Hi Ross, Do you think it would good idea to introduce an attribute to <th> element, whose value will indicate width of the column, for example, in percent from the total width?
Would it be professional enough patch? Best regards, vadim tarassov. On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 23:16 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: > Neil Troy wrote: > > vadim wrote: > > > >> Hallo everybody, > >> > >> Do you know what is the reason to generate tables in PDF files of fixed > >> width and fixed (probably hardcoded) column width? Tables look really > >> ugly! Do you know if I can adjust something somewhere to get tables in > >> PDF files to look better? > > FOP (or FO rendering engine) does not support tables that auto size. see > http://xml.apache.org/fop/compliance.html#fo-object-table > > > I needed to fix some tables quick. > > Professional patches welcome ;-) > > You could count the chars in a all the cells then allocate the space > accordingly. This would work better but would have problems with tables > that involved images. > > See the files in FORREST_HOME/main/skins/common/xslt/fo/ > > Ross -- vadim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
