Re: MS Excel 2 FO -- PDF

2005-12-01 Thread John Burgess
Your best bet might be to use OpenOffice. This has an export to PDF option on the file menu. Otherwise, take a look at POI for an open source java toolkit for reading and writing MS Office files. Best wishes John Burgess Risk Decisions Limited Buchan House Parkway Court Oxford Business Park

Re: MS Excel 2 FO -- PDF

2005-12-01 Thread Louis . Masters
Hans: If your Excel sheets are in spreadsheetML, then you can parse through them and convert to FO pretty easily. Currently, we do this in the reverse - we take our existing reports that are normally in PDF and let the user render them in Excel or Excel 2000 (there is a difference) so it is

Re: AW: MS Excel 2 FO -- PDF

2005-12-01 Thread Louis . Masters
Hans: 1. If your Excel version is greater than 2000, your sheets can be saved as this format. Open up the file in a text editor and you should see XML tags like this: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? Workbook xmlns=urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet

RE: MS Excel 2 FO -- PDF

2005-12-01 Thread Singhal, Ramneek \(Exchange\)
You can use Apache POI or JDBC to read your excel sheet and create an xml out of it. then you can apply your stylesheet to convert it to FO -Original Message- From: Braumüller, Hans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 6:47 AM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org

Re: MS Excel 2 FO -- PDF

2005-12-01 Thread thomas . maciejewski
How does that work? -- Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld - Original Message - From: Singhal, Ramneek \(Exchange\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12/01/2005 09:35 AM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: RE: MS Excel 2 FO -- PDF You can use Apache POI or

RE: MS Excel 2 FO -- PDF

2005-12-01 Thread Singhal, Ramneek \(Exchange\)
Please visit http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/ for working examples of reading an excel file. You can use xerces to create an xml Dom for the data read. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 9:48 AM To: fop-users Subject: Re:

Performance: Caching Fonts, stylesheets

2005-12-01 Thread Thomas . Schmitt . extern
Title: Performance: Caching Fonts, stylesheets Hi, currently I try to to increase the performance in my FO2PDF process. . I have a complex 2 page rtf document, which is converted manually by RTF2FO. The FO to PDF process takes about 4 secs. I am using already a driver pool. Removing

AW: MS Excel 2 FO -- PDF

2005-12-01 Thread Braumüller , Hans
Thanks, i will give it a try, are there out standard stylsheets to convert to FO from excell ? Hans -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Singhal, Ramneek (Exchange) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2005 15:58 An: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Betreff: RE: MS

RE: Performance: Caching Fonts, stylesheets

2005-12-01 Thread Sascha Schmidt
Title: Performance: Caching Fonts, stylesheets Hi, FOP is not using anystylesheetto render a pureXSL-FO document into PDF.Do you create a temporary XSL-FO file with RTF2FO or are you sending SAX-Events or a DOM to FOP? BTW, we are also distributing an RTF to XSL-FO processor, called

Re: Performance: Caching Fonts, stylesheets

2005-12-01 Thread Jeremias Maerki
In addition to what Sascha already said about FOP not using stylesheets for FO documents and piping RTF2FO together with FOP using SAX events if that's possible at all and you haven't done it already: - TrueType fonts are quite complex and take a lot of time to parse and embed. Particularly, the

Re: Non-breaking space turning into ??

2005-12-01 Thread Craig McDaniel
Well, the FileReader is reading into a String and then it is converted to a byte array using getBytes(). I know, its weird, but I'm not the original author of this code and its my job to fix it. On 12/1/05, J.Pietschmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Craig McDaniel wrote: However, when I create a