RE: Visuaal Basic
I would rather not use the command line version or FOP. I wanted to knock up an ActiveX component for embedding in a large app and need to Use the classes so that I get more control and feedback. Matthew Lancashire IT Project Manager Initial Electronic Security Ltd Tel.: 01254 688555 FAX:01254 267552 -Original Message- From: Calero, Roberto [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 9:38 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:RE: Visuaal Basic File: ATT6.htm - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Visuaal Basic
Matthew- I ran into the same problem as you (I was trying to call FOP from an ASP page), and what it looks like we need is some sort of VB-compatible version of JNI, which allows C++ apps to call Java apps natively. I ended up doing what others have suggested, and calling FOP via a shell. Because of the potentially long render times in my application, I actually separated the FOP call from the ASP page, and used a status field in a database to give the user feedback as to where in the rendering process we were. Basically, the ASP just creates a row in a table, and periodocally (on a 10-second META refresh) checks the status field for completion. A separate, VB listening app gets the new request, calls FOP, and monitors a log file to check for completion. On completion, it updates the status field, and the ASP gives the user a link to their PDF. It's kind of a kludge, but it was the only way I could think of to get VB/ASP to talk to FOP, while allowing some semblance of user feedback. One other alternative you may want to consider is a .NET version of FOP that someone posted to this list. I believe they made source available, so even if the .NET implementation isn't a perfect fit, perhaps the source could give you some ideas. I hope at least part of that helps. -Jeff Matthew LancashireTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: es.uk.comSubject: RE: Visuaal Basic 12/02/2002 06:50 AM Please respond to fop-user I would rather not use the command line version or FOP. I wanted to knock up an ActiveX component for embedding in a large app and need to Use the classes so that I get more control and feedback. Matthew Lancashire IT Project Manager Initial Electronic Security Ltd Tel.: 01254 688555 FAX: 01254 267552 -Original Message- From: Calero, Roberto [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 9:38 PM To:'[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:RE: Visuaal Basic File: ATT6.htm - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XSL-FO book
Hi folks, I don't remember mentioning this, but I have a review copy of O'Reilly's XSL:FO book. Since I will be reviewing it for http://news.DiverseBooks.com/ and posting the review here too, does anyone have any questions for me that they want me to answer? Cheers Alex McLintock Openweb Analysts Ltd, London. Software For Complex Websites http://www.OWAL.co.uk/ Open Source Software Companies please register here http://www.OWAL.co.uk/oss_support/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AW: Visuaal Basic
Hi! Did you think of calling FOP via SOAP (needs Java AppServer)? I have a code example online: http://www.mymood.de/soap/soap_interop.zip I used a ASP (vbscript) page to call a Java FOP WebService... Greetings, Tobi - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Best XSL-FO WYSIWYG editor
Hello, What is the simplest way of converting file.xml = file.fo = file.pdf Second part is straight forward, I just need to feed file.fo to FOP to generate file.pdf Is there any simple way to convert file.xml to file.fo ?? Is there any tool that does this job or do I need to write my own Java parser for converting file.xml to file.fo Please advise me. Regards, Anil From: Amit Bhatnagar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Best XSL-FO WYSIWYG editor Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 10:02:51 -0800 Thanks for your reply. How do you find Stylus Studio does for layout preparation? Does it let you see the FO capabilities on screen without having to process it via FOP into PDF? The feeling that I got from it is that it is great for going to HTML but the only FO support it had was being able to plug in FOP and create PDF. -Original Message- From: Johan Åbrandt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: December 1, 2002 11:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Best XSL-FO WYSIWYG editor Ok, then I would really encourage you to look into Excelon Stylus Studio, I use it for exactly the scenario you describe, and it has served me well. It has FOP built in, and all that is needed for a complete xml-xslt-fop-PDF generation is the click of a button. Amit Bhatnagar wrote: I dont fully understand the description of the features you need, but if being able to use one IDE to do the full flow from xml through xsl to fop and pdf in an effortless way, including the possibility to debug xsl transformations, then Excelon Stylus Studio is my candidate. It is however not WYSIWYG - if you by that mean that you would specify a xml file and then do WYSIWYG editing and have the editor generate the xsl stylesheet for you. Let me explain my situation a bit better. I have an application that generates a massive ammount of data dyanmically and stores it in an XML file. What I want to do is make PDF quality reports / forms out of this data. To do this I want to create an XSLT file that will generate an XSL-FO marked up version of the XML which FOP can gobble up and gimme a PDF. Since this all has to happen during -runtime- of my application, I am not looking for an IDE / end to end solution; ie: the XSLT file is only deployed with my app (XML is generated) So... I am looking for a WYSIWYG tool that can assist me in making a layout of my report and generates the XSLT file that will produce the XSL-FO markup. This means that I -need- the generated XSLT file. Most applications that I have looked at (ie: XSLFast) don't give you access to the XSLT (in fact I am pretty sure that it doesn't even generate it at all - I only see a binary file that it produces). I'm not expecting an XSL-FO application to solve all of my problems.. I am expecting to have to make modifications by hand to the XSLT file. But I thought it would save plety of time if I had a tool that can let me visualize the output. My alternative is to whip out a reference and start writing the entire XSLT by hand using the FO vocabulary. Thanks for your help. amit. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Johan Åbrandt Technical Project Manager (Tekninen projektipäällikkö) Tel. +358 9 6817 3342 Mobile. +358 40 848 8068 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Profit Software Oy Meritullinkatu 11 C 00170 Helsinki, Finland __ This message and its attachments have been found clean from known viruses with three different antivirus programs. __ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Need help:converting xml = fo = pdf
Hello, What is the simplest way of converting file.xml = file.fo = file.pdf Second part is straight forward, I just need to feed file.fo to FOP to generate file.pdf Is there any simple way to convert file.xml to file.fo ?? Is there any tool that does this job or do I need to write my own Java parser for converting file.xml to file.fo Please advise me. Regards, Anil _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help:converting xml = fo = pdf
can use xml + xsl = xsl:fo then xsl:fo + fop = pdf - Original Message - From: ANIL B G [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 1:56 PM Subject: Need help:converting xml = fo = pdf Hello, What is the simplest way of converting file.xml = file.fo = file.pdf Second part is straight forward, I just need to feed file.fo to FOP to generate file.pdf Is there any simple way to convert file.xml to file.fo ?? Is there any tool that does this job or do I need to write my own Java parser for converting file.xml to file.fo Please advise me. Regards, Anil _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alignment
Hi, 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 it's padded with whitespace). This is on the left-hand page... on the right-hand page, I also have blocks that need to line up with (but not change) the alignment points on the left-hand 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? Ideally, I would like to have some kind of general alignment tag, like efo:valign which has an id attribute, which would be used by the renderer to vertically align every efo:valign with the same id on the same line, even accross multiple pages. I realize my description of this is a little vague because my goal is a little complex. Let me know if more information would help. Thanks! Jonathan Evraire jonevrai at justice.gc.ca - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Need help:converting xml = fo = pdf
-Original Message- From: ANIL B G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2. december 2002 19:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Need help:converting xml = fo = pdf What is the simplest way of converting file.xml = file.fo = file.pdf Second part is straight forward, I just need to feed file.fo to FOP to generate file.pdf Is there any simple way to convert file.xml to file.fo ?? Is there any tool that does this job or do I need to write my own Java parser for converting file.xml to file.fo Use XSL Transformation to transform your xml file to xsl-fo and run FOP with this command: fop.bat -xsl stylesheet.xsl -xml data.xml -pdf output.pdf Check http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt and http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/08/holman/index.html -- Morten Isaksen [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.aub.dk/~misak - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help:converting xml = fo = pdf
At 18:56 02/12/02, ANIL B G wrote: Is there any simple way to convert file.xml to file.fo ?? Is there any tool that does this job or do I need to write my own Java parser for converting file.xml to file.fo Hello Anil, There is no automatic way of converting some XML to FO because no computer program can magically come up with the way that *you* want it printed out. You have to give it some help as to how to display the XML. Remember that file.fo is in XML format too. You don't have to write any Java to convert one XML format to another XML format if you don't want to. You can use a technology called XSLT. (Or XSL depending on how picky you want to be). This basically has (XML) scripts which say when you see this sort of XML tag, output that sort of XML. So for the most part you would take your XML as input, and output the equivalant XSL:FO type output. Since FOP already uses an XSLT engine (Xalan by default) you can just tell it take this XML file as input, and use this XSLT file to transform it, and output PDF, but you can output the .fo file too if you want. If possible when asking this sort of question please say what documentation you have already read, because this sort of information should be in there already. Thanks and goodluck Alex Openweb Analysts Ltd, London. Software For Complex Websites http://www.OWAL.co.uk/ Open Source Software Companies please register here http://www.OWAL.co.uk/oss_support/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Native compile using GCJ or Kaffe to boost performance
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 appreciated. Thanks Jeremiah Fisher Software Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.energywatchdog.com/
RE: Need help:converting xml = fo = pdf
Title: RE: Need help:converting xml = fo = pdf how about xml+xslt=fo ? -Original Message- From: ANIL B G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 3 December 2002 5:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Need help:converting xml = fo = pdf Hello, What is the simplest way of converting file.xml = file.fo = file.pdf Second part is straight forward, I just need to feed file.fo to FOP to generate file.pdf Is there any simple way to convert file.xml to file.fo ?? Is there any tool that does this job or do I need to write my own Java parser for converting file.xml to file.fo Please advise me. Regards, Anil _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
