Re: Handling of text-align=justify when nesting blocks

2004-09-03 Thread arnd . beissner
Luca Furini [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 03.09.2004 10:19:06: Section 7.15.10 of the recommendation states that the property text-align-last Specifies the alignment of the last line-area child of the last block-area generated and returned by the formatting object, *and to any line-area

Handling of text-align=justify when nesting blocks

2004-09-03 Thread arnd . beissner
Editors, please consider the following inconsistency in the recommendation: Example: fo:block text-align=justify TEST TEST TEST TEST . ENOUGH TEXT TO FORMAT INTO MULTIPLE LINES TEST ENDS A. fo:block whatever /fo:block TEST TEST TEST TEST . ENOUGH TEXT TO FORMAT INTO MULTIPLE

Handling of text-align=justify when nesting blocks

2004-09-01 Thread arnd . beissner
Hi fopdevs, if you have time, consider this: fo:block text-align=justify TEST TEST TEST TEST TEST . ENOUGH TEXT TO FORMAT INTO MULTIPLE LINES TEST ENDS A. fo:block whatever /fo:block TEST TEST TEST TEST TEST . ENOUGH TEXT TO FORMAT INTO MULTIPLE LINES TEST ENDS B. /fo:block

Re: Handling of text-align=justify when nesting blocks

2004-09-01 Thread arnd . beissner
J.Pietschmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 01.09.2004 22:48:17: fo:block text-align=justify TEST TEST TEST TEST TEST . ENOUGH TEXT TO FORMAT INTO MULTIPLE LINES TEST ENDS A. fo:block ... In the example, line 2 is neither the last nor the only line of a block, and it's

Re: How to tell Driver to open acrobat in a new IE?

2004-08-11 Thread arnd . beissner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11.08.2004 21:48:24: I am parsing my XML file through FOP parser and then telling the driver to render it as PDF. The process is initiated by clicking on a button on IE. What happens is the current IE instance opens the acrobat and displays the PDF it. The

RE: SVG Generator

2004-06-12 Thread arnd . beissner
Victor Mote [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12.06.2004 17:35:04: It is no longer a concern of mine that FOP has returned to a monolithic design, but I think it is a bit unfair to the new developers to imply that the XSL-FO standard mandates such a design, at least with the reasoning that has

Re: Printing to paper edge for a bleed tab

2004-05-28 Thread arnd . beissner
Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 28.05.2004 01:15:26: I suppose that everyone has noticed this exchange on fop-user. Peter Mike Kellstrand wrote: Mark, I ran the PDF through Ghostscript and it looks like it is doing the trick. I did notice that the same PDF printed in

Re: Printing to paper edge for a bleed tab

2004-05-28 Thread arnd . beissner
Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 28.05.2004 17:16:08: Thanks Arnd. My argument is that the renderer must tell the layout engine about font metrics. I have always regarded PDF and PS (with obligatory fonts) as stable targets in this respect. They are. PostScript files and PDF

Re: Printing to paper edge for a bleed tab

2004-05-28 Thread arnd . beissner
Clay Leeds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 28.05.2004 17:57:59: The nice thing about this, is that one could set up parameters (stored in config files), to help determine how the output would be rendered. The 'holder' could consult the config file to determine how to proceed. Among the items in

Re: column balancing

2004-05-27 Thread arnd . beissner
A.M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 27.05.2004 16:27:29: Excuse me for being annoying with the column balancing issue (from fop-user), but it's something that we crucially need. I would like to offer my time to implement this- however it's not clear to me which block attributes are relevant to

RE: Fonts

2004-05-25 Thread arnd . beissner
Victor Mote [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 25.05.2004 01:46:50: However, since these same fonts could also be used by the PostScript renderer, or the Print or AWT renderers (assuming that the pfb is available as well), I don't see a need to duplicate their definitions, or metrics, or anything

RE: Fonts

2004-05-24 Thread arnd . beissner
Victor Mote [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 24.05.2004 18:12:36: One of the changes that will probably need to be made to FOP's font handling is to parse AFM files instead of PFMs. I have assumed that for hardware fonts, either the device manufacturer provides font metrics files or enough

Re: Fixing break-* properties

2004-05-24 Thread arnd . beissner
Andreas L. Delmelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 24.05.2004 21:49:48: There are, AFAICT only 4 types of FO to which break-before and break-after apply: - block level: fo:block / fo:block-container - fo:list-item - fo:table-row For completeness, add: - fo:table-and-caption - fo:table Maybe

Re: Incremental vs rewrite

2004-05-19 Thread arnd . beissner
Clay Leeds [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 19.05.2004 01:03:19: It would be interesting to compare some RenderX example output between the two^H^H^H three (ArndFO, fop-0.20.5, fop-1.0Dev)... I suspect there may be other significant differences as well, with performance, heap, etc. Be warned

Re: Just do it (was: Re: Borders on Blocks)

2004-05-19 Thread arnd . beissner
Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 19.05.2004 20:38:37: You guys block yourselves with this strategy and Arnd gets even more of a head-start. :-) 8-) -- Arnd Beißner Cappelino Informationstechnologie GmbH

Re: ANN: FOray

2004-05-18 Thread arnd . beissner
, Arnd Beissner -- Arnd Beißner Cappelino Informationstechnologie GmbH

Re: ANN: FOray

2004-05-18 Thread arnd . beissner
Chris Bowditch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 18.05.2004 12:03:33: This is very true, I also have the same concerns, which is why I have set out some simple objectives that must be met before the redesign is ready for an initial release. See here:

border-collapse WAS: Re: ANN: FOray

2004-05-18 Thread arnd . beissner
Chris Bowditch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on: 18.05.2004 14:31:39: What I forgot to say is that I think we should do an initial release of FOP after doing just High priority TODO items. Ok, that changes things, of course. Yes, ugly output can be caused without border collapse, but yet

RE: Table processing question - follow-up

2004-05-18 Thread arnd . beissner
Andreas L. Delmelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 18.05.2004 18:09:15: Indeed, but the columns can be absent in the source FO. In which case they're actually to be considered present, and their widths are determined by the cells in the first row (--or, but I didn't dare consider that

RE: ANN: FOray

2004-05-18 Thread arnd . beissner
Victor Mote [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 18.05.2004 22:12:45: The real question on modularity was never whether it should be a priority, but whether it hurt the project. On open-source projects, priorities are really set by each individual. You fix the thing that hurts the most at the moment,

Antwort: Web Start

2004-03-18 Thread arnd . beissner
Hi Peter, we use Web Start in a customer project. It's a good solution to deploy Java applications as a JAR file, even with native code and such. Some caveats: -The security manager can get in your way if you want things like filesystem access. You have to sign your jar and each user has to

Re: [PROPOSAL] FOP+iText = FOP-NG -next generation- (was: merging twolibraries)

2002-03-14 Thread arnd . beissner
are using FOP now and some of these can no longer use FOP because a part of FOP they need has a license they can't use, then I'd say this reduces FOPs usefulness for these some persons, despite being more useful to others. Arnd Beissner -- Arnd Beißner IT-Engineering Bahnhofstr. 3, 71063 Sindelfingen

Re: Using Avalon/Logkit

2002-03-13 Thread arnd . beissner
enhancement of error handling - not a replacement. BTW: Yes, I do prefer log output over no error handling at all. 8-) Arnd Beissner -- Arnd Beißner IT-Engineering Bahnhofstr. 3, 71063 Sindelfingen, Germany Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +49-7031-463458 Mobile: +49-173-3016917

Re: [PROPOSAL] FOP+iText = FOP-NG -next generation- (was: merging twolibraries)

2002-03-13 Thread arnd . beissner
interested in keeping Apache-licensed PDF output alive. If the decision goes toward a full replacement, I'd say that at least all existing FOP committers and possibly the major contributors to FOP should agree to this step as it - in one respect - decreases the value of their work so far. Arnd

Re: pb with jpegs

2002-03-06 Thread arnd . beissner
Cerious Software (www.cerious.com) has a (Windows) product called ThumbsPlus (about $150 or so), which includes batch transformations - I have used it to do batch color transformations, but of course it also does simple load-save-transformations. I don't know whether FOP/Jimi handles JPEGs saved

Re: FOP: Font problems

2002-02-16 Thread Arnd Beissner
as contained in the PDF and the actual font selected by the PDF viewer. Hope this helps, Arnd Beissner -- Arnd Beissner IT-Engineering Bahnhofstr. 3, 71063 Sindelfingen, Germany Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +49-7031-463458 Mobile: +49-173-3016917

Re: Exceptions while running embedde fop multithreaded

2002-02-12 Thread Arnd . Beissner
to run fop repeatedly without restarting a VM each time. Hope this helps, Arnd Beissner Arnd Beißner IT-Engineering Bahnhofstr. 3, 71063 Sindelfingen, Germany Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +49-7031-463458