Hi Jean-Yves My apologies - my comments were made concerning the conversion to PDF rather than RTF; I tried with and without the "Create intermediate FO..." option checked for PDF conversion, as well as placing the executable in the same directory as the input/output files (I'm running Windows 2000 and even with the LaunchAnywhere file in position I still couldn't run the executable from the new location; problems with locating references to classes).
RTF conversion seems to go reasonably OK (although some of the image size control of graphics didn't work as I expected); it's the conversion to PDF that doesn't recognize the location of the graphics objects (inline or otherwise). I even tried setting up a variable (XFC_HOME) to specify an appropriate PATH to the files but that didn't work (it was a long shot, after all). I include below the output from the converter just in case you see anything that might be fixable. There are no paths used in the filerefs attributes - just the filenames of the objects - and if there is a way to set the baseline directory I haven't yet found documentation on it... Thanks for your help - I'm evaluating XXE and XFO for possible purchase by the client here, so every little helps. (I've just picked up the 2.0beta of XXE and it looks very impressive - much better to see +/- style views simultaneously). Best wishes, Peter [begins] Transforming input "O:\projects\Venice\Relation Types\Working XXE Folder\relationtypes.xml"... Input transformed in 4.647s. Processing FO "O:\projects\Venice\Relation Types\Working XXE Folder\xfcxslu15160.tmp"... fop: INFO: building formatting object tree fop: ERROR: Error in background-image property value 'images/draft.png': org.apache.fop.fo.expr.PropertyException: illegal character fop: WARN: property - "background-attachment" is not implemented yet. fop: WARN: property - "background-repeat" is not implemented yet. fop: WARN: property - "background-position-horizontal" is not implemented yet. fop: WARN: property - "background-position-vertical" is not implemented yet. fop: INFO: [1] fop: INFO: [2] fop: INFO: [3] fop: WARN: property - "last-line-end-indent" is not implemented yet. fop: WARN: property - "last-line-end-indent" is not implemented yet. fop: WARN: property - "last-line-end-indent" is not implemented yet. fop: WARN: property - "last-line-end-indent" is not implemented yet. fop: WARN: property - "last-line-end-indent" is not implemented yet. fop: INFO: [4] fop: WARN: property - "last-line-end-indent" is not implemented yet. fop: WARN: property - "last-line-end-indent" is not implemented yet. fop: WARN: property - "last-line-end-indent" is not implemented yet. fop: WARN: property - "last-line-end-indent" is not implemented yet. fop: WARN: property - "last-line-end-indent" is not implemented yet. fop: WARN: property - "last-line-end-indent" is not implemented yet. fop: WARN: property - "last-line-end-indent" is not implemented yet. fop: INFO: [5] fop: INFO: [1] fop: INFO: [2] fop: INFO: [3] fop: INFO: [4] fop: ERROR: Error while creating area : Error with image URL: connected.jpg (The system cannot find the file specified) and no base directory is specified fop: ERROR: Error while creating area : Error with image URL: selectrelationtypes.jpg (The system cannot find the file specified) and no base directory is specified fop: ERROR: Error while creating area : Error with image URL: populatedrelationtypeswindow.jpg (The system cannot find the file specified) and no base directory is specified fop: ERROR: Error while creating area : Error with image URL: functionbuttons.jpg (The system cannot find the file specified) and no base directory is specified fop: ERROR: Error while creating area : Error with image URL: displaypanel.jpg (The system cannot find the file specified) and no base directory is specified fop: INFO: [5] fop: ERROR: Error while creating area : Error with image URL: menu.jpg (The system cannot find the file specified) and no base directory is specified fop: INFO: [6] fop: ERROR: Error while creating area : Error with image URL: addrelationtypebutton.jpg (The system cannot find the file specified) and no base directory is specified fop: ERROR: Error while creating area : Error with image URL: wizardnextbutton.jpg (The system cannot find the file specified) and no base directory is specified fop: ERROR: Error while creating area : Error with image URL: wizardisreflexive.jpg (The system cannot find the file specified) and no base directory is specified fop: INFO: Parsing of document complete, stopping renderer FO processed in 2.473s. Conversion completed. [ends] > -----Original Message----- > From: Jean-Yves Belmonte [mailto:john at pixware.fr] > Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 11:07 AM > To: Peter Brooks; XMLeditor-Support > Subject: Re: File format problem > > > Peter Brooks wrote: > > > > > > One thing I haven't found is a way to set the baseline > > ... > > > > > If you use "FO Converter - XSL Utility" (the graphical tool): > > > > > > * For generating RTF, then you really use *our* product. > > > Try with Transformation dialog option "Create > intermediate FO file in > > > input directory instead of output directory" checked. > > > > I tried that - but then I was careful to keep input and > output files in the > > same directory so that the entire process would be > transportable to any part > > of the network (eventually). It didn't work. > > Well, it should! Could you send me a copy of all messages in > the XSL Utility > console? I'll try to figure out what's going on. > > Thanks, > > -- > Jean-Yves Belmonte <john at pixware.fr> - Pixware <http://www.pixware.fr> Le Capricorne - 23 rue Colbert - 78180 Montigny-le-Bretonneux - France voice: +33 (0)1.30.60.07.00 - fax: +33 (0)1.30.96.05.23
