Embedding XMP in FO

2004-12-02 Thread Victor Röder
Hi Fop developers, I'm using FOP to produce PDFs and I'm trying to embed XMP (a set of XML metadata-describing vocabularies from Adobe) in FO. These XMP packets should be serialized (nearly) one-to-one in a PDF tag for metadata. Here is an simple example: fo:page-sequence

Re: Good news: Jeremias has been elected as an ASF member!

2004-12-02 Thread Luca Furini
I have the great pleasure to announce that Jeremias Maerki has been elected as an ASF member at the last member's meeting during ApacheCon. Congratulations! Luca

Re: Knuth linebreaking questions

2004-12-02 Thread Luca Furini
Finn Bock wrote: (starting from the second question) And why not adjust the spacing within the user specified min/max for START and END alignment? Should the user desire adjusted spaces, wouldn't it be better for him to specify justified alignment? :-) Seriously, the recommendation (at 7.16.2

Re: Good news: Jeremias has been elected as an ASF member!

2004-12-02 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: I have the great pleasure to announce that Jeremias Maerki has been elected as an ASF member at the last member's meeting during ApacheCon. Hey, that's good news. Congrats to Jeremias! Keep up your great work. -- Oleg Tkachenko http://blog.tkachenko.com Multiconn

Re: Knuth linebreaking questions

2004-12-02 Thread Finn Bock
And why not adjust the spacing within the user specified min/max for START and END alignment? [Luca] Should the user desire adjusted spaces, wouldn't it be better for him to specify justified alignment? :-) Seriously, the recommendation (at 7.16.2 letter-spacing and 7.16.8 word-spacing) states

More questions on line breaking.

2004-12-02 Thread Finn Bock
Hi Some more questions. 1) What is inactiveList doing. Nodes are added but never used. 2) If there is no shrink in a line (the case in START alignment) then nodes are never removed from activeList until a forced break element is found. Is that really the intention of the algorithm? It seems

Re: Knuth linebreaking questions

2004-12-02 Thread Simon Pepping
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 12:16:55PM +0100, Finn Bock wrote: and point #4 uses the user-definable threshold; where should this constant be stored? Inside the code of LineLM or in a configuration file? An extension attribute? fo:block fox:knuth-threshold=5 ... /fo:block I suspect that

Re: Embedding XMP in FO

2004-12-02 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Hi Victor, you haven't told us what branch you are on. Are you on the maintenance branch or on FOP HEAD? These hints are targeted at FOP HEAD code but some can be applied to the maintenance branch, too, although the whole mechanism is quite different there. One thing you will have to do is

Re: Good news: Jeremias has been elected as an ASF member!

2004-12-02 Thread J.Pietschmann
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: I have the great pleasure to announce that Jeremias Maerki has been elected as an ASF member at the last member's meeting during ApacheCon. Congratulations! J.Pietschmann

Info on Avalon Framework

2004-12-02 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Gang, you may have heard about what happened in Avalon-land. Looks like the project has failed from a community POV. So, just for those who don't know already, Avalon Framework which we use in FOP has been transferred over to the Avalon Excalibur project (http://excalibur.apache.org/). The