Re: Do errors from FOP slow down overall processing time?

2008-06-01 Thread Jeremias Maerki
A lot of log output can decrease performance because of I/O synchronisation. Just the error/warning condition itself shouldn't noticably affect performance. The fact that you don't see the CPU near 100% or a lot of disk I/O could indicate that streams are not properly buffered, i.e. decorated with

Re: importing fonts

2008-06-01 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 02.06.2008 02:59:51 Martin Edge wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I’m trying to import two fonts – Barcode3of9 and BC4State.. > > The BC4 State one seems to work fine from first creating the metrics file : > > java -cp > build\fop.jar;lib\avalon-framework-4.2.0.jar;lib\commons-logging-1.0.4.jar;l > ib\c

Re: best format for high speed printing

2008-06-01 Thread Jeremias Maerki
PCL is not very easy to post-process. It's possible but probably tedious. I'd use FOP's intermediate format [1] to add your barcodes and then normally render the processed intermediate format using the PS or PCL renderers. [1] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/intermediate.html On 01.06.200

Do errors from FOP slow down overall processing time?

2008-06-01 Thread Martin Edge
Hey Guys, If I am receiving errors like this - would it affect the processing speed? SEVERE: Ignoring property: margin-top="" (file:/E:/work/printer_test/test.fo:171959:44: No conversion defined ; property:'margin-top') 2/06/2008 11:51:19 org.apache.fop.fo.FONode attributeWarning WARNING: Warning

FW: importing fonts

2008-06-01 Thread Martin Edge
Hey Guys, I’m trying to import two fonts – Barcode3of9 and BC4State.. The BC4 State one seems to work fine from first creating the metrics file : java -cp build\fop.jar;lib\avalon-framework-4.2.0.jar;lib\commons-logging-1.0.4.jar;l ib\commons-io-1.3.1.jar org.apache.fop.fonts.apps.TTFReader -fn

RE: best format for high speed printing

2008-06-01 Thread Martin Edge
OK - A further bit of research suggests - the reason I'm going to PDF first, is I have to rewrite some barcode information which dictates the page numbering for an intelligent envelope inserter Can you edit text easily in a PCL page? I'm using .NET -Original Message- From: Jeremias

Re: best format for high speed printing

2008-06-01 Thread Andreas Delmelle
On Jun 1, 2008, at 05:03, Martin Edge wrote: Hi Perhaps the software I am using to do the conversion from PDF to PCL could be improved.. I tried postscript, but so far I have been processing for 21hrs.. My 79Mb PDF file is now a 94 Gig Postscript file! (that can’t be real, surely??). De

RE: best format for high speed printing

2008-06-01 Thread Martin Edge
Yah, I've somewhat inherited this system and I'm still learning about the technologies.. so I wouldn't have known this wasn't the smart way to go.. :) Will try the PCL Renderer... -Original Message- From: Jeremias Maerki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 1 June 2008 5:00 PM To: