RE: best format for high speed printing

2008-06-02 Thread Martin Edge
All done - lets see if my first patch gets approved! :-) Thanks Martin. -Original Message- From: Jeremias Maerki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 2 June 2008 9:41 PM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: Re: best format for high speed printing Make sure you are working

RE: best format for high speed printing

2008-06-02 Thread Martin Edge
Never mind - I see the link in the output.xml -Original Message- From: Martin Edge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 2 June 2008 9:44 PM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: RE: best format for high speed printing No problem - will make the necessary adjustments and have

RE: best format for high speed printing

2008-06-02 Thread Martin Edge
PM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: Re: best format for high speed printing Make sure you are working on the latest FOP Trunk (downloaded from the SVN repository), then create a patch file using your favourite SVN client. Or with the command-line client: svn up svn diff > /path

Re: best format for high speed printing

2008-06-02 Thread Jeremias Maerki
nt(pageDuplex)); > } > > Will give it a test and see how we go - I'm not familiar with the procedures > and/or naming conventions with modifying Apache code.. what should I do? :) > > Thanks > Martin. > > > > -Original Message- > From: Jeremias Mae

RE: best format for high speed printing

2008-06-02 Thread Martin Edge
not familiar with the procedures and/or naming conventions with modifying Apache code.. what should I do? :) Thanks Martin. -Original Message- From: Jeremias Maerki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 2 June 2008 7:35 PM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: Re: best format

RE: best format for high speed printing

2008-06-02 Thread Martin Edge
-Original Message- From: Martin Edge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 2 June 2008 7:19 PM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: RE: best format for high speed printing Yeah - doing that now.. Sorry I meant to ask - What if the combination of Letterhead v Plain Paper tr

Re: best format for high speed printing

2008-06-02 Thread Jeremias Maerki
uplexing I will have to test.. am downloading the FOP source > now.. (not that I'm a java programmer ;)) > > I really do appreciate your help by the way - in the last few days I have > made heaps of progress thanks to your combined efforts - > > Thanks again, > Martin. &

RE: best format for high speed printing

2008-06-02 Thread Martin Edge
.apache.org Subject: Re: best format for high speed printing The tray selection extension just results in a command in PCL. If that works with changing duplexing, I don't know. You'll have to do some experiments. On 02.06.2008 11:02:15 Martin Edge wrote: > Would these extensions work

Re: best format for high speed printing

2008-06-02 Thread Jeremias Maerki
hould I see what is put in the intermediate format to define this and > override it in there? > > -Original Message- > From: Jeremias Maerki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 2 June 2008 6:45 PM > To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org > Subject: Re: best

RE: best format for high speed printing

2008-06-02 Thread Martin Edge
@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: Re: best format for high speed printing Tray selection is available: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/output.html#pcl-extensions A Simplex/Duplex selection (ESC&l#S) extension hasn't been implemented, yet, but should be easy to add if you take tray sel

Re: best format for high speed printing

2008-06-02 Thread Jeremias Maerki
wise I will just generate one PCL, split it and add each flag per PCL) > > Thanks > Martin. > > -Original Message- > From: Jeremias Maerki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 2 June 2008 4:44 PM > To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org > Subject: Re: best form

RE: best format for high speed printing

2008-06-02 Thread Martin Edge
it and add each flag per PCL) Thanks Martin. -Original Message- From: Jeremias Maerki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 2 June 2008 4:44 PM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: Re: best format for high speed printing PCL is not very easy to post-process. It's possibl

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

RE: best format for high speed printing

2008-06-01 Thread Martin Edge
: Jeremias Maerki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 1 June 2008 5:00 PM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: Re: best format for high speed printing Huh? You convert PDF to PCL? Why don't you use the PCL renderer? That removes the seemingly time-consuming conversion from PDF to

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
June 2008 5:00 PM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: Re: best format for high speed printing Huh? You convert PDF to PCL? Why don't you use the PCL renderer? That removes the seemingly time-consuming conversion from PDF to PCL. Or rather, if you can choose, I'd go for PostScri

Re: best format for high speed printing

2008-05-31 Thread Jeremias Maerki
nce to my desired printing type > (PCL or PS). > > Like, maybe XSL -> FO -> SOMETHING -> PCL or XSL -> FO -> PCL? > > Thanks guys your help is most appreciated! > Martin. > > ------- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL P

Re: best format for high speed printing

2008-05-31 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there an efficient file format available that is much faster, and still allows me to control duplexing and tray selection per page? Some high end printers have special markings and "language" (with barcodes) that you can use outside the printing area to control the way the printin

Re: best format for high speed printing

2008-05-31 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 31.05.2008 08:14:11 Martin Edge wrote: > Hey Guys, > > Got a question - this may or may not be the best place to ask it. > > What's the best file format for production printing? Depends in which part of the world you are in. Australia seems to be PCL land. Europe is often PostScript land. An