Re: Use PDF as input source for FOP

2006-11-30 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Incidentally, I've been investigating this recently for a customer. Essentially, there's one big problem: Our PDF library only supports writing PDF and it's optimized for this task. We don't have a PDF parser which would be needed. I've done a quick&dirty prototype using PDFBox to see if including

RE: Use PDF as input source for FOP

2006-11-30 Thread Peter
Apologies for jumping in on this thread, but I have a similar requirement, that is, a pdf is delivered to us which we want to embed in fop, much like one would embed a jpg. I understand fop does not support that today, but does anybody have ideas on what it might take to implement that? Note th

Re: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException error - DocBook XSL with FOP 0.92

2006-11-30 Thread J.Pietschmann
Paul Moloney wrote: Since we don't create FO files directly, but via FOP, do you know how I You mean "via DocBook XSLT", don't you? would configure FOP or what change(s) I need to make to our customised DocBook XSL layer in order to achieve this? The DocBook XSLT has a very helpful communit

Re: NPE IN SingleByteFont.hasChar when using IDAutomationC39S font

2006-11-30 Thread J.Pietschmann
Peter wrote: Fop now says SEVERE: file:///c:/temp/lala.fo:9:42: No conversion defined 40; property:'height' This is unrelated to the barcode/font issue, it means FOP can't convert the value into something it understands. I think this is a bug in FOP (measurements without a unit should be inter

Re: Use PDF as input source for FOP

2006-11-30 Thread jperkowski
Thank you, Dirk...we do use iText for some of our applications...I'll get with our developers that are using iText to find out more and I'll check out the URL you listed. Thanks again. Dirk Bromberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/30/2006 02:00 PM Please respond to fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org

Re: Use PDF as input source for FOP

2006-11-30 Thread Dirk Bromberg
Hi, what you want can be done with itext. www.lowagie.com/*iText*/ fop can only create pdfs with some like xml:fo as source. Dirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Has anyone had any experience with using PDF's as input for FOP? We are using FOP 0.20.5 with Java 1.5. We have a PDF that was provi

Use PDF as input source for FOP

2006-11-30 Thread jperkowski
Has anyone had any experience with using PDF's as input for FOP? We are using FOP 0.20.5 with Java 1.5. We have a PDF that was provided to us by an outside source. We would like to leverage the existing PDF (or as much of it as we can) by using it as an input source. Our goal is to modify i

Re: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException error - DocBook XSL with FOP 0.92

2006-11-30 Thread Paul Moloney
You can find the FO file at: http://pmoloney.googlepages.com/administrator_guide.txt I can't reproduce the problem, because I don't have the images that should be included (and the Arial font, but that should be less problematic). Can you also post the images? Or try to post a sample document w

RE: NPE IN SingleByteFont.hasChar when using IDAutomationC39S font

2006-11-30 Thread Peter
I found the TrueType versions of the 2 barcode fonts I was using and those work just fine. Peter > -Original Message- > From: Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 8:42 AM > To: 'fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org' > Subject: RE: NPE IN SingleByteFont.hasChar w

Re: page breaks

2006-11-30 Thread Shubhrata Tewari
Thanks, it worked. - Original Message - From: "Chris Bowditch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 2:42 PM Subject: Re: page breaks Shubhrata Tewari wrote: Hi, I am iterating over a list of tables and I want each table to appear on a a new page.I have set the

Re: page breaks

2006-11-30 Thread Chris Bowditch
Shubhrata Tewari wrote: Hi, I am iterating over a list of tables and I want each table to appear on a a new page.I have set the break-after="page" in the fo:block, but this is creating an unnecessary page at the end of the last element. Is there any way to add a page break without introducing