Re: generating EPSF (with preview)?

2008-05-09 Thread Andreas Delmelle
On May 9, 2008, at 11:09, paul womack wrote: Hi Paul q1) are there any plans to generate EPSF? I suspect I know enough to use perl (or similar) to transform the present PostScript into EPSF, but I'd rather not... To my knowledge, this is not on the planning yet. An epsf file, to be useful

Re: generating EPSF (with preview)?

2008-05-09 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 09.05.2008 12:05:13 paul womack wrote: Jeremias Maerki wrote: q2) Is it possible to (somehow) use the same layout for two renderers? in my particular circumstances induividual character appearance is a moderately low priority; whiat I do require is that line wrapping and general

Re: generating EPSF (with preview)?

2008-05-09 Thread paul womack
Jeremias Maerki wrote: Which is why I wrote closely resembling output. Ah! Damn this English language; one man's closely is another man's not close enough :-) There's no (efficient) way we can do any better with the current design. If it's a problem in your case, you're out of luck, I'm

Re: Measurement accuracy in PDF vs PCL

2008-05-09 Thread The Web Maestro
The solution I had, was to use different margin measurements for PDF Print/PCL in XSL. I'd do an XSL import of the print .fo files into the PDF version, and due to cascading stylesheets, the PDF measurements and the use-attribute-set attribrute, I was able to reuse my print templates for the

Re: Measurement accuracy in PDF vs PCL

2008-05-09 Thread The Web Maestro
BTW, this was for fop-0.20.5... Things have improved for fop-0.93+... Clay On 5/9/08, The Web Maestro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The solution I had, was to use different margin measurements for PDF Print/PCL in XSL. I'd do an XSL import of the print .fo files into the PDF version, and due to

Re: Measurement accuracy in PDF vs PCL

2008-05-09 Thread David Gerdt
Jeremias- Thanks for this thorough explanation. Very helpful. And I wasn't really thinking bug. I assumed that there was something in the various specs (like the margin issue you mentioned with PCL) that was playing games with me. And thanks for the heads up about the settings in Acrobat. You

Failing to generate pdf document from fo.

2008-05-09 Thread Matt Dong
Hello everybody, We have a problem here failing to generate pdf document from fo. In most cases our application uses fo to generate pdf, and it works perfectly, but it fails when it comes in a special case. in the special case, here are the messages we get when building the pdf files. Failing

Re: Failing to generate pdf document from fo.

2008-05-09 Thread Andreas Delmelle
On May 9, 2008, at 15:40, Matt Dong wrote: Hi We have a problem here failing to generate pdf document from fo. In most cases our application uses fo to generate pdf, and it works perfectly, but it fails when it comes in a special case. in the special case, here are the messages we get

RE: Failing to generate pdf document from fo.

2008-05-09 Thread Matt Dong
Thanks for your help. We use FOP Implementation-Version: 0.93. I don't have access to the FO file now. I will try to get it for you. Matt -Original Message- From: Andreas Delmelle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 9:47 AM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject:

Re: Failing to generate pdf document from fo.

2008-05-09 Thread Andreas Delmelle
On May 9, 2008, at 16:30, Matt Dong wrote: Thanks for your help. We use FOP Implementation-Version: 0.93. I don't have access to the FO file now. I will try to get it for you. OK, just out of curiosity: is there any chance you can test with 0.95beta? I'm only asking, since it looks like a

formatting stricture differing from data structure?

2008-05-09 Thread paul womack
I've succeeded (hearty thanks to all who have helped) in making EPSF files. Preview TIFFS are made using ghostscript (via imagemagick), the fop postscript is turned into EPSF via some viciously unsubtle edits using perl, and the tiff put onto the EPSF with a suitable header via a little more

Re: formatting stricture differing from data structure?

2008-05-09 Thread Andreas Delmelle
On May 9, 2008, at 17:58, paul womack wrote: Hi Just a note: for pure XSLT-related questions, you're always better off posting on Mulberry's XSLT list. We try to make it a policy to point this out: this is a list for questions about using FOP. No problem this time, but try to keep this

RE: Failing to generate pdf document from fo.

2008-05-09 Thread Matt Dong
We tested with 0.94, the bug still exists. When we tested with 0.95beta, we got other exception as blow, Error SXCH0003: org.apache.fop.fo.ValidationException: org.apache.fop.fo.ValidationException: Error(43872/-1): column-number or number of cells in the row overflows the number of

Re: Failing to generate pdf document from fo.

2008-05-09 Thread Andreas Delmelle
On May 9, 2008, at 19:02, Matt Dong wrote: We tested with 0.94, the bug still exists. When we tested with 0.95beta, we got other exception as blow, Error SXCH0003: org.apache.fop.fo.ValidationException: org.apache.fop.fo.ValidationException: Error(43872/-1): column- number or number of

RE: Failing to generate pdf document from fo.

2008-05-09 Thread Matt Dong
Could we just disable the exception and make it like warning message for us? If yes, where can we do that? -Original Message- From: Matt Dong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 1:02 PM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: RE: Failing to generate pdf document

Re: Failing to generate pdf document from fo.

2008-05-09 Thread Andreas Delmelle
On May 9, 2008, at 19:57, Matt Dong wrote: Could we just disable the exception and make it like warning message for us? If yes, where can we do that? Nope. This can currently only be avoided by correcting the stylesheet to produce correct FO. Cheers Andreas