Bug report for Fop [2007/07/22]

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| | Status: UNC=Unconfirmed NEW=New ASS=Assigned|
| | OPN=ReopenedVER=Verified(Skipped Closed/Resolved)   |
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| |   | Severity: BLK=Blocker CRI=CriticalMAJ=Major |
| |   |   MIN=Minor   NOR=Normal  ENH=Enhancement   |
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| |   |   | Date Posted |
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| |   |   |  | Description  |
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| 1063|New|Nor|2001-03-21|fop does not handle large fo files|
| 2909|New|Maj|2001-07-30|Gradient render error |
| 2988|New|Maj|2001-08-03|0.19: list-item-label does not stick to list-item-|
| 3280|New|Nor|2001-08-27|PCL Renderer doesn't work |
| 3497|New|Cri|2001-09-07|id already exists error when using span="all" attr|
| 3824|New|Blk|2001-09-25|MIF option with tables|
| 4030|New|Nor|2001-10-08|IOException creating Postscript with graphics on S|
| 4535|New|Maj|2001-10-31|PCL renderer 1.13 not rendering SVG   |
| 4767|New|Nor|2001-11-09|SVG text is distored in PDF output|
| 5010|New|Enh|2001-11-21|Better error reporting needed |
| 5124|New|Maj|2001-11-27|fo:block-container is not rendered properly using |
| 6237|Opn|Nor|2002-02-05|fi (fi ligature) produces a "sharp"? |
| 6305|New|Nor|2002-02-07|Using fo:table-and-caption results in empty output|
| 6427|New|Enh|2002-02-13|Adding additional Type 1 fonts problem|
| 6437|New|Maj|2002-02-13|Tables without fo:table-column don't render   |
| 6483|New|Nor|2002-02-15|Table, Loop, "footer could not fit on page, moving|
| 6997|New|Nor|2002-03-09|[PATCH] Row-spanned row data breaks over a page wi|
| 7241|New|Nor|2002-03-19|keep-with-previous, keep-with-next only working on|
| 7283|New|Nor|2002-03-20|Table border misaligned when using margin-left in |
| 7337|New|Nor|2002-03-21|border around external image leaves empty space   |
| 7487|New|Nor|2002-03-26|break-before="page" for table inserts empty page  |
| 7496|New|Nor|2002-03-26|The table header borders are not adjusted to the b|
| 7525|New|Cri|2002-03-27|table with spans inside a list-block  |
| 7919|New|Cri|2002-04-10|problem to use attribute linefeed-treatment and li|
| 8003|Ass|Maj|2002-04-12|FopImageFactory never releases cached images  |
| 8463|New|Nor|2002-04-24|SVG clipping in external.fo example doc when rende|
| 8767|Ass|Min|2002-05-03|Image and solid colour background rectangle sizes |
| 8819|New|Nor|2002-05-06|Footnotes lost|
| 9054|Opn|Maj|2002-05-14|PDF Tc Text operator BUG  |
| 9379|New|Nor|2002-05-24|MIF Renderer generates incorrect MIF code |
| 9569|New|Maj|2002-06-03|break does not work on block-container|
| 9864|New|Nor|2002-06-14|fo:list-item-label at the end of line |
| 9885|New|Nor|2002-06-14|link in pdf to another pdf through url doesn't wor|
|10379|New|Enh|2002-07-01|Improvement to FOP Classloader|
|11032|New|Min|2002-07-22|Height of table-cell is calculated incorrect when |
|11783|New|Maj|2002-08-16|text gen|
|12262|New|Min|2002-09-03|Lacking detection of endless loops|
|12300|New|Nor|2002-09-04|letter-spacing problem on sequencing pages|
|12448|New|Nor|2002-09-09|Height of lines set by line-height are too short. |
|12494|New|Nor|2002-09-10|fop produces pdf file which Acrobat Reader refuses|
|12610|New|Enh|2002-09-13|[PATCH] onLoad Action for PDF documents or how to |
|13450|New|Cri|2002-10-09|FOP0.20.4 embedded rendering throws exception |
|13464|Opn|Nor|2002-10-09|part of word missing when broken across pages |
|13586|New|Blk|2002-10-13|fop will not work on linux alpha because jre is br|
|13592|New|Nor|2002-10-14|Converting a FO document with PNG images into PS  |
|13734|New|Nor|2002-10-17|Hyphenation does not work correctly on long string|
|13807|New|Nor|2002-10-21|list-block in table-cell  |
|14248|New|Enh|2002-11-05|51-page FO example, could be added to the samples |
|14352|New|Enh|2002-11-07|It would be nice if FOP could be plugged into popu|
|14356|New|Nor|2002-11-07|*NOT* embedding TrueTypeFont in PDF causes Acrobat|
|14419|New|Enh|2002-11-10|Implement SourceResolver, Image Resolver  |
|14504|New|Cri|2002-11-13|Pagebreak in cell spanning mu

Re: Bounty for auto table layout?

[Andreas L Delmelle]

On Jul 22, 2007, at 09:31, Jens Bannmann wrote:



Andreas L Demelle wrote:
I do wonder whether the motivation (with or without the bounty) is  
enough by itself to make it happen. (...) I'm under the impression  
that certain other things need to happen first before a decent  
auto-layout implementation becomes a feasible project...


Could you elaborate on that a bit? Without knowing any implementation
details, I think that all related work would be (implicitly or
explicitly) included in the funded task and as such done by the  
developer.


Indeed, that was what I meant to caution about. An initial estimation  
of the work involved would, at the current moment, lead to a much  
higher 'cost', where in the end the auto-table-layout implementation  
itself would represent only a minimal part of the whole effort.


That said, it could definitely work. As you see, the interest is  
already rising.



Cheers

Andreas

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FYI, Harmony got a green light for using the DejaVu fonts:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200707.mbox/[EMAIL 
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Means, we can use them, too.

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Re: Bounty for auto table layout?

[Jens Bannmann]

Vincent Hennebert wrote:
Question is, also, how to advertise the thing. Would the fop-user 
mailing list be enough to attract donators?


From a quick search, it doesn't seem that the topic was brought up
previously on that list. Can anyone think of another place where we can
reach users? I think [EMAIL PROTECTED] might help, too -
although it's not fop-specific, the DocBook user community is surely
interested in improving their open source toolchain.

Andreas L Demelle wrote:
I do wonder whether the motivation (with or without the bounty) is 
enough by itself to make it happen. (...) I'm under the impression 
that certain other things need to happen first before a decent 
auto-layout implementation becomes a feasible project...


Could you elaborate on that a bit? Without knowing any implementation
details, I think that all related work would be (implicitly or
explicitly) included in the funded task and as such done by the developer.

Patrick Paul wrote:
I am still motivated in participating in this feature. As you said 
there are things that need to happen, or at least in my case things 
that need to be understood before being able to do a decent 
auto-layout implementation.


Patrick, how much time do you think you would need? Could you, like
Vincent, use your work hours for this if paid - if so, what should the
bounty be?

Vincent, you also indicated interest. What's the required time/bounty
for you?

Is anyone else willing, able and available to do this? If so, include
estimates as above.


I'm pretty convinced that handling this via fundable.org is the way to
go. The service has been around since 2005 and looks trustworthy. They
accept payments via PayPal, but only actually charge when the pre-set
funding goal of a "group action" is met.

What we need to decide on is

a) What is the funding goal (fixed dollar amount)? If it's not met, no
money is collected, so polls are really needed to get an idea of the
support base. (Note: fundable.org charges 7% of the goal on success, but 
I think that's fair enough for their service)


b) What will be the group action's deadline? I propose two months from
the day the group action starts. That increases the chance to be
noticed; if the goal is met before, the group action immediately ends 
anyway.


c) Who will be "group leader" of this over at fundable? This person gets
the money, so it should be someone people trust, i.e. has a background
with the project etc. (e.g. not me ;-) Ideally, it would be the
developer, but it could be someone else who passes on the money. (btw:
the latter would also allow several developers - working parallel or in
sequence - among which the group leader distributes the money in some
fair way.)


So, what do you all think on the above, especially a-c?

Regards,
Jens