RE: Alternate flows on odd and even pages

2003-04-24 Thread Arved Sandstrom
> -Original Message- > From: Roxana Constandes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: April 24, 2003 11:37 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Alternate flows on odd and even pages > > > Hi All! > > I need to to alternate two different flows on odd and even pages. > I know that is possible to

RE: Alternate flows on odd and even pages

2003-04-24 Thread Arved Sandstrom
> -Original Message- > From: Roxana Constandes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: April 24, 2003 12:33 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Alternate flows on odd and even pages > > Hi Arved! > > I have to generate one PDF file that contains 2 different > reports(different data and layo

Re: FAQ Location

2001-07-11 Thread Arved Sandstrom
It looks good...I just now took a look. I guess we should be feeding you more stuff; this is a valuable resource. Regards, Arved Sandstrom At 01:10 PM 7/10/01 +0100, Alex McLintock wrote: >Hi Folks, > >This is a reminder that I have been slowly putting together a FOP FAQ which can be

Purpose of FOP Users List

2001-07-07 Thread Arved Sandstrom
your posts will not be going into a void. Regards, Arved Sandstrom Fairly Senior Software Type e-plicity (http://www.e-plicity.com) Wireless * B2B * J2EE * XML --- Halifax, Nova Scotia

Editor Worth Looking At

2001-08-04 Thread Arved Sandstrom
er then you will be getting a lot of familiar editing features in a package that is much smaller and appreciably faster. The other features are on a par with other leading text editors. Regards, Arved Sandstrom -- Fairly Senior Software Type e-plicity (http://www.e-plicity.com) Halifax, Nov

FOP 0.20.0 Release now available

2001-08-12 Thread Arved Sandstrom
What it says. :-) I will be announcing it in various spots over the next day or two. I'd be particularly gratified if Windows people would put the thing through its paces, and let me know if there are any problems. Thanks. Regards, Arved Sandstrom -- Fairly Senior Software Type e-pl

Test #0

2001-08-02 Thread Arved Sandstrom
Do I need to moderate these damned things? Fairly Senior Software Type e-plicity (http://www.e-plicity.com) Wireless * B2B * J2EE * XML --- Halifax, Nova Scotia

Re: Columns

2001-10-11 Thread Arved Sandstrom
re stuck with that one figure, as you surmised. This is an XSL limitation. So on one page you can have areas with one column and 'column-count' columns, depending on how you set 'span', but that is it - 2 choices. You might be able to do something clever if you also introduce tab

Re: spec violation in

2001-11-09 Thread Arved Sandstrom
At 11:47 AM 11/9/01 +0100, Ingo Bruell wrote: >I found a spec violation in page-master you use the attribute "master-name" but the spec says "master-reference". >Or am i wrong ? This was one of the changes in the last couple of months. So you are correct...it just hasn't been changed in Fop yet.

RE: FO: If Table Is Too Wide?

2002-01-28 Thread Arved Sandstrom
really believe that any user out there can grasp something like that? Back to XSL-FO: I would recommend doing front-end processing, in SQL or XSLT or whatever, based on your knowledge of the specific tables. Help the processor and your users. Regards, Arved Sandstrom -Original Message

RE: Entity references in FOP

2002-02-11 Thread Arved Sandstrom
-Original Message- From: ewitness - Ben Fowler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 11, 2002 1:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Entity references in FOP [ SNIP ] When I try to parse it with ElfData XML Editor http://www.elfdata.com/xmleditor/ >, I get this error XML-V

RE: A brain teaser

2002-02-16 Thread Arved Sandstrom
ve been promising Dave to submit some patches; I guess I should get hot on that. Regards, Arved Sandstrom -Original Message- From: Bart Locanthi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 16, 2002 1:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A brain teaser the xsl:fo way of doing what you wa

RE: A brain teaser

2002-02-16 Thread Arved Sandstrom
er message.. apologies to you and anyone else who got the idea that i wrote or claimed to have written that tutorial. after pawing through other, otherwise excellent xslt references, it was that one that brought me out of the darkness regarding xsl:fo. thanks again to the dave pawson and arved sandst

RE: region body formatting

2002-02-18 Thread Arved Sandstrom
fo:region-body takes the standard background properties, such as "background-color". You cannot put a border on a region directly, since in XSL 1.0 the border-width on regions is forced to "0". The workaround would be to fill up the region with a block-container, and put the border on it. But then

RE: region body formatting

2002-02-19 Thread Arved Sandstrom
of region-filling (or close - you don't want to extend into the regions and precedence is not a solution either) block-containers with borders. AHS -Original Message- From: Arved Sandstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 18, 2002 7:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: r

RE: individual character in symbol font?

2002-02-22 Thread Arved Sandstrom
reek character), it makes its first glyph match using the Symbol font. Failing that you have to do a workaround at the moment of the kind you suggest. Doing the S kind of thing is probably easiest; your XSLT template can turn that into an fo:character. Regards, Arved Sandstrom -Original Message-

RE: individual character in symbol font?

2002-02-22 Thread Arved Sandstrom
2 1:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: individual character in symbol font? - Original Message - From: "Arved Sandstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 3:15 AM Subject: RE: individual character in symbol font? > Ideally,

RE: Classpath in jar

2002-02-26 Thread Arved Sandstrom
ver it is being used, either standalone or as a servlet, this extension mechanism problem has not cropped up much, but that's not to say it's not a problem the way we have it set up. Regards, Arved Sandstrom

RE: markers

2002-02-26 Thread Arved Sandstrom
te that I could reasonably expect to be doing so within 3 months). If it looks like there won't be any markers in the rewrite for quite a while then I'd be happy to look at getting them back into the maintenance branch because it wouldn't be wasted effort. Regards, Arved Sandstrom -Or

RE: region boundaries

2002-02-27 Thread Arved Sandstrom
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

RE: markers

2002-02-27 Thread Arved Sandstrom
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

RE: region boundaries

2002-02-27 Thread Arved Sandstrom
hen 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 explanatio

RE: XMLSpy - FOP

2002-02-28 Thread Arved Sandstrom
-Original Message- From: Savino, Matt C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 27, 2002 9:15 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: XMLSpy - FOP Thanks Peter. I'm really glad to hear some positive news about the redesign! I'll try to get on that list and check out the code. I like readi

RE: XMLSpy - FOP

2002-02-28 Thread Arved Sandstrom
-Original Message- From: Peter B. West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 27, 2002 11:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: fop-dev Subject: Re: XMLSpy - FOP [ SNIP ] Let me just strongly endorse Arved's comment about the oxymoronic "UML design", as in "design by UML". What a bizarre idea

RE: XMLSpy - FOP

2002-03-01 Thread Arved Sandstrom
-Original Message- From: Savino, Matt C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 28, 2002 3:20 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: XMLSpy - FOP Arved, I'd love to help out with the Perl prototyping if you have any pieces that make sense to break off. I hear you about the UML. I think o

RE: page sequence of different last page and rest pages

2002-03-11 Thread Arved Sandstrom
nd make it easier to handle this situation. Hope this explains what's going on. Sorry I couldn't tell you that the feature exists. Regards, Arved Sandstrom -Original Message- From: Peter Velichko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 11, 2002 3:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subjec

RE: Different footers for one

2002-03-11 Thread Arved Sandstrom
Provided that different simple-page-masters are being used for the pages that are intended to have different footers, prepare the various static-contents that you'll need, and give them different names that map to corresponding region-after's in your various page-masters. Regards, AHS -Origin

RE: merging two libraries

2002-03-12 Thread Arved Sandstrom
ccept that the PDF rendering capabilities of iText have gotten considerably better in the meantime, and it makes sense to look at the matter again. IMO. Regards, Arved Sandstrom -Original Message- From: Keiron Liddle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 12, 2002 4:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROT

RE: Different footers for one

2002-03-12 Thread Arved Sandstrom
ko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 12, 2002 6:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Different footers for one Is it possible to give different content to headers for different simple-page-masters of one ? -Original Message----- From: Arved Sandstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tues

RE: Question - what does "Page subsequences exhausted" mean?

2002-03-16 Thread Arved Sandstrom
Hi, David It may or may not be an internal logic error. Here's what it means, though. You're using a page-sequence-master. The children of this FO are sub-sequence-specifiers. You might, for example, decide to start off with 2 single-page-master-references, follow up with a repeatable-page-master

RE: Error

2002-03-20 Thread Arved Sandstrom
Hey, Ken, those of us on _cable_ connections aren't exactly impressed by giant emails either. :-) Arved -Original Message- From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 20, 2002 12:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Error Would you please *stop* sending 1Mb files over e

RE: Error

2002-03-21 Thread Arved Sandstrom
o that and by and large, maybe not right away, we'll address your question. Cheerfully. Regards, Arved Sandstrom -Original Message- From: Woods, John T. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 20, 2002 8:08 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Error To all the fop-use

RE: page intentionnally left blank

2002-03-28 Thread Arved Sandstrom
I am 95% certain that this did work once, and maybe it still does. I assume that you set up a simple-page-master for the express purpose of handling blank pages, and then used a page-sequence-master with a conditional-page-master-reference using blank-or-not-blank=true, that points at that

RE: When a page is not a page

2002-03-30 Thread Arved Sandstrom
the XSL Recommendation allows or does not allow you to do. If you feel that there is a compelling use case for being able to do what you want to do, I'd suggest writing it up and submitting it to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. Hope this clears things up. Regards, Arved Sandstrom -Ori

RE: table error

2002-04-05 Thread Arved Sandstrom
e. Can you post the start tag for your offending table, complete with properties? Regards, Arved Sandstrom -Original Message- From: Norr, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April 5, 2002 11:47 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: table error Doe anybody know what this mea

RE: z-index status

2002-04-11 Thread Arved Sandstrom
on FO x is placed on generated areas as a trait of the same name, so that it is available to the renderer.   Any further questions and we'll be happy to help.   Regards, Arved Sandstrom -Original Message-From: Jesper Thorhauge (JTH) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: April 10,

RE: Omitting content length

2002-04-15 Thread Arved Sandstrom
Well, the alternative is chunked transfer-coding (which can be used on either the request or response payloads). This is completely defined by HTTP 1.1, and _must_ be accepted in both directions by HTTP 1.1 compliant apps, so if you send it to a recent IE browser it should know what to do with it.

RE: Omitting content length

2002-04-16 Thread Arved Sandstrom
This code looks like it's on the right sheet of music. :-) I only read the message, though. Use of this approach is subject to my final comment, which boils down to, be aware of what your servlet container is doing for you already. Transfer-codings are properties of the message and not of the mess

RE: Spaces and precedence

2002-04-24 Thread Arved Sandstrom
mode, clause 3a of Section 4.2.5 indicates that if the border-after-width and padding-after of the first block are zero, and the border-before-width and padding-before of the second block are zero, that we have a block-stacking constraint. In which case the precedence on the space-fater of the one and the space-before of the other can be used precisely to achieve this collapsing effect. Regards, Arved Sandstrom

RE: Spaces and precedence

2002-04-24 Thread Arved Sandstrom
> -Original Message- > From: Arved Sandstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: April 24, 2002 6:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Spaces and precedence > > > > -Original Message- > > From: J.Pietschmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > &

RE: Spaces and precedence

2002-04-25 Thread Arved Sandstrom
4, 2002 9:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Spaces and precedence > > > Arved Sandstrom wrote: > > Assuming Western reference-orienattion and writing mode, clause 3a of > > Section 4.2.5 indicates that if the border-after-width and > padding-after of >

RE: block question in multi columns area

2002-04-26 Thread Arved Sandstrom
r put in a better one. Your blocks have very little content, so it may not look like they break across columns. But that they already do. It's just that the break is not quite in the right place. I'll take a quick look and see if we can't do somewhat better than what we have at th

RE: Adding Fonts to userconfig...

2002-04-29 Thread Arved Sandstrom
> -Original Message- > From: Andrius Sabanas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: April 29, 2002 5:32 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Adding Fonts to userconfig... > > > J.Pietschmann wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> ... Any down side to changing the baseDire? > > > > >

RE: stress test FOP in a servlet?

2002-05-01 Thread Arved Sandstrom
If you're on NT an inexpensive (as in free), easy to use, and useful tool is M$ Web Application Stress Tool, at http://webtool.rte.microsoft.com/download.asp. I use it myself to test an in-house servlet engine. Regards, Arved Sandstrom > -Original Message- > From: Carter, W

RE: Logging

2002-06-16 Thread Arved Sandstrom
> -Original Message- > From: Roland Neilands [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: June 16, 2002 8:02 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Logging > > > check the website/docs, there is a logging available, also there is an > > example > > Again, great for embedding, but would be useful to

RE: Logging

2002-06-17 Thread Arved Sandstrom
et a better shell, like 4DOS/4NT. In the final analysis, though, if you've got UNIX handy, use that. :-) Arved Sandstrom