Hi Brain and Ferdinand, Thanks for the suggestions. I will try to go with second approach and make some changes to the stylesheets and see if it works.
Cheers, Alan On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Ferdinand Soethe <samm...@soethe.net>wrote: > Hi Alan, > > as far as I remember the stylesheets for pdf-generation have moved from > core into the pdf-output-plugin. > > So you may be looking at outdated style sheets. Which might also explain > the errors you are getting (some changes were required in the > transformations to accomodate that last fop-update). > > Check out > plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.pdf/resources/stylesheets for the > current stylesheets (from head). > After using Forrest with the pdf-plugin for the first time, you will also > find the stylesheets in > build/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.pdf/resources/stylesheets. > > Yet I agree with Brian, these style sheets were designed to be used in a > pipeline, so you may have to make some major adjustments. > > Regards, > Ferdinand Soethe > > Am 06.07.10 06:27, schrieb Alan Wang: > > Hi All, > > I am writing a program similar to pdf output plugin to convert xdoc pages > in xml document ( xdoc similar to > http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/index.xml), and would like to generate > the pdf output using fop (0.95 on Mac os 10.5) as shown in the following. > However I am getting the following errors from console. > > (Location of error unknown)org.apache.fop.fo.ValidationException: > Error(Unknown location): For fo:simple-page-master, fo:region-body must be > declared before fo:region-before. > > 1. Where can I find the xsl to convert from xdoc to fo. I find one from > apache forrest > distribution( > apache-forrest-0.8/main/webapp/skins/common/xslt/fo/document-to-fo.xsl)? > Or Am I using the wrong one for converting from xdoc to fo? > > 2. Is anything wrong with my code? > > Regards, > Alan > > > > ======================================================== > public class fop { > public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { > // configure fopFactory as desired > FopFactory fopFactory = FopFactory.newInstance(); > fopFactory.setStrictValidation(false); > fopFactory.setStrictUserConfigValidation(false); > > // configure foUserAgent as desired > FOUserAgent foUserAgent = fopFactory.newFOUserAgent(); > > // Setup output > OutputStream out = new java.io.FileOutputStream(new > File("mypdf.pdf")); > out = new java.io.BufferedOutputStream(out); > > // Construct fop with desired output format > Fop fop = fopFactory.newFop(MimeConstants.MIME_PDF, > foUserAgent, out); > > // Setup XSLT > TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); > Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer(new StreamSource(new > File("/Downloads/apache-forrest-0.8/main/webapp/skins/common/xslt/fo/document-to-fo.xsl"))); > > // Set the value of a <param> in the stylesheet > transformer.setParameter("versionParam", "2.0"); > > // Setup input for XSLT transformation > Source src = new StreamSource(" > http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/index.xml";); > > // Resulting SAX events (the generated FO) must be piped > through to FOP > Result res = new SAXResult(fop.getDefaultHandler()); > > // Start XSLT transformation and FOP processing > transformer.transform(src, res); > > out.close(); > } > } > > > -- <img src="http://img2.meetupstatic.com/img/logo_tilt_2.gif"/>
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