PDF output to editable document...

2004-07-12 Thread Christopher R Newman
Anyone know of a free, but dependable program that can edit PDF output from FOP (edit text, insert/delete objects, etc.)? If not, how about something that can convert it to an editable document (DOC, RTF...)? I've tried several programs, but most can't make a clean conversion or edit text pro

RE: Anyone produce RTF output with separate header, body, and/or footer?

2004-07-12 Thread Peter Herweg
Hi, yes i can confirm this. I will fix this within the next few days - as soon as possible. Thank you for reporting! Peter Herweg > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Christopher R Newman > Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 8:17 PM > To: fop-u

Re: HTML Renderer

2004-07-12 Thread J.Pietschmann
Helg Bredow wrote: Thanks for the quick reply Chris. I have written transforms from XML to HTML in the past so it's not the writing that is the problem. Rather it's the duplication of effort in writing one stylesheet for HTML output and another for PDF output. The idea is to present a list of XSL s

Re: Parsing string or numbers after x characters

2004-07-12 Thread J.Pietschmann
Julien Barbin wrote: I'm quite new to the fop mailing list so I have no idea if this problem occurred already and I was unable to find solutions on the web. Uh, oh! My problem is that I receive for example a date in a concatenated format: Ex: 20041207 And I have to retrieve it in a readable format

Anyone produce RTF output with separate header, body, and/or footer?

2004-07-12 Thread Christopher R Newman
Hello all, I'm using the latest dev version of FOP so I can generate RTF output. Has anyone been able to create headers/footers without any problems? The flow body always seems to get sucked into whichever static-content I define last. If not, anyone know of ways to work around it? Is th

Re: how to generate charts in PDF?

2004-07-12 Thread Derrick Shoemake
Sandy, You have to add java to the namespace, like so xmlns:math="java.lang.Math" exclude-result-prefixes="math" Derrick On Jul 12, 2004, at 9:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi derrick, thanks alot for your answer... I just tried your code, and I got this exception : javax.xml.transform.Transforme

RE: HTML Renderer

2004-07-12 Thread Helg Bredow
> -Original Message- > From: Chris Bowditch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 12 July 2004 15:56 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: HTML Renderer > > Helg Bredow wrote: > > > Does anyone know if there is an HTML renderer available for FOP? We want > > to use FOP as file type independ

Re: HTML Renderer

2004-07-12 Thread Chris Bowditch
Helg Bredow wrote: Does anyone know if there is an HTML renderer available for FOP? We want to use FOP as file type independent output tool and want users to just be able to select a "layout" (i.e. XSLT file) and then a renderer. I know you can just write a transformation from XML to HTML directly

how to generate charts in PDF?

2004-07-12 Thread Sandy . Soesilo
hi derrick, thanks alot for your answer... I just tried your code, and I got this exception : javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: Prefix must resolve to a namespace: math hope you can help me more sandy We use SVG to generate our Pie Charts and our bar charts. It's not too hard to c

RE: Invoking FOP from C++

2004-07-12 Thread Šoltís Ján
> > Has anyone else had any experience calling FOP from C++? > I can only confirm the recommendations to embed the FOP into > some sort of Java Daemon or Servlet. We are calling FOP from C++ without any problems. But we are also considering to use some daemon/servlet for the same reasons Ander

Re: how to generating charts in PDF ?

2004-07-12 Thread Derrick Shoemake
We use SVG to generate our Pie Charts and our bar charts. It's not too hard to create. I looked at the code from this site and started creating my own variations for testing. http://www.svgopen.org/2003/papers/CreatingSVGPieChartsThroughWebService Here is a Pie Chart that I tested with:

Re: Parsing string or numbers after x characters

2004-07-12 Thread Clay Leeds
Julien, On Jul 12, 2004, at 5:27 AM, Julien Barbin wrote: My problem is that I receive for example a date in a concatenated format: Ex: 20041207 And I have to retrieve it in a readable format through my xslt-fo transformation. Ex: 12 July 2004 I tried using substring for that, but I don't have

HTML Renderer

2004-07-12 Thread Helg Bredow
Does anyone know if there is an HTML renderer available for FOP? We want to use FOP as file type independent output tool and want users to just be able to select a "layout" (i.e. XSLT file) and then a renderer. I know you can just write a transformation from XML to HTML directly but going via XSL:F

how to generating charts in PDF ?

2004-07-12 Thread Sandy . Soesilo
hi, i'm using FOP for our reporting tools, thanks to FOP we can make a nice looking PDF-File. great job people ! recently we need to generate not only tables or text, but also some charts/diagramms ( like pie chart, gantt , etc) and this charts should be embeded in the pdf, as a graphic format

Re: table spanned over a 2 columns page

2004-07-12 Thread Chris Bowditch
Pascal Sancho wrote: ... ... ... FOP doesnt support span="all" on fo:table, only on fo:block elements that are direct descendents of fo:flow. I wonder wether it is a normal behaviour (I've checked the xsl rec, and I have understood that fo:table should be handled as a fo:block

Re: PDF encryption?

2004-07-12 Thread Jeremias Maerki
You've found the right bug. I've added a comment when I've fixed the bug in CVS HEAD: http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20480 Unfortunately, using a dev snapshot won't help you since FOP 0.20.5 is based on our old maintenance branch which has been frozen and CVS HEAD is not ready f

Parsing string or numbers after x characters

2004-07-12 Thread Julien Barbin
Hello I'm quite new to the fop mailing list so I have no idea if this problem occurred already and I was unable to find solutions on the web. My problem is that I receive for example a date in a concatenated format: Ex: 20041207 And I have to retrieve it in a readable format through my xslt-fo

PDF encryption?

2004-07-12 Thread David Vaartjes
Hello list, I'm using apache-FOP to generate PDF-reports from XML data. These reports contain enumerations of network information of many host. To supply a fast and orderly navigation mechanism we use bookmarks. Furthermore, we use URL's within the PDF-report that point to external recourses. S

Re: Invoking FOP from C++

2004-07-12 Thread anders . malmborg
> Has anyone else had any experience calling FOP from C++? I am working on an existing product with a lot of C++ code. We are about to change the "printing engine" from something homegrown to FOP. I can only confirm the recommendations to embed the FOP into some sort of Java Daemon or Servlet.

RE: Merging multiple PDF's into 1 file

2004-07-12 Thread Rea, Matthew
Fred, > But I need to merge the separate PDF's into a single file; preferably with > bookmarks for each file. I use iText to merge a number of FOP generated PDF's together into one single PDF. I was also able to do page numbering across the resulting single PDF which was handy. This iText exa

Merging multiple PDF's into 1 file

2004-07-12 Thread Sells, Fred
I'm using a Tomcat servelt to generate multiple PDF's at one time. This represents a report with a bunch of attachments. The header and footer information varies and I may need to vary page layout. I would prefer to generate each PDF separately (using XML and XSLT with FOP) rather that one big P