Re: Merging XML and FO files

rate a PDF Sounds like Cocoon to me. Cocoon is a framework which happens to use Fop for its PDF rendering. The learning curve may be a bit steep though. Also possibly xReporter Finding URLs is left as an exercise for t

RE: How to draw a text box and a check box

? Alex

FAQ

ebsite for more info or email me. Alex

Re: mathml and fop

mm. Ok Here's my guess What you need to do is to take the MathML and convert it to vector graphics (SVG) and then feed the SVG to FOP. Unfortunately I don't know of such a tool. Anyone want to take up the baton? Alex

Re: FOP Performance Limitations?

Actually the FAQ (at http://www.owal.co.uk/cgi-bin/fopfaq.cgi since I have given up on the interactive Jyve program) doesn't contain much on memory consumption. I will add in the "new page sequence" when I (or someone else) comes up with an example. Alex At 20:22 12/03/2002, Chu

Re: Drawing a border around a simple word

ld be quite happy to receive a bug report and test case fo file Alex

Two columns

Hi folks, I haven't seen an example for this but is it possible to have one or more blocks in which text flows into the next column, as in a newspaper for example. I am trying to do a two column A4 newsletter and don't want to worry about inserting column breaks Alex Mc

Re: tabulation

27;ll have a look. Alex At 12:10 09/04/2002, you wrote: Hi! I need to enter a TOC into my document. Titles should be left-aligned, but numbers of pages must be right-aligned, although they're in the same lines, as titiles. There should also be dots between titles and page numbers. I looked fo

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 McL

Re: Need help:converting xml => fo => pdf

ntation 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 htt

Re: FOP fails on Linux, but not on Windows

presumably because it isn't running at all. You can either run an XWindows server, or a cut-down XWindows server. If you are using JDK1.4 you might be able to tell it that you are running without XWindows. http://www.owal.co.uk/cgi-bin/fopfaq.cgi#__960 Alex Openweb Analysts Ltd, Lo

Re: Minimum System Requirements

At 03:30 05/12/02, Dee Runacres\(Hotmail\) wrote: Can you please advise me on the minimum system requirements to run FOP on HPUX. A system which can run Java, has lots of spare memory, and has XWindows installed, or a fake XWindows. What exactly do you need to know? Alex Openweb Analysts Ltd

Re: Document security of PDFs

using a third party tool which adds the security after FOP has generated the file. I am sure one or two have been mentioned on this list. Alex Openweb Analysts Ltd, London. Software For Complex Websites http://www.OWAL.co.uk/ Open Source Software Companies please register here http://www.OW

Loading Image from Server

Hi, i couldn't display an image, whe fop must load it from a server, but i dont get an exception. when i use a local path it worjs fine. but i get no exception. coulkd it be, that a secutity exception will catch in the framework? alex -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://ww

TXTRenderer Setting the encoding

Configuration.put(txt.encoding", "."), but without success. alex -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! - To unsubscr

Re: TXTRenderer Setting the encoding

hi, yes its the same... its because the option member will only be initialized by using the xmlrenderer or on commandline. alex -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. su

Re: Draw Lines between Images..

image of your flowchart. So do you know SVG? Alex Available for java/perl/C++/web development in London, UK or nearby. Apache FOP, Cocoon, Turbine, Struts,XSL:FO, XML, Tomcat, First meeting free.http://www.OWAL.co.uk/ - To

Re: Draw Lines between Images..

about rectangular blocks of text rather than drawing lines. Alex At 11:20 23/12/02, Prasanna C wrote: I donno abc of SVG. Is it possible with SVG ? So do u mean to say that first we have to generate the SVG image which contains all the images we have in our flow chart .Then we have to load that

Re: Draw Lines between Images..

http://www.owal.co.uk/cgi-bin/fopfaq.cgi#__928 Where can I find out about SVG? (Scalable Vector Graphics) The W3C website is the official place for finding out about SVG http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/ http://www.adobe.com/svg/tutorial/intro.html At 11:49 23/12/02, Prasanna C wrot

Re: Loading Image from Server

Hi Oleg, Oleg Tkachenko wrote: > alex elsholz wrote: > >> i couldn't display an image, whe fop must load it from a server, but i >> dont get an exception. when i use a local path it worjs fine. > > When FOP is unable to load image it doesn't throw an exceptio

Re: Performance issue XSL:FO

FAQs for tuning and optimisation. However it may be worth paying someone to help with the FOP redesign :-) Other professional XSL:FO processors may be a bit faster in some circumstances Feel free to send me private email if you want to discuss this off list. Alex McLintock At 19:34 23/12/02

Re: Loading Image from Server

Hi, i have noticed sth. When i render pdf and then stream it in a file the image is shown. when i use the awtrenderer to print it the image (from the server) isnt shown. alex -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/

Re: Loading Image from Server

Hi, > What's image format are you talking about? its an gif-image alex -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! - To unsubsc

Previewer

Hi, whats the reason placing the report on a frame and not on a panel? i think here should be a panel and a controller-class for this. because some developer want use the previewer on a dialog, some other in a internal frame ... mfg alex -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more

blanks and txtrenderer

Hi, i've problems with the layout using the txt-renderer. sometimes one blank comes to 3, sometimes to 10, sometimes to one. Sometimes empty lines were inserted. When i use the pdf or the awt renderer it works fine. has anybody an idea? alex -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & m

blanks and TXTRenderer

Hi, i've problems with the layout using the txt-renderer. sometimes one blank comes to 3, sometimes to 10, sometimes to one. Sometimes empty lines were inserted. When i use the pdf or the awt renderer it works fine. has anybody an idea? alex -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & m

status of txt rendering was: RE: blanks and TXTRenderer

couldnt handle graphic print and so i couldnt use the awtrenderer. i must handle it with an own xsl (no fo)). alex -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/

Calculate number of pages without complete rendering-process was: Re: Counting the number of pages generated in the pdf file

ment your own wrapper to do a dummy rendering, inquire the total page count and the perform the real rendering an own wrapper? why doesnt exists a default-wrapper? How could i implemet this? thanks alex -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet

Re: Calculate number of pages without complete rendering-process was: Re: Counting the number of pages generated in the pdf file

s you actually filled the pages with the text. i know it... >>an own wrapper? why doesnt exists a default-wrapper? How could i implemet >>this? >I took the freedom to delete the code you generously pseudo-quoted >from the FAQ and which does exactly what you described. but my qu

Re: Large XML Files and FOP: Out of Memory Exception

an fo file? You need to come up a stylesheet which doesn;t put things in a big table but tries to output each item as it is finished. For instance can you try to put each item into a flow byitself? or a page by itself? (Does that make sense?

OpenOffice and fop

work well with FO? Presumably we would still need a stylesheet which converts the OpenOffice format to XSL:FO but much of the work regarding layout has already been done. Alex - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: xsl:fo & word

need more of a hand. Alex McLintock - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reportix?

Hi folks, does anyone have any experience of the Reportix system from Finetix. It seems to be a collection of OSS tools including FOP for report generation? Cheers Alex McLintock - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

FAQ Location

non-standard port. If you are affected in this way then feel free to email me and remind me to change it to a more normal setup. Alex McLintock = Alex McLintock[EMAIL PROTECTED]Open Source Consultancy in London OpenWeb Analysts Ltd, http://www.OWAL.co.uk/ DR WHO COMPETITION

Multicolumn support status?

ll stretch over multiple pages. I remember some time ago there were problems with this - but have they been fixed? Is there a relevant test example I can look at? I can't see one in the last pdf tests that I built. Thanks Alex = Alex McLintock[EMAIL PROTECTED]Open Source

RE: How to draw a text box and a check box

Aha - Sorry - I missed the "text-box" thing. My next guess would be to put the text box into a table and make the border visible. There should be some examples of tables in the FOP distribution. Alex At 16:18 04/03/02, you wrote: Hi Alex, Thank you very much for your info. It is a s

Re: merging two libraries

gt; Remark: sorry, but due to the lack of time to read all > my mail as it is, I will now unsubscribe from the FOP mailing list. Bruno - do you know how rude this is? You want to "join forces" but you wont even stay subscribed to the mailing list? My comments are my own and do not reflect the FOP software developers. Alex McLintock

Re: FOP Update in Cocoon?

t you :-) I currently have Cocoon2.0.rc2 installed on an NT 4 box in Tomcat 4.x and unfortunately the FOP which comes with it does not work in this configuration. Feel free to email me off list if you want further help. Alex

FOP, SVG, and Text

generate from FOP embedded in a Java program? Thanks, Alex __ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/

Re: Several questions about FOP

to other XSL-FO implementations? FOP's strength is not really in its speed or memory use. It performs reasonably when compared to other engines (so I am told) but other commercial xsl:fo engines may be faster for what you need to do. Goodluck Alex McLintock Openweb Analysts Ltd,

Re: Using FOP to create a query string from XML and XSL

ne)? If so then perhaps an XSL or Xalan mailing list may be more appropriate. You will need to give a better explanation of what you need (and what you already understand) before people will be able to help you. Alex Openweb Analysts Ltd, London: Software For Complex Websites http://www.O

Re: Why is FO(P) a superior model than what most proprietary tools propose

sources for your different output requirements Isn't this the virtue of XSLT rather than XSL FO ? XSL:FO *is* XSLT ! One is part of the other and not totally separate! Alex Openweb Analysts Ltd, London: Software For Complex Websites http://www.OWAL.co.uk/ Free Consultancy for London Comp

Re: Why is FO(P) a superior model than what most proprietary tools propose

I don't know about an industry analysts study of XSL:FO but we ought to be able to come up with case studies for people who have successfully used FOP. Alex Openweb Analysts Ltd, London: Software For Complex Websites http://www.OWAL.co.uk/ Free Consultancy for London Companies thinking of Open Source Software.

Re: HTM Sevlet

Hello, I'm not sure what you are asking but I think you ought to investigate Cocoon. Cocoon is a general purpose web application (ie servlet :-) which uses Apache XML and XSL technology including FOP to generate html or PDF on demand from XML source. Alex At 11:31 10/05/2002, Balaji Logan

Schema to XSL:FO

Has anyone produced a stylesheet which takes an XML schema and converts it into XSL:FO for pretty printing perhaps via SVG? Rather than use Visio to document my xml fragment examples I think it would be best if I could produce a diagram from the schema itself. Alex Openweb Analysts Ltd

Re: fop user : AWT problem

? Alex At 17:19 22/05/2002, Trompette Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I try to make an example using FOP which takes a XML and a XSL files in entry and build a AWT output. All seems to work but the awt frame doesn't appear; my code is the following coul you help me please. Driver monD

Re: PDF to FO decompiler

extract either the text or the graphics from the PDF and incorporate these in an FO which you develop. If you want PDF manipulation tools you might want to look at iText (Details in the FAQ or these archives, or google). Alex Openweb Analysts Ltd, London: Software For Complex Websites http

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] FOP 0.20.4 Release Candidate available

i-bin/fopfaq.cgi but it looked like someone else was producing a new one. Should I keep updating my old FAQ? Cheers Alex Openweb Analysts Ltd, London: Software For Complex Websites http://www.OWAL.co.uk/ Free Consultancy for London Companies thinking of Open Source Software.

HTML+CSS -> XSL:FO

, but the data is already in HTML and the CSS is important. Maybe we should enhance the Mozilla rendering engine to output XSL:FO ? Alex PS http://www.OWAL.co.uk/cgi-bin/fopfaq.cgi Openweb Analysts Ltd, London. Software For Complex Websites http://www.OWAL.co.uk/ Open Source Software Companies