From: Bruce Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello, my name is Bruce Duncan and I'd like to get involved with helping out on FOP. I am currently using the 0.20.5 release to do some pretty simple fo->pdf conversions. The tags I use the most are fo:table, fo:external-graphic, fo:instream-foreign-object, and fo:block (in table cells and header/footer). The biggest issue to me, and the one I'd like to help with is table auto layout.
Hi Bruce - great to hear from you, FOP needs all the help it can get.
In 0.20.5 I use table-column's with no specified column-width, which gets me the columns evenly sized. In the latest CVS version my columns run off the page, being given an unknown fixed size. What I'd like, of course, is column size based on cell content size for that column.
automatic table layout is in general terms a very difficult problem to solve. If you have some ideas on this we love to hear them.
So I guess my question is how can I get involved? Is there an area on the Wiki where individual tasks are posted? Someone who is in charge of this area of development?
0.20.5 is based on the maintenance branch from CVS. Development on 0.20.5 has been frozen and now development is focused on CVS head. The layout in CVS head is incomplete and some way off being as good as 0.20.5. The reason for going backwards is the old 0.20.x code needed to be redesigned to allow keep-* to be implemented properly.
To get involved in development it is worth reading the website:
http://xml.apache.org/fop/dev/index.html
I hope this was the correct list to post to regarding this.
Yes, this list is about developing FOP. Questions and problems on using FOP go to fop-user.
Chris
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