Heh, I've been using FOP since 0.20.4 as well but not enough to become an expert. I am using iText but just to implement security on the document, but nothing else.
This is the flow of my program: xml + xsl -(http)-> fop+itext servlet -(http)-> pdf the xml has all of the information for creating data grids as well as charting information. svg seems like a great way to make charts, its just a matter of coming up with some good xsl and xml inputs to generate them how you want. I'd like this to be a 100% xml->output_document solution since thats how everything works so far. I'd also never do anything using an office SDK again since it will probably(my guess) get security patched out of existance. I have full control over the input and output document so I think i'll just have to somehow modify the colour value programmatically. Thanks again, -Adam -----Original Message----- From: Clay Leeds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 2:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: less than 100% opaque svg graphic My reply was not meant as any sort of confirmation per se. By no means do I consider myself an authority on FOP. My "experience" is limited to reading this list, and having used FOP since shortly after fop-0.20.4 was released (about a year & a half or so). Although I haven't used iText myself (I haven't had the need to *yet* ;-p), I don't believe it parses XML. Instead, I believe it goes through PDF documents. I suspect you would complete your PDF transformation as normal using FOP, and then parse the PDF to modify your chart graphics. BTW, (somewhat OT) having used the Excel portion of Microsoft Office v.X for Mac, I can attest that it does a beautiful job of creating the kind of charting transparency you describe. I believe they are exportable as JPG, TIFF or PDF documents as well. If this would help, then you might be able to use iText or some PDF concatenator (Combine PDF on Mac OS X) to insert it into your PDF file. Hope this helps! Web Maestro Clay --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
