RE: stylesheet attribute version

2002-06-11 Thread Alistair Hopkins
I had this error once and it was because I was using an old/nonstandard namespace declaration. http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";> seems to work... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 June 2002 10:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: styleshee

RE: Error conversion XML to PDF: Exception in thread main java.lang.OutOfMemoryError

2002-05-20 Thread Alistair Hopkins
Is the XSL file causing a loop?  Files of this size should be OK.   ie: do you use recursive templates:         ...output stuff           will cause OutOfMemory.    Otherwise, look at the java -X options for increasing the maximum memory available to java - it defaults fairly l

RE: Interesting Aside

2002-04-25 Thread Alistair Hopkins
Title: Interesting Aside Fop has also provided the 'icing on the cake' in my job which has let me justify a lot of ground-up redesign It is also the most popular bit with the admin staff, who no longer handtype invoices :-)   Alistair -Original Message-From: Rhett Aultman [mail

RE: Unix and FOP ?

2002-04-12 Thread Alistair Hopkins
I can't remember the details but there are certain gui packages which Fop needs to process the default fonts: if you run it on linux without X-windows it may well complain -Original Message- From: John Austin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 12 April 2002 07:36 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subje

RE: Using Avalon/Logkit

2002-02-27 Thread Alistair Hopkins
Could the Avalon jar shipped with Fop include org.apache.avalon.framework.logger.Log4JLogger and org.apache.avalon.framework.logger.Logger so it's easy for us to use log4j? It's only a few kb extra and it means that we don't have to have lots of avalon jars in the classpath, or have repackaged/cu

RE: AWT Window

2002-02-21 Thread Alistair Hopkins
The information re CurrentPage, etc., is available from the AWTRenderer: it may make more sense to expose that for advanced users. The getToolbar() proposal is a shorthand to call all the getAction, getCombo methods: if you don't want to use it, you can do it the long way using the actions I thi

RE: AWT Window

2002-02-21 Thread Alistair Hopkins
2002 3:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AWT Window From: "Alistair Hopkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > So how about this as the public interface: > > package org.apache.fop.apps; > > public class AwtManager > { > public AwtManager(InputSource

RE: AWT Window

2002-02-21 Thread Alistair Hopkins
So how about this as the public interface: package org.apache.fop.apps; public class AwtManager { public AwtManager(InputSource fo) public AwtManager(InputSource xsl. InputSource xml) //these are separated so the work of showing the preview can go on a background thread public

RE: FOP AWT Window Shuts Down Application

2002-02-21 Thread Alistair Hopkins
Now that a few more people are interested in this: I think that it would be more useful if the basic AWT API returned a JPanel rather than a JFrame. I want to use it in a JInternalFrame rather than a JFrame to mimic standard Windoze print preview behaviour. Somebody else wants to use an applet.

RE: Why do you use FOP instead of ...

2002-02-04 Thread Alistair Hopkins
I'd also say that fo: is only as complicated as professional print quality document layout. Which can give me a headache all by itself. If iText is simpler than fo: it's because there are things you may want to do with a document which iText won't do for you (we dropped it and went to fo: because

RE: pdf filename

2002-01-31 Thread Alistair Hopkins
You should be able to specify various filenames in headers but IE5 doesn't play. response.setHeader("Content-Disposition","attachment; filename=\"myFile.pdf\""); //This doesn't seem to work! Add a bogus bit of xtra path info - the filename - on the end of the calling URL, and that does wo

RE: quo vadis - RE - launch Acrobat Reader invisible

2001-12-13 Thread Alistair Hopkins
+1 to this: I think it's a clearer statement of what I was saying. The -print command line option actually uses the awt renderer and not the pdf renderer [pause while I check this - yes, PrintStarter$PrintRenderer extends AWTRenderer]. You can choose printers by making sure that pj.printDialog()

RE: launch Acrobat Reader invisible

2001-12-13 Thread Alistair Hopkins
I think that all this system calling is a bit dodgy if you don't control the target environment: I looked at it for a while but felt that I couldn't prevent things going badly confusing for the user if they had any deviance in their setup. And it obviously throws away the cross-platform nature of

RE: Send a document directly to a printer

2001-12-13 Thread Alistair Hopkins
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I think...   To print a document directly, you need to use a renderer which implements Printable and Pageable.   You can then do something like       PrinterJob pj = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();    pj.setPageable(renderer);pj.print();   a

RE: Anyone could help with PRINT or AWT PREVIEW ?

2001-12-11 Thread Alistair Hopkins
I posted a set of classes a while back which are a (still broken) rewrite of the AWTViewer, designed to give a simple interface to FOP from a gui app: it returns the preview window as a JPanel so you can stick it wherever you want in your app (JFrame, JInternalFrame, JCombo, whatever...), and also

RE: Page Breaks

2001-12-05 Thread Alistair Hopkins
, December 04, 2001 6:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Page Breaks I doubt that would be permissible since the client wouldn't be able to control the extension (I'm assuming an extension is a compiled class). Jim -Original Message----- From: Alistair Hopkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

RE: Page Breaks

2001-12-04 Thread Alistair Hopkins
How about an extension to XSL / Xalan? Would that be permissible, or possible? Ugly, but keeps control with the client... -Original Message- From: Jim Urban [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 5:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Page Breaks I agree wit

SwingHandler

2001-11-16 Thread Alistair Hopkins
I attach some files which implement an easy pluggability model to help people who may want to use FOP as a reporting package within Swing apps. They're still fairly broken, especially the -print method, which does silent printing - it doesn't complain, it just doesn't print either - so help with

RE: Date

2001-11-14 Thread Alistair Hopkins
I add the date to the source XML, from where I can select it in XSL. This has the advantage that a/ The date will be the last edit date of the XML, which suits me fine, and b/ I can format the date nicely: I have a node like so I can have templates in XSL to return Monday 3rd or 3/12/2001 or 12-

RE: Question on XSLTInputHandler

2001-11-13 Thread Alistair Hopkins
Is there any sign of a Java Api for Fo processing? I can't find a reference to it, and I'm afraid I find the Fo Api a tad confusing. Alistair -Original Message- From: Jeremias Maerki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

RE: passing parameters to Xalan

2001-10-25 Thread Alistair Hopkins
Do a two step, first to fop then to pdf It's easier to debug anyway as you get the .fop file to inspect xalan has well-documented parameter passing at http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/commandline.html with the -PARAM flag Alistair -Original Message- From: Matthew L. Avizinis [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [vote] Merging JFor with FOP

2001-10-18 Thread Alistair Hopkins
have a pressing need for it. My unofficial vote for merging JFor with FOP is: +1 YS -Original Message----- From: Alistair Hopkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 11:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [vote] Merging JFor with FOP Can I just appeal for some

RE: [vote] Merging JFor with FOP

2001-10-18 Thread Alistair Hopkins
Can I just appeal for some limitation on the size of the JAR files required? Not all java is server side and downloads sizes matter a lot! Alistair [still thinks Swing is a good idea] [but so is rtf] -Original Message- From: Beer, Christian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, Oc

RE: pdf viewer

2001-10-10 Thread Alistair Hopkins
I've done this, but in a slightly different way. I was going to clean up the code I've written and send it to the list as a possible alternative to the current AWTViewer, and will, when I'm not ashamed of it and have put internationalization support back in. Broadly, you pass a FOP file to a Swi

RE: Opening PDF automatically in IE

2001-09-26 Thread Alistair Hopkins
IE doesn't seem to pay any attention to that.   Try naming the download *.pdf: eg, instead of http://mysite.com/servlet/myservlet?downloadFile=doc.pdf try http://mysite.com/servlet/myservlet/doc.pdf?downloadFile=doc.pdf   This sorted it for me!   Alistair -Original Message-From: S

RE: Formatting in addiction to the total page number

2001-09-19 Thread Alistair Hopkins
This won't work because the xsl: namespace processing happens before gets a value during the fo: namespace processing, so the variable [sorry parameter] PAGES contains the literal string. You could show the warning on all pages except the front page by using different static areas. I can't thin

RE: FOP on IBM AS400

2001-09-14 Thread Alistair Hopkins
Title: FOP on IBM AS400 Maybe irrelevant, but I had a problem when installing an app using FOP onto a linux box with no X on it, and traced the problem to the fact that the standard adobe fonts were not installed.   I mended it be adding the rpm package urw-fonts-2.0-8, but it may also be po

RE: Avalon?

2001-09-13 Thread Alistair Hopkins
+1 for keeping extra libraries to a minimum FOP is great as a client side print tool, but not if it bloats -Original Message- From: COFFMAN Steven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 10:09 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Avalon? FOP needs at all levels

RE: Can fo:external-graphic refer to image URLs? (fwd)

2001-09-12 Thread Alistair Hopkins
Try replacing & with & & is a reserved character and the XML parser is interpreting as the start of an entity before it even reaches fop. -Original Message- From: Jocelyn Paine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jocelyn Paine Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 12:24 PM To: [EMAIL PRO

RE: Attracting companies to FOP (was: Re: Public API Change in Driver)

2001-08-10 Thread Alistair Hopkins
Another 1/2c I am using fop as the report formatter for a desktop application: I have not found any other way of getting previewable, printable, saveable high quality report documents out of java on a client side application. We wasted quite a bit of time on some pdf-generating library we found

RE: logging

2001-08-06 Thread Alistair Hopkins
+1 to that And while we're here, is there any way to switch OFF SVG support so the batik jar is dispensible? I'm using fop as the printing API for a desktop/Swing app and it is brilliant (proper print preview, high quality saved and printed documents, easy format to build with) but the size of the

RE: XSL-FO Engine comparisons

2001-08-01 Thread Alistair Hopkins
I'm also using it in production to generate simple but nice printable invoices from a website. As a precaution, only company staff can access the invoice download at the moment, but I'm going to throw it open to the punters soon as there have been 0 problems over the last 6 months. -Original

RE: AW: fop -xml file.xml -xsl file.xsl -pdf file.pdf

2001-07-31 Thread Alistair Hopkins
Sorry I can't check the archives but they seem to be down. I'm having trouble with keep properties: I need to ensure that titles aren't orphaned from their bodies. I want to add keep-with-next.within-page="always" to the block that contains the title page, but it doesn't work and is noted on the