbell ZYPE - Graphical Interface Design Phone: 03 3862094 Mobile: 021 400 472 Web: www.zype.co.nz
XMLSpy - FOP
Has anyone gotten FO transformations to work on XMLSpy w/FOP .20.2? No matter what I try I keep getting the following error: Output of external XSL converter: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. thx a lot, Matt Savino Senior Systems Analyst Quest Diagnostics Clinical Trials
