Refactoring / Rewriting of FOP? Obsolete?
Hi, My manager just nixed the use of FOP in our project for the following reason. a) Its only up to 0.20.3 meaning an early beta. b) He is under the understanding partly based on what he saw on the FOP site that the code is being rewritten from scratch and he therefore does not want to have us tied to an obsolete product. My question is a) How true is this? b) How can I convince him that it is worthwhile to use it. The product did work nicely in our testing by the way. Lou _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
2 coliumns * 4 columns table
I need to implement tables that seem to me to be difficult (or impossible) to render with XSL FO. The difficulty involves a table made of two columns (left/right) themselves divided into 4 further columns (a,b,c,d). The content should flows from the left four columns (a,b,c,d) on a page to the right four columns (a,b,c,d) of the same page before going on to the next pages, themselves divided in the same way. The page header on the next pages is slightly different from the one found on the first page containing the table. Is this possible with your XEP ? Could you give me an rough idea how to implement it and test it ? P. Andries
Re: Refactoring / Rewriting of FOP? Obsolete?
Re: 2 coliumns * 4 columns table
Patrick Andries wrote: The difficulty involves a table made of two columns (left/right) themselves divided into 4 further columns (a,b,c,d). The content should flows from the left four columns (a,b,c,d) on a page to the right four columns (a,b,c,d) of the same page before going on to the next pages, themselves divided in the same way. The page header on the next pages is slightly different from the one found on the first page containing the table. Is this possible with your XEP ? This is the FOP list. Could you give me an rough idea how to implement it and test it ? You have to explicit assign the text to the columns in tables. You can try to use columns in the region-body fo:region-body column-count=2/ If you can use this, you can probably also use static content in the region-before for your slightly different headers. J.Pietschmann
Re: Refactoring / Rewriting of FOP? Obsolete?
for starts try: http://www.antenna.co.jp/XML/downfree/Xhtml2fo.xsl and http://www.antenna.co.jp/XML/downfree/howto1023/Sample2foen.xsl I found one more on the w3 website but I can't locate it now I cant send the one we are using as of now but it is basically a modified subset of the antenna house one. Lou From: Patrick Lanphier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Refactoring / Rewriting of FOP? Obsolete? Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 20:30:25 -0400 (EDT) Could you share your XSL file for XHTML-PDF you have developed for FOP? This would be a great help. Do you have any other formats for XHTML? (TXT, PS etc.) Thanks much in advanced. Patrick Lanphier The Artemis Group http://www.artemisgroup.com phone: 814-235-0444 fax: 800-582-9710 On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, L Rutker wrote: We actually have stuff live and running using FOP. We have the printable version of our site actually transforming our xhtml using a modifies xsl based on the antennahouse xhtml2fo and serving them up as pdf files so there is no use in showing him anymore. I need to convince him that it will be viable for the long run and will not constantly change etc. Lou From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Refactoring / Rewriting of FOP? Obsolete? Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 17:19:17 -0700 Take an example from the /docs/examples and show him how easy it is to output into pdf files. naveen L Rutker [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] com cc: Subject: Refactoring / Rewriting of FOP? Obsolete? 04/18/02 05:15 PM Please respond to fop-user b) How can I convince him that it is worthwhile to use it. _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
Re: Refactoring / Rewriting of FOP? Obsolete?
This would be fine but there are many things that are not yet implemented in FOP compared to Antenna House, correct? This makes the modifications great, right? Patrick Lanphier The Artemis Group http://www.artemisgroup.com phone: 814-235-0444 fax: 800-582-9710 On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, L Rutker wrote: for starts try: http://www.antenna.co.jp/XML/downfree/Xhtml2fo.xsl and http://www.antenna.co.jp/XML/downfree/howto1023/Sample2foen.xsl I found one more on the w3 website but I can't locate it now I cant send the one we are using as of now but it is basically a modified subset of the antenna house one. Lou From: Patrick Lanphier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Refactoring / Rewriting of FOP? Obsolete? Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 20:30:25 -0400 (EDT) Could you share your XSL file for XHTML-PDF you have developed for FOP? This would be a great help. Do you have any other formats for XHTML? (TXT, PS etc.) Thanks much in advanced. Patrick Lanphier The Artemis Group http://www.artemisgroup.com phone: 814-235-0444 fax: 800-582-9710 On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, L Rutker wrote: We actually have stuff live and running using FOP. We have the printable version of our site actually transforming our xhtml using a modifies xsl based on the antennahouse xhtml2fo and serving them up as pdf files so there is no use in showing him anymore. I need to convince him that it will be viable for the long run and will not constantly change etc. Lou From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Refactoring / Rewriting of FOP? Obsolete? Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 17:19:17 -0700 Take an example from the /docs/examples and show him how easy it is to output into pdf files. naveen L Rutker [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] com cc: Subject: Refactoring / Rewriting of FOP? Obsolete? 04/18/02 05:15 PM Please respond to fop-user b) How can I convince him that it is worthwhile to use it. _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
Re: Refactoring / Rewriting of FOP? Obsolete?
also try: http://www.w3.org/2001/08/01-XHTML-XSL/html.xsl From: Patrick Lanphier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Refactoring / Rewriting of FOP? Obsolete? Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 20:30:25 -0400 (EDT) Could you share your XSL file for XHTML-PDF you have developed for FOP? This would be a great help. Do you have any other formats for XHTML? (TXT, PS etc.) Thanks much in advanced. Patrick Lanphier The Artemis Group http://www.artemisgroup.com phone: 814-235-0444 fax: 800-582-9710 On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, L Rutker wrote: We actually have stuff live and running using FOP. We have the printable version of our site actually transforming our xhtml using a modifies xsl based on the antennahouse xhtml2fo and serving them up as pdf files so there is no use in showing him anymore. I need to convince him that it will be viable for the long run and will not constantly change etc. Lou From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Refactoring / Rewriting of FOP? Obsolete? Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 17:19:17 -0700 Take an example from the /docs/examples and show him how easy it is to output into pdf files. naveen L Rutker [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] com cc: Subject: Refactoring / Rewriting of FOP? Obsolete? 04/18/02 05:15 PM Please respond to fop-user b) How can I convince him that it is worthwhile to use it. _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
Re: 2 coliumns * 4 columns table
Patrick Andries wrote: I'm not sure that declaring 2 columns in the region-body can help me on the first page, since it is preceded by single-column text (of arbitrary length) before the table split into 2 * 4 columns appears. You can put the text in a block and use span=all http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/slice7.html#span J.Pietschmann
Re: 2 coliumns * 4 columns table
Yes good idea. J.Pietschmann wrote: Patrick Andries wrote: I'm not sure that declaring 2 columns in the region-body can help me on the first page, since it is preceded by single-column text (of arbitrary length) before the table split into 2 * 4 columns appears. You can put the text in a block and use span=all http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/slice7.html#span J.Pietschmann
Betreff: Re: Refactoring / Rewriting of FOP? Obsolete?
We are using FOP for a self developed content management system, running on a native XML DB, at my university and our Style, though far from complete, is covering most features FOP currently implements. The current version can be found at http://live.fhnon.de/~swiesner/awr/ Stephan ---Original-Nachricht--- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Freitag, 19. April 2002 04:51:25 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Refactoring / Rewriting of FOP? Obsolete? I'm currently using a XSL sheet based on this one, however, it is not very robust. A more complete XSL sheet would be great. Patrick Lanphier The Artemis Group http://www.artemisgroup.com phone: 814-235-0444 fax: 800-582-9710 On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, L Rutker wrote: also try: http://www.w3.org/2001/08/01-XHTML-XSL/html.xsl From: Patrick Lanphier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Refactoring / Rewriting of FOP? Obsolete? Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 20:30:25 -0400 (EDT) Could you share your XSL file for XHTML-PDF you have developed for FOP? This would be a great help. Do you have any other formats for XHTML? (TXT, PS etc.) Thanks much in advanced. Patrick Lanphier The Artemis Group http://www.artemisgroup.com phone: 814-235-0444 fax: 800-582-9710 On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, L Rutker wrote: We actually have stuff live and running using FOP. We have the printable version of our site actually transforming our xhtml using a modifies xsl based on the antennahouse xhtml2fo and serving them up as pdf files so there is no use in showing him anymore. I need to convince him that it will be viable for the long run and will not constantly change etc. Lou From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Refactoring / Rewriting of FOP? Obsolete? Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 17:19:17 -0700 Take an example from the /docs/examples and show him how easy it is to output into pdf files. naveen L Rutker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gt;[EMAIL PROTECTED] com cc: Subject: Refactoring / Rewriting of FOP? Obsolete? 04/18/02 05:15 PM Please respond to fop-user b) How can I convince him that it is worthwhile to use it. _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: SVG/Graphing-PDF
From: J.Pietschmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Patrick Lanphier wrote: What are individuals using to create SVG files for use in their PDFs? A text editor for small stuff. XSLT for some simple diagrams. Under the Batik contrib there are stylesheets in XSL to do charts. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) -
Re: pdf viewer
From: Michael König [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I know, this is not the best group to ask this question, but since most of you produce pdf ... I wrote a nice program to create nice pdf-documents. By now I have to send the pdf outputstream to a ordinary file on a hard disk. This file can be opened by the most famous PDF-Reader. Now I would like to send the outputstream directly to a viewer (not a file) but I can not find a PDF Viewer written in JAVA or which will accept a output stream sent by JAVA. Do you know one?? Look in the Adobe site, there is a Java PDF viewer bean. It works ok, and also prints. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) -
AW: Again: keep-together
Hello Chuck, thank you for replying. Unfortunately I failed to express myself clearly. Maybe since there are different problems playing together in that case. My point is that we do not see how to proceed by using tables for getting the two column formatting that our customer would have liked: We have those two column stuff alternating with one column parts. The two column parts consist of fairly complex (ie. nested) tables of vary varying length. The tables have to be splitted so that the left and right column are as balanced as possible, i.e. their length are as matching as possible. Counting lines and splitting after a half does not help. Beside being rather involved, since the lines are tables and pictures themselves and do not have constant height. The only way we have found to do at least a rough approximation of equally long columns with fop was to use the two columned layout and NOT a two columned table. Are wrong? Thanks again, Frank -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Chuck Paussa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 18. April 2002 19:12 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Again: keep-together Frank, H I'm not exactly sure what you're trying for but, here's some suggestions: Use fo:table-cell number-columns-spanned=2 for the cell that has the 1 column header Use the fo:region-before fo:static-content area to hold what would look like the regular table header that is printed on each page and then break up each of the tables with those 1 column headers into separate tables with the one column header on the fo:table-header area (That way, if the table happens to break across a page boundary, the table header is repeated on the next page.) Chuck Paussa Nestel, Frank ISC 6 wrote: I know you all work hard. But just to express priority. We are currently stuck with a problem we cannot see how to cope without working keep properties. Or can anybody give me some help on how to achive below layout with fop. 1.one-column header 2.two-column table two-column table column1 column2 1.one-column header 2.two-column table two-column table column1 column2 1.one-column header 2.two-column table two-column table column1 column2 ... above pattern repeats very often... ... tables of varying length with very variable height of single rows ... We are using the two columns to get the variable length table no. 2 balanced between left and right side (which BTW does not work to well, the left hand side gets way to long). I do not see how to achieve this effect with a table, since I have absolute no means to measure the where to break the table into into two parts. We have long headers over the tables and those header have to kept close to their table. I know how to do it with TeX, but this ain't help :-) But its funny to run in this kind of problem over 20 years after TeX was programmed. Best regards, Frank Nestel -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: J.Pietschmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MARTIN Franck wrote: Does anyone know of a way to prevent blocks or tables from being divided when a page break occurs? Is the property keep-together implemented in fop? The keep-together property is not yet implemented, and it will take a while until it is. The keep-with-next and keep-with-previous properties work on table rows only. If block elements should be kept together, you can put them into a one-column blind table. HTH J.Pietschmann
In what file is the number of FOP's version ?
In what file is the number of FOP's version? Because by copying FOP to another server and performer (version 0.20.3), FOP shows me 0.20.1
JSP returning PDF
Hi I'm using FOP in a JSP to return dynamically created PDF documents to browsers. I'm using the usual method of embedding FOP as described on the web site. It works great. The main problem is that the PDFs take about 20 seconds to generate and then, since they are 500K or so, a while to download depending on connection speed. I'd like to be able to put a message on an intermediate page which could refresh and only return the PDF when it is ready. At the moment, they are just seeing a blank page until the PDF is complete. Does anyone have any ideas for this ? Can I flush some output to the page to advise them to be patient, then reset the response and send the PDF when it is ready? Alternatively. I was thinking of doing something a bit more ambitious which would be to output the PDF to a database blob, then send back a page which refreshes to a JSP which keeps checking whether the PDF has been finished. When it is, I could fetch the data outofthe BLOB and send it back. I have seen other sites where the PDF was output to a static file on the website. Then the JSP would refresh and keep checking until the file was present. When the file was created, the page would appear with a link to the file. The main problem with this is security. There is the potential that everyone would have access to all PDFs on the web site, although on a site without listings, they'd need to be making pretty inspired guesses to find and download it. How do others get around this ? I imagine its quite a common problem. Thanks Chris
Re: In what file is the number of FOP's version ?
It's in conf/config.xml. The version number is inserted during the build process and originally comes from build.xml. In what file is the number of FOP's version? Because by copying FOP to another server and performer (version 0.20.3), FOP shows me 0.20.1 Cheers, Jeremias Märki mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OUTLINE AG Postfach 3954 - Rhynauerstr. 15 - CH-6002 Luzern Tel. +41 41 317 2020 - Fax +41 41 317 2029 Internet http://www.outline.ch
Re: Refactoring / Rewriting of FOP? Obsolete?
My manager just nixed the use of FOP in our project for the following reason. a) Its only up to 0.20.3 meaning an early beta. That doesn't mean too much. A lot of poeple are using FOP in a production environment. True, you may have to work around one or another problem, but FOP is useful enough. b) He is under the understanding partly based on what he saw on the FOP site that the code is being rewritten from scratch and he therefore does not want to have us tied to an obsolete product. It's correct that FOP is in redesign. But that doesn't mean it's completely rewritten from scratch. I believe that the API will likely stay pretty much the same, and the API really is what should concern you, because that's what you'll work with. FOP should work as a black box for you, so if something changes under the hood, all you have to do is test your stylesheets when you do an update. My question is a) How true is this? b) How can I convince him that it is worthwhile to use it. The product did work nicely in our testing by the way. Cheers, Jeremias Märki mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OUTLINE AG Postfach 3954 - Rhynauerstr. 15 - CH-6002 Luzern Tel. +41 41 317 2020 - Fax +41 41 317 2029 Internet http://www.outline.ch
problem with path relative - HELP ME
Hi I look distinct examples on Fop configuration. I have a problem with path relative by image. My code in servlet embeded is String baseDirPath = http://localhost:8080/portalrentas/;; org.apache.fop.configuration.Configuration.put(baseDir, baseDirPath); but, I have a problem This, show me the next error: [ERROR]: Error while creating area : Error while recovering Image Informations (http://localhost:8080/portalrentas/fop/xslfo/escudo-200.jpg) : http://localhost:8080/portalrentas/fop/xslfo/escudo-200.jpg I don't understand. What's the error? Why's ocurrs this errors? My code into xslfo is fo:external-graphic src=fop/xslfo/escudo-200.jpg/
Debugging FOP
How do you debug an file being input in fo format to fop when all one gets is the following. It does not provide you with a line number. [EMAIL PROTECTED] fop-0.20.3]# ./fop.sh -d -fo test.fo -pdf test.pdf [DEBUG]: Input mode: [DEBUG]: FO [DEBUG]: fo input file: test.fo [DEBUG]: Output mode: [DEBUG]: pdf [DEBUG]: output file: test.pdf [DEBUG]: OPTIONS [DEBUG]: no user configuration file is used [default] [DEBUG]: debug mode on [DEBUG]: dump configuration [DEBUG]: quiet mode on [DEBUG]: base directory: file:/tmp/fop-0.20.3/ [INFO]: FOP 0.20.3 [DEBUG]: using SAX parser org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser [INFO]: building formatting object tree [DEBUG]: setting up fonts [ERROR]: null org.apache.fop.apps.FOPException at org.apache.fop.apps.Driver.render(Driver.java:486) at org.apache.fop.apps.CommandLineStarter.run(CommandLineStarter.java:72 ) at org.apache.fop.apps.Fop.main(Fop.java:19) - Patrick Lanphier The Artemis Group http://www.artemisgroup.com phone: 814-235-0444 fax: 800-582-9710
Re: problem with path relative - HELP ME
So, it looks like baseDir is set correctly. The error happens because FOP can't load the image from where specified. Try the URL http://localhost:8080/portalrentas/fop/xslfo/escudo-200.jpg in your browser to see if the image is really there. If not, find out what you have to specify so the images can be found. I look distinct examples on Fop configuration. I have a problem with path relative by image. My code in servlet embeded is String baseDirPath = http://localhost:8080/portalrentas/;; org.apache.fop.configuration.Configuration.put(baseDir, baseDirPath); but, I have a problem This, show me the next error: [ERROR]: Error while creating area : Error while recovering Image Informations (http://localhost:8080/portalrentas/fop/xslfo/escudo-200.jpg) : http://localhost:8080/portalrentas/fop/xslfo/escudo-200.jpg I don't understand. What's the error? Why's ocurrs this errors? My code into xslfo is fo:external-graphic src=fop/xslfo/escudo-200.jpg/ Cheers, Jeremias Märki mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OUTLINE AG Postfach 3954 - Rhynauerstr. 15 - CH-6002 Luzern Tel. +41 41 317 2020 - Fax +41 41 317 2029 Internet http://www.outline.ch
RV: problem with path relative - HELP ME
-Mensaje original- De: Carlos Daniel Schafer Enviado el: viernes, 19 de abril de 2002 11:14 Para: Fop-Dev (Correo electrónico); Fop-User (Correo electrónico) Asunto: problem with path relative - HELP ME Importancia: Alta Hi I look distinct examples on Fop configuration. I have a problem with path relative by image. My code in servlet embeded is String baseDirPath = http://localhost:8080/portalrentas/;; org.apache.fop.configuration.Configuration.put(baseDir, baseDirPath); but, I have a problem This, show me the next error: [ERROR]: Error while creating area : Error while recovering Image Informations (http://localhost:8080/portalrentas/fop/xslfo/escudo-200.jpg) : http://localhost:8080/portalrentas/fop/xslfo/escudo-200.jpg I don't understand. What's the error? Why's ocurrs this errors? My code into xslfo is fo:external-graphic src=fop/xslfo/escudo-200.jpg/
Re: AW: Again: keep-together
Frank, OK, that makes sense. You want to have a headline and then sanking columns underneath, like in a newspaper. Headline Goes here This is the after the information headline that goes balanced. New headline here This is the after the information headline that goes balanced. I tried a whole bunch of stuff using the column-count attribute of region-body (which is the only way I know to create snaking columns.) Region-body is the only element with a column-count attribute (right?) And I couldn't get it to work. The basic idea would be to wrap two blocks in a block or block-container with a span=all fo:block-container height=15mm width=190mm top=0mm left=0mm position=absolute border=solid 1px pink span=all fo:block span=all Here's a headline #1 that should cross all the way across the page /fo:block fo:block span=none Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. /fo:block /fo:block-container But, that doesn't work. The inner blocks are not aware of the columns in the region containing them. There have been a number of problems like this that I have not found an automated way to address and so have been forced to pre-calculate the page layout of each page and then absolutely position the contents on the page. For fo: processed documents, that looks like the only way to go for now unless someone else can chime in with a solution I haven't seen yet. Chuck Nestel, Frank ISC 6 wrote: Hello Chuck, thank you for replying. Unfortunately I failed to express myself clearly. Maybe since there are different problems playing together in that case. My point is that we do not see how to proceed by using tables for getting the two column formatting that our customer would have liked: We have those two column stuff alternating with one column parts. The two column parts consist of fairly complex (ie. nested) tables of vary varying length. The tables have to be splitted so that the left and right column are as balanced as possible, i.e. their length are as matching as possible. Counting lines and splitting after a half does not help. Beside being rather involved, since the lines are tables and pictures themselves and do not have constant height. The only way we have found to do at least a rough approximation of equally long columns with fop was to use the two columned layout and NOT a two columned table. Are wrong? Thanks again, Frank -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Chuck Paussa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 18. April 2002 19:12 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Again: keep-together Frank, H I'm not exactly sure what you're trying for but, here's some suggestions: Use fo:table-cell number-columns-spanned=2 for the cell that has the 1 column header Use the fo:region-before fo:static-content area to hold what would look like the regular table header that is printed on each page and then break up each of the tables with those 1 column headers into separate tables with the one column header on the fo:table-header area (That way, if the table happens to break across a page boundary, the table header is repeated on the next page.) Chuck Paussa Nestel, Frank ISC 6 wrote: I know you all work hard. But just to express priority. We are currently stuck with a problem we cannot see how to cope without working keep properties. Or can anybody give me some help on how to achive below layout with fop. 1.one-column header 2.two-column table two-column table column1 column2 1.one-column header 2.two-column table two-column table column1 column2 1.one-column header 2.two-column table two-column table column1 column2 ... above pattern repeats very often... ... tables of varying length with very variable height of single rows ... We are using the two columns to get the variable length table no. 2 balanced between left and right side (which BTW does not work to well, the left hand side gets way to long). I do not see how to achieve this effect with a table, since I have absolute no means to measure the where to break the table into into two parts. We have long headers over the tables and those header have to kept close to their table. I know how to do it with TeX, but this ain't help :-) But its funny to run in this kind of problem over 20 years after TeX was programmed. Best regards, Frank Nestel -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: J.Pietschmann
Re: java/util/HashMap error
This is what I have in my java file to generate a PDF file: Logger log; Hierarchy hierarchy = Hierarchy.getDefaultHierarchy(); log = hierarchy.getLoggerFor(fop); log.setPriority(Priority.WARN); Driver dr=new Driver();// * this is where it is failing ** dr.setLogger(log); dr.setRenderer(Driver.RENDER_PDF); InputHandler ih=new XSLTInputHandler(xmlFile,xslFile); XMLReader p=ih.getParser(); dr.setOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(pdfFile)); dr.render(p,ih.getInputSource()); Mathy V Arumugam wrote: What can I do to get rid of the following error? I am using JDK1.3... java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: java/util/HashMap at org.apache.fop.fo.FOTreeBuilder.init(FOTreeBuilder.java:85) Thanks Mathy
FOP scalability
Does anyone know how efficient FOP might be when running on Sun Solaris box? If I am using XSL template objects to optimize performance, how might response times vary with increased number of users? Assume the Solaris box is a single 420R with 4 cpus and 4GB of RAM. Any help is this regard and ideas about making my FOP-based rendering solution more scalable is greatly appreciated. Mike Zahigian, Sr. Programmer/Systems Analyst Amgen Business Information Systems (805) 447-2819 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
FOP on Websphere OS390
Has anyone used FOP on Websphere 3.5 on OS390 USS? Thanks Mehmood
