Eleni Kring wrote: > > We have been having some problems when converting some docbook files to PDF. > In some cases, the text runs into the footer. In other cases, the text runs > past the cells of a table. Neither happens consistently. Are there XXE > settings we have to change or are their likely format issues with certain > documents? We have already adjusted the conversion parameters to paper.type > letter. >
No, the problems you have cannot be solved by changing settings from within XXE. The problems you have are caused by the XSL-FO processor which is the software which translates XSL-FO (a page layout specification) to PDF. XXE has plug-ins for two such XSL-FO processors: * Apache FOP, * RenderX XEP. --> Apache FOP is a free, still in development, OpenSource software. In our experience: - FOP sometimes does not render footnotes (e.g. when the footnote is contained in a table cell). This bug should be fixed in a future version. - FOP cannot render tables with an auto layout. This limitation should be removed in a future version. - With FOP, the text runs past the cells of a table when the XSL style sheet that generates XSL-FO omits to specify start-indent="0" on the fo:table element and its descendants. This is not a bug in FOP, but rather a bug in the XSL style sheet. Note that the above problems do not exactly correspond to wht you describe. Also note that the above problems are 100% predictable. --> We still recommend using RenderX XEP (~USD300) for production use. That's what we do for our own documents. You can test drive RenderX XEP using its free Personal Edition: http://www.renderx.com/download/personal.html
