Thanks again for the response that pointed me in the right direction. Part of my formatting problems were corrected. Now, I have some more questions that might be more about how Forrest generates PDF from XML. For instance:
- The text in my table header cells (<th>) is either printed with white foreground color, or is absent in the PDF. If I change these entries to be <td>, the text appears in the PDF. What control do I have over how this appears? What controls this? How do I correct this? - My HTML page contains four tables. I would like to have each table start on a new page in the PDF. Is this possible? What controls this, and how do I implement page breaks? - In my HTML page, I use an "email" image (graphic of an envelope) in a "mailto:"; link. These images appear in the PDF and take up a lot of room and cause the cell contents to wrap, etc. Can I suppress the appearance of these images in the PDF? How? I know I'll have more questions as I dig deeper, so I hope you'll bear with me as I try to understand which technology I need to work with, and how I modify these behaviors within Forrest. Thank you. - David L. Paterline Principal Engineer Westinghouse Electric Company Nuclear Fuel Engineering Engineering Computing [EMAIL PROTECTED] PH: 412-374-2286 FX: 412-374-2284 -----Original Message----- From: Thorsten Scherler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 2:54 PM To: user@forrest.apache.org Subject: Pdf output poorly formated (was RE: Bookmarklets: ...) On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 13:10 -0500, Paterline, David L. wrote: > Hello - Hi David, I changed the subject to be more topic focused. > > I'm having trouble with the PDF files generated by Forrest 0.7. > > The PDF files generated for my site are very poorly formatted, without > margins on either side of the pages. Therefore, all the content > stretches from the left physical edge of the page to the right > physical edge. Can you open an issue on our issue tracker and add an example of the pdf outcome. > > Also, within a table where table entries have links, the link text is > printed within parentheses along with the displayed text. > > As far as I know, I have not made any conscious modifications to the > way PDFs are generated, other than to turn the generation on. We need to debug it, attach apart from above pdf as well the *.fo file. You get it like requesting instead of http://localhost:8888/index.pdf http://localhost:8888/index.fo > Has anyone else seen problems like this? not really. > Can someone point me to > documentation which may help me correct this? Where is the formatting > and appearance of PDFs controlled? http://forrest.apache.org/docs_0_70/your-project.html#skinconf.xml scroll till you see <!-- Settings specific to PDF output. --> > > Thank you. you are welcome. salu2 > > - > David L. Paterline > Principal Engineer > Westinghouse Electric Company > Nuclear Fuel Engineering > Engineering Computing > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > PH: 412-374-2286 > FX: 412-374-2284 > -- thorsten "Together we stand, divided we fall!" Hey you (Pink Floyd)
