Rows of tables don't line up

2003-04-28 Thread Joseph . Sadove
Apologies for such a helpless question. In the attached fo: doc, I am laying out 4 visible tables formatted inside another table. (I assume standard operating procedure for managing page layout.) The three "right-most" tables all have their rows lined up correctly with each other. I cannot figur

Re: font and embedding FOP question

2003-04-28 Thread J.Pietschmann
Steve Albin wrote: I would like to use additional fonts with FOP, where FOP is embedded in a Servlet. The instructions at http://xml.apache.org/fop/fonts.html say to use the -c conf/userconfig.xml option on the command line in order for FOP to find custom font information. However how do you specif

Re: Newbie question about SVG

2003-04-28 Thread J.Pietschmann
Olivier Imbert wrote: This means I cannot include the same svg twice with 2 different dimensions ? Is it a specification issue or an implementation issue ? There is no proper specification on how SVG should be handled. The SVG spec has a lot on how the SVG renderer and the container negotiate windo

Re: list-blocks causing text to repeat

2003-04-28 Thread Clay Leeds
I haven't tried searching in CVS for it myself, but I've read "fop-0_20_2_maintain" a few times. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, I tried to download a new snapshot from CVS, but these are from the > redesign branch, which is still not fully functional -- the result was a > mess. I searched the CV

Re: list-blocks causing text to repeat

2003-04-28 Thread jaccoud
Well, I tried to download a new snapshot from CVS, but these are from the redesign branch, which is still not fully functional -- the result was a mess. I searched the CVS server for a updated to the maintainance branch, but couldn't locate the files. May you help? (I cannot access the repository

font and embedding FOP question

2003-04-28 Thread Steve Albin
I would like to use additional fonts with FOP, where FOP is embedded in a Servlet. The instructions at http://xml.apache.org/fop/fonts.html say to use the –c conf/userconfig.xml option on the command line in order for FOP to find custom font information. However how do you specify this info

Re: Newbie question about SVG

2003-04-28 Thread Olivier Imbert
Le Lundi 28 Avril 2003 20:00, J.Pietschmann a écrit : > Clay Leeds wrote: > > I don't have an answer for your SVG problem, (sorry!) but EPS is not > > listed on the supported graphics page Victor & I were discussing. > > EPS is supported, in some sense. FOP will basically dump it more > or less unc

Re: Newbie question about SVG

2003-04-28 Thread Olivier Imbert
This means I cannot include the same svg twice with 2 different dimensions ? Is it a specification issue or an implementation issue ? Le Lundi 28 Avril 2003 19:47, J.Pietschmann a écrit : > Olivier Imbert wrote: > > I use to got external graphics in my fo document. > > When I use a BMP, PNG or EPS

Re: Layout question

2003-04-28 Thread J.Pietschmann
Ben Galbraith wrote: The body text should flow contiguously, so I can't simply put the first/second page boxes in the flow. Furthermore, generation of the book will be fully automatic, so I can't manually insert the box into the flow. Use The spec is your friend. J.Pietschmann

Layout question

2003-04-28 Thread Ben Galbraith
fop-users, [I accidentally sent this message a moment ago from an account not subscribed to this list -- apologies if it makes it through in addition to this message] My company creates a book from a series of XML files, and we'd like to use FOP to produce the PDF's we'll send to the print shop.

RE: Unknown formatting object (Solution Update)

2003-04-28 Thread Willis, Matthew
Hi, J. Pietschmann and Adam Shelley were kind enough to point me in the correct direction for solving my original problem. Thanks go to them for their time. I'm documenting the solution here so it'll be available in the email-list archive. ...here's the original problem statement... I'm gettin

Re: Newbie question about SVG

2003-04-28 Thread J.Pietschmann
Clay Leeds wrote: I don't have an answer for your SVG problem, (sorry!) but EPS is not listed on the supported graphics page Victor & I were discussing. EPS is supported, in some sense. FOP will basically dump it more or less unchanged into the PDF, and Acrobat Reader isn't able to display it. Howe

Re: Newbie question about SVG

2003-04-28 Thread J.Pietschmann
Olivier Imbert wrote: I use to got external graphics in my fo document. When I use a BMP, PNG or EPS graphics, it is correct : This will work correctly (whatever the size of the graphic, it will be shrink to the specified width/height. For SVG, it will not ! How shoud I do ? Define the same with/

RE: Newbie question about SVG

2003-04-28 Thread Adam Shelley
This is probably not the definitive answer but if you specify the proper width and height in the actual svg document it should be sized correctly in the resulting pdf document. FOP handles svg documents differently than other images. It internally maps these images to pdf graphic objects. For th

Re: Newbie question about SVG

2003-04-28 Thread Clay Leeds
Olivier, I don't have an answer for your SVG problem, (sorry!) but EPS is not listed on the supported graphics page Victor & I were discussing. There's good information on SVG here (other graphic formats are on that page as well): http://xml.apache.org/fop/graphics.html#svg NOTE TO VICTOR: sin

Newbie question about SVG

2003-04-28 Thread Olivier Imbert
I use to got external graphics in my fo document. When I use a BMP, PNG or EPS graphics, it is correct : This will work correctly (whatever the size of the graphic, it will be shrink to the specified width/height. For SVG, it will not ! How shoud I do ? Olivier.

Re: feature overview

2003-04-28 Thread Clay Leeds
Clay Leeds wrote: > - To help with searching the FOP site, put the "title" of the image > format in parentheses for all image formats (if known) like you've done > with ICO, PICT & PSD--i.e., GIF (Graphics Interchange Format); PNG > (Portable Network Graphics); etc. Here's a link which has a list

Re: list-blocks causing text to repeat

2003-04-28 Thread J.Pietschmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting a very strange behaviour using 0.20.5rc2. Every time a list-block appears in the following pattern: See Bug #17472. This is fixed in CVS. J.Pietschmann - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Yet another block positioning question...

2003-04-28 Thread J.Pietschmann
David Neary wrote: I would like the images to be centered vertically and horizontally in the table cell, and have the caption at the bottom of the table cell. The See http://xml.apache.org/fop/faq.html#fo-center Use another row for the caption and keep-with-next to keep the rows together. J.Pietsc

Re: automatic Page breaks on longer sections?

2003-04-28 Thread J.Pietschmann
Anton Wardaschko (PA) wrote: My problem is, that some headlines are at the end of the page and the text on the next, it looks very ugly. See http://xml.apache.org/fop/faq.html#keep-with You'll have to hack the DocBook style sheets to apply this workaround or do some post-processing, and doing so wi

Re: feature overview

2003-04-28 Thread Clay Leeds
Victor, Victor Mote wrote: > Sorry to be so slow responding. First, it took me a while to write the > content, then there is a time lag before it is published, then ... I forgot > I had flagged the message for followup. Anyway, please review the revised > graphics doc: > http://xml.apache.org/fop/

Re: AW: AW: Number alignment in TOC

2003-04-28 Thread J.Pietschmann
Anton Wardaschko (PA) wrote: The output of the TOC-Numbers looks now much better, but it is not perfect. The Numbers of sect2 fit not exact with the oders. Is this problem known and would be corrected in the next version? Could you supply a slightly more explicit problem description, preferably aug

Re: Help: Output from servlet is garbage

2003-04-28 Thread J.Pietschmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all thanks for clearing me up on the IE issue, etc. The problem I am trying to solve is generating the fo: without having to write and read from a file. Either there aren't any or I was so thick as not to see any examples of doing this without having to do th

Some Resources (was Re: newbie help on error message)

2003-04-28 Thread Clay Leeds
Victor, While we're on the subject of books and resources for FOP Resources, here's a couple things to add. One of my previous posts included a list of good books on XSL-FO (some of which you've listed). Here's a link to my post. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-user&m=104463666315238&w=2 Asi

list-blocks causing text to repeat

2003-04-28 Thread jaccoud
I'm getting a very strange behaviour using 0.20.5rc2. Every time a list-block appears in the following pattern: text-content (several list-items) the last line of the text-content appears again after the last list-item. I checked the FO and i

RE: Help: Output from servlet is garbage

2003-04-28 Thread Adam Shelley
If you look through the archives look for the thread, FopServlet, passing parameters as URL.  There is code on their to read the xml/xsl from a url and output the pdf to the response object in the servlet.  So if you had another web based process that you could pass parameters in your url to

Justification and forced page breaks

2003-04-28 Thread Matthias Brunner
Hello, when a page is broken automatically within a block the last line before the break is displayed justificated. But when a page break is forced within a block (with alignment settings set to "justify") the last line is NOT displayed in justification (example file attached). This is disturb

Re: Determining table column count

2003-04-28 Thread Chris Bowditch
From: Richard Sweeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm creating a table with a dynamic number of columns and at the top of the table there is a row with a comment on the right hand side. If I specify number-columns-spanned to a value larger than the number of columns then it throws an exception. ... Can I s

Re: automatic Page breaks on longer sections?

2003-04-28 Thread Chris Bowditch
From: "Anton Wardaschko (PA)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi! My problem is, that some headlines are at the end of the page and the text on the next, it looks very ugly. The solution to break atomaticaly on all sect-tags is out of question, cause there are many small sections. The XSL-FO solution to yo

Determining table column count

2003-04-28 Thread Richard Sweeney
I'm creating a table with a dynamic number of columns and at the top of the table there is a row with a comment on the right hand side. If I specify number-columns-spanned to a value larger than the number of columns then it throws an exception. Basically I have an XML file with all the columns th

AW: Yet another block positioning question...

2003-04-28 Thread Todtenhaupt, Susann
Vertical-align fop doesn't support. So you have to center your image in a block with padding. Text-align="center" as attribute for your cell centers the content (your block and embedded image) horizontally. I guess I would solve it as you described... Greetz suse -Ursprüngliche Nachricht

Re: Help: Output from servlet is garbage

2003-04-28 Thread Joseph . Sadove
First of all thanks for clearing me up on the IE issue, etc. The problem I am trying to solve is generating the fo: without having to write and read from a file. Either there aren't any or I was so thick as not to see any examples of doing this without having to do this. Are you suggesting th

AW: Set Standard Font

2003-04-28 Thread Elmar . Hurni
Thank You, it does work! I have added to the -Tag. Greetings Helmi (Thx all helpers) -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Anton Wardaschko (PA) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 28. April 2003 15:05 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: AW: Set Standard Font Hi! >>> Content of userconfig

Yet another block positioning question...

2003-04-28 Thread David Neary
Hi again, I'm using a table to position a number of images, along with a caption, in a grid. I would like the images to be centered vertically and horizontally in the table cell, and have the caption at the bottom of the table cell. The equivalent old HTML looks like this...

AW: Set Standard Font

2003-04-28 Thread Anton Wardaschko (PA)
Hi! >>> Content of userconfig.xml: >>> yes. >>> And now, i define the Parameter in the XSL File? >>> yes, if you customize Norms Stylesheets you have to use the parameter body.font.family. or direct in fo: http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"; font-family="A

AW: Set Standard Font

2003-04-28 Thread Elmar . Hurni
Hi... Hm, do I understand this correctly? Content of userconfig.xml: And now, i define the Parameter in the XSL File? (Example: http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"; xmlns:lxslt="http://xml.apache.org/xslt"; xmlns

AW: Set Standard Font

2003-04-28 Thread Anton Wardaschko (PA)
Hi! You need the correct path to the fonts, font declaration in the userconfig.xml and if you use docbook following entry in your xsl-file: Arial or for the titles Verdana CU Anton - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Set Standard Font

2003-04-28 Thread Elmar . Hurni
Hello [ENGLISH] Does someone know, how I can set the standart Font for the production of a PDF with FOP? Do I have to indicate this somehow in userconfig.xml? Thx a lot for Help! [GERMAN] Weiss jemand, wie ich die Standartschrift für die Erstellung eines PDF's mit FOP setzen kann? Muss ich dies

automatic Page breaks on longer sections?

2003-04-28 Thread Anton Wardaschko (PA)
Hi! My problem is, that some headlines are at the end of the page and the text on the next, it looks very ugly. The solution to break atomaticaly on all sect-tags is out of question, cause there are many small sections. The manual break on some sections do, what i want, but this way is also b

AW: AW: Number alignment in TOC

2003-04-28 Thread Anton Wardaschko (PA)
Hi! >>> > [INFO] 1.0dev I told you to be sure to get the code from the maintenance branch. The branch tag is fop-0_20_2-maintain. >>> Unfortunatly you wrote firstly only "mantain" without branch number. So i thougt, that the main may be correct. How can i see, which version of FOP contain the