Re: Capturing FOP logging message event in an embedded application using FOP 0.94
Thanks for the response. I am trying to think of a way to still succeed. What I want to do is to send all logging messages from anything related to FOP to their own file. In the logging.properties, I tried: org.apache.fop.FileHandler = java.util.logging.FileHandler org.apache.fop.FileHandler.pattern = logs/docgen.log org.apache.fop.FileHandler.limit = 5000 org.apache.fop.FileHandler.formatter = java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter but that does not work. I can say java.util.logging.FileHandler.pattern = logs/docgenAll.log and that will send all logging messages from any source to the file docgenALL - hwoever, I don't want all the messages - only ones froma class in the fop hierarchy. What should I do to accomplish this ? On Nov 13, 2007 3:04 PM, Andreas L Delmelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 13, 2007, at 18:29, Michael Tracey Zellmann wrote: Hi I have developed an application that generates PDFs of documentation in an eclipse environment controlled by a variety of SWT widgets. My customer would like his users to know when FOP has encountered a problem, but give them a simple message. We are already trapping exceptions, so I am interested in the kinds of events where FOP may generate a WARNING or SEVERE logging message. Like - the text has exceeded the allowed width and is overwriting another area, or the bookmark ids are pointing to a null view-port, for instance. I know how to write a File Handler to route those message to a file. Is there a way I can capture an event that will tell us to pop a dialog to the user, and hopefully get part of the logging message ? I fear you have stumbled upon a well-known shortcoming of FOP 0.9x: the error-reporting is not really what it should be. We all know it, but haven't found the time so far to take steps towards implementing something better, so exceptions and log messages are all there is to catch FTM... :( Sorry Andreas - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Capturing FOP logging message event in an embedded application using FOP 0.94
I have developed an application that generates PDFs of documentation in an eclipse environment controlled by a variety of SWT widgets. My customer would like his users to know when FOP has encountered a problem, but give them a simple message. We are already trapping exceptions, so I am interested in the kinds of events where FOP may generate a WARNING or SEVERE logging message. Like - the text has exceeded the allowed width and is overwriting another area, or the bookmark ids are pointing to a null view-port, for instance. I know how to write a File Handler to route those message to a file. Is there a way I can capture an event that will tell us to pop a dialog to the user, and hopefully get part of the logging message ?
Re: getting FOP to work with Java using 0.94
Thanks.
closing the OutputStream fixed my problem, and your way of getting the
xml file is clearly better.
I used to get a Fop instance directly from the constructor, but that
is deprecated now, in favor of the FopFactory. That was the change I
had encountered.
On Nov 2, 2007 3:41 AM, Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FOP's API hasn't changed. I don't remember any change in that area that
could trigger this, but I could also be wrong. Anyway, what I'm missing
in your code snippet is a try..finally around the code where the
OutputStream is closed in the finally section. That omission is most
likely the reason for the file corruption.
As a side-note, it's inefficient to load the XML file as a DOM and then
pass it to the XSL transformation. Please take a look at our examples
and use a SAX-based approach:
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.94/embedding.html#ExampleXML2PDF
Jeremias Maerki
On 02.11.2007 00:42:58 Michael Tracey Zellmann wrote:
I was using 0.93 successfully some time ago, and I have another
application to use,
so I downloaded 0.94.
I am using Java 1.5.0_11
I tried to set things up correctly, but the PDF I generated can't be
read by Adobe Reader 8. I get a message that the file has been damaged
and can't be repaired.
I have some code that reads a source document, builds an Fop from a
FopFactory using MimeConstants.MIME_PDF and an OutputStream. I build a
Transformer from a TransformerFactory using an XSLT file, get a
SAXResult from the fop, and then transform the source into the result.
I have tried a very simple style sheet but no success.
Can anyone help me understand what is wrong, or point me to a basic
example that will work with the new version?
Here is the code:
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf =
DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder db = null;
Document input = null;
try {
db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
input = db.parse(new
File(input/astruct/primitives/System.xml));
} catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (SAXException e) { e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
Source src = new DOMSource(input);
FopFactory fopFactory = FopFactory.newInstance();
OutputStream out = null;
File outputDir = new File(output);
File outputFile = new File(outputDir, System.pdf);
try {
out = new BufferedOutputStream(new
FileOutputStream(outputFile));
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {e.printStackTrace();}
Fop fop = null;
try {
fop = fopFactory.newFop(MimeConstants.MIME_PDF, out);
} catch (FOPException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
File xsltFile = new File(xslt/module-fo.xslt);
TransformerFactory trFactory =
TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer transformer = null;
try {
transformer = trFactory.newTransformer(new
StreamSource(xsltFile));
} catch (TransformerConfigurationException e)
{e.printStackTrace();}
Result res = null;
try {
res = new SAXResult(fop.getDefaultHandler());
} catch (FOPException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
try {
transformer.transform(src, res);
} catch (TransformerException e) { e.printStackTrace();}
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Re: controlling space before a table row
Thanks, Jeremias. Two straightforward solutions. - Original Message - From: Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 3:41 AM Subject: Re: controlling space before a table row padding-top does not apply to table-row. So, you can't use that. Your second attempt with the border on the table will only place a border on the table and only if you also specify border-top-style, but it won't help you either. The easiest thing IMO is to use an empty table-row with a specified height, i.e.: fo:table-row height=.2in fo:table-cellfo:block//fo:table-cell /fo:table-row Of course, you can also use margin-before on every first block in every table-cell. On 21.03.2006 01:52:51 Tracey Zellmann wrote: I have a table in my document, and I would like to make extra space appear between certain rows. Not sure how to accomplish that. I have tried fo:table-row padding-top=.2in and fo:table border-top-width=.2in but neither have had any affect. I am trying to achieve something like fo:block margin-before=.2in I am not sure this is the right approach. Any help will be appreciated. Jeremias Maerki - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X-Bar symbol
Thanks. That worked perfectly. - Original Message - From: Manuel Mall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 1:19 AM Subject: Re: X-Bar symbol On Mar 19, 2006, at 5:54 PM, Tracey Zellmann wrote: I am looking for an easy way to print an X with a bar over it - the symbol for the average of a sample. I could do it with svg, but I was hoping for a slightly easier approach. The symbol will occupy one header cell in a table row, so it has room to the left and right. I think you're looking for the text-decoration=line-through property[1]. I haven't tested it, but according to the FOP Compliance page[2], this should be supported. So, it would look like this (untested): fo:inline text-decoration=line-throughX/fo:inline snip/ As Tracy seems to look for a bar above the x text-decoration=overline is probably what she needs. Another way would be to use a fo:inline or fo:character with an appropriate border-before and/or padding-before setting. Clay Leeds [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Manuel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
controlling space before a table row
I have a table in my document, and I would like to make extra space appear between certain rows. Not sure how to accomplish that. I have tried fo:table-row padding-top=.2in and fo:table border-top-width=.2in but neither have had any affect. I am trying to achieve something like fo:block margin-before=.2in I am not sure this is the right approach. Any help will be appreciated. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-Bar symbol
I am looking for an easy way to print an X with a bar over it - the symbol for the average of a sample. I could do it with svg, but I was hoping for a slightly easier approach. The symbol will occupy one header cell in a table row, so it has room to the left and right.
getting veradana font to work
I am not able to get Verdana to work. I have tried to follow the documentation. I have also read the recent emails about embedded font problems, but I can't quite follow the details. I am getting this error. SEVERE: svg graphic could not be rendered: null java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.fop.fonts.LazyFont.mapChar(LazyFont.java:97) at org.apache.fop.fonts.Font.mapChar(Font.java:144) at org.apache.fop.svg.PDFTextPainter.getStringWidth(PDFTextPainter.java:266) at org.apache.fop.svg.PDFTextPainter.paint(PDFTextPainter.java:219) at org.apache.batik.gvt.TextNode.primitivePaint(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.gvt.AbstractGraphicsNode.paint(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.gvt.CompositeGraphicsNode.primitivePaint(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.gvt.AbstractGraphicsNode.paint(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.gvt.CompositeGraphicsNode.primitivePaint(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.gvt.CanvasGraphicsNode.primitivePaint(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.gvt.AbstractGraphicsNode.paint(Unknown Source), and many more... Here are the steps I have taken Create font metrics from the local Verdana.ttf file in C:\WINDOWS\FONTS using TTFReader the command window messages indicates it was successful, and the file is ttfcm.xml I did use the -enc ansi otpion. My target customers are using Windows and will have the same Verdana font available locally. Register Fonts with FOP. I took the configuration file that comes with the distribution fop.xconf, and added these elements in the fonts element. fo:inline font-family=Verdana font-weight=normal font-style=normal Verdana-normal-normal font /fo:inline font metrics-url=fle:///C:/unzipped/fop-0.91beta-bin-jdk1.4/fop-0.91beta/ttfcm.xml font-triplet name=Verdana style=normal weight=normal/ /font Tell FOP about the configuration Fop fop = new Fop(MimeConstants.MIME_PDF); DefaultConfigurationBuilder cfgBuilder = new DefaultConfigurationBuilder(); Configuration cfg = cfgBuilder.buildFromFile( C:/unzipped/fop-0.91beta-bin-jdk1.4/fop-0.91beta/conf/fop.xconf); FOUserAgent userAgent = fop.getUserAgent(); userAgent.setUserConfig(cfg); For completeness, here is how I am trying to invoke the font within the svg element. g style=font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; stroke: none; fill: black; Any help would be appreciated. Is there a worked example that touches all the aspects? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: getting veradana font to work
HOORAY! You are exactly right. That was it. I was tearing out my hair. Sorry to take your time with a typo, but I just couldn't find it without another pair of eyes. - Original Message - From: Dirk Bromberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 7:57 AM Subject: Re: getting veradana font to work Have you seen the typo error ?: font metrics-url=fle:///C:/unzipped/fop-0.91beta-bin-jdk1.4/fop-0.91beta/ttfcm.xml --- font-triplet name=Verdana style=normal weight=normal/ /font Dirk Tracey Zellmann wrote: I am not able to get Verdana to work. I have tried to follow the documentation. I have also read the recent emails about embedded font problems, but I can't quite follow the details. I am getting this error. SEVERE: svg graphic could not be rendered: null java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.fop.fonts.LazyFont.mapChar(LazyFont.java:97) at org.apache.fop.fonts.Font.mapChar(Font.java:144) at org.apache.fop.svg.PDFTextPainter.getStringWidth(PDFTextPainter.java:266) at org.apache.fop.svg.PDFTextPainter.paint(PDFTextPainter.java:219) at org.apache.batik.gvt.TextNode.primitivePaint(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.gvt.AbstractGraphicsNode.paint(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.gvt.CompositeGraphicsNode.primitivePaint(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.gvt.AbstractGraphicsNode.paint(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.gvt.CompositeGraphicsNode.primitivePaint(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.gvt.CanvasGraphicsNode.primitivePaint(Unknown Source) at org.apache.batik.gvt.AbstractGraphicsNode.paint(Unknown Source), and many more... Here are the steps I have taken Create font metrics from the local Verdana.ttf file in C:\WINDOWS\FONTS using TTFReader the command window messages indicates it was successful, and the file is ttfcm.xml I did use the -enc ansi otpion. My target customers are using Windows and will have the same Verdana font available locally. Register Fonts with FOP. I took the configuration file that comes with the distribution fop.xconf, and added these elements in the fonts element. fo:inline font-family=Verdana font-weight=normal font-style=normal Verdana-normal-normal font /fo:inline font metrics-url=fle:///C:/unzipped/fop-0.91beta-bin-jdk1.4/fop-0.91beta/ttfcm.xml font-triplet name=Verdana style=normal weight=normal/ /font Tell FOP about the configuration Fop fop = new Fop(MimeConstants.MIME_PDF); DefaultConfigurationBuilder cfgBuilder = new DefaultConfigurationBuilder(); Configuration cfg = cfgBuilder.buildFromFile( C:/unzipped/fop-0.91beta-bin-jdk1.4/fop- 0.91beta/conf/fop.xconf); FOUserAgent userAgent = fop.getUserAgent(); userAgent.setUserConfig(cfg); For completeness, here is how I am trying to invoke the font within the svg element. g style=font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; stroke: none; fill: black; Any help would be appreciated. Is there a worked example that touches all the aspects? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Changing logging behavior in an embedded application.
I have dug through what documentation I can find, but it hasn't helped me, so maybe the list can give me some guidance. I have my application running successfully. I am using fop 0.91beta-bin-jdk1.4 It publishes a PDF using FOP within another java application, not from the command line, so I believe you would call it embedded. I need to change the way logging messages are handled. Currently, I am getting a large number of warning messages printed to the console. With Jeremias Maerki's help, I can see they are caused my some namespace issues with some imported svg images I am using from MS Visio. Essentially, they can be ignored, and that is what I have been doing. However, next week, I have to turn this over to the first wave of normal users, so I don't want to overwhelm them with these messages. I would like all messages to go to a log file, not the console. I would prefer that warning level messages go to a file that is typically overwritten, so they don't accumulate. Anything higher than warning should go to another file which does append and accumulates the message history. I am pretty sure I could handle this using Java's java.util.logging API. However, I am not sure how to get hold of and change the current behavior of FOP logging. Can someone illuminate this for me? Thanks. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
table-layout
I am using fop 0.91. I am getting a warning that fo:table, table-layout="auto" is currently not supported by FOP. My table looks the way I want it to, but I wonder what I should be doing to avoid that warning. I have a multi-column table where the width of the table is specified with fo:table width="7in" for instance, and the columns are typically specified with fo:table-column column-number="4" column-width="35%" I do not currently have any table-layout specified.
Re: table-layout
Excellent! That worked like a charm. Another small question, if you or someone else has a moment. I am using some spanned cells, but, at least for now, none of my table cells have any borders. I am getting a warning with a TODO WARNING: TODO Add collapsed border painting for spanned cells What am I supposed to do? - Original Message - From: "Andreas L Delmelle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 1:30 PM Subject: Re: table-layout On Feb 26, 2006, at 18:36, Tracey Zellmann wrote: Hi Tracey, I am using fop 0.91. I am getting a warning that fo:table, table-layout="auto" is currently not supported by FOP. My table looks the way I want it to, but I wonder what I should be doing to avoid that warning. I have a multi-column table where the width of the table is specified with fo:table width="7in" for instance, and the columns are typically specified with fo:table-column column-number="4" column-width="35%" I do not currently have any table-layout specified. Just specify table-layout="fixed" on the table, and the warning should go away. I guess it's caused by the default/initial value of table-layout being "auto"... HTH! Cheers, Andreas - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: table-layout
Thanks That worked perfectly as well. Now that I seem to at least have FOP working, I want to make better use of its facilities. How can I get a handle on the basic parameters - like these ones that I encounter. The underlying documentation has been helpful to get the examples running, and from those, to get my own applictaion running. However, when I try to delve deeper, things get a bit murky. I must say, this list has been very helpful. I am also impressed at the global scope - makes 24 * 7 almost feasible! - Original Message - From: Manuel Mall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2006 6:04 PM Subject: Re: table-layout On Monday 27 February 2006 02:59, Tracey Zellmann wrote: Excellent! That worked like a charm. Another small question, if you or someone else has a moment. I am using some spanned cells, but, at least for now, none of my table cells have any borders. I am getting a warning with a TODO WARNING: TODO Add collapsed border painting for spanned cells What am I supposed to do? Try specifying border-collapse=separate on the table. Manuel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: best way to use fop to layout report.
Thanks for your reply and your offer. I'll take you up on it when I am a little farther along. Layout and FOP is new ground for me, so I appreciate any help. - Original Message - From: Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 4:50 PM Subject: Re: best way to use fop to layout report. Ah, I see now what you've been targetting at: Abusing tables to do all sorts of layout tricks. Yeah, you can do that with XSL-FO, and yes, depending on your layout requirements there are better choices. However, FOP still doesn't implement some of the features that might help in certain situations (like fo:float). You're welcome to point us/me to your work if you would like someone give you a second-opinion/review at any time. Usually, it's easier to make suggestions if you can actually see what someone's doing. On 18.02.2006 12:52:20 Tracey Zellmann wrote: Thanks for the reply. I will certainly post an example when I get it done. The first cut will just be functional, and needs some feedback from the customer to get the layout and details right. Regarding Tables in FOP, I was reading Dave Pawson's book XSL-FO from O'Reilly. His quote is: XSL-FO is not like HTML. It is mostly unnecessary to use tables for layout as has been done in HTML. The XSL-FO vocabulary provides so much more than HTML that you shouldn't fall back on tables simply to obtain an effect you have achieved on the Web. The table-formatting object is for formatting tabular data. There may be circumstances where table-based formatting is necessary, but they will be rare. So, I am glad to hear that Tables are still useful and acceptable. - Original Message - From: Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 4:05 PM Subject: Re: best way to use fop to layout report. On 17.02.2006 20:08:19 Tracey Zellmann wrote: I am getting comfortable running and using fop. Now I need some advice on the best way to use it to create my report. It seems to me that a table at the start of each page will work, but I have read that FOP has so much other capability, that tables are seldom needed. Let me briefly describe my design, and someone may give me some feedback. On the contrary, I think that tables are one of most important features in XSL-FO. Survey participants have evaluated automobiles by sitting in different positions and answering 15 questions - either voting for 0 - 10, or marking an image of the car. Then for each question, they can also offer text comments. The report will summarize and assemble this data. For various cars, there are one, two or three rows, always a left seat and a right seat. The votes are tabulated in histograms, and the image marks are put onto svg images of the car, one for each question and position. A four seat car would have 60. Comments are presented as a bulleted list. The report would start one page for each seating row, with two columns, left column for the left seat and right column for the right seat. The page title states the car name and the specific question. The column heading states the position. Then the column would have either a histogram or a car image, followed below by a bulleted list of comments. Same thing repeated on the right column for the right seating position. The number of respondents may be different for each position. The data is available as an xml document. I will write an xslt stylesheet to transform the data to fo. I can see how to do this with a table, much like how I could do it with html. The car images and histograms would be in-line svg documents. Is there a better approach? If I understand your explanations, probably not. I can't think of any. Tables offer you a lot of possibilities for layout. Please post an example when you have something to show. It's always interesting so see what people do with XSL-FO/FOP. Good luck! Jeremias Maerki - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeremias Maerki - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: best way to use fop to layout report.
Thanks for the reply. I will certainly post an example when I get it done. The first cut will just be functional, and needs some feedback from the customer to get the layout and details right. Regarding Tables in FOP, I was reading Dave Pawson's book XSL-FO from O'Reilly. His quote is: XSL-FO is not like HTML. It is mostly unnecessary to use tables for layout as has been done in HTML. The XSL-FO vocabulary provides so much more than HTML that you shouldn't fall back on tables simply to obtain an effect you have achieved on the Web. The table-formatting object is for formatting tabular data. There may be circumstances where table-based formatting is necessary, but they will be rare. So, I am glad to hear that Tables are still useful and acceptable. - Original Message - From: Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 4:05 PM Subject: Re: best way to use fop to layout report. On 17.02.2006 20:08:19 Tracey Zellmann wrote: I am getting comfortable running and using fop. Now I need some advice on the best way to use it to create my report. It seems to me that a table at the start of each page will work, but I have read that FOP has so much other capability, that tables are seldom needed. Let me briefly describe my design, and someone may give me some feedback. On the contrary, I think that tables are one of most important features in XSL-FO. Survey participants have evaluated automobiles by sitting in different positions and answering 15 questions - either voting for 0 - 10, or marking an image of the car. Then for each question, they can also offer text comments. The report will summarize and assemble this data. For various cars, there are one, two or three rows, always a left seat and a right seat. The votes are tabulated in histograms, and the image marks are put onto svg images of the car, one for each question and position. A four seat car would have 60. Comments are presented as a bulleted list. The report would start one page for each seating row, with two columns, left column for the left seat and right column for the right seat. The page title states the car name and the specific question. The column heading states the position. Then the column would have either a histogram or a car image, followed below by a bulleted list of comments. Same thing repeated on the right column for the right seating position. The number of respondents may be different for each position. The data is available as an xml document. I will write an xslt stylesheet to transform the data to fo. I can see how to do this with a table, much like how I could do it with html. The car images and histograms would be in-line svg documents. Is there a better approach? If I understand your explanations, probably not. I can't think of any. Tables offer you a lot of possibilities for layout. Please post an example when you have something to show. It's always interesting so see what people do with XSL-FO/FOP. Good luck! Jeremias Maerki - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
instream-foreign-object
I am having some trouble gettiong an instream svg image into my fop document, and hope that soemone in this formum might help. I have an xml document, which contains several svg images, as well as other content. Some of the images were created from a template developed through Microsoft Visio. My application then adds some specific marks. The other images are based on a histogram template that I developed manually and, again, my application adds marks. Presently, I can get the histogram images into my document, using: fo:instream-foreign-object svg... /svg /fo:instream-foreign-object However,when I try to do that with the svg images adapted from the MS Visio template, I can produce the pdf report, but I get a bunch of messages - ERRORs with fop-0.20.5 and WARNINGs with fop-0.91. The problem seems to be the microsoft namespace reference. Feb 18, 2006 1:47:12 PM org.apache.fop.fo.FOTreeBuilder findFOMaker WARNING: Unknown formatting object http://schemas.microsoft.com/visio/2003/SVGExtensions/^documentProperties I have attached a copy of the file. Any thoughts about how to resolve this? imageExample.svg Description: image/svg - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
best way to use fop to layout report.
I am getting comfortable running and using fop. Now I need some advice on the best way to use it to create my report. It seems to me that a table at the start of each page will work, but I have read that FOP has so much other capability, that tables are seldom needed. Let me briefly describe my design, and someone may give me some feedback. Survey participants have evaluated automobiles by sitting in different positions and answering 15 questions - either voting for 0 - 10, or marking an image of the car. Then for each question, they can also offer text comments. The report will summarize and assemble this data. For various cars, there are one, two or three rows, always a left seat and a right seat. The votes are tabulated in histograms, and the image marks are put onto svg images of the car, one for each question and position. A four seat car would have 60. Comments are presented as a bulleted list. The report would start one page for each seating row, with two columns, left column for the left seat and right column for the right seat. The page titlestates the car name and the specific question. The column heading states the position. Then the column would have either a histogram or a car image, followed below by a bulleted list of comments. Same thing repeated on the right column for the right seating position. The number of respondents may be different for each position. The data is available as an xml document. I will write an xslt stylesheet to transform the data to fo. I can see how to do this with a table, much like how I could do it with html. The car images and histograms would be in-line svg documents. Is there a better approach?
Re: porblem running new fop-0.91
Thanks again. I am making progress. I also emailed StylueStudio. They had also seen the problem and sent me a corrected version of the xsl file. Now I can get the application to run through to the success message. However, here is a small problem. Normally, when I run this with the older fop (0.20.5), the generated Adobe document is about 208 K. It is a catalog of videos, with formatted text and gif images of the video covers. However, when I run it with the new fop, I get an 8 K Adobe document, which fails when I try to open it. In the output folder, I do get an application file, named I - a 210 K file with no extension. If I open that with Adobe, I get the actual document. Any ideas what I can do about this? I am using this example to wring out my process and give me some ideas on how to format my document. I am developing an application that will take several in-line svg files and a variety of text elements, all included in an xml document. I will develop an xsl sheet to format this, and my customer will use it to generate a pdf document, which will be mailed to their survey participants. Personally, if the file really was successful, I could just rename it, but my user wont be able to do that, and I ought to get it right. - Original Message - From: Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 5:13 PM Subject: Re: porblem running new fop-0.91 Actually, this message refers to the fo:region-before element in the single-page-master. The specification dictates that border and/or padding must not be specified on a region-before which seems to be the case in your example. Either remove the offending properties or disable strict validation [1][2] (-r on the command-line). In the latter case, you will still receive a warning but not an exception anymore. Have fun. [1] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.91/embedding.html#config-internal [2] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.91/configuration.html#general-elements On 15.02.2006 22:50:26 Tracey Zellmann wrote: Now that I have fixed the problem with my classpath, I am tryign to run some examples that worked on the older fop-0.20.5 but don't seem to succeed when using the new version. Specifically, I have an example tha comes with StyluStudio thate creates a catalog with text pictures. Using the new fop, I get this error: (Location of error unknown)org.apache.fop.fo.expr.PropertyException: Border and padding for region xsl-region-before must be '0' (See 6.4.13 in XSL 1.0). I believe the specific area in the style sheet that the error is referring to is this: !-- Define the contents of the header. -- fo:static-content flow-name=xsl-region-before fo:block font-size=8.0pt font-family=serif padding-after=2.0pt space-before=4.0pt text-align=center border-bottom-style=solid border-bottom-width=1.0pt xsl:textStylus Studio Multimedia Catalog of Video and Computer Books/xsl:text /fo:block /fo:static-content Any help or advice would be appreciated. I have tried to make some changes to the attributes, but I haven't been successful. Jeremias Maerki - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: porblem running new fop-0.91
I was able to fix it. I actually had an extraneous I as the third command-line argument, followed by catalog.pdf. That was the source of the problem. Once I cleaned that up, it worked fine. Thanks again. Sorry to bother you with these small problems. Your replies have been good prompts. - Original Message - From: Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 10:25 AM Subject: Re: porblem running new fop-0.91 How do you actually run FOP? From within Stylus Studio? From the command-line? From Java code? If you run FOP from the command-line FOP doesn't simply create arbitrary files or something like that. There you specify the filename and that's where FOP writes to. Shrug. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using FOP examples
Thanks for the reply. I had taken the old jars out of my Eclipse project, but overlooked some buried references in my user and system classpath. Your note triggered my memory, and I was able to solve that problem. - Original Message - From: Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 2:57 AM Subject: Re: Using FOP examples Please check that you don't have an old fop.jar (from 0.20.5) still in your classpath. The old fop.jar also has a org.apache.fop.apps.Fop class but its function was a different one. On 14.02.2006 23:31:33 Tracey Zellmann wrote: I have downloaded fop-0.91beta-bin-jdk1.4 and I am trying to use some of the examples. Specifically, ExampleXML2PDF. I have put all the jars into my class path. I am getting an error when the program runs - Exception in thread main java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.fop.apps.Fop.init(Ljava/lang/String;)V at embedding.ExampleXML2PDF.main(ExampleXML2PDF.java:69) The referenced line is: Fop fop = new Fop(MimeConstants.MIME_PDF); Any thoughts what migth be wrong? I have checked that fop.jar for this version is in the path and it contains org.apache.fop.apps.Fop Jeremias Maerki - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
porblem running new fop-0.91
Now that I have fixed the problem with my classpath, I am tryign to run some examples that worked on the older fop-0.20.5 but don't seem to succeed when using the new version. Specifically, I have an example tha comes with StyluStudio thate creates a catalog with text pictures. Using the new fop, I get this error: (Location of error unknown)org.apache.fop.fo.expr.PropertyException: Border and padding for region "xsl-region-before" must be '0' (See 6.4.13 in XSL 1.0). I believe the specific area in the style sheet that the error is referring to is this: !-- Define the contents of the header. -- fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before" fo:block font-size="8.0pt" font-family="serif" padding-after="2.0pt" space-before="4.0pt" text-align="center" border-bottom-style="solid" border-bottom-width="1.0pt" xsl:textStylus Studio Multimedia Catalog of Video and Computer Books/xsl:text /fo:block /fo:static-content Any help or advice would be appreciated. I have tried to make some changes to the attributes, but I haven't been successful.
