RE: meaning of Area.TreeExt interface

2004-10-24 Thread Keiron Liddle
If you hard code the bookmarks how would you handle the id resolution, as that is done through the area tree. Potentially you could code the bookmarks in other renderers like AWT. -Original Message- From: Glen Mazza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 25 October 2004 12:26 PM To:

RE: Difference between 0.20.5 and 1.0 PDF libraries?

2004-10-18 Thread Keiron Liddle
Glen, The way PDF works is that it allows for the adding of new instructions and objects that are fully backward and forward compatible. So an older view can read and show newer files but without the new function (such as transparency) it just interprets the objects in the normal default way.

RE: XML Graphics: board concerns

2004-09-23 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi, Thanks for the support. I will go ahead and do whatever I can to help out with this and be part of the XML graphics PMC. I have read all the emails about this concept and think that it is a good idea and should help things develop in useful directions. Regards, Keiron Liddle -Original

RE: AFP Renderer

2004-08-10 Thread Keiron Liddle
-Original Message- From: Chris Bowditch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 10 August 2004 6:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AFP Renderer Glen Mazza wrote: There are already other AFP Renderers for FOP 0.20.5--actually Hansuli has it in our resources page:

RE: Offline

2004-06-17 Thread Keiron Liddle
Congrats, have fun should be nice down there. -Original Message- From: Peter B. West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 17 June 2004 11:07 PM To: fop-dev Subject: Offline Fopfellows, I will be offline for the next week. I'm marrying Jenni tomorrow, and honeymooning in the

Re: Which area rectangle does Block.height and Block.width specify?

2003-12-27 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi, I was looking at some of the border issues and would like to ask for a little clarification of which of area rectangle that is described by Block.getHeight and Block.getWidth. I think the intention was that it is the allocation width and height, the content is then calculated from

Re: SVG vs PDF output

2003-11-10 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi George, The SVG output uses the AWT font metrics of the current system, which is the same font metrics that Batik uses to do the text rendering. Whereas the PDF output uses the PDF font metrics which are standardized across any system. These metrics are often different which will explain

Re: SVG vs PDF output

2003-11-10 Thread Keiron Liddle
This sounds bad, shouldn't FOP take the charge of font metric measurement before rendering to different format? It does, the font metrics for SVG are the AWT metrics taken from java which are from the current platform. Does this mean that for different fonts, SVG output will alway have the

Re: Batik hanging on FOP 0.20.x nightly/1.0 dev release.

2003-10-26 Thread Keiron Liddle
--- Thomas DeWeese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At least one of the issues is with the PDFGraphics2D. in PDFGraphics2D.java:632 in draw(shape s). There is a check for a newTransform which inexplicably decides that if the new transform is the Identity transform there is no

Re: [VOTE] Move StructureHandler and LayoutHandler classes

2003-06-24 Thread Keiron Liddle
Team, While Victor and Jeremias are discussing an input API--I'd like to take advantage now of the relative freeze in the codebase to move the StructureHandler and LayoutHandler classes from the apps package to the fo and area packages respectively (similar to what we're doing with

Re: Is the -c user config option implemented???

2003-04-01 Thread Keiron Liddle
Thanks Keiron for the feedback! I found and reviewed the discussion regarding the move to Avalon (ref: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-devm=10226606705w=2 ). I also appreciate your point that some aspects of configuration have already been 're-enabled'; as exemplified in

Re: PDF Patterns

2003-03-30 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi Jeremias, The patterns were working to a degree as far as I know. The one under src/documentation/content/xdocs/dev/svg/paints.svg partly works but the patterns have the wrong transform and patterns in patterns gives an error when viewing with acrobat 5. I can fix the angle of the transform

Re: [VOTE] logo contest vote, round 1

2003-03-30 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi, My three would be: 30, 13 and 20 Keiron Hello! I have added #30 as somehow modified #7 and added one new penguin logo. Now lets finally finish with this stuff. As Peter suggested lets vote by 3 favorite logos first. My list: #30 #2 #21 PS. Here is the list for you

Re: Drawing images with PDFDocumentGraphics2D

2003-03-27 Thread Keiron Liddle
I was curious and tried your code. Look like the drawImage method in question isn't implemented in PDFGraphics2D.java. This is fixed in cvs, just moved some code. I modified your code and got a image in PDF when I did the following: while(!PDFGenerator1.drawImage(img, 400, 300,

Re: PDF library refactoring

2003-03-27 Thread Keiron Liddle
These changes are in CVS (redesign) now. I've also introduced a dependency on Jakarta Commons IO, mainly because of the CountingOutputStream needed for on-the-fly stream output. It also contains several utility methods (such as for stream copy) that also exist in out codebase. I'd like to

Re: Drawing images with PDFDocumentGraphics2D

2003-03-26 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi, The ImageObserver is used in the getWidth, getHeight and drawImage methods with the image that is passed in. So in a sense it depends on the img that you are passing in. The observer is an object waiting for the image to be loaded. How are you creating the image, can you get an abserver

Re: Development/Redesign tabs

2003-03-25 Thread Keiron Liddle
I made some decent progress today on getting my head into the trunk code, and to document some of what I have learned. I am still confused by the Development and Redesign tabs. At first, I thought that maybe Development was for those who might be developing on the maintenance branch, and

RE: Development/Redesign tabs

2003-03-25 Thread Keiron Liddle
With regard to the faq, I just last night sliced out nearly all of the contents of the dev/faq.xml file. As far as I could tell, it was a duplicate of an old version of the faq.xml. Those changes are not reflected on the site yet (I have emailed Jeff to try to find out why not). It wasn't

Re: FOText constructor (trunk)

2003-03-20 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi Victor, If I can remember correctly, it was done for a few reasons. Originally it was using the parent to load properties, it would then store these properties in variables and pass them to methods when doing layout. It is possible that the same parent could have more than one FOText child

RE: FOText constructor (trunk)

2003-03-20 Thread Keiron Liddle
Jeremias Maerki wrote: Anyway, may I ask for the reason that you want to do that? Sure. I am trying to port some code I wrote to implement text-transform for the maintenance branch over to the trunk. One of the key things there is to tie together all FOText objects that are part of the

Re: PDF Encryption in HEAD

2003-03-13 Thread Keiron Liddle
That's why I didn't commit the patch: I didn't want to re-add the PDFDocument reference to PDFXObject in order to get the add the encryption filter after the makeStream() without asking why the reference had been dropped on the way from maintenance to HEAD. The PDFDocument was used in the

Re: Build problems... please help/advise...

2003-03-13 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi, I'm new to FOP, just joined the mailing list and I'm not sure what exactly is going on so I'd *really* appreciate it if someone could explain how to build FOP from the latest src (if it is even possible). I've been unable to build FOP from the src archive as of 3/11. A couple

Transcoders

2003-03-13 Thread Keiron Liddle
As there is likely to be a batik beta release sometime soon what does everyone feel about having at least a PDF transcoder release. A PS transcoder would be good if it is working okay (I have no PS viewer at the moment). Doing a release doesn't really depend on batik from our end. So if we can

RE: PDF Encryption in HEAD

2003-03-10 Thread Keiron Liddle
The encryption filter uses the number and generation as part of the hash to generate the key for a given object. In short, the encryption key is different for every object and is based on the number and generation of the object. I would have preferred something simpler but the PDFXObject is

Re: [VOTE] Conversion from src/org.. to src/java/org..

2003-03-10 Thread Keiron Liddle
I'm in major refactoring mode/mood. :-) So I would like to finally make the long due move from src/org/.. to src/java/org. We've discussed it more than once and we didn't come to an end. So I would like to propose the following: We remove the files normally using CVS commands and readd them

Re: hyphenation patterns

2003-03-10 Thread Keiron Liddle
Keiron, I assume it was you who wrote two of the mails and put the notifications on the Wiki page? With only the IP address it's difficult to tell (you can register your name in Preferences. Nudge, nudge). Was it Togan, you contacted or one of the other two? Not that we write to the same

Re: Encryption

2003-03-06 Thread Keiron Liddle
Peter, Keiron: how is the web site updated? I thought there was a cron job every few hours? Currently it only updates the site here: http://forrestbot.cocoondev.com (seems to be down at the moment) From this site you can update the main site by entering the correct name/password, I'll send

Re: inline-container support

2003-03-06 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi Peter, For the inline-container all it does is return one or more inline viewport areas. I think, but need to check, that it only can create more than one viewport if the IPD of the contents is perpendicular to the parent IPD. This ensures that the areas a properly ordered. If the IPD is the

Re: Batik Extension/FOP problem

2003-03-06 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi All, I am trying to use batik extensions through FOP. I added BatikElementMapping and BatikObj objects into my FOP src and then registered them in the driver class but I am still getting some exceptions. Can anybody help me out ? I am trying to embed the flowText.svg ( provided by

Re: batik transcoders

2003-03-05 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi Jeremias, You mean Batik will have pdf-transcoder.jar and ps-transcoder.jar in their distributions? Not the source, right? That is correct. What about factoring out the code for the transcoders and supporting classes (like fonts) into a separate container/subproject accessible by both

Re: inline-container support

2003-03-05 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi Jens, Hi! I've got a fo-task for which I need a working fo:inline-container-object. This feature seems not to be implemented in the 0.20.x-version. I would like to know weather support for this element is planned for the coming versions (maintenance or redesigned-branch). Are any

batik transcoders

2003-03-04 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi All, The PDF transcoder could be packaged with Batik so that it can be used by users of Batik only and also used independanlty from the rest of FOP. So will there be any problems. There is the pdf-transcoder build target that creates the transcoder jar. We could create a tag for the release

Re: markers in redesign

2003-03-03 Thread Keiron Liddle
This still leaves the question: Does a block with a break-before=page or a break-after=page span two pages, or will it always be the first/last area on the page its content is rendered on? Examples fo:block id=A fo:marker marker-class=I id=m1/ fo:block id=B break-after=page

Re: A weekly/monthly redesign bulletin? (Was: keep propery)

2003-02-27 Thread Keiron Liddle
Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... Check the FOP website regularly for the status of the redesign. To stave off the biggest FOP FAQ after doesn't keep-* work in Fop?, ie. what's the schedule for the redesign?, could it perhaps be an idea to post a weekly bulletin on the devel list?

Re: markers in redesign

2003-02-27 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi all, I think I am getting an idea of the markers with Peter's and others points but I don't fully understand how it should work or be implemented. Anyway I have committed the code of how it might roughly work and hopefully it is correct for the containing page. It isn't that much code

Re: Wrong operand type error in ASV 3.0

2003-02-27 Thread Keiron Liddle
!-- If I remove this line, everything seems to work fine -- svg:line x1=58 y1=179 x2=403 y2=179 stroke=#00 stroke- width=0.5 / IIRC It is probably an error caused by this line being 0.5 width. In PDF lines can only be whole numbers and it might wrongly be inserting 0.5 in the PDF

layout manager interface

2003-02-27 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi all, In order to make things more modular I would like to split the layout manager interface into two parts. One part that is used in the creation from the FO tree and another that is used by the implementations in order to do the actual layout. This should eventually make it possible to

Re: layout manager interface

2003-02-27 Thread Keiron Liddle
Keiron Liddle wrote: Hi all, In order to make things more modular I would like to split the layout manager interface into two parts. One part that is used in the creation from the FO tree and another that is used by the implementations in order to do the actual layout. See my

Re: markers in redesign

2003-02-26 Thread Keiron Liddle
But the marker subtree from the previous page is tranposed into the same containing page. Where do you get that from, how is it transposed, I have not seen any information about this? Considering all the retrieve positions refer to areas in the containing page then these markers transposed

Re: markers in redesign

2003-02-25 Thread Keiron Liddle
Looking at it again, I disagree. The containing page is the page containing the first area generated or returned by the children of the retrieved fo:marker. That is, the page on which the fo:retrieve-marker occurs in the static-content. This will only vary if the retrieval forces a

Re: markers in redesign

2003-02-24 Thread Keiron Liddle
Keiron, I haven't looked at markers too closely, but I would tend to think that, in the first case, block c is the last-starting-within-page. Blocks a, b and c all qualify; they all have an is-first trait of true. So which one follows all others in the area tree, *in pre-order

Re: markers in redesign

2003-02-24 Thread Keiron Liddle
Exactly. All definitions regarding retrieve-position exclusively refer to the current page. There is not a single word on what should happen if there is no matching marker on the current page but several on the previous page which are eligible. FOP picks the last, but there is absolutely

Re: markers in redesign

2003-02-24 Thread Keiron Liddle
I haven't looked at markers too closely, but I would tend to think that, in the first case, block c is the last-starting-within-page. Blocks a, b and c all qualify; they all have an is-first trait of true. So which one follows all others in the area tree, *in pre-order traversal order*?

Re: markers in redesign

2003-02-23 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi all, Is it correct that it should look for markers on the current page and if page boundary is current page then stop there. If boundary is page-sequence then keep going backwards on each page until a marker is found or reaches the start of the page-sequence and similarly for the document

Re: Licence issues in hyphenation patterns

2003-02-20 Thread Keiron Liddle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am donating the hyphenation file to the ASF, and although it would be nice to keep the copyright, I think that would hamper future enhancements, or not? As long as you don't choose to revoke the license for all future and past versions (rather than forking or

Re: ready to go again

2003-02-20 Thread Keiron Liddle
OK, I am ready to jump in do some work. Sorry for being out of action for so long. The threads that I would like to complete, or at least resolve, first, are: 1. Documentation. The main problem here is the web site generation, but it seemed to me that Peter and some others may have gotten

markers in redesign

2003-02-18 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi all, Since the topic is being discussed why don't we look at implementing markers in the redesign. I'll try to do what is obvious, getting the markers from the fo, adding when adding areas and retrieving when needed. I think some areas need changing so that the layout manager type is

Re: Plan for HEAD

2003-02-16 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi all, and especially Keiron. What are currently the most pressing problems with HEAD, in order to make a dev-release? I looked around and found quite a few details, but I can't seem to get the big picture. I have somethig to do for the API spec but there wasn't much activity in this area

Re: Licence issues in hyphenation patterns (was: HyphenationTree bug and Portuguese hyphenation file update)

2003-02-13 Thread Keiron Liddle
I'd say we can't keep something like that within our codebase because it contradicts the Apache licence. It is entirely possible that someone sells a product that uses FOP. That wouldn't violate the Apache licence but the licence of this hyphenation file. Recent discussions on various Apache

Re: Another release candidate ...

2003-02-12 Thread Keiron Liddle
This sounds great, but I have one question. We've posted a bug report (http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16672) about the SVG rendering in 0.20.4 and 0.20.5. Our SVG's in the rendered PDF document(s) gets clipped. We're now using 0.20.1 and everything is fine there. The

Re: source for hz algorithm

2003-01-29 Thread Keiron Liddle
True, but I had in mind that any such approach will be built on the fact that any layout is, in some sense, tentative. Rhett raised the question some time ago of a means recording (and scoring) intermediate results, something which will be an essential element of such a solution. At

Re: source for hz algorithm

2003-01-29 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 03:20 PM, Rhett Aultman wrote: This might be semantic nitpicking more than anything, but how can finding a worse break prove you have the best break? Wouldn't you have to find all possible breaks and verify that they're worse? Also, just for personal

Re: source for hz algorithm

2003-01-29 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 09:54 PM, J.Pietschmann wrote: Keiron Liddle wrote: The only drawback is that it constantly needs to find the child layout manager that applies to a given break... Well, if there is a min opt max, and opt doesn't quite fit, you have to choose whether

RE: Re-design (less ugly msg)

2003-01-24 Thread Keiron Liddle
The asap rendering is mostly done, we still need to bring back many of the renderers. I suppose you mean the PDFRenderer is mostly done. Yes. I should probably expand on that topic a bit. The layout creates an area tree which consists of pages. As each page is created by the layout the

Re: Re-design

2003-01-23 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 06:37 PM, LENEVANEN Cedrick wrote: Confronted to volumetric problems I am very interested in the re-design branch of the FOP project, in particular the FO SAX input and ASAP rendering tasks. I wonder if I could try helping in order to make possible getting a

Re: strokeSVGText in Postscript format

2003-01-23 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 07:32 PM, George Yi wrote: Has anyone made or is making an effort to implement strokeSVGText==false feature in PS renderning? Not that I am aware of. I don't want to reinvent wheel here, if no effort is there, I would like to dive into this. Whenever I

RE: [Fwd: xml.apache.org refactoring #1]

2003-01-22 Thread Keiron Liddle
Jeremias Maerki wrote: Common guys! I'd like to have some participation on this matter from all the committers since this an important thing. Sorry a bit sidetracked. Personally I would like to see some sort of rotation (assuming that there will always be 1 or 2). For example every 6 months.

Re: Fop able to run without Batik?

2003-01-20 Thread Keiron Liddle
Batik is only necessary to generate SVG output, right? I guess, a lot of people are using Fop to generate PDF only, but Fop needs batik.jar in any case because the driver initializes an SVG element mapping: org.apache.fop.apps.Driver.setupDefaultMappings() :

Re: duplicated sax classes

2003-01-19 Thread Keiron Liddle
Current cvs batik has been fixed so that it uses the xml-apis.jar instead of having its own version. So if this is what is causing the problem you can make a build from current cvs. On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 06:41 PM, Jeremias Maerki wrote: I think we could just remove the SAX classes

Re: Distributing jimi.jar

2003-01-15 Thread Keiron Liddle
Did you know that the Cocoon guys have jimi.jar in their CVS? I wonder if that's correct and if yes, I think we should do it, too. From my reading of it, by downloading the jar you automatically agree to the license. This is quite different to ASL. It is also non-transferable, I think that

Re: Distributing jimi.jar

2003-01-15 Thread Keiron Liddle
Isn't the jai.jar (which would give fop great functionality!) not redistributet for the same reason? Yes. I think the javax.imageio package is where Jimi and Jai were leading. So once jdk1.4 can be used... Best Regards Markus Schäffler

RE: Encryption

2003-01-10 Thread Keiron Liddle
Jeremias, Thanks for the reply. Outside of clean up, I have working code. It is limited since only PDF 1.3 is supported by FOP and I am currently using a The redesign code generates PDF 1.4 (which currently is used in a completely backwards/forwards compatible way). How does the

Re: thoughts on fonts (was: text-decoration)

2003-01-10 Thread Keiron Liddle
properly discuss things like Session, Document, Rendering run, FOP instances etc. Where to cache what? What objects/services hold/provide In my mind Document and Rendering run (as defined in the glossary) are probably the same thing (??). I added something called Rendering instance to

Re: text-decoration

2003-01-08 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hello! How are we going to process underline/overline etc stuff? It's a little bit confusing - we've got unused TextState class along with TextInfo that includes text-decoration info already. Lets get rid of TextState ? And what about rendering, does pdf support text-decoration directly or

Re: coordinates

2003-01-02 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 12:15, Oleg Tkachenko wrote: Hello! I'm stuck in understanding the coordinate system trying to sort out writing mode stuff, e.g. in this snippet from SimplePageMaster.java: /* Create the page reference area rectangle in first quadrant coordinates * (ie, 0,0

RE: Overconstraint Anomalous documents page in Wiki

2002-12-27 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 14:36, Rhett Aultman wrote: Thanks. I'd really like to get the ball to start rolling on this so that overconstraint can be readily included in with the layout system...figured the new Wiki was a good way to get a little documentation together on this. Anyone with an

Re: PDF transforms (was: Re: File prefix again)

2002-12-23 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 02:18, Kevin O'Neill wrote: It would be possible to do some work with Fop so that it can: - convert xsl:fo to paged xml Is the paged XML a new or existing format? A new format for now at least. It is possible there will be a w3c defined format.

Re: PDF transforms (was: Re: File prefix again)

2002-12-20 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 21:15, Jeremias Maerki wrote: All cool, but how exactly is that better than having a PDF template that is stitched behind or in front of the FOP result using iText or PJ? Works well. Ok, PDF reading with our own library is a bonus as is better XML output for debugging.

Re: Happy Holidays

2002-12-20 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 16:30, Arved Sandstrom wrote: I'd like to wish everyone here happy holidays, whatever is appropriate. This is a good crowd. +1 :-) Regards, Arved Sandstrom - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: AreaTree.AreaTreeModel

2002-12-18 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 00:56, Oleg Tkachenko wrote: Hello! Just curious, why AreaTreeModel is defined as static inner class of AreaTree class? It doesn't look like real inner class as it's abstract and has 3 implementations. Are there any objections against moving it out? Mainly it is

PDF transforms (was: Re: File prefix again)

2002-12-18 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 15:23, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: I don't get this. How can PDFs be transformed? There are Java libraries that read PDFs. What would be really cool is to have a reader or something like it that uses a PDF as a template. Using FOP for just filling out forms is

RE: Sun XSL Formatter

2002-12-16 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Sat, 2002-12-14 at 20:01, Victor Mote wrote: Peter S. Housel wrote: Looks like they want to donate it to Gnome, not Apache. AFAIR, the BSD license is pretty incompatible with the Apache license. One of the reasons that the xmlroff announcement doesn't change my commitment to FOP is

Re: FOP and AreaTree serialization

2002-12-16 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 14:32, Salonen, Aki wrote: Hi! I've been using FOP for Inventory reporting in PDF format. It works great with documents less that 200 pages when we have enough memory in server. We need to produce reports with pages up to 1000 pages and within one pagesequence. I

RE: FOP and AreaTree serialization

2002-12-16 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 15:52, Salonen, Aki wrote: I am not using any forward references. I've debugged memory allocation and noticed that FOP allocates about 700Kb of memory for each page processed. This remains allocated to the end of pagesequence. If I've understood right, it's

Re: Croatian characters in fop created pdf

2002-12-13 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 08:35, Adis Katkic wrote: Hi, croatian characters are of type ISO-8859-2 (latin 2) The unusual characters are: . Whatever the characters are, all I can see is a . I don't know if I said it before, but Fop doesn't use the fonts from you platform, apart from the

Re: Croatian characters in fop created pdf

2002-12-12 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi, I'll try to clarify the FAQ entry. The short answer is that you need to configure it to embed the required font and/or use the correct encoding for the characters in the XML. The default pdf fonts only have a certain set of characters. I don't know anything about croatian characters so I

Re: Redesign issues

2002-12-12 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 11:37, Oleg Tkachenko wrote: Keiron, can you place the link somewhere in the dev docs for memory, please? Sure. Done. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL

Re: Fop and batik

2002-12-12 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 15:30, Sharma, Siddharth wrote: Hi and sorry for cross-posting as I know this is a user question. I am newbie with FOP on Websphere 4.0.3. Batik has some DOM classes, which are present in Xerces as well, with different implementations. This leads to a number of problems,

Re: Ant-based local doc valiation

2002-12-12 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 16:16, Jeff Turner wrote: Yes. There is nothing wrong with FOP grabbing the latest DTDs from Forrest and including them locally. That is effectively what users of Forrest binary distributions do; they're using an old snapshot of the DTDs. The problems at the moment I

Re: Changes in xdocs directories

2002-12-11 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 03:11, Peter B. West wrote: I found the image files in .../src/documentation/resources/images/design/alt.design. I'm not seeing any fop-cvs mail about these commits. Any idea why? Don't know why you didn't get it but it was on the list:

RE: src/documentation/README

2002-12-11 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 19:17, Victor Mote wrote: OK, I see now that I misunderstood your Sorry, yes answer to Keiron. If http://forrestbot.cocoondev.org/site/xml-fop should be reflecting changes no more than an hour old made to xml-fop/src/documentation, then it is not working. I just looked

RE: Redesign issues

2002-12-10 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi Arved, On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 20:30, Arved Sandstrom wrote: The feeling I got from my prototype is that there is not much commonality. Markers - there is no logic here that has anything to do with layout, per se. The content goes into a static-content and hence does not influence page

Re: Alt-Design: Preliminary results FO tree build test

2002-12-10 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi Peter, On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 03:30, Peter B. West wrote: Fop-devs, I have just run some quick test of property generation, to determine whether I was actually generating the property sets for the FOs. Although there are obviously still some bugs in property generation, the full

Layout Issues

2002-12-10 Thread Keiron Liddle
Lets try to sort out the layout issues and come up with some ideas. First of all assume that there is nothing there. We have an FO Tree and an Area Tree and nothing in between. Now how do we get the layout to work. Some requirements: - separation between deciding layout and adding areas -

Re: src/documentation/README

2002-12-10 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 11:56, Jeff Turner wrote: See http://forrestbot.cocoondev.org/site/xml-fop Updated every hour with the latest Forrest and FOP source. You mean: and FOP that comes with Forrest. - To unsubscribe,

Markers (was: RE: Redesign issues)

2002-12-10 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 17:26, Arved Sandstrom wrote: Incidentally, I still think that the way markers are described in the spec is vague and confusing. Perhaps we should hammer this out. Agreed. I still have figured out what it really means.

Re: src/documentation/README

2002-12-10 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 05:45, Victor Mote wrote: I have been running this on the Apache machine. Is that OK? If successful, we can theoretically just add a cron job to publish periodically if we wish, until Forrest is ready to do its magic for us. When running forrest, I am getting the

RE: Redesign issues

2002-12-09 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 01:00, Arved Sandstrom wrote: I actually helped push for this last year - the notion of separate layout managers. I was strongly influenced by the mess that FOP code had become at the time, and really thought that layout should be taken out of the FOs themselves; that the

Re: Redesign issues

2002-12-09 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi Joerg, These are the issues that you have mentioned before. It is still essentially only attacking two methods (and supporting classes). If you have a better design, then do it. On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 00:16, J.Pietschmann wrote: deep inheritance hierarchies. There is only so much someone can

Re: todo

2002-12-09 Thread Keiron Liddle
Hi Oleg, I think writing direction would be a good addition. I am hoping to bring back all the renderers and this is one issue that need to be considered. ie. how it is handled in the area tree and how renderers deal with it, sorting out width/height vs. ipd/bpd On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 18:30,

RE: Redesign issues

2002-12-09 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 15:43, Rhett Aultman wrote: We have a Wiki that seems to have been a good way of quickly throwing up ideas for style guidelines and voting on them. Why don't we do the same thing here? We could throw up our ideas, try to sort them into lofty, long term stuff and

Re: bug #13586

2002-12-06 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 18:05, Christian Geisert wrote: Oleg Tkachenko wrote: Hello there! What do you think about http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13586? Stefan asks us to use something like float currentLetterSpacing = (float) 9.99; instead of float

Re: Alt-Design: Preliminary results FO tree build test

2002-12-06 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 03:47, Peter B. West wrote: Rhett, Nerver having used it, I am not aware of its capabilities. As I don't develop in a Microsoft environment, and have no access to MS Visual C++, and I don't run in a Solaris environment, my options for trying this are limited. If

RE: Redesign issues

2002-12-06 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 15:28, Rhett Aultman wrote: This is something I'd really like to see hashed out better. We're winding down on the maintenance brach. I've read a majority of the source in HEAD other than the renderers (which I don't feel qualified or interested in, anyway), and I

Re: bugzilla shake-up is over

2002-12-05 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 19:08, Oleg Tkachenko wrote: Hello there! Well, bugzilla shake-up is over, sorry if I closed something not-to-be-closed or leave something-to-be-closed, but anyway I believe we can say bugzilla is cleaned up now. Now it's 111 entries in there (it was 188 IIRC):

Re: Redesign issues

2002-12-05 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 13:01, Peter B. West wrote: There is an implication in what you are saying that you do have the direction forward for the FO processor internalised, so to speak, and that a complete FO processor is, as Christian says, just a matter of time. I, and I suspect Arved,

Re: Getting breaks: revisited

2002-12-04 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 21:56, J.Pietschmann wrote: Oleg Tkachenko wrote: btw, how does such a case addressed by the spec? Apparently FOP, antenna and xep do squeeze content. Isn't it an example of overconstrained geometry (5.3.4)? It can be interpreted as such in the presented case. Use

Re: cvscommit: xml-fop/src/documentation/content/xdocs/design/alt.designclasses-overview.xml

2002-12-03 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 22:19, Peter B. West wrote: Keiron, I will be updating this documentation in the next few days, and I will fix the encoding at the same time, unless there is a more urgent need. Could you leave the character as it is for the moment, just in case there is still some

Re: website

2002-12-03 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 21:37, Victor Mote wrote: I see that Keiron has republished the web site. Here are some comments: 1. Keiron, would it help any, now that you have gotten the basic flow going, for one of us to take the web-site publication burden from you? I know Christian is involved in

Re: cvs commit: xml-fop forrest.properties

2002-12-03 Thread Keiron Liddle
That is supposed to say: all docs now validate Something went wrong... On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 11:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: keiron 2002/12/03 02:53:48 Modified:.forrest.properties Log: aذAæ͘9 ܼ¹ÂNÀ4dÂÐ)£ Revision ChangesPath 1.4 +5 -1

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