RE: Alternatives to auto table layout

2004-05-25 Thread James Earl
On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 16:08, Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: James Earl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm just curious to know what people have found works best for them as > > an alternative to achieving somewhat auto table layout? I'm curren

RE: Alternatives to auto table layout

2004-05-25 Thread Andreas L. Delmelle
> -Original Message- > From: Andreas L. Delmelle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Erratum: > Too bad XSLT doesn't have aggregate functions min() or max(), but this > can be worked around rather easily. > Should be XSLT *1.0* XPath 2.0 (=> XSLT 2.0) *does* support these functions. Greetz,

RE: Alternatives to auto table layout

2004-05-25 Thread Andreas L. Delmelle
> -Original Message- > From: Andreas L. Delmelle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Before I forget to mention: > >

RE: Alternatives to auto table layout

2004-05-25 Thread Andreas L. Delmelle
> -Original Message- > From: James Earl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > I'm just curious to know what people have found works best for them as > an alternative to achieving somewhat auto table layout? I'm currently > trying to figure out what I should do. I've just started learning X

Re: Problems visualing tables

2004-05-25 Thread J.Pietschmann
Juan Manuel Bellina wrote: /*** [WARNING] table-layout=auto is not supported, using fixed! [WARNING] current implementation of tables requires a table-column for each column, indicating column-width Read the warning carefully. FOP 0.20.5 requires you to supply definitions for all tabl

Re: Problems visualing tables

2004-05-25 Thread Clay Leeds
It looks like you're missing fo:table-column and, perhaps fo:table-body. There's a FAQ about this: http://xml.apache.org/fop/faq.html#table-missing Make certain you've added fo:table-column. There's another FAQ immediately preceding the table-missing issue which has a complete example of a tabl

RE: Problems visualing tables

2004-05-25 Thread Juan Manuel Bellina
Andres: First of all, thanks for your sooner response. Let me tell that I found this mesage in the console when i executed the redering. /*** [WARNING] table-layout=auto is not supported, using fixed! [WARNING] current implementation of tables requires a table-column for each c

Alternatives to auto table layout

2004-05-25 Thread James Earl
Hi, I'm just curious to know what people have found works best for them as an alternative to achieving somewhat auto table layout? I'm currently trying to figure out what I should do. I've just started learning XSL as a result of beginning to use FOP to try to automatically create a catalogue fr

RE: Problems visualing tables

2004-05-25 Thread Andreas L. Delmelle
> -Original Message- > From: Juan Manuel Bellina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: dinsdag 25 mei 2004 21:41 > > I am using FOP 0.20.5 to make a report to a PDF file. > I make a table with some data but when I open the pdf > file generated, the table are not showed. > Any ideas? Could mea

Problems visualing tables

2004-05-25 Thread Juan Manuel Bellina
I am using FOP 0.20.5 to make a report to a PDF file. I make a table with some data but when I open the pdf file generated, the table are not showed. Any ideas? Anybody had the some problem? __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-n

Re: Symbol ZapfDingats font doesn't render (Solved)

2004-05-25 Thread Paul Tremblay
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 10:06:53AM -0700, Clay Leeds wrote: > >Try loading it on another > computer. > I did that and still got the same problem. Then it dawned on me: I needed to use acutal Greek letters and Zapf Dingbats! Once I tried the code with Delta, I saw a correct rendering. Duh! Tha

Re: question about performance

2004-05-25 Thread Clay Leeds
Sandy, On May 25, 2004, at 11:04 AM, Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: Hmm... XSL-FO is designed exactly to serve purposes like this. That being said: is it actually FOP's processing that takes a long time, or is it the XSL transform? Can you test this a bit maybe? Run the XSL transform separately (prefe

RE: question about performance

2004-05-25 Thread Andreas L. Delmelle
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > my questions : > 1. would it be better if I use iText for large documents,... pick up the > data directly from database It could well be (depends on your code, anyway :) ) Downside of course is maintenance of this piece of soft

Re: Symbol ZapfDingats font doesn't render

2004-05-25 Thread Clay Leeds
Paul, On May 25, 2004, at 9:52 AM, Paul Tremblay wrote: I cannot get Symbol font to render. Here is a snippet of my code: Hello world in Symbol I don't get an error message when fop runs, but when I open the resulting file in a PDF viewer, I see: # # ## ## I get a

Symbol ZapfDingats font doesn't render

2004-05-25 Thread Paul Tremblay
I cannot get Symbol font to render. Here is a snippet of my code: Hello world in Symbol I don't get an error message when fop runs, but when I open the resulting file in a PDF viewer, I see: # # ## ## I get a simlar problem when I use ZapfDingbats: rather t

Re: unwanted blank page because of page count

2004-05-25 Thread Clay Leeds
Paul, On May 25, 2004, at 9:20 AM, Paul Tremblay wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 08:55:20AM -0700, Clay Leeds wrote: Can you confirm that the issue is not related to this FAQ: http://xml.apache.org/fop/faq.html#blank-page-between-page-sequences Perhaps there is something there which may help. Thank

Re: unwanted blank page because of page count

2004-05-25 Thread Paul Tremblay
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 08:55:20AM -0700, Clay Leeds wrote: > > > > >initial-page-number="3" force-page-count="no-force"> > > Can you confirm that the issue is not related to this FAQ: > > http://xml.apache.org/fop/faq.html#blank-page-between-page-sequences > > Perhaps there is something there

RE: Background image - resolution changed during fop processing

2004-05-25 Thread Andreas L. Delmelle
> -Original Message- > From: Barbara Baur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, > So I am still looking for a proper solution for this background-image problem. One known workaround is to use a static-content bound to a region-before or region-after that overlaps the entire region-body. Then in

Re: unwanted blank page because of page count

2004-05-25 Thread Clay Leeds
Paul, On May 25, 2004, at 8:29 AM, Paul Tremblay wrote: I need to insert just one blank page after page 6. The problem is, the next page after page 7 must be page "iii", which is an odd page. That means that xsl-fo inserts *two* blank pages in order to make sure that page "iii" starts on the right

unwanted blank page because of page count

2004-05-25 Thread Paul Tremblay
I need to insert just one blank page after page 6. The problem is, the next page after page 7 must be page "iii", which is an odd page. That means that xsl-fo inserts *two* blank pages in order to make sure that page "iii" starts on the right side. The requirements for the thesis insist that one

Re: Free Visual tool for making fo files

2004-05-25 Thread Clay Leeds
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Juan, On May 23, 2004, at 2:48 PM, Juan Manuel Bellina wrote: I need to make a report in PDF file, so I want to know if there is a free XSL Template Designer to make my fo file in a simple way, some kind of visual tool that help me with this job. Thank

question about performance

2004-05-25 Thread Sandy . Soesilo
hi ... you can say that i'm a newbie in this FOP technology...infact, xml is a new area for me.. i want to use FOP to generate reports from our database... i tried some examples from the fop distribution..and then i made some experience, to generate a table with 12 columns and about 1000 rows fr

Re: spanning columns

2004-05-25 Thread Chris Bowditch
A.M. wrote: Hi List- I am relatively new to FO. I am trying to create a 2-column page with text that wraps into the next column at a position on the page. I can see it is possible by putting a leader in as shown in one of the Apache FOP examples, however I need to "balance" the text in the columns.

spanning columns

2004-05-25 Thread A.M.
Hi List- I am relatively new to FO. I am trying to create a 2-column page with text that wraps into the next column at a position on the page. I can see it is possible by putting a leader in as shown in one of the Apache FOP examples, however I need to "balance" the text in the columns. Imagine tha

Re: Background image - resolution changed during fop processing

2004-05-25 Thread Barbara Baur
Hi I tried to follow the hints on graphics resolution and set an image width using the content-width property. Unfortunately this did not work, probably because background-image itself is a property of fo:region-body.. I 'solved' the problem in the meantime by resampling the image to 72 dpi. Th