xsl-fo as a report writer

2002-11-12 Thread Carl Sagan
Hi, I am an analyst/programmer working for a small data processing application service provider.  We currently use a proprietary 4GL as a report writer.  Sadly the report writer in this 4GL is quite buggy.  We have reported these bugs to the 4GL vendor but they have said that they have no intention

Re: PFM font embedding problems.

2002-11-12 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Dennis MyrÃn wrote: I am with joy using the FOP processor to generate PDF documents from XSL FO documents. I now have to embed a third party Postscript based font(a PFM file). I have experienced problems with this embedding inside the PDF document. Could someone give me a deep explanation on how to

PFM font embedding problems.

2002-11-12 Thread Dennis MyrÃn
Hi. I am with joy using the FOP processor to generate PDF documents from XSL FO documents. I now have to embed a third party Postscript based font(a PFM file). I have experienced problems with this embedding inside the PDF document. Could someone give me a deep explanation on how to achive this, st

Re: landscape orientation

2002-11-12 Thread Rick Delpo
Thanks for your quick reply. It works great. THANKS AGAIN you saved me a ton of research time. keep up the good work !! - Original Message - From: "Oleg Tkachenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 1:41 PM Subject: Re: landscape orientation

Re: landscape orientation

2002-11-12 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Rick Delpo wrote: I am trying to print a name and address on an envelope using a landscape orientation does not seem to work. haven't tried it in 20.4 yet reference-orientation is not implemented yet. is there a workaround for this in 20.3? thank you You can try swap page-height and page-width, fo

landscape orientation

2002-11-12 Thread Rick Delpo
Hi   I am trying to print a name and address on an envelope using a landscape orientation does not seem to work. haven't tried it in 20.4 yet   is there a workaround for this in 20.3?  thank you

Re: keep-with-next and small-caps

2002-11-12 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Berg, Philip wrote: I'm trying to keep multiple rows together, like so: [… cells …] [… cells …] [… cells …] That doesn't seem to keep it together though (no changed behavior). I looked at xsl:fo tutorials and this mailing list's history and it seemed to me the above

keep-with-next and small-caps

2002-11-12 Thread Berg, Philip
Title: keep-with-next and small-caps I have two problems: I'm trying to keep multiple rows together, like so:       [… cells …]         [… cells …]         [… cells …]   That doesn't seem to keep it together though (no changed behavior). I looked at xsl:fo tutorials and this

Re: Table footers and headers

2002-11-12 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Nwilan Glirt wrote: Can I define table-headers and table-footers that are only visualized when the table is segmented into several pages? If the table spans 3 pages, is the effect that I want that page 1 has a footer but no header, page 2 has both header and footer, and page 3 has header but no foo

Re: absolute position fo:block to attain magazine like layout

2002-11-12 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Nope. This is not implemented in FOP. On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 09:23:12 -0500 Noel Golding wrote: > Is it possible to position a block in an exact location and have the rest of > the text flow around it? > example. I have a two column newsletter and I would like to put a callout > box in the middle of

absolute position fo:block to attain magazine like layout

2002-11-12 Thread Noel Golding
Is it possible to position a block in an exact location and have the rest of the text flow around it? example. I have a two column newsletter and I would like to put a callout box in the middle of the page. I am not sure if this is an XSL question of FOP so I am sending this question to both lists

Re: input form

2002-11-12 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Bhalerao, Gauri N (GECP, MABG, 535876) wrote: Can somebody tell me how to unsubscribe from the list? Send a mesage to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Oleg Tkachenko eXperanto team Multiconn Technologies, Israel

RE: input form

2002-11-12 Thread Bhalerao, Gauri N (GECP, MABG, 535876)
Title: RE: input form Can somebody tell me how to unsubscribe from the list? -Original Message- From:   Thomas Ottosen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:   Tuesday, November 12, 2002 8:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:    input form Hi All, I am currently working on a pr

Re: < and > characters in fo:block

2002-11-12 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Marcin Zawadzki wrote: I have problem with '<' and '>' characters. I use fop for doing some reports, and from time to time I need to print something like '' or '' Of course I cannot just write this in content of element, becouse XML parser will expect or tags, but how to print that Use x

Re: input form

2002-11-12 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 14:44, Thomas Ottosen wrote: > Hi All, > > I am currently working on a project on xsl-fo but have a minor problem. How > is it possible to make a input form in pdf, using FOP. A user can then > filout the form and print it. > > see http://www.erhverv.toldskat.dk/Blanketter/3

input form

2002-11-12 Thread Thomas Ottosen
Hi All, I am currently working on a project on xsl-fo but have a minor problem. How is it possible to make a input form in pdf, using FOP. A user can then filout the form and print it. see http://www.erhverv.toldskat.dk/Blanketter/31025.pdf Thomas

Re: and jar file

2002-11-12 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Dang Minh Phuong wrote: is there any difference if my gif file and my xsl file are in the same jar archive. I don't know how to put the file name after "file:///" (assume that every thing is in resource.jar) FOP has no idea where your xsl is stored, it just receives fo document as input. You must

RE: Fonts in PDF (embedded postscript)

2002-11-12 Thread Torsten Erler
Attached is a sample pdf file with one included postscsript-ad (Ad.ps). The PDF uses the same font like the original postscript file (BellCentennial). The postscript file is called in the generated fo-file as followed: I print the document on command line from whithin a java program:

Table footers and headers

2002-11-12 Thread Nwilan Glirt
Can I define table-headers and table-footers that are only visualized when the table is segmented into several pages? If the table spans 3 pages, is the effect that I want that page 1 has a footer but no header, page 2 has both header and footer, and page 3 has header but no footer. If the tab

< and > characters in fo:block

2002-11-12 Thread Marcin Zawadzki
I have problem with '<' and '>' characters. I use fop for doing some reports, and from time to time I need to print something like '' or ''   Of course I cannot just write this in content of element, becouse XML parser will expect or tags, but how to print  that   MZ

Re: Fonts in PDF (embedded postscript)

2002-11-12 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Probably, it has something to do with the way a particular font is referenced. Acrobat maps the font names to different names when you convert a PDF to PS. The PS part in the PDF has then no access to the embedded fonts because the names don't match. You could try to let the application that produc

RE: and jar file

2002-11-12 Thread Dang Minh Phuong
is there any difference if my gif file and my xsl file are in the same jar archive. I don't know how to put the file name after "file:///" (assume that every thing is in resource.jar) -Original Message- From: Oleg Tkachenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 7:07 PM

Re: and jar file

2002-11-12 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Dang Minh Phuong wrote: I have a problem. In my xsl file, I use to add a logo into my pdf document. It works well if I run it without pack them. When I try to pack them into a resource.jar file in order to install in my customer's machine, the logo doesn't show. I have added the resource.jar into

Re: page-position=last, FOP vs XEP

2002-11-12 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Tim Landscheidt wrote: >It has come to my attention that page-position=last is not yet >implemented in FOP. That is a big problem for the purpose I have. I >tried with XEP (from RenderX) and it seems to work here. The problem >with XEP is a) it does note support pcl output, which I need, and b) >it

Fonts in PDF (embedded postscript)

2002-11-12 Thread Torsten Erler
Hi all,   I create pdf-documents with fop which have other postscript files inside. Now when I print the generated pdf, the fonts (specified in the postscript) are substituted by (I think) Courier. I've tried to embed these fonts into the pdf. Now the content of the pdf uses this fonts

and jar file

2002-11-12 Thread Dang Minh Phuong
hi all, I have a problem. In my xsl file, I use to add a logo into my pdf document. It works well if I run it without pack them. When I try to pack them into a resource.jar file in order to install in my customer's machine, the logo doesn't show. I have added the resource.jar into my classpath a

Re: page-position=last, FOP vs XEP

2002-11-12 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Nwilan Glirt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It has come to my attention that page-position=last is not yet > implemented in FOP. That is a big problem for the purpose I have. I > tried with XEP (from RenderX) and it seems to work here. The problem > with XEP is a) it does note support pcl output, wh