Ross Gardler wrote: > Neil Troy wrote: > >vadim wrote: > > > >>Do you know what is the reason to generate tables in PDF files of fixed > >>width and fixed (probably hardcoded) column width? Tables look really > >>ugly! Do you know if I can adjust something somewhere to get tables in > >>PDF files to look better? > > FOP (or FO rendering engine) does not support tables that auto size. see > http://xml.apache.org/fop/compliance.html#fo-object-table > > >I needed to fix some tables quick. > > Professional patches welcome ;-) > > You could count the chars in a all the cells then allocate the space > accordingly. This would work better but would have problems with tables > that involved images. > > See the files in FORREST_HOME/main/skins/common/xslt/fo/
We have not done very much work to enhance our use of Apache FOP to transform the docs to PDF. Our stylesheets are just a beginning. Someone would need to explore the many powers of FOP and then enhance our xslt/fo/*.xsl Also people could go to help the Apache FOP community to find ways to deal with such issues. http://xml.apache.org/fop/ Anyway please join us on the Forrest dev mailing list if you wnat to purue this beyond the user level. David
