Re: When a page is not a page

2002-03-30 Thread David Wood
Just speculating, but have you tried putting the page-number element inside a variable? i.e.: xsl:variable name=currentpagefo:page-number//xsl:variable Then xsl:value-of select=$currentpage * 2/, etc... I haven't tried this, but it's just what pops into my head... -David At 08:44 AM 3/30/2002

Question - what does Page subsequences exhausted mean?

2002-03-15 Thread David Wood
I've been occassionally getting this error: [ERROR]: Page subsequences exhausted. Using previous subsequence. I haven't really nailed down what causes it - it's happened with both very large and very small input XML. It doesn't seem to affect the output. I was just wondering what this means?

RE: FOP Performance Limitations?

2002-03-14 Thread David Wood
I have a sinking feeling another xalan/xerces combination is somewhere in my classpath. The problem? I don't have a classpath env. variable set. I wonder where that list of places the 1.4JVM looks for classes on win32 is? On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Peter Jacobs wrote: Strange, the difference was

RE: FOP Performance Limitations?

2002-03-13 Thread David Wood
That's interesting that it made a difference for you. On our XML/XSL, it didn't make much difference - maybe it shaved 1-2 seconds of a 60 second rendering. -David On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Peter Jacobs wrote: Are you using the included Xalan and Xerces.jar? I replaced them with Xalan 2.2 and

Re: FOP Performance Limitations?

2002-03-12 Thread David Wood
I've been making pretty big PDFs with a similar system and can share a few off-the-cuff comments. It's obvious to me that the structure of your fo document - sequences, page layout, flows, etc - can make a significant difference in memory usage and speed. However, I don't have enough concrete

Re: OT:: XML - MS Word??

2002-03-01 Thread David Wood
I'm afraid I have extensive experience scripting MS Word. It's not something I like to talk about much, but sometimes the painful memories do surface... I think the RTF idea is a good one, because it will help you avoid having anything to do with programming Word. But let's just say you wanted to

Re: Serious Problem - Inline Italics

2002-02-26 Thread David Wood
I'm actually using the PDF renderer. I've got the source and am hunting around now. If I have anything to say about it, this bug isn't going to last until Friday. Of course, anyone with knowledge of PDFRenderer who would like to comment on this bug is more than welcome... No answer to my post on

Re: Serious Problem - Inline Italics

2002-02-26 Thread David Wood
head about what was going on inside the renderer, but I won't bore the crowd with speculation. At any rate, problem solved. :) Thanks for your responses Jeremias. -David On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, David Wood wrote: I'm actually using the PDF renderer. I've got the source and am hunting around now

Re: Adobe Type 1 Multiple Master fonts

2002-02-25 Thread David Wood
No, I don't think so. The Multiple Master Font Extensions have not been implemented, yet. Hmm. I have to assume PDF is capable of carrying both the PFB and the MMM; So let me guess: assuming the weight-axis data is in the MMM file, FOP needs to revise it's PFMReader to extrapolate metrics for

Serious Problem - Inline Italics

2002-02-25 Thread David Wood
I have a bunch of justified text. If I use fo:inline font-style=italic.../fo:inline I get inconsistent and random-seeming gaps on either end of the inline block. These are often large and ugly and are impossible to miss. On every line where italics occur, the right margin is exceeded, as though

Re: Linefeed problems / Baseline-to-baseline

2002-02-24 Thread David Wood
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Carlos wrote: While it is cumbersome and I would prefer not to, I can make an extra step and unescape the the tags before FOP sees the XML; then I can use the template to convert them into blocks and recover my paragraph breaks. One solution would be to use another

Re: AW: keep-with-next?

2002-01-30 Thread David Wood
I should be more specific - what I mean is; I would like to try to get keep-with-next/previous working with fo:block elements. On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, David Wood wrote: I am a Java coder and know my way around the standard. I volunteer to try to fix this, if someone who is more familiar

Entity references in FOP

2002-01-29 Thread David Wood
In the interests of being typographically correct, I'm attempting to use oriented double and single quotes, ellipses, etc... These are typically referenced in HTML as ldquo; rdquo; (amp;ldquo; amp;rdquo;) and so on... however, FOP is informing me these entities are not declared. I would be

RE: HELP DRIVER!

2002-01-17 Thread David Wood
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Robert C. Leif, Ph.D. wrote: I don't think a lengthy Java v. Ada conversation going on in this list would do much for the state of FOP as we know it, either Too late, here we go... :) -David

Re: Someone has used FOA??

2002-01-10 Thread David Wood
The tutorial that is available on FOA's website should clear most things up. The upper-right window is where you'll be accessing your XML; you use the open button on that window to open your file. If you have not read through the FOA tutorial, I recommend that you do; the program was