RE: Some seemingly simple Formatting Questions
I'm actually having the same problems with the keep-with-next property, it just doesn't seem to have ANY effect at all (I tried using it on table rows). There have been some discussions here about this topic, and I think that some people stated that it works, but I still couldn't figure out how they did it... One workaround is to use table-headers, depending on your document structure, you might wanna use this. Kurt -Message d'origine- De : Markus Wiese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mercredi, 26. juin 2002 10:40 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: Some seemingly simple Formatting Questions Hi Paul, 1. Try putting your margin-top in your fo:simple-page-master 2. afaik markers aren't supported yet. 3. try using something like: fo:block line-height=3pt fo:leader leader-pattern=rule leader-length=150mm rule-thickness=1pt color=#99/ /fo:block 4. I had to fiddle a lot with preventing page-breaks, you will have to use the workarounds (using table-cells/ keep-together=always) or wait for the major redesign, I reckon. Please correct, if I'm wrong. markus -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Thibodeaux, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Mittwoch, 26. Juni 2002 02:25 Betreff: Some seemingly simple Formatting Questions I'm relatively new to using FOP. I've got a document working fairly well, but am having a difficult time doing a few things that I would have thought to be simple. 1. Cannot set the TOP MARGIN of a xsl-region-before. Setting it to anything is ignored and the data is always printed at the very top of the page. fo:static-content flow-name=xsl-region-before margin-top=2cm margin-left=2cm margin-right=2cm 2. Cannot set the FONT of a fo:retrieve-marker used in a xsl-region-before. It seems to ignore my font setting and always print the same size. fo:block keep-together=auto font-size=8pt fo:retrieve-marker retrieve-class-name=mrkState retrieve-boundary=page retrieve-position=first-starting-within-page/ /fo:block 3. Cannot set the height of a fo:leader to a small amount. The output is always preceeded by more white space than is desired. fo:block fo:leader leader-pattern=rule space-after.optimum=4pt space-before=0pt line-height=1pt/ /fo:block 4. Problem using keep-with-next across page and column breaks of multi-column pages. Thanks to Chuck Paussa, I made great headway on better controlling KEEPS in a multi-column document by putting the data in TABLE CELLS. The KEEP-TOGETHER seems to work fine within TABLE cells; however, the KEEP-WITH NEXT does not appear to work. Any insights on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Paul Thibodeaux
keep-with-.. property
I've read a lot in the archives about the different keep-with property; what I understood is that some of them are not implemented yet, but that keep-with-next should work on table rows. Is there another reason why my example here doesn't keep the rows together? - fo:table-row keep-with-next=always font-weight=bold font-size=10pt - fo:table-cell - fo:block - fo:table font-size=10pt border-style=solid fo:table-column column-width=1.2cm / fo:table-column column-width=15.8cm / - fo:table-body - fo:table-row - fo:table-cell fo:block10/fo:block /fo:table-cell - fo:table-cell fo:blockRAPPORTS DE LA COMMISSION DE GRACE/fo:block /fo:table-cell /fo:table-row - fo:table-row font-weight=normal fo:table-cell / - fo:table-cell fo:block / /fo:table-cell /fo:table-row /fo:table-body /fo:table /fo:block /fo:table-cell /fo:table-row fo:table-row keep-with-next=always height=30pt / !-- I'm trying to avoid a page-break here, but no success so far... -- - fo:table-row font-weight=bold font-size=10pt - fo:table-cell - fo:block - fo:table font-size=10pt border-style=none fo:table-column column-width=1.2cm / fo:table-column column-width=2.3cm / fo:table-column column-width=13.5cm / - fo:table-body - fo:table-row fo:table-cell / fo:table-cell / - fo:table-cell text-align=left fo:block7 rapports, préavis adoptés./fo:block /fo:table-cell /fo:table-row - fo:table-row fo:table-cell / fo:table-cell / - fo:table-cell text-align=left fo:block / /fo:table-cell /fo:table-row /fo:table-body /fo:table /fo:block /fo:table-cell /fo:table-row
RE: keep-with-.. property
I'm using the same FOP version. If I look at the following code snippet, this table row should never stand alone at the end of a page, but this is exactly what happens (and not only once, but in many places over the entire document. I assume that the property doesn't work in every case, but is there any other way/solution? Kurt - fo:table-row keep-together=always keep-with-next=always height=30pt font-weight=bold font-size=10pt - fo:table-cell - fo:block - fo:table font-size=10pt border-style=none fo:table-column column-width=1.2cm / fo:table-column column-width=15.8cm / - fo:table-body - fo:table-row - fo:table-cell fo:block / /fo:table-cell - fo:table-cell fo:blockJUSTICE, POLICE ET SECURITE* (DJPS)/fo:block /fo:table-cell /fo:table-row - fo:table-row font-weight=normal fo:table-cell / - fo:table-cell fo:block(Titulaire: Mme Spoerri Micheline; suppléant: M. Laurent Moutinot)/fo:block /fo:table-cell /fo:table-row /fo:table-body /fo:table /fo:block /fo:table-cell /fo:table-row -Message d'origine- De : Bertrand Delacretaz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mardi, 25. juin 2002 09:31 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Hahn Kurt (CHA); '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Objet : Re: keep-with-.. property On Tuesday 25 June 2002 08:58, Hahn Kurt (CHA) wrote: . . . Is there another reason why my example here doesn't keep the rows together? I don't know exactly what is supposed to work or not, but here we've been successfully using the following constructs with FOP 0.20.3rc: fo:table-row keep-with-previous=always keep-together=always fo:table-row keep-with-next=always keep-together=always fo:table-row keep-with-previous=always Note however that bug 7449 is not fixed yet: rows that do not fit on one page cause infinite loops (http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7449) -Bertrand
RE: keep-with-.. property
I don't exactly know what you mean, but I think that wouldn't fit my needs, which is, that the table-row shown belown should be on a new page if there's not enough space to add at least one more row (actually much like the title of a chapter or a section, which should never stand alone, but doesn't have necessarily to start a new page everytime) -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mardi, 25. juin 2002 10:38 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : RE: keep-with-.. property put it in one block together whith the data that it alsways be shown with and try bertrands code on the fo:block property... is a wild guess neva tried this one before :D but wild guesses fop has always worked for me :D Jochen Maes ICT Development KBC Securities (kbcsecurities.com) Havenlaan 12 Avenue du Port SIF 8683 B-1080 Brussels Belgium Tel: +32 2 429 96 81 GSM: +32 496 57 90 99 E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message and any attachments hereto are for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. You may not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. If you have received this e-mail message without being the intended recipient, please notify KBC Securities promptly and delete this e-mail. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorised to state them to be the views of KBC Securities. KBC Securities reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks and any messages addressed to, received or sent by KBC Securities or its employees are deemed to be professional in nature. The sender or recipient of any messages to or of KBC Securities agrees that those may be read by other employees of KBC Securities than the stated recipient or sender in order to ensure the continuity of work-related activities and allow supervision thereof. KBC Securities does not accept liability for the correct and complete transmission of the information, nor for any delay or interruption of the transmission, nor for damages arising from the use of, or reliance on, the information.
RE: keep line-breaks in PDF
Thanks a lot, I translated the CR to #x2028; which worked without any problems. Kurt -Message d'origine- De : J.Pietschmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : vendredi, 21. juin 2002 23:42 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: keep line-breaks in PDF Hahn Kurt (CHA) wrote: I'm generating a document from a DB which contains fields of up to 2000 characters In those fields,any line-break is stored, and if I look at my XSL-FO in a text-editor, I see that all the line-breaks are still there. They're of the form: #13;. If process the document through FOP (the contents are displayed in table cells), Acrobat seems to ignore the line-breaks completely. Does FOP strip away the #13;? Or do I have to use another line-break character? If the data is reparsed, the XML parser is oblieged to normalize a CR (U+000D) to LF (U+000A) (if you write #13; instead of putting a CR into the text you get a CR delivered to FOP). If you are passing the data in-memory, FOP will see the CR. After this, linefeeds are possibly converted to spaces, according to the value of linefeed-treatment in effect http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/slice7.html#linefeed-treatment and then white space is collapsed, controlled by the values of white-space-treatment and white-space-collapse If you want to have your line breaks preserved, you should set linefeed-treatment to preserve. Unfortunately, FOP doesn't implement this. You can set white-space-collapse to false, which will not only keep runs of spaces but also the linefeeds intact (which is actually a bug). If you want to have white space collapsed, you can - do this at a transformation level - use a transformation which transforms each run of characters between two line bbreaks into a separate fo:block - translate the CR to #x2028; (Unicode LINE SEPARATOR) which is apparently treated specially HTH J.Pietschmann
RE: performance problem renedering nested fo-tables
Oops. I was testing a document without nested tables: Here are the correct values: PDF (104Kb) : 16 seconds xml (511Kb) : 7 seconds Sorry -Message d'origine- De : Hahn Kurt (CHA) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : vendredi, 21. juin 2002 08:27 À : '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Objet : RE: performance problem renedering nested fo-tables Hi, I'm generating a very similar document, also with nested tables within a main, one-column table. Here's my values: PDF (144 Kb, about 30-40 pages): 15 seconds just the XML (62 Kb): 7 seconds. I wouldn't say that FOP slows down a lot. But: Maybe it's your browser that's slowing down. I did my tests from a command-line tool, since it wouldn't be very fair to blame FOP only because IE is a lame duck... Kurt -Message d'origine- De : Argyn Kuketayev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : samedi, 15. juin 2002 00:03 À : '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Objet : RE: performance problem renedering nested fo-tables addition to a previous message: I'm using FOP 0.20.3 with Cocoon 2.0.1. As I already stated, time to generate XSL-FO and serialize it to view in the browser is under 3 sec. Full time to generate PDF is about 15 seconds.
keep line-breaks in PDF
I'm generating a document from a DB which contains fields of up to 2000 characters In those fields,any line-break is stored, and if I look at my XSL-FO in a text-editor, I see that all the line-breaks are still there. They're of the form: #13;. If process the document through FOP (the contents are displayed in table cells), Acrobat seems to ignore the line-breaks completely. Does FOP strip away the #13;? Or do I have to use another line-break character? Kurt
RE: Block and page changing
keep-together=always does what I need, but just out of curiosity: What does a keep-together condition with strength of the given integer in the appropriate context mean?? I tried to see what happens if insert an integer value instead of always, but that didn't really explain it.. Kurt -Message d'origine- De : Ralf Steppacher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mardi, 11. juin 2002 12:26 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: Block and page changing Hello Kurt. fo:table-row font-size=9pt keep-together=true I couldn't figure what value I have to give it... Legal values are auto, always and an integer value. Integer 'Imposes a keep-together condition with strength of the given integer in the appropriate context.' [http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/slice7.html#keep-together] HTH Ralf
RE: White space between table-rows. HOW?
I still haven't figured out how I can insert space between table-rows. I would like to have a propert -Message d'origine- De : J.Pietschmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : jeudi, 6. juin 2002 01:09 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: White space between table-rows. HOW? Hahn Kurt (CHA) wrote: Below is a code sample from a table I'm displaying. I need to have some space between 2 rows, in order to separate them visually. I tried a number of things, especially the various padding-properties but also other things, but no clue so far. The only thing that worked (a little, not really well), was to add an empty row, or to fix the row-heigth, but that's not dynamic, so it isn't really that... You can use space-before=... on the elements each table cell in the row following the space, like fo:table-row height=35pt font-weight=bold font-size=12pt fo:table-cell text-align=center number-columns-spanned=4 fo:blockLe procès-verbal de la session du 24 et 25 janvier 2002 est adopté. /fo:block /fo:table-cell /fo:table-row fo:table-row height=35pt font-weight=bold font-size=12pt fo:table-cell fo:block space-before=30pt4/fo:block /fo:table-cell fo:table-cell text-align=left number-columns-spanned=4 fo:block space-before=30ptDISCUSSIONS ET APPROBATION DE L'ORDRE DU JOUR/fo:block /fo:table-cell /fo:table-row fo:table-row J.Pietschmann
TR: White space between table-rows. HOW?
I still haven't figured out how I can insert space between table-rows. I would like to have a property that applies on a table-row. The various padding properties didn't seem to produce any effect, no matter what values I gave. One temporary solution I'm using is to specify the height of the row, but I need to achieve that dynamically, since not every table-row will have the same height. Thx Kurt -Message d'origine- De : J.Pietschmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : jeudi, 6. juin 2002 01:09 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: White space between table-rows. HOW? Hahn Kurt (CHA) wrote: Below is a code sample from a table I'm displaying. I need to have some space between 2 rows, in order to separate them visually. I tried a number of things, especially the various padding-properties but also other things, but no clue so far. The only thing that worked (a little, not really well), was to add an empty row, or to fix the row-heigth, but that's not dynamic, so it isn't really that... You can use space-before=... on the elements each table cell in the row following the space, like fo:table-row height=35pt font-weight=bold font-size=12pt fo:table-cell text-align=center number-columns-spanned=4 fo:blockLe procès-verbal de la session du 24 et 25 janvier 2002 est adopté. /fo:block /fo:table-cell /fo:table-row fo:table-row height=35pt font-weight=bold font-size=12pt fo:table-cell fo:block space-before=30pt4/fo:block /fo:table-cell fo:table-cell text-align=left number-columns-spanned=4 fo:block space-before=30ptDISCUSSIONS ET APPROBATION DE L'ORDRE DU JOUR/fo:block /fo:table-cell /fo:table-row fo:table-row J.Pietschmann
Embedding a table in a table-row
I'm trying to embed a table in a table row. It seems to work, but my text isn't displayed (not even the test block text I inserted): What I'm seeing is two thick lines, and I'm suspecting each line represents one row (because I should get two rows with the template below).Why are they compressed like this? Do I need to use some other property in order to be able to display an embedded table? Or is just some error in my code? Thanks in advance The definition of the wrapping table: fo:table border-style=solid font-size=10pt fo:table-column column-width=17cm/ fo:table-body xsl:apply-templates select=//eleTexte:listeAffaires/ /fo:table-body /fo:table and here goes the template that should fill one row of the table: xsl:template match=eleTexte:soustitre1 fo:table-row font-size=14pt font-weight=bold height=40pt fo:table-cell fo:table border-style=solid font-size=10pt fo:table-column column-width=0.8cm/ fo:table-column column-width=16.2cm/ fo:table-row height=30pt fo:table-cellfo:blocktext/fo:block fo:blockxsl:value-of select=.//fo:block /fo:table-cell fo:table-cell fo:blockxsl:value-of select=../eleTexte:soustitre1_text//fo:block /fo:table-cell /fo:table-row /fo:table /fo:table-cell /fo:table-row /xsl:template
RE: Block and page changing
I tried to use the keep-together property on a table row, but I'm not sure if it's really working. Can somebody tell me the right syntax? What I tried is this: fo:table-row font-size=9pt keep-together=true I couldn't figure what value I have to give it... Kurt -Message d'origine- De : Ramon Maria Gallart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : jeudi, 6. juin 2002 12:38 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : RE: Block and page changing Thanks Jens and Florencs for your answers. They all both fit my needs. Ramon.
Use a relative path
I need to add a graphics file, originally placed in the same directory where my sitemap is located. ¨There's no problem if I use an absolute path, the file is displayed. If I use a relative path, nothing. The file is very small, so I even copied in other subdirectories, but still nothing. How can I do that? working: fo:external-graphic src=D:\jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1\webapps\cocoon\mount\AigleK\ecu.jpg/ not working: fo:external-graphic src=ecu.jpg/ Kurt
Use a relative path do insert a graphics file (Re-post with bett er title)
I need to add a graphics file, originally placed in the same directory where my sitemap is located. ¨There's no problem if I use an absolute path, the file is displayed. If I use a relative path, nothing. The file is very small, so I even copied in other subdirectories, but still nothing. How can I do that? working: fo:external-graphic src=D:\jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1\webapps\cocoon\mount\AigleK\ecu.jpg/ not working: fo:external-graphic src=ecu.jpg/ Kurt
fo:table-cell number-columns-spanned: Is this property working at all?
Are there any limitations to the number-columns-spanned-property? I tried this to fill a 5-columns table with 2 cells, but it doesn't seem to work: xsl:template match=soustitre3 fo:table-row fo:table-cellfo:block xsl:value-of select=./ /fo:block/fo:table-cell fo:table-cell number-colums-spanned=4 text-align=centerfo:block xsl:value-of select=../soustitre3_intitule/ /fo:block/fo:table-cell /fo:table-row /xsl:template I'm using this same property in another rule in the same XSL-file, and it does what I want (e.g. span several colums with just one cell). But in this case, the text from xsl:value-of select=../soustitre3_intitule/,. which is actually rather long, is squeezed in the second cell, (with appr. 1 word per line, since the second column is rather narrow). Any ideas? Kurt
