Using PDFBox
I saw some references to Apache PDFBox and took a look at it. I currently use FOP / XSLT, etc to generate printed documents. Is there some specific feature(s) of PDFBox that I should take a closer look at??? Jeff
RE: Using PDFBox
FOP has options to create PDF files and to send output directly to the printer. If those are working for you, I'm not sure why you might need PDFBox. I use the PDFBox project because FOP sending output directly to the printer didn't work for me. In one case it went to the wrong printer. In another case it went to the wrong tray. I used the FOP option to send the output to a ByteArrayOutputStream instead, read the data from that stream into a ByteArrayInputStream which works as input for PDFBox which creates a Pageable object, which I was able to pass in to the Java print methods which gave me more control over the output. The PDFBox object can be saved as a PDF file, but the FOP ByteArrayOutputStream can also be redirected to a FileOutputStream to save directly. I'm not sure what advantage PDFBox might have there. One possible advantage would be to have the output saved in a Pageable reuseable object if perhaps you want to send the same report to 2 different printers. From: Steffanina, Jeff [mailto:jeff.steffan...@marriott.com] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 9:19 AM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: Using PDFBox I saw some references to Apache PDFBox and took a look at it. I currently use FOP / XSLT, etc to generate printed documents. Is there some specific feature(s) of PDFBox that I should take a closer look at??? Jeff
Bug 49837 - Soft Hyphen
Hello to All, I have Fop version 0.95 and I am trying to upgrade to 1.0 but I have problems with the following regression bug (49837 https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49837 ). Is there any workaround for this? I found that if I retype some specific hyphens (that used to look like boxes from my TOAD) it worked. Regards
fop 1.0 and svg error:
I'm running fop 1.0 on Linux Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I'm trying to use an svg image via docbook source. When I run the fo file through fop to get pdf I get the following error as it encounters my svg in the fo file: Dec 2, 2010 2:05:08 PM org.apache.fop.events.LoggingEventListener processEvent SEVERE: Image not available. URI: ./images/era-1.svg. Reason: org.apache.xmlgraphics.image.loader.ImageException: The file format is not supported. No ImagePreloader found for ./images/era-1.svg (See position 25375:172) Dec 2, 2010 2:05:08 PM org.apache.fop.events.LoggingEventListener processEvent SEVERE: Image not found. URI: ./images/era-1.svg. (No context info available) I have looked at the fop info on svg and see nothing that helps. I'm running with the xml graphics commons via Ubuntu installation. I'm using Sun Java. Folks on the docbook list seem to have no problem with using svg. Note that I use svg successfully in my xsl customization layer so I must be doing something wrong. Thanks for any pointers. Regards, -Tom Thomas M. Browder, Jr. Niceville, Florida USA - To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
RE: fop 1.0 and svg error:
Is this your first attempt or was this working with any version of FOP previously? Are you able to reference any other type of images? Of course SVG works. I'm using SVG with FOP 1.0, though mine is embedded in the XSL. I'd think it has more to do with the file path. Possible reasons: File is not there. Reference path ./ is not referring to what you think it is. Bad or missing URIResolver? It could just have to do with docbook. I haven't used docbook myself and I have seen others on this list complain of problems connecting docbook to FOP. -Original Message- From: Tom Browder [mailto:tom.brow...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 3:10 PM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: fop 1.0 and svg error: I'm running fop 1.0 on Linux Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I'm trying to use an svg image via docbook source. When I run the fo file through fop to get pdf I get the following error as it encounters my svg in the fo file: Dec 2, 2010 2:05:08 PM org.apache.fop.events.LoggingEventListener processEvent SEVERE: Image not available. URI: ./images/era-1.svg. Reason: org.apache.xmlgraphics.image.loader.ImageException: The file format is not supported. No ImagePreloader found for ./images/era-1.svg (See position 25375:172) Dec 2, 2010 2:05:08 PM org.apache.fop.events.LoggingEventListener processEvent SEVERE: Image not found. URI: ./images/era-1.svg. (No context info available) I have looked at the fop info on svg and see nothing that helps. I'm running with the xml graphics commons via Ubuntu installation. I'm using Sun Java. Folks on the docbook list seem to have no problem with using svg. Note that I use svg successfully in my xsl customization layer so I must be doing something wrong. Thanks for any pointers. Regards, -Tom Thomas M. Browder, Jr. Niceville, Florida USA - To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
Re: fop 1.0 and svg error:
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 14:18, Eric Douglas edoug...@blockhouse.com wrote: Is this your first attempt or was this working with any version of FOP previously? First attempt at using svg as a normal figure. Are you able to reference any other type of images? Yes, png files work fine. Of course SVG works. I'm using SVG with FOP 1.0, though mine is embedded in the XSL. I'd think it has more to do with the file path. That may be, but I've tried absolute file paths as well. Possible reasons: File is not there. Reference path ./ is not referring to what you think it is. Bad or missing URIResolver? Could be. Isn't that part of fop? It could just have to do with docbook. I haven't used docbook myself and I have seen others on this list complain of problems connecting docbook to FOP. That could well be, although when I raised this problem there they said they weren't having problems. Thanks, Eric. -Tom - To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
Re: fop 1.0 and svg error:
My bad! I found I had a bad svg file. Fop works great! Sorry for the false alarm. Regards, -Tom Thomas M. Browder, Jr. Niceville, Florida USA - To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
RE: Add-ons for Apache FOP
Thank you again for the answer. Considering I'll use fo:external-graphic, is there easy way to determine page size in style? For large attachments (100 pages) having many fo:page-sequence will not slow down the rendering process? Thanks, Lucian Opris -Original Message- From: Jeremias Maerki [mailto:d...@jeremias-maerki.ch] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 2:07 AM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: Re: Add-ons for Apache FOP fox:external-document doesn't allow any additional content besides the full-page images. You'll have to determine the page sizes yourself and use normal fo:page-sequence elements to set up the image for full-page display. The PDF size increases that much because there is currently no easy way to cache the already transferred PDF objects so they are not transferred again for each page. I've experimented with that some time ago but had to disable that feature because of massive problems. I may revisit this at some point (no current plans). If you have to add larger PDFs to a document I suggest you do that as a post-processing step using Apache PDFBox. On 01.12.2010 21:45:05 Lucian Opris wrote: Also, I've noticed that without using fox:external-document the pdf size is about 17K then using fox:external-document to call a 608K PDF I've got a resulting 2.104K PDF. Do you know what could cause such a dramatic file increase? Lucian Opris -Original Message- From: Lucian Opris [mailto:lucian.op...@bluematrix.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 3:12 PM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: RE: Add-ons for Apache FOP Thank you Jeremias, I've added the fox:external-document src=C:/FOP1/fop-1.0/attachments/my.pdf/ to work in conjunction with new namespace xmlns:fox=http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/extensions; and it worked fine. Now the question is can we stamp header and footers on external pdf called with fox since fox:external-document is peer with fo:page-sequence? Lucian Opris -Original Message- From: Jeremias Maerki [mailto:d...@jeremias-maerki.ch] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 2:13 AM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: Re: Add-ons for Apache FOP Hi Lucian On 30.11.2010 20:35:48 Lucian Opris wrote: Hi Jeremias, I'm using your FOP add-ons to call PDF attachments as images using fo:external-graphic src=my-doc.pdf#page=1/. Is there a way to preserve pdf page size for landscape pages or should I use fox:external-document src=my-doc.pdf/? Support for landscape pages is available in the latest release (2.0.0) of the plug-in. Are PDFs with mixed pagesizes work with fox:external-document and have the footer stamping start at the same point from left? Not sure what you mean by that. With fox:external-document the target page will have the exact size of the respective input page. This should work for each page independently. Jeremias Maerki - To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
