Re: Hello, about fop
- original Nachricht Betreff: Hello, about fop Gesendet: Mo 06 Mär 2006 23:39:57 CET Von: "chinlu chinawa"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I understand dockbook/XML-XSLT/SGML-DSSSL and it's > customization layers as a good way of working, > although I'd like an expert to advise me. http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/index.html > I'd be working on a pdf output basis or any other > format that would be better for a press to work with. > I'm within a linux system, and have no troubles at all > when starting to learn all over again, tex or any > other format any one could advise me as "the most > proffesional one" when dealing with presses (is that > how you call those places that actually print out your > book, isn't it?), sorry my english anyway. Dunno what this all about, I only use fop 0.91, even on a HP-UX 11 and I also rendered fancy svg into PDF-outputs. My only advice would be: OpenOffice->"Export As «SVG»"->insert into FO (or docbook-resource, have a look at the "mediaobject") and run fop. Maybe it's not the right way to design flyers and graphical complex structures. Therefore leave the fo-step and export directly from OpenOffice...(if it runs on your box, at all). TeX and LaTeX is a bit more complicated, try starting with "LyX", if it compiles/runs on your glibc-whatever *g* - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hello, about fop
Well, I got both jdk, and jre installed (1_3_1_17), I mean, the did decompress. They need at least glibc-2.2.4, whilst mine is 2.2.1. Could not even build fop because of this, therefore there's no way it would run either, so I got rid of all. I wouldn't say this is any odd problem at all, but a simple glibc dependency issue, though. My compiler and glibc are a bit older, as in my opninion, nobody needs a glibc eating a hundred more megabytes of memory after each release, and I can compile new applications as they come out (and I need them), but the rest of my system is up to date, and haven't had any problem I couldn't solve. Anyway, I've only used java because of fop, and is just that we don't need to, this is unix. Ahm, yes I'm sure that 0.91 is a proper production tool, but I cannot say same of 0.20.5. It's alright for simple documents, though. But when you start dealing with tables, or footers or headers, and you need precision, there's no way, or that's been my experience. Well, you didn't point out me anywhere, I've been reading about tex, and it looks quite powerfull and robust, I whish I would have started with it from the begining, so I'll do it now. Best Regards guys, ___ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, about fop
Hi guys, I've been around the installation of trunk's version of FOP, which I've ended up by not being able to use beacuse of my system is too old (libc-2.2, gcc 2.95.3), and the java version you've lately updated to, doesn't run here. Actually, the only version I'd able to use, would be 0.20.5. The thing is this version doesn't respect my custom footers (the body overrides it), body text doesn't start neither at the same possition when using this footers, etc. So I'm just wondering whether could anyone please tell about other resources? I'd like to be able to generate nice-looking documents, I mean with svg or anyother scalable imaging format, etc. For this time, I'll be publishing in C5 (paper size), don't know whether this would a problem or not. I understand dockbook/XML-XSLT/SGML-DSSSL and it's customization layers as a good way of working, although I'd like an expert to advise me. I'd be working on a pdf output basis or any other format that would be better for a press to work with. I'm within a linux system, and have no troubles at all when starting to learn all over again, tex or any other format any one could advise me as "the most proffesional one" when dealing with presses (is that how you call those places that actually print out your book, isn't it?), sorry my english anyway. I've been for a while away from any of this, but I do remember there are formats such as dvi, postscript, I know one can have pdf from sgml + jadetex, that one can use it even with dsssl or xslt style-sheets (IIRC). I'd really appreciate, though, if someone could advise when getting into something that's gonna be stable, robust, and is not gonna break any of my work beacuse of thirdy-party dependencies, whilst being able to generate good-looking documents as well as dealing with presses, or printing-presses at highest level. Kind Regards,
Re: Hello, about fop
So, you can't install at least a JDK 1.3.1? That would seem very odd. Many people work with DocBook and FOP 0.20.5 or FOP 0.91beta and seem to be relatively happy. There are some issues, yes, but the problems you describe are, to my knowledge, not among them. I'm not sure how to help you any further here. On 06.03.2006 23:39:29 chinlu chinawa wrote: > Hi, > > I've been around the installation of trunk's version > of FOP, which I've ended up by not being able to use > beacuse of my system is too old (libc-2.2, gcc > 2.95.3), and the java version you've lately updated > to, doesn't run here. > > Actually, very likely, the only version I'd able to > use, would be 0.20.5. The thing is this version > doesn't respect my custom footers (the body overrides > it), body text doesn't start neither at the same > possition when using this footers, etc. > > So I'm just wondering whether could anyone please tell > about other resources? > > I'd like to be able to generate nice-looking > documents, I mean with svg or anyother scalable > imaging format, etc. For this time, I'll be publishing > in C5 (paper size), don't know whether this would a > problem or not. > > I understand dockbook/XML-XSLT/SGML-DSSSL and it's > customization layers as a good way of working, > although I'd like an expert to advise me. > > I'd be working on a pdf output basis or any other > format that would be better for a press to work with. > I'm within a linux system, and have no troubles at all > when starting to learn all over again, tex or any > other format any one could advise me as "the most > proffesional one" when dealing with presses (is that > how you call those places that actually print out your > book, isn't it?), sorry my english anyway. > > I've been for a while away from any of this, but I do > remember there are formats such as dvi, postscript, I > know one can have pdf from sgml + jadetex, that one > can use it even with dsssl or xslt style-sheets > (IIRC). > > I'd really appreciate, though, if someone could advise > when getting into something that's gonna be stable, > robust, and is not gonna break any of my work beacuse > of thirdy-party dependencies (don't want to bother off > anyone, I just mean and independent doc-system), > whilst being able to generate good-looking documents > as well as dealing with presses, or printing-presses > at a highest level, probably a backend for postscript > whatever it is, don't really know how it works > nowadays. Jeremias Maerki - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, about fop
Hi, I've been around the installation of trunk's version of FOP, which I've ended up by not being able to use beacuse of my system is too old (libc-2.2, gcc 2.95.3), and the java version you've lately updated to, doesn't run here. Actually, very likely, the only version I'd able to use, would be 0.20.5. The thing is this version doesn't respect my custom footers (the body overrides it), body text doesn't start neither at the same possition when using this footers, etc. So I'm just wondering whether could anyone please tell about other resources? I'd like to be able to generate nice-looking documents, I mean with svg or anyother scalable imaging format, etc. For this time, I'll be publishing in C5 (paper size), don't know whether this would a problem or not. I understand dockbook/XML-XSLT/SGML-DSSSL and it's customization layers as a good way of working, although I'd like an expert to advise me. I'd be working on a pdf output basis or any other format that would be better for a press to work with. I'm within a linux system, and have no troubles at all when starting to learn all over again, tex or any other format any one could advise me as "the most proffesional one" when dealing with presses (is that how you call those places that actually print out your book, isn't it?), sorry my english anyway. I've been for a while away from any of this, but I do remember there are formats such as dvi, postscript, I know one can have pdf from sgml + jadetex, that one can use it even with dsssl or xslt style-sheets (IIRC). I'd really appreciate, though, if someone could advise when getting into something that's gonna be stable, robust, and is not gonna break any of my work beacuse of thirdy-party dependencies (don't want to bother off anyone, I just mean and independent doc-system), whilst being able to generate good-looking documents as well as dealing with presses, or printing-presses at a highest level, probably a backend for postscript whatever it is, don't really know how it works nowadays. Kind Regards, ___ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
