I've tried attaching the fo again.

All I want to do is a simple document.  It has some text, a simple list and
a simple table.  At present I have no option other than RTF - unless I go
back and say that it can't be done...

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Jeremias Maerki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> Actually, you forgot to attach the FO file (or it got stripped at some
> point). Anyway, I can only point you to:
> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/output.html#rtf
> I've already updated the documentation on the RTF limitations a few days
> ago, but those updates aren't live, yet. Just to replicate the
> information here:
>  These are some known restrictions compared to other supported output
> formats (not a complete list):
>
>    * Not supported/implemented:
>          o break-before/after (supported by the RTF library but not tied
> into the RTFHandler)
>          o fo:page-number-citation-last
>          o keeps (supported by the RTF library but not tied into the
> RTFHandler)
>          o region-start/end (RTF limitation)
>          o multiple columns
>    * Only a single page-master is supported
>    * Not all variations of fo:leader are supported (RTF limitation)
>    * percentages are not supported everywhere
>
> Depending on what you're trying to do tweaking the FO won't help you.
> Even "tweaking the Java code" ;-) might not help as many FO features
> cannot be mapped to RTF. Basically, I don't recommend RTF production for
> anything else than relatively simple documents. The limitations are too
> severe.
>
> On 09.07.2008 15:09:50 Paul Hunnisett wrote:
> > I've written an FO document that I need to convert into and RTF file.  It
> > comes through the transform all messed up looking (sorry - best
> > description!).  If I transform it into a PDF then it looks perfect, but
> the
> > RTF looks awful.
> >
> > I've attached the original fo, the PDF and the RTF output so that you can
> > see what I'm aiming for and what I'm getting...
> >
> > I'm assuming the problem is to do with fo features not supported in the
> RTF
> > transform.  Is anyone aware of a way that I can tweak my fo to get the
> > desired results in a way that will work?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Paul Hunnisett
>
>
>
>
> Jeremias Maerki
>
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