Re: Using FOP on a ASP.NET server to convert FO to PDF
Wim, This sounds really interesting. When you run a com component you don't need a servlet for FOP or to integrate servlets into IIS? Very interesting!! How easy is it to write the component itself? And, if you can do this easily why is there a project for FOP C# at http://sourceforge.net/projects/fop-dotnet/ for a full implementation. G. PS I'm finding Java really complicated compared with .NET so I hope there is some open source integration for FOP on it soon! My you I don't really know what a com component is so I .NET turns my brains to liquid also! From: FOP Newsgroup (@Basebeans.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Using FOP on a ASP.NET server to convert FO to PDF Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:10:01 -0700 Subject: Re: Using FOP on a ASP.NET server to convert FO to PDF From: Wim Sandra [EMAIL PROTECTED] === I've integrated FOP in a ASP.NET server by implementing a COM component. The COM components export a very simple interface with a method that takes some XML data, a XSL-FO stylesheet and writes a PDF file (or writes the PDF data to some memory). The COM component calls the FOP java methods with JNI (Java Native Interface). Ultimately, in your C# ASP.NET application, we more or less write: FOPLib.Fop fop = new FOPLib.Fop(); fop.fop2File(xmlData,xsltData,outputFileName); Response.Redirect(outputFileName); or FOPLib.Fop fop = new FOPLib.Fop(); uint numBytes = fop.fop2Memory(xmlData,xsltData); byte [] bytes = new byte [numBytes]; renderer.read(bytes); Response.Expires = 0; Response.Buffer = true; Response.ContentType = @application/pdf; Response.BinaryWrite(bytes); Response.End(); Wim Balaji Loganathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Did u able to install Tomcat with IIS.if so then integrating FOP with .NET server is easy. My suggestion is , 1.Try to install Tomcat and run some sample servlet examples. 2.Try to configure FOP with Tomcat so that u can run the FopServlet(a sample servlet which convert FO/XSL to pdf)from the browser. 3.Try to configure Tomcat with IIS 4.Then u can do the same with .NET server. Documentation/steps/guidelines are available from Tomcat,FOP packages. Just give another try.It will work. Rgds Balaji http://www.sold.com.au - SOLD.com.au - Find yourself a bargain! _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
Region Border
Subject: Region Border From: Owen Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] === How do I create a border around the region-body? Or Alternatively create a block that fills the region-body? TIA Owen
RE: error handling
You're right. The command line wrapper can and probably should delete the target file in case of an error. Could you check if the return code is set on the command line? If not, we should fix that. Jeremias Märki Don't know about UNIX but on Windows it seems that the return code is always 0. Regards Con Sorry about the delay, my Solaris test box was reconfigured. The return code is not set by FOP on Linux: even appending: exit $? to fop.sh makes no difference as FOP itself returns 0 regardless. NB: running 'java' with no parameters does return error code 1. I have no idea how to set or check DOS return codes. Regards, Roland
RE: Configuring Portrait/landscape from PSRenderer
Yes, we convert pdf to ps from the command line using Acrobat. I don't know about the printer because I'm not the one who wrote the code (that I want to get rid of) and I'm not the one who is concerned. I only know they accept PS. Anyways, it seems from your answer that if I render fo to PS directly, the code will be more dependant not only on the application (and its parameters, which I wanted to remove), but also on the printer. That's something I really don't want to do. Right now everything is fine. I only posted the questions because I wanted the code to look better (and because I wanted to understand why things must be done this way). From an OO point of view, I thought it could be better to pass to the printer (the printing object, that is) only one thing that has is all ( the document, pdf or ps) and not like what is happening now; passing also the paper size and the orientation, to be used by Acorbat. Thank you very much Jeremais -Original Message- From: Jeremias Maerki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 7:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Configuring Portrait/landscape from PSRenderer We use Acrobat on Unix to print PDF's. Currently we have to call Acrobat with the correct parameters of paper size and orientation from Java code. I was wondering maybe I could get rid of this step by including such parameters into the pdf itself. It seems I can't. No. Do I get you correctly, that you convert the PDF to PS on the command line and print the resulting PS file? What printer are you printing on? We're printing on big Xerox DocuPrint printers that have no trouble with the PostScript generated by Acrobat Reader on Unix. If you're printing on a HP LaserJet or similar there might be some special PS commands available that you could patch the PS with to get what you want. I understood from Amine's question that it is not the same case with PS (of course, it is a printer language). I think his question meant that in PS it is possible to set the orientation (and the paper size??) in PS. If so, I might consider changing my output format to PS, and hence get rid of the ugly Acrobat call, with parameters, from code. Currently I don't know if switching to PS is that easy, or if it would work as I expect. Switching to PS may not be so easy, switching to PSRenderer that is. The PS renderer still lacks considerable features when compared to the PDF renderer. I'm still using the PDF renderer for our stuff and convert the PDFs to PostScript using Acrobat Reader on Unix. But it may be worthwhile to try it out if you only need Times, Helvetica or Courier. It all depends on whether the paper size can be set inside the fo (probably not?) and rendered correctly to PS using FOP. Or, possibly by using another workaround in PSRenderer e.g. by measuring the page width/height combination against standard paper sizes and setting the closest one into the PS. You set the paper size in the page master. And FOP does everything right what paper size is concerned. The only problem is mastering the different target printers. PDF is meant to be portable so it doesn't contain printer specific stuff. Printing a PDF means you have to do some stuff before everything prints out as expected. In PS this is currently the same, because the PS renderer doesn't support PPD's that describes the PS printer's capabilities. When you install a PostScript printer on Windows you often get the standard Adobe PS driver plus a PPD. I think the solution to your problem really depends on the printer you're using. If you can tell me which one you're using, then I can probably propose a solution. But thanks for implementing the orientation for PS orientation anyway :) You're welcome. Cheers, Jeremias Märki
RE: Fop Servlet Problems
Did you try giving the fo file a path? For example when I ran this I gave it fo=c:\temp\simple.fo and it worked (assuming my fo file was found in c:\temp. Of course, an absolute path isn't so good for servlets, but you get the idea. Mike -Original Message- From: gary cor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 6:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fop Servlet Problems Dear All, I am up and running with my first ever servlets in Tomcat4.03 (although they only run in the examples folder). So, I put all five of the latest version of the jar files as instructed in FOP servlets into the lib directory ( avalon-framework-4.1.2.jar batik-all-1.5b1.jar fop-0.20.3rc.jar logkit-1.0.1.jar and xalan-2.3.1.jar) and complied servlets OK as well. However, following this I've tried everything I can think possible to make a servelt produce a pdf from fo and still no joy and very soar eyes now as well! First I ran them without an fo file but they error as follows: http://localhost:8080/examples/servlet/FopPrintServlet? or http://localhost:8080/examples/servlet/FopServlet? Results in: FopServlet Error No 'fo' or 'xml/xsl' request param given. So then I assume I it is just a case of not finding an file.fo but when I try to give in one http://localhost:8080/examples/servlet/FopServlet?fo=border.fo and it always causes a status 500 internal service error (maybe something to do with it running only in the examples folder I have no idea!). I also found a mail a while ago from the group saying to put the fo files in the C:\Apache-Tomcat\bin file but still I get the same errors. Please can someone help? G. PS. I have also found a servlet in saxon for FOP has anyone tried this out is it easier to get working! _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
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RE: Fop Servlet Problems
Mike, I haven't access to it right now. But I did try fo=c:\borber.fo and the web browser goes white with the FopServlet only but no PDF anywhere. I haven't access to it now but I'll try it again later, I think I probably do it with escaping next ie. fo=c%3a\borber.fo Cheers G. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Fop Servlet Problems Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:57:08 -0700 Did you try giving the fo file a path? For example when I ran this I gave it fo=c:\temp\simple.fo and it worked (assuming my fo file was found in c:\temp. Of course, an absolute path isn't so good for servlets, but you get the idea. Mike -Original Message- From: gary cor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 6:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fop Servlet Problems Dear All, I am up and running with my first ever servlets in Tomcat4.03 (although they only run in the examples folder). So, I put all five of the latest version of the jar files as instructed in FOP servlets into the lib directory ( avalon-framework-4.1.2.jar batik-all-1.5b1.jar fop-0.20.3rc.jar logkit-1.0.1.jar and xalan-2.3.1.jar) and complied servlets OK as well. However, following this I've tried everything I can think possible to make a servelt produce a pdf from fo and still no joy and very soar eyes now as well! First I ran them without an fo file but they error as follows: http://localhost:8080/examples/servlet/FopPrintServlet? or http://localhost:8080/examples/servlet/FopServlet? Results in: FopServlet Error No 'fo' or 'xml/xsl' request param given. So then I assume I it is just a case of not finding an file.fo but when I try to give in one http://localhost:8080/examples/servlet/FopServlet?fo=border.fo and it always causes a status 500 internal service error (maybe something to do with it running only in the examples folder I have no idea!). I also found a mail a while ago from the group saying to put the fo files in the C:\Apache-Tomcat\bin file but still I get the same errors. Please can someone help? G. PS. I have also found a servlet in saxon for FOP has anyone tried this out is it easier to get working! _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
Re: PNG with FOP
Hi , Thanks Bill. I got it working. Regards, -Vikram From: Bill Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You cannot just add jimi to the lib you must add it and recompile fop. Be sure to add it in the build file as well. I went though the same issue yesterday (with tiff images) and this method fixed my problem. -Bill Collins -Original Message- From: Vikram Verma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 8:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; fop-dev@xml.apache.org Subject: PNG with FOP Hi, I am trying to incorporate a PNG image file in a PDF through FOP. The release notes say that I need to have JIMI also in the codebase. But despite adding JIMI its not generating the PNG format images in the resultant PDF whereas I can do the same for a GIF image file. any guess why ?? Regards, Vikram Verma
Re: Region Border
FOP Newsgroup (@Basebeans.com) wrote: How do I create a border around the region-body? I believe you cannot. xsl spec insists that In version 1.0 of this Recommendation, the values of the padding and border-width traits must be 0. -- Oleg Tkachenko Multiconn International Ltd, Israel
Re: More xslt than fop perhapes
Hanlan, Dominic - Senior Developer wrote: I have an xml document to be styled to pdf with Fop, two questions arise, 1. if I have a construct such as section id=parathis is text section id=url url=http://xx.yy.zz;which is to be a link/section/section How do I, in xslt, recognise the url tag within the para tag xsl:template match=[EMAIL PROTECTED]'para']/[EMAIL PROTECTED]'url'] But that's offtopic, try excelent xsl-list at http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list. 2. how do I then insert a link into the pdf xsl:template match=[EMAIL PROTECTED]'para']/[EMAIL PROTECTED]'url'] fo:basic-link external-destination=[EMAIL PROTECTED] xsl:value-of select=./ /fo:basic-link /xsl:template -- Oleg Tkachenko Multiconn International Ltd, Israel
Hyphenation
Hi everybody. Is FOP supposed to behave the same as (La)TeX does when evaluating the hyphenation patterns? The problem I have is with words already containing a hyphen character. Such words are hyphenated in TeX at no other position. For example 'Leinfelden-Echterdingen', 'Leinfelden--Echterdingen' and 'Leinfelden Echterdingen' are hyphenated: Leinfelden-Echterdingen; Leinfelden--Echterdingen; Lein-fel-den Ech-ter-din-gen. FOP seems to ignore the hyphen in 'Leinfelden-Echterdingen' and hyphenates like 'Leinfelden-Echter-dingen', for example. Is there a way to enforce TeX's behavior? TIA Ralf Steppacher
RE: Fop Servlet Problems
If it goes white, I would also try: fo=c:\border.fodummy=.pdf. I recently was able to resolve a white screen problem with ie because it didn't recognize that its response was pdf without this pdf extension. -Original Message- From: gary cor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 5:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Fop Servlet Problems Mike, I haven't access to it right now. But I did try fo=c:\borber.fo and the web browser goes white with the FopServlet only but no PDF anywhere. I haven't access to it now but I'll try it again later, I think I probably do it with escaping next ie. fo=c%3a\borber.fo Cheers G. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Fop Servlet Problems Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:57:08 -0700 Did you try giving the fo file a path? For example when I ran this I gave it fo=c:\temp\simple.fo and it worked (assuming my fo file was found in c:\temp. Of course, an absolute path isn't so good for servlets, but you get the idea. Mike -Original Message- From: gary cor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 6:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fop Servlet Problems Dear All, I am up and running with my first ever servlets in Tomcat4.03 (although they only run in the examples folder). So, I put all five of the latest version of the jar files as instructed in FOP servlets into the lib directory ( avalon-framework-4.1.2.jar batik-all-1.5b1.jar fop-0.20.3rc.jar logkit-1.0.1.jar and xalan-2.3.1.jar) and complied servlets OK as well. However, following this I've tried everything I can think possible to make a servelt produce a pdf from fo and still no joy and very soar eyes now as well! First I ran them without an fo file but they error as follows: http://localhost:8080/examples/servlet/FopPrintServlet? or http://localhost:8080/examples/servlet/FopServlet? Results in: FopServlet Error No 'fo' or 'xml/xsl' request param given. So then I assume I it is just a case of not finding an file.fo but when I try to give in one http://localhost:8080/examples/servlet/FopServlet?fo=border.fo and it always causes a status 500 internal service error (maybe something to do with it running only in the examples folder I have no idea!). I also found a mail a while ago from the group saying to put the fo files in the C:\Apache-Tomcat\bin file but still I get the same errors. Please can someone help? G. PS. I have also found a servlet in saxon for FOP has anyone tried this out is it easier to get working! _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
Fo:basic link
Is it possible to sepcify a destination page in basic-link external-destination. I am trying to link to an external pdf file and want to goto a specifi page. Thanks -Neeru
Re: Fo:basic link
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to sepcify a destination page in basic-link external-destination. I am trying to link to an external pdf file and want to goto a specifi page. Try this way: fo:basic-link external-destination=http://www.foo.com/bar.pdf#page=5; -- Oleg Tkachenko Multiconn International Ltd, Israel
RE: Why is there a margin at the top?
Do you happen to know whether it's been submitted to Bugzilla already? If not, I'll submit it. -Thomas -Original Message- From: J.Pietschmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 1:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Why is there a margin at the top? Vollmer, Thomas - CannonSA wrote: I'm using FOP 0.20.3 to create PDF from SVG and I'm encountering a problem with an unexpected margin at the top of the PDF page. ... I'm new to XSL-FO so I might be overlooking something here. Or is this a FOP bug? I'd say it's a bug. J.Pietschmann If this email is not intended for you, or you are not responsible for the delivery of this message to the addressee, please note that this message may contain ITT Privileged/Proprietary Information. In such a case, you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. You should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Information contained in this message that does not relate to the business of ITT is neither endorsed by nor attributable to ITT.
Re: Hyphenation
Ralf Steppacher wrote: Is FOP supposed to behave the same as (La)TeX does when evaluating the hyphenation patterns? I don't think so. Is there a way to enforce TeX's behavior? Not prepackaged. You are invited to hack around in the files in layout/hyphenation. J.Pietschmann
Re: Region Border
FOP Newsgroup (@Basebeans.com) wrote: Or Alternatively create a block that fills the region-body? Try an absolutely positioned fo:block-container. There are some exampoles in docs/examples. I'm not sure whether borders are implemented for block-container, if necessary, embed an appropriate one cell table (set width on the fo:column, height on the fo:row). J.Pietschmann
Re: Region Border
J.Pietschmann wrote: FOP Newsgroup (@Basebeans.com) wrote: Or Alternatively create a block that fills the region-body? Try an absolutely positioned fo:block-container. There are some exampoles in docs/examples. I'm not sure whether borders are implemented for block-container, if necessary, embed an appropriate one cell table (set width on the fo:column, height on the fo:row). J.Pietschmann Borders have been implemented for block-containers.
