Something like \hbox?

2006-05-31 Thread Andreas Eckstein
Hi all! Consider a block-container, parent of several other block-container elements. Now what I want is a way to fill that parent container in horizontal order with child block-containers (in TeX I would use '\hbox' for this...). Is something like this possible in XSL-FO, and if yes is it

normal spaces

2006-05-31 Thread Jimmy Dixon
greetings fellow fopsters if this is a non breaking space #x200B; then what is the character for a normal space as recognised by FOP? Cheers. Jimmy. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Font from PFM File

2006-05-31 Thread kloassie
Hi all, I'm kinda new to Fop, what I do not understand is: How can I get the Font from a font file in Fop? One can create TTFFile by using a TTFReader and create a PFMFile by using a PFMReader. But how does one actualy get the Font from this XYZFile? For .ttf files I now just use Java's

Re: Font from PFM File

2006-05-31 Thread Chris Bowditch
kloassie wrote: Hi all, I'm kinda new to Fop, what I do not understand is: How can I get the Font from a font file in Fop? What do you mean by Font exactly? A java.awt.Font object? Or something else? One can create TTFFile by using a TTFReader and create a PFMFile by using a PFMReader.

Re: normal spaces

2006-05-31 Thread Jimmy Dixon
rock on Jeremias, rock on Jeremias Maerki wrote: #x0020; of course, or . Just the normal ASCII space character (32, hex 20). On 31.05.2006 11:36:42 Jimmy Dixon wrote: greetings fellow fopsters if this is a non breaking space #x200B; then what is the character for a normal space as

Scaling images that are running off the page!

2006-05-31 Thread Krishna . Cherla
Title: Scaling images that are running off the page! Hello All, I am trying to scale images that are running off the page owing to their width and height dimensions. My page has a width of 7 inches and a height of 6.75 inches. This is my fo: instruction: fo:external-graphic

Re: Font from PFM File

2006-05-31 Thread Chris Bowditch
kloassie wrote: Hi Chris, I mean this: 1. A .ttf file contains a font - A java.awt.Font object can be created from a .ttf file 2. Windows can read a font from a .pfm file - A .pfm file contains a font - I expect in some way a java.awt.Font can be created from a .pfm file 3. Fop supports

Re: Something like \hbox?

2006-05-31 Thread Andreas Eckstein
Thanks for your replies, guys! To summarize, my options for an FOP \hbox are: -wait until floats are implemented -use table design -use the 'reference-orientation' attribute. -or alternatively, implement a horizontal box stacking algorithm in XSLT utilizing XSL-FO absolute positioning. I think I

Re: AW: AW: AW: Metric Files

2006-05-31 Thread Petr Pisar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kring, Rainer wrote: So I tried it the other way round. I generated a Type1 font out of the TTF with Fontforge. But when trying to generate the XML-font metrics-file (see http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.20.5/fonts.html#type1-metrics) we get

Re: Something like \hbox?

2006-05-31 Thread Simon Pepping
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:35:57AM +0200, Vincent Hennebert wrote: Hi Andreas, Andreas Eckstein a écrit : Hi all! Consider a block-container, parent of several other block-container elements. Now what I want is a way to fill that parent container in horizontal order with child

Re: Saxon 8 with FOP 0.92b

2006-05-31 Thread Andreas L Delmelle
On May 31, 2006, at 22:17, Rick Roen wrote: Hi, I am using Saxon 8 to do the xslt transformation from xml - xsl - pdf in FOP 0.92b. I have Saxon8.jar listed in the java\lib\endorsed which works find with my DOS batch file. I am getting ready to deploy the application and would rather not

RE: Saxon 8 with FOP 0.92b

2006-05-31 Thread Rick Roen
Andreas, I did add this line to my batch file, which does make it work, however I still have to have the saxon8.jar and saxon8-dom.jar in my java\lib\endorsed. In fact my batch file works the same with or without the additional TransformerFactory=... I believe that FOP will automatically use

Carriage return in FOP 0.92 version

2006-05-31 Thread Krishna . Cherla
Title: Carriage return in FOP 0.92 version Hello, I want to know if there is any way I can insert a carriage return in the data in an element node in an xml document. After having done so, is it possible that the fo recognizes the carrigae return and accordingly dispplays the carriage

Re: Carriage return in FOP 0.92 version

2006-05-31 Thread Manuel Mall
On Thursday 01 June 2006 06:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I want to know if there is any way I can insert a carriage return in the data in an element node in an xml document. After having done so, is it possible that the fo recognizes the carrigae return and accordingly dispplays the