Re: Does FOP support PDF Form-filling fields?
Jeff Kowalczyk wrote: I'm not sure what the exact name of the PDF feature is, but does FOP support, directly or indirectly, the PDF technique that allows the end-user of the PDF to click a page area and type in form information? I've seen this best done on an IRS Tax Form (1040EZ), but I don't know if this is a standard part of the PDF spec, Forms and and a customized variant of JavaScript are part of the PDF 1.4 spec. They work somewhat similar to HTML forms. There could be some limited support constructed from multi formatting objects (XSLFO spec 6.9), but this would be awkward. Specifically for embedding forms into PDF there is a FOP patch providing extension elements for embedding stuff in the PDF. You'll need a solid knowledge of the PDF spec to use this, look on the adobe server: http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/docs.html#filefmtspecs http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/docs/filefmtspecs/PDFReference.zip The extension element will likely be included in the next FOP maintenance release. or something that is hacked together with proprietary scripting that perhaps only Adobe tools support. The PDF format and everything it contains is intellectual property of Adobe and therefore proprietary. J.Pietschmann - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does FOP support merging a PDF doc with a new PDF stream?
Jeff Kowalczyk wrote: Does FOP's API, or any combination of supporting tools, have the ability to render/import a simple FO-PDF document consiting of text positioned in absolute coordinates on the page, and overlay/merge it with a background document that already exists in PDF. FOP can only redner FO to PDF (and other formats). For manupulating existing PDF documents you have to use other tools. Usually iText (http://www.lowagie.com) is recommended. The iText library is, well, a Java library, you have to build your customized processing tools on top of that. For extracting information from existing PDF you'll need some knowledge of the PDF spec http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/docs.html#filefmtspecs perhaps quite extensive knowledge. PDF is not designed to provide for that. J.Pietschmann - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does FOP support PDF Form-filling fields?
I'm not sure what the exact name of the PDF feature is, but does FOP support, directly or indirectly, the PDF technique that allows the end-user of the PDF to click a page area and type in form information? I've seen this best done on an IRS Tax Form (1040EZ), but I don't know if this is a standard part of the PDF spec, or something that is hacked together with proprietary scripting that perhaps only Adobe tools support. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does FOP support merging a PDF doc with a new PDF stream?
I have extensively-formatted, 1-4 page PDF Form documents that I would like to insert text annotations, equivalent to user-side form filling, but embedded directly in the original PDF. Does FOP's API, or any combination of supporting tools, have the ability to render/import a simple FO-PDF document consiting of text positioned in absolute coordinates on the page, and overlay/merge it with a background document that already exists in PDF. If the simple document existed solely in an annotation layer or other facilitiy PDF might have for markup, that would be fine. I suppose this step is more a PDF manipulation feature than FO rendering, but I thought this group was likely have addressed this question at some time previously. Thanks. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FOP support for number-rows-spanned property
Karen, That's it -- thre spanning column has a long list-block that goes over to the next page. Okay, I can workaround by putting tables within tables. Thanks. -dd Karen Lease wrote: David, I don't think it was in 0.19.0, which is consistent with the error message. The reason for the infinite loop may well be that some group of rows which are held together by spans is too big to fit on the page. This is a known bug, and I'm not currently working on it, as it's not that easy to do. Like many difficult layout issues, we hope to attack this in the redesign. However, just to make sure that there isn't some other wierd reason for this problem, I'd be happy to look at your .fo file. Regards, Karen David S. Dixon wrote: Karen, Was number-rows-spanned support in 0.19.0? I have an .fo file that turns into a .pdf file under 0.19.0 but complains of WARNING: Number of cell columns under table-row not equal to number of table-columns for the two rows corresponding to the spanned rows. Under 0.20.1, fop goes into an infinite loop on this file. -dd Karen Lease wrote: Hi Amit, The number-rows-spanned property is now implemented in FOP, but it wasn't yet in 0.18.1. If you want to use it, you should download the latest version of FOP from the website - that's 0.20.1. Regards, Karen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask such a question... if not, I would appreciate some information on where to find a solution to this problem :- I've been trying to use the number-rows-spanned property to generate tables in my PDF file using FOP 0.18.1. However, I keep getting errors - is the number-rows-spanned property not implemented in FOP yet? Thanks for your help amit - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FOP support for number-rows-spanned property
Karen, Was number-rows-spanned support in 0.19.0? I have an .fo file that turns into a .pdf file under 0.19.0 but complains of WARNING: Number of cell columns under table-row not equal to number of table-columns for the two rows corresponding to the spanned rows. Under 0.20.1, fop goes into an infinite loop on this file. -dd Karen Lease wrote: Hi Amit, The number-rows-spanned property is now implemented in FOP, but it wasn't yet in 0.18.1. If you want to use it, you should download the latest version of FOP from the website - that's 0.20.1. Regards, Karen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask such a question... if not, I would appreciate some information on where to find a solution to this problem :- I've been trying to use the number-rows-spanned property to generate tables in my PDF file using FOP 0.18.1. However, I keep getting errors - is the number-rows-spanned property not implemented in FOP yet? Thanks for your help amit - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FOP support for number-rows-spanned property
David, I don't think it was in 0.19.0, which is consistent with the error message. The reason for the infinite loop may well be that some group of rows which are held together by spans is too big to fit on the page. This is a known bug, and I'm not currently working on it, as it's not that easy to do. Like many difficult layout issues, we hope to attack this in the redesign. However, just to make sure that there isn't some other wierd reason for this problem, I'd be happy to look at your .fo file. Regards, Karen David S. Dixon wrote: Karen, Was number-rows-spanned support in 0.19.0? I have an .fo file that turns into a .pdf file under 0.19.0 but complains of WARNING: Number of cell columns under table-row not equal to number of table-columns for the two rows corresponding to the spanned rows. Under 0.20.1, fop goes into an infinite loop on this file. -dd Karen Lease wrote: Hi Amit, The number-rows-spanned property is now implemented in FOP, but it wasn't yet in 0.18.1. If you want to use it, you should download the latest version of FOP from the website - that's 0.20.1. Regards, Karen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask such a question... if not, I would appreciate some information on where to find a solution to this problem :- I've been trying to use the number-rows-spanned property to generate tables in my PDF file using FOP 0.18.1. However, I keep getting errors - is the number-rows-spanned property not implemented in FOP yet? Thanks for your help amit - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FOP support for number-rows-spanned property
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask such a question... if not, I would appreciate some information on where to find a solution to this problem :- I've been trying to use the number-rows-spanned property to generate tables in my PDF file using FOP 0.18.1. However, I keep getting errors - is the number-rows-spanned property not implemented in FOP yet? Thanks for your help amit - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FOP support for number-rows-spanned property
Hi Amit, The number-rows-spanned property is now implemented in FOP, but it wasn't yet in 0.18.1. If you want to use it, you should download the latest version of FOP from the website - that's 0.20.1. Regards, Karen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask such a question... if not, I would appreciate some information on where to find a solution to this problem :- I've been trying to use the number-rows-spanned property to generate tables in my PDF file using FOP 0.18.1. However, I keep getting errors - is the number-rows-spanned property not implemented in FOP yet? Thanks for your help amit - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FOP-Support
The patch was sent to Arved 2 days ago, hopefully he's pacthing it, I'll send u/ anyone else interested the src seperately too seshadri - Original Message - From: Chetan Vig [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: fop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 10:11 PM Subject: FOP-Support Hi Seshadri, Is the out of memory patch part of the FOP 0.19 or it has to be seperately downloaded from minfiresolutions website. Please let me know. Thanks, -Chetan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FOP-Support
Hi Seshadri, Is the out of memory patch part of the FOP 0.19 or it has to be seperately downloaded from minfiresolutions website. Please let me know. Thanks, -Chetan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: When will FOP support proper table transforms
I am evaluating XSL:FO transform engines for use with production documentation. I have been trying to use FOP (Fop-0.18.1-DEV), but find that its poor table support effectively renders it unusable for production documentation. In particular, the cell alignment, spacing, and borders are problematic, and multi-row cells are not supported. (A significant number of our XML articles use multi-row cells.) When is FOP going to support proper table transforms? Regards, Ian Ian Larner User Technologies, IBM Hursley Lab, England Internal: 246440External: +44 1962 816440Fax: +44 9162 816151 Mailpoint 095 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The credit belongs to the man ...in the arena, (who) knowing there is no effort without ...shortcomings, actually strives to do the deeds... Theodore Roosevelt - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FOP support for CIDFonts - multibyte fonts
Hi, I am using FOP to convert fo file to pdf file using servlets. My acrobat has support for Asian fonts like chinese traditional and chinese simlified fonts. But when i render a fo file to pdf file, i am not able to see the specfic language in pdf file. How can i use chinese traditional language in converting fo file to pdf in java. I am quite new to fop, please help me. thanks, Leena
