Reportix?

2004-01-08 Thread Alex McLintock
Hi folks, does anyone have any experience of the Reportix system from Finetix. It seems to be a collection of OSS tools including FOP for report generation? Cheers Alex McLintock - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Merging XML and FO files

2003-11-19 Thread alex
Cocoon to me. Cocoon is a framework which happens to use Fop for its PDF rendering. The learning curve may be a bit steep though. Also possibly xReporter Finding URLs is left as an exercise for the reader. Alex

Re: xsl:fo word

2003-07-16 Thread Alex McLintock
of a hand. Alex McLintock - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OpenOffice and fop

2003-07-15 Thread Alex McLintock
with FO? Presumably we would still need a stylesheet which converts the OpenOffice format to XSL:FO but much of the work regarding layout has already been done. Alex - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: Calculate number of pages without complete rendering-process was: Re: Counting the number of pages generated in the pdf file

2003-02-06 Thread alex elsholz
with the text. i know it... an own wrapper? why doesnt exists a default-wrapper? How could i implemet this? I took the freedom to delete the code you generously pseudo-quoted from the FAQ and which does exactly what you described. but my question was how could u implement this wrapper??? alex -- +++ GMX

Calculate number of pages without complete rendering-process was: Re: Counting the number of pages generated in the pdf file

2003-02-05 Thread alex elsholz
, inquire the total page count and the perform the real rendering an own wrapper? why doesnt exists a default-wrapper? How could i implemet this? thanks alex -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen

status of txt rendering was: RE: blanks and TXTRenderer

2003-01-07 Thread alex elsholz
graphic print and so i couldnt use the awtrenderer. i must handle it with an own xsl (no fo)). alex -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen

blanks and TXTRenderer

2003-01-06 Thread alex elsholz
Hi, i've problems with the layout using the txt-renderer. sometimes one blank comes to 3, sometimes to 10, sometimes to one. Sometimes empty lines were inserted. When i use the pdf or the awt renderer it works fine. has anybody an idea? alex -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http

Re: Loading Image from Server

2002-12-30 Thread alex elsholz
Hi, i have noticed sth. When i render pdf and then stream it in a file the image is shown. when i use the awtrenderer to print it the image (from the server) isnt shown. alex -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min

Re: Loading Image from Server

2002-12-30 Thread alex elsholz
Hi, What's image format are you talking about? its an gif-image alex -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! - To unsubscribe, e-mail

Re: Performance issue XSL:FO

2002-12-24 Thread Alex McLintock
for tuning and optimisation. However it may be worth paying someone to help with the FOP redesign :-) Other professional XSL:FO processors may be a bit faster in some circumstances Feel free to send me private email if you want to discuss this off list. Alex McLintock At 19:34 23/12/02, Lee

Re: Draw Lines between Images..

2002-12-23 Thread Alex McLintock
image of your flowchart. So do you know SVG? Alex Available for java/perl/C++/web development in London, UK or nearby. Apache FOP, Cocoon, Turbine, Struts,XSL:FO, XML, Tomcat, First meeting free.http://www.OWAL.co.uk

Re: Draw Lines between Images..

2002-12-23 Thread Alex McLintock
about rectangular blocks of text rather than drawing lines. Alex At 11:20 23/12/02, Prasanna C wrote: I donno abc of SVG. Is it possible with SVG ? So do u mean to say that first we have to generate the SVG image which contains all the images we have in our flow chart .Then we have to load

Re: Draw Lines between Images..

2002-12-23 Thread Alex McLintock
http://www.owal.co.uk/cgi-bin/fopfaq.cgi#__928 Where can I find out about SVG? (Scalable Vector Graphics) The W3C website is the official place for finding out about SVG http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/ http://www.adobe.com/svg/tutorial/intro.html At 11:49 23/12/02, Prasanna C

Re: Loading Image from Server

2002-12-23 Thread alex elsholz
Hi Oleg, Oleg Tkachenko wrote: alex elsholz wrote: i couldn't display an image, whe fop must load it from a server, but i dont get an exception. when i use a local path it worjs fine. When FOP is unable to load image it doesn't throw an exception, but instead it logs an error message

Re: TXTRenderer Setting the encoding

2002-12-20 Thread alex elsholz
hi, yes its the same... its because the option member will only be initialized by using the xmlrenderer or on commandline. alex -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen

Loading Image from Server

2002-12-19 Thread alex elsholz
Hi, i couldn't display an image, whe fop must load it from a server, but i dont get an exception. when i use a local path it worjs fine. but i get no exception. coulkd it be, that a secutity exception will catch in the framework? alex -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net

TXTRenderer Setting the encoding

2002-12-19 Thread alex elsholz
Configuration.put(txt.encoding, .), but without success. alex -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Document security of PDFs

2002-12-09 Thread Alex McLintock
which adds the security after FOP has generated the file. I am sure one or two have been mentioned on this list. Alex Openweb Analysts Ltd, London. Software For Complex Websites http://www.OWAL.co.uk/ Open Source Software Companies please register here http://www.OWAL.co.uk/oss_support

Re: FOP fails on Linux, but not on Windows

2002-12-03 Thread Alex McLintock
at all. You can either run an XWindows server, or a cut-down XWindows server. If you are using JDK1.4 you might be able to tell it that you are running without XWindows. http://www.owal.co.uk/cgi-bin/fopfaq.cgi#__960 Alex Openweb Analysts Ltd, London. Software For Complex Websites http

XSL-FO book

2002-12-02 Thread Alex McLintock
Hi folks, I don't remember mentioning this, but I have a review copy of O'Reilly's XSL:FO book. Since I will be reviewing it for http://news.DiverseBooks.com/ and posting the review here too, does anyone have any questions for me that they want me to answer? Cheers Alex McLintock Openweb

Re: Need help:converting xml = fo = pdf

2002-12-02 Thread Alex McLintock
this sort of information should be in there already. Thanks and goodluck Alex Openweb Analysts Ltd, London. Software For Complex Websites http://www.OWAL.co.uk/ Open Source Software Companies please register here http://www.OWAL.co.uk/oss_support

HTML+CSS - XSL:FO

2002-11-06 Thread Alex McLintock
, but the data is already in HTML and the CSS is important. Maybe we should enhance the Mozilla rendering engine to output XSL:FO ? Alex PS http://www.OWAL.co.uk/cgi-bin/fopfaq.cgi Openweb Analysts Ltd, London. Software For Complex Websites http://www.OWAL.co.uk/ Open Source Software Companies

Re: fop user : AWT problem

2002-05-24 Thread Alex McLintock
? Alex At 17:19 22/05/2002, Trompette Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I try to make an example using FOP which takes a XML and a XSL files in entry and build a AWT output. All seems to work but the awt frame doesn't appear; my code is the following coul you help me please. Driver monDriver

Schema to XSL:FO

2002-05-14 Thread Alex McLintock
Has anyone produced a stylesheet which takes an XML schema and converts it into XSL:FO for pretty printing perhaps via SVG? Rather than use Visio to document my xml fragment examples I think it would be best if I could produce a diagram from the schema itself. Alex Openweb Analysts Ltd

Re: Why is FO(P) a superior model than what most proprietary tools propose

2002-04-30 Thread Alex McLintock
an industry analysts study of XSL:FO but we ought to be able to come up with case studies for people who have successfully used FOP. Alex Openweb Analysts Ltd, London: Software For Complex Websites http://www.OWAL.co.uk/ Free Consultancy for London Companies thinking of Open Source Software.

Re: Why is FO(P) a superior model than what most proprietary tools propose

2002-04-29 Thread Alex McLintock
sources for your different output requirements Isn't this the virtue of XSLT rather than XSL FO ? XSL:FO *is* XSLT ! One is part of the other and not totally separate! Alex Openweb Analysts Ltd, London: Software For Complex Websites http://www.OWAL.co.uk/ Free Consultancy for London Companies

Re: Several questions about FOP

2002-04-16 Thread Alex McLintock
strength is not really in its speed or memory use. It performs reasonably when compared to other engines (so I am told) but other commercial xsl:fo engines may be faster for what you need to do. Goodluck Alex McLintock Openweb Analysts Ltd, London: Software For Complex Websites http://www.OWAL.co.uk

Re: Using FOP to create a query string from XML and XSL

2002-04-16 Thread Alex McLintock
then perhaps an XSL or Xalan mailing list may be more appropriate. You will need to give a better explanation of what you need (and what you already understand) before people will be able to help you. Alex Openweb Analysts Ltd, London: Software For Complex Websites http://www.OWAL.co.uk/ Free

Two columns

2002-04-05 Thread alex
Hi folks, I haven't seen an example for this but is it possible to have one or more blocks in which text flows into the next column, as in a newspaper for example. I am trying to do a two column A4 newsletter and don't want to worry about inserting column breaks Alex Mc

Re: Drawing a border around a simple word

2002-04-04 Thread alex
be quite happy to receive a bug report and test case fo file Alex

Re: FOP Performance Limitations?

2002-03-13 Thread alex
Actually the FAQ (at http://www.owal.co.uk/cgi-bin/fopfaq.cgi since I have given up on the interactive Jyve program) doesn't contain much on memory consumption. I will add in the new page sequence when I (or someone else) comes up with an example. Alex At 20:22 12/03/2002, Chuck Paussa wrote

Re: merging two libraries

2002-03-12 Thread Alex McLintock
all my mail as it is, I will now unsubscribe from the FOP mailing list. Bruno - do you know how rude this is? You want to join forces but you wont even stay subscribed to the mailing list? My comments are my own and do not reflect the FOP software developers. Alex McLintock

FAQ

2002-03-05 Thread alex
for more info or email me. Alex

Re: mathml and fop

2002-03-05 Thread alex
Here's my guess What you need to do is to take the MathML and convert it to vector graphics (SVG) and then feed the SVG to FOP. Unfortunately I don't know of such a tool. Anyone want to take up the baton? Alex