RE: Common formatting

2003-02-21 Thread Mike Trotman
of the attributes and if they reformat the context element but as a general approach it is pretty flexible and nice and modular / re-useable and can also provide CSS stylesheets so I get HTML looking same as PDF. Mike Trotman -Original Message- From: Matthew Lancashire [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

External links around graphics (no text) don't work.

2003-02-21 Thread Mike Trotman
to get the link. Anyone else encountered this or knows a fix? Mike Trotman Datalucid Limited

RE: External links around graphics (no text) don't work.

2003-02-21 Thread Mike Trotman
work. Mike Trotman wrote: I am using FOP to produce PDF output. I need to produce a graphic which is a link to a web page. The external link feature works fine if the content is text - but if it is only a graphic then I can't find the link. What FOP version are you using? There has been

FOP - use in PIPE as command line tool.

2003-05-14 Thread Mike Trotman
Title: Message Is it possible to configure FOP to read standard input for it's FO source? I want to use it at the end of a pipe (as my intermediate XML documents are getting very large) but can't see any options to do this - and I'm not very familiar with Java so haven't looked at the

Border confusion

2003-06-18 Thread Mike Trotman
Title: Message I am confused about where borders are drawn and their priority/sequence. I thought borders were drawnWITHIN the border rectangle - rather than centred on it's edge. I also thought that borders would be non-overlapping for table-cells - if not is there a way to achieve this?

RE: Border confusion

2003-06-19 Thread Mike Trotman
the rendering order problem for the moment. I'm re-reading the border+space behaviours and precedence settings now. Thanks again. -Original Message- From: J.Pietschmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 June 2003 20:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Border confusion Mike Trotman wrote: I

RE: Border confusion

2003-06-19 Thread Mike Trotman
Hi. I tried border-collapse='separate' and - while this worked OK for a simple table It doesn't work for tables with cells spanning rows (see attached - which also has border-separation='1pt'). I think this could qualify as a bug. Mike -Original Message- From: Mike Trotman [mailto

RE: Border confusion

2003-06-19 Thread Mike Trotman
and right hand borders can get switched around). So - I think I might be able to solve most of my immediate problems by using a zero-width space or something similar. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Mike Trotman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 June 2003 19:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

FOP fo:leader

2003-10-20 Thread Mike Trotman
Whatever I try I can't get fo:leader to work as I want it to. I have downloaded the latest version of fop-0.20.5. I have read the FAQs (which claim it works well) http://xml.apache.org/fop/faq.html#leader-expansion tried text-align= for various things. I can only get leader to behave at all

Re: FOP fo:leader - works

2003-10-20 Thread Mike Trotman
I take it all back - it now works as expected. (I think my browser may have cached a PDF or two and given me the wrong impression.) Still not sure if 'text-align' and 'text-align-last' are behaving as I expect - but both together seem to do the trick. Mike Trotman wrote: Whatever I try I

Re: [XSL-FO] Waht is default / what determines z-index of xsl-regions / static content?

2003-10-22 Thread Mike Trotman
to be the start of the region. XEP interprets 'top' for region-after to be the top of the page area.) What I want is to place non-region-body content behind region-body. Chris Bowditch wrote: From: Mike Trotman [EMAIL PROTECTED] What determines the relative z-index layering of content in xsl

Re: How to convert multiple fo files into a single pdf file

2003-10-26 Thread Mike Trotman
name='PAGEWID_CM' select='29'/ 10 xsl:include href='dl_dotags.xsl'/ 11 !-- -- 12 !-- XSLT for DLXML - Author: Mike Trotman - 03/10/2002 -- 13 !-- -- 14 xsl:template match

premature page break inside text after table (with headers)

2003-10-30 Thread Mike Trotman
Hi. This is hard to provide a short example of (but easier to describe). Example FO + PDFs are at http://www.datalucid.com/queries/XSLFO/text-after-table-overflow/. (I don't necessarily expect anyone to read through the FO - the PDFs are just to make the example clear to see.) I have a problem

Re: premature page break inside text after table (with headers)

2003-10-30 Thread Mike Trotman
if everything triggers it - or just fo:block. This is quite laborious to re-arrange - so if anyone has any similar experiences - let me know. (I've searched the archive but can't find anything relevant that matches the keywords I've used for searching.) Mike Trotman wrote: Hi. This is hard to provide

Re: premature page break inside text after table (with headers)

2003-10-30 Thread Mike Trotman
this or similar problems I'd appreciate hearing about it. Mike Trotman wrote: I've done some further experiments and the problem described below goes away if I don't define the footnote in the table header. (which is not a solution as I need that footnote.) This is hard to provide a short

Re: premature page break inside text after table (with headers)

2003-10-31 Thread Mike Trotman
following text and yesterday was 1st time I encountered it. (Can probably include the text in a final table row.) Thanks again. J.Pietschmann wrote: Mike Trotman wrote: Example FO + PDFs are at Can't be bothered to look, but are you using footnotes? The footnote space is actually allocated twice

Re: tables in fo:static-content

2003-10-31 Thread Mike Trotman
I have just tested a table inside a table header cell on a table that overflows pages in FOP.0.20.5 - and it works fine. (Haven't got time to try your XSL - but save the FO output and either check or post that (as long as it's small enough)) (My usual guess when nothing appears for tables is

Re: fo:tables in fo:static-content

2003-10-31 Thread Mike Trotman
This gives error/warning message - some content cannot fit into static area. Increasing the size of region-before/after then makes regions work OK on subsequent pages. Daniel Easton wrote: Clay, Attached is the layout and header and footer FO code and the XSL stylesheet. The header and footer

Re: html class attribute like

2003-11-01 Thread Mike Trotman
I currently use something similar to both approaches for generating formatting attributes. Behind both I have a file which stores the CSS class definitions in a simple XML format (with some name/value variations where FO attribute names / properties are different - and some XSLT documents for

Re: Converting Image to XML

2003-12-19 Thread Mike Trotman
You should be able to export the chart from Excel as a graphic - and then render the graphic using fo:external-graphic. I would be surprised if there is an XML representation of an Excel chart - and if there was you would have to reproduce the image processing to be able to display it. nitish

Re: Building a matrix (table) out of almost equal elements

2004-03-27 Thread Mike Trotman
I regularly process tables using XSLT-FO. This can seem more difficult than it is if you try to use XSLT as a sequential processing tool - which is when you get your illegal end-tag+start-tag problem. A general approach - which would probably work in your case - is to use the declarative nature

Re: how can I create template for manipulating embedded and external style sheet present in the html page? Is it possible?

2004-09-06 Thread Mike Trotman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A quick response as I'm not sure I understand your question - but I think you're saying you can process all the 'inline' style + other attributes in an HTML document - but that you want ot be able to implement CSS class styles in FO-PDF? If so - that