[bug?] Mangled text with cross references

2006-05-24 Thread Matthew East
I think I've hit another bug with overlapping text and strange whitespace in cross reference text. Again the xsl customisations, fo and pdf are at: http://mdke.org/tmp/fop/ There are plenty of examples, but picking one at random, see the bottom of page 26 of that pdf file. Is this a well known

Re: some footnotes not being displayed

2006-05-22 Thread Matthew East
Jeremias Maerki dev at jeremias-maerki.ch writes: Confirmed. Seems to be a bug. Unfortunately, I won't have time immediately to have a closer look. Ok, thanks for letting me know. Is there a bug tracking system of some kind? If your document could be cut down to the minimum so the

some footnotes not being displayed

2006-05-20 Thread Matthew East
Dear all, Here I am again with another question. I'm using fop 1.93beta, with a snapshot of the docbook-xsl stylesheets. Everything is working quite well, except that I am including xrefs as footnotes, and some footnotes do not appear at all. I can't really see why, because most of them work

crash

2006-05-13 Thread Matthew East
Hi all, and sorry to bother yet again. Fop is now working nicely on my home computer. Then I tried to run it on another pc, with basically the same setup on the same files, with the same version of java installed, and I get this error: http://fop.pastebin.com/715978 Any ideas? Please let me

Re: Error when customizing title fonts etc.

2006-05-13 Thread Matthew East
Glen Mazza gmazza at apache.org writes: Main problem: If any of the fo:flows have a flow-name that map to something other than xsl-region-body, or if any of the fo:static-contents have a flow-name that map to xsl-region-body, then this error message will occur. If this is occurring for

Re: crash

2006-05-13 Thread Matthew East
Glen Mazza gmazza at apache.org writes: It could be that the other pc does not have the proper graphics libraries to handle what you are doing. (I think they call those headless PCs[1], but am unsure.) Ah, that could be right. It is indeed a headless PC, but fop 0.20.5 ran on it without

Re: Asian fonts in pdfs

2006-05-09 Thread Matthew East
Jeremias Maerki dev at jeremias-maerki.ch writes: Your mail address screams that you're on Unix. So are you sure you want to change fop.bat (Windows batch) and not fop (unix shell script)? Yes, that was it: I've now got Korean and Chinese PDFs! You guys rock!! Thanks for all your help.

Re: Asian fonts in pdfs

2006-05-08 Thread Matthew East
Hi Lev, On Sun, 7 May 2006 14:07:28 +0300 Lev T [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If those documents use Unicode charsets, a possible solution is to embed ttf font contains needed charsets into PDF. I am using DFSG-free version of kochi font family for asian languages. [...] Thanks for this tip: I

Re: Asian fonts in pdfs

2006-05-07 Thread Matthew East
On Sun, 07 May 2006 12:02:37 +0200 Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you look at [1] you'll see that Hangul syllables are not covered by the DejaVu font. That's why they don't appear. You'll need to find another font. Ah, thanks very much for this! I'll keep trying with some other

Asian fonts in pdfs

2006-05-06 Thread Matthew East
Hi all, I'm trying to build (using fop 0.20-5) some pdfs of some guides which are in Asian languages (Taiwanese, Chinese, Korean etc) and the resulting pdfs don't show any of the characters, just hash symbols. Does anyone know how I can improve this situation? I've put an example .fo file and

Re: Asian fonts in pdfs

2006-05-06 Thread Matthew East
Hi Thomas, thanks for your reply. Thomas Schraitle tom_schr at web.de writes: On Saturday 06 May 2006 17:48, Matthew East wrote: I'm trying to build (using fop 0.20-5) some pdfs of some guides which are in Asian languages (Taiwanese, Chinese, Korean etc) and the resulting pdfs don't show

Re: embedding fonts

2006-04-24 Thread Matthew East
Jeremias Maerki dev at jeremias-maerki.ch writes: Embedding means that the font is included in the PDF file. Otherwise, the font is only referenced and is required to be present on the viewer or printer. If it's not present on the receiving side, the document can't print correctly. If you

Re: embedding fonts

2006-04-24 Thread Matthew East
Jeremias Maerki dev at jeremias-maerki.ch writes: If you want to embed all fonts, you have to create font metric files using PFMReader or TTFReader for each one and create the correct font triples in the configuration file. Right, i'm trying to use TTFReader now, as specified on the fonts

Re: embedding fonts

2006-04-24 Thread Matthew East
Jeremias Maerki dev at jeremias-maerki.ch writes: Looks like you have a good share of bad luck with FOP. No problem, fortunately you're all really helpful on this list! You've stumbled upon a bug in TTFReader we recently fixed. Please use the TTFReader coming with FOP 0.92beta to create

Re: embedding fonts

2006-04-24 Thread Matthew East
Jeremias Maerki dev at jeremias-maerki.ch writes: I just tried the same and had no such problem with either 0.20.5 or 0.92beta. Please observe FOP's log output closely. Maybe there's another problem. What I can see here seems fine. Nothing I haven't seen before in the output:

Re: embedding fonts

2006-04-24 Thread Matthew East
Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com writes: Jeremias Maerki dev at jeremias-maerki.ch writes: I just tried the same and had no such problem with either 0.20.5 or 0.92beta. Please observe FOP's log output closely. Maybe there's another problem. What I can see here seems fine. Nothing

[solved?] Re: embedding fonts

2006-04-24 Thread Matthew East
Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com writes: It occurred to me it might help for you to see the actual pdf. Here it is: http://mdke.org/ubuntu/desktopguide-bw.pdf. Sorry for spam, but I think it's resolved: I substituted oblique for italic in the configuration file, and it appears to have worked

Re: Footnotes overlapping with main text body

2006-04-23 Thread Matthew East
Jeremias Maerki dev at jeremias-maerki.ch writes: You might want to take a look at the latest release: Apache FOP 0.92beta. Is there any way to do it with FOP 0.20? I tried 0.92beta but can't figure out how to run it, I installed it to /opt/fop-0.92/ and made a symlink in /bin/fop.sh to

Installing fop 0.92 (was Re: Footnotes overlapping with main text body)

2006-04-23 Thread Matthew East
Jeremias Maerki dev at jeremias-maerki.ch writes: I've just done (more or less) the same. Extracted FOP 0.92 into a new folder and created a symlink to fop from my ~/bin directory. Worked like a charm. Ok, I'll try again from scratch. Can you help me with what I need to install? There are

Re: Installing fop 0.92 (was Re: Footnotes overlapping with main text body)

2006-04-23 Thread Matthew East
Jeremias Maerki dev at jeremias-maerki.ch writes: You said earlier you're on JDK 1.5, so take the jdk1.4 binary. The JRE should be enough. It doesn't matter. Just extract the .tar.gz and run the fop script. That's it if you don't need any fancy stuff to begin with. Ok, I tried installing

Re: Installing fop 0.92 (was Re: Footnotes overlapping with main text body)

2006-04-23 Thread Matthew East
Hi Patrick, Patrick Paul ppaul_apache at yahoo.ca writes: So basically you need to changefox:outline and use fo:bookmark-tree, fo:bookmark and fo:bookmark-title. Thanks for this. I'm afraid I'm still not completely understanding how to do this. I'm using the nwalsh fo stylesheets, which seem

Re: Installing fop 0.92 (was Re: Footnotes overlapping with main text body)

2006-04-23 Thread Matthew East
Patrick Paul ppaul_apache at yahoo.ca writes: You're welcome. This is what this mailing-list is for, helping people. Well, it's a very friendly mailing list :) What I suggest is that you try not to use the FOP-specific extension. {snip} Remove the --stringparam fop.extensions 1 line. Ok, I

Re: Installing fop 0.92 (was Re: Footnotes overlapping with main text body)

2006-04-23 Thread Matthew East
Patrick Paul ppaul_apache at yahoo.ca writes: Make sure you get the latest stable docbook-xsl stylesheets and set the following params : --stringparam fop.extensions 0 --stringparam fop1.extensions 1 I have docbook-xsl 1.68, which comes with my distribution. I added that parameter to my

Re: Installing fop 0.92 (was Re: Footnotes overlapping with main text body)

2006-04-23 Thread Matthew East
Patrick Paul ppaul_apache at yahoo.ca writes: Get the latest release (1.69.1) at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21935#files Ok, I installed and used these, by amending my custom xsl to use them. I get the same error. Just for clarity: ERROR:

Re: Installing fop 0.92 (was Re: Footnotes overlapping with main text body)

2006-04-23 Thread Matthew East
Patrick Paul ppaul_apache at yahoo.ca writes: Matthew East wrote: ERROR: http://fop.pastebin.com/677244 XSL: http://fop.pastebin.com/677245 I apologize but I do not have the time to assist you further at this time. No problem, thanks for the help you've given me so far. This may be a bug

embedding fonts

2006-04-23 Thread Matthew East
Hi again list, Thanks for your very kind replies on the other thread. I will pursue the suggestions Glenn makes and approach other lists with xsl related questions. For the moment, I hope you won't mind if I bother you again with another fop question: using 0.20-5, is it possible to configure