GK wrote:
I'm using Apache FOP to generate a PDF through XML and XSL-FO. I have a cell
in my generated PDF that I need to be able to scroll through if the content
overflows it. XSL-FO has an overflow="scroll" feature, but based on my
research on the topic it seems that Apache FOP does not
Anastasia wrote:
Good Day!
We are interested in using the FOP Apache application. But we require the
function of making Table of Contents and Index in the document. Could you
please tell us, is there a way to create a table of contents and index in your
program? As the only way to implement
Gonzalo Vasquez wrote:
Hi everybody,
We've been doing some performance tests using several output formats (PDF,
PostScript and AFP), and they al give us about the same time results, which are
far from what we expected. I'm aware that there are several bits of Apache FOP
which might me
Gonzalo Vasquez wrote:
I'm into that, but I guess there might be some first parts to look before I dig
thaaat deep ;)
Nah, profiling ain't digging deep, it's by far the quickest and easiest way
to find unexpected performance hogs.
BugBear
Frank B wrote:
I'm working on an application that creates labels. For PNG at 300 dpi, cpu
usage is 2x higher than PDF output. The application can expect high volumes so
performance is important.
Is the relatively poor performance of image output normal? Is there a setting
that can improve
aemitic wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion.
This /workaround/ (it's not a solution) cannot be applied. Why:
- internal pdf links would not work
- pdf bookmarks would not work
- page numbering would not be correct
- creating over 15 PDFs and then merging them with an external tool is
Kerry, Richard wrote:
Yes I did understand what you wrote, and the earlier correspondent.
I was attempting to ask why.
It seems illogical to treat many small documents as one large one. Especially
if the large one is so large that it is hard to process.
That case sounds (to me) like many
I note (google!) that subsequent to my questions on this
(in 2008), this feature remains unimplemented,
and has been asked about a few times.
In the interests of repaying the community,
I offer this perl script (written for my own purposes)
which generates output of the right height,
by
Eric Douglas wrote:
I'm not sure what this quickdraw thing is you're referring to, but if
I'm understanding it right, it's not like you can alter the PDF heading
after the transform. The PDF is already mostly written to the file at
this point. It just left out the last block. I don't know the
Eric Douglas wrote:
I resolved this. After the transform I didn't close the output stream.
Apparently that left some bytes hanging.
Apparently?
You said:
If I try to create a PDF directly from the transform with FOP 1.0, by
passing a BufferedOutputStream created from a FileOutputStream
Eric Douglas wrote:
Surely this is a longer explanation than you're asking for.
Certainly was ;-)
The short
answer is I'm well aware of how the output streams work, but I thought
if the transform was writing to it which should be a complete process
that it would close it when it's done.
Vincent Hennebert wrote:
Hi,
I think the way to go about that is to use a PDF post-processor that
would convert the PDF into plain text.
Does this mean there's (implicitly) no way of using FOP
to emulate tex/nroff, at least directly ?
BugBear
Duncan McGregor wrote:
Hi
I'm trying to work out how to write transparent text to overlay OCR data
on top of its source image.
I've seen it done in PDFs, but cannot find how to represent transparency
in xsl:fo
Thanks in anticipation
Text is set in the foreground colour, and has no
egibler wrote:
Hi,
I receive lots and lots of small (1-3 page) PDFs each day, combine them
using Acrobat Professional, and print and mail them for clients. One client
recently upgraded from FOP .2x to FOP 0.95, and the combining of his files
has become nearly impossible. It'll put the first
Georg Datterl wrote:
Hi Erwan,
Since several months, i'm creating FOP documents, always with gedit or some
text editor. The only feature they give me is a syntax coloration.
So what are you using : which program or plugin ?
XmlSpy works fine, but basically any program which displays XML
Jeremias Maerki wrote:
That was discussed some time ago. You might want to read up on the
status here: http://fop.markmail.org/search/?q=trimbox
I've prepared FOP so TrimBox, BleedBox and MediaBox can all be set [1].
But the wiring into an extension hasn't been completed, yet.
[1]
Ashish Kulkarni wrote:
Hi
I need to print text like My Name is ABC
.
.
.
How can i add space between words
What are trying to DO with this space?
Are you trying to line up a table, express columns,
a list of pairs?
In almost all cases, you should be working at a higher
design level
I'm trying to convince someone that fop
is a good choice for generating (large)
pdf's from structured input.
Should be easy :-)
Can anyone tell me of fop being used in this way and
has a website where the output (and/or input)
is publicly visible?
BugBear
moorzee wrote:
Hi
I have a requirement to output, what I hope, is going to be a very simple
PDF document. I'll be building up an xml domdocument in VB. My question is
can I output my PDF without the need to save the xml as a file, i.e pass the
xml directly into fop with my style sheet and
Daniel Noll wrote:
Andreas Delmelle wrote:
IIC, this is a FOP limitation for all versions up to and including
0.95. FOP Trunk should now use another font than Symbol for a 'q'. Max
implemented basic support for character-by-character font-selection,
which is probably what Firefox does too.
Jeremias Maerki wrote:
Ah well, my afternoon's almost over anyway...
Here's a proposal:
http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/ExtensionsForPdf
Feel free to improve/comment/fix.
In FO that would look like this:
fo:root xmlns:fo=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format;
fo:layout-master-set
Jeremias Maerki wrote:
My suggestion: Use 0.95beta and
inline-progression-dimension.maximum=100%
content-width=scale-down-to-fit to restrict the images to a maximum
size.
FOP always uses the image's resolution to determine the intrinsic size.
Only if an image has now explicit resolution, the
Martin Edge wrote:
Hey Guys,
The file definitely is XML parsable.. and it’s output using XmlDocument in c#
.NET.
XML parseable is a low hurdle! It also needs to represent the
correct semantics for FOP...
BugBear
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Jeremias Maerki wrote:
On 19.05.2008 17:41:49 paul womack wrote:
Platekatel wrote:
Hello *,
I’m using FOP embedded, to generate PS files for printing, everything works
fine.
Now I have the new task to create TIFF files.
Well, easy to get tiffs with FOP but I have the special requirement
Kamal Bhatt wrote:
Thanks. Works a treat. One more question, where can I get these
hyphenation files for asian languages (such as japanese).
I'm far from sure hyphenation is even a valid concept
in Japanese.
BugBear
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paul womack wrote:
Michael Halpin wrote:
I realize that orphans according to fop are the first line of a
paragraph at the bottom of a page where the rest of the paragraph
breaks onto the next page.
I'd call that a widow, a term also used for headings
which have lost their body text
Michael Halpin wrote:
I realize that orphans according to fop are the first line of a
paragraph at the bottom of a page where the rest of the paragraph
breaks onto the next page.
I'd call that a widow, a term also used for headings
which have lost their body text.
In traditional editing
Woodhouse, Graeme wrote:
Hello all,
I'm trying to get tif images working in PDF’s I'm creating –
The problem is some of them are coming out with the image height having
been resized (by around 50%).
Other tif images are being displayed correctly with no incorrect resizing.
Woodhouse, Graeme wrote:
How would I find out if the tif that is going wrong has non-squared pixels?
xresolution != yresolution. They're independent parameters
in the TIFF spec.
Try tiffdump.
BugBear
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Platekatel wrote:
Hello *,
I’m using FOP embedded, to generate PS files for printing, everything works
fine.
Now I have the new task to create TIFF files.
Well, easy to get tiffs with FOP but I have the special requirement the
generated TIIF have to be a TIFF G4.
Does anybody know how to
Rakesh Kumar S wrote:
Hi
I am using XSL:FO to render PDF documents from XML File.
Now i have a requirement where i have to exactly replicate a PDf file for which
i dont have the XSL:FO.
I had given them a version using my XSL:FO that is close but they want 100%.
They are looking for 100%
Jeremias Maerki wrote:
Which is why I wrote closely resembling output.
Ah! Damn this English language; one man's closely
is another man's not close enough :-)
There's no (efficient) way
we can do any better with the current design. If it's a problem in your
case, you're out of luck, I'm
I've succeeded (hearty thanks to all who have helped)
in making EPSF files.
Preview TIFFS are made using ghostscript (via imagemagick),
the fop postscript is turned into EPSF via some viciously
unsubtle edits using perl, and the tiff put onto the EPSF
with a suitable header via a little more
If I want a TIFF and a PDF from the same input (xml + xsl), what's
my best course?
Clearly, running fop from the command line twice would work,
but can I get a performance win by converting to an intermediate fo
file, then doing a render run?
Or even making (and then using) a AT file?
Or can I
Andreas Delmelle wrote:
If you would use FOP multiple times in a row, without restarting the
JVM, then over a few runs that will save you minutes...
The very first run is always a lot slower due to static initialization,
class loading etc. Once the VM is warmed up, the average runtime for a
Andreas Delmelle wrote:
On May 6, 2008, at 14:16, paul womack wrote:
Hi
In effect I want to generate galleys of text,
where the formatting width is known, but the depth
of the final output is determined by the amount
of text formatted, in effect fitting the page
to the content.
What you
Andreas Delmelle wrote:
I think the problem is that you have to specify the eventual renderer to
mimic.
Try
../fop -xsl lineage.xsl -xml lineage_eg.xml -at image/tiff lineage.at.xml;
Yes; that worked (in the standard sense of did what I wanted!)
Thank you very much, for all your help.
I need to generate output (PDF) where the page
size (actually just page depth) varies
with the content.
In effect I want to generate galleys of text,
where the formatting width is known, but the depth
of the final output is determined by the amount
of text formatted, in effect fitting the page
Peter Coppens wrote:
Can't you use different page masters and select the one that is
appropriate using some (XSLT) pre-processing?
I'd need an almost infinite range of
masters - the line count could vary from 5-350,
and even line spacing could vary due to superscripts,
subscripts, emboldening
Peter Coppens wrote:
Ic...so there is no way to know what the page size will have to be until
the layout has been completed?
No, that's rather the heart of my problem.
Consider, if you like, a different example.
I wish to make rendered images of quotations
for placement on a web site.
Of
Andreas Delmelle wrote:
On May 6, 2008, at 14:16, paul womack wrote:
Hi
In effect I want to generate galleys of text,
where the formatting width is known, but the depth
of the final output is determined by the amount
of text formatted, in effect fitting the page
to the content.
What you
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