FOP-0.20.3 not working correctly with Adobe Reader 7.0

[Ni...@allianzworldwidecare.com]

Hi,

We are using FOP-0.20.3 loaded into Oracle 9i database (Oracle9i 
Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.7.0) in order to dynamically generate PDF 
documents using stored in the database
XML and XSL-FO stylesheets.
It was working perfectly with Adobe Reader 6.x releases, but after 
upgrading to Adobe Reader 7.0 we have the following issue:

After the PDF is created and when trying to open it, Adobe Reader 7.0 
displays the following mesage box "There were too many arguments". When 
clicking "OK" button to confirm, the PDF document is displayed normally.
I would be very grateful if you can advise me how to get rid of this 
message (without having to upgrade to newer version of FOP, since 
FOP-0.20.3 is the only one to work correctly with Oracle 9i database).

Maybe there is already a workaround or bug fix developped solving this 
problem since other people in the Internet forums seem to have the same 
issue with FOP-0.20.3 and Adobe Reader 7.0
I'll apreciate a lot if someone from the FOP team may point may attention 
to a possible solution and please accept my apologize if this has already 
been discussed somewhere in Internet. 


Thank you very much in advance.

Regards,

Nikola Ivanov

Senior Developer

Allianz World Wide Care, Ireland
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Re: update 0.20 and 0.93 xdocs index pages?

[Adrian Cumiskey <ad...@gmail.com>]

Thanks Clay,

Hopefully from now on we will start to see more user questions related 
to 0.93/trunk and less from 0.20.5 :-).

Adrian.

The Web Maestro wrote:
> On 6/7/07, Adrian Cumiskey <ad...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have attached a patch file to update the descriptions to something
>> which maybe better communicates to potential new FOP users which version
>> of FOP we recommend they adopt in their environments.  Please feel free
>> of course to amend these descriptions, I have provided them just for
>> illustration.
>>
>> Adrian.
> 
> Patch applied. The change will show up on the site after the next site
> generation. Thank you Adrian.
> 
> Web Maestro Clay
> 

Re: update 0.20 and 0.93 xdocs index pages?

[The Web Maestro <th...@gmail.com>]

On 6/7/07, Adrian Cumiskey <ad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have attached a patch file to update the descriptions to something
> which maybe better communicates to potential new FOP users which version
> of FOP we recommend they adopt in their environments.  Please feel free
> of course to amend these descriptions, I have provided them just for
> illustration.
>
> Adrian.

Patch applied. The change will show up on the site after the next site
generation. Thank you Adrian.

Web Maestro Clay

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update 0.20 and 0.93 xdocs index pages?

[Adrian Cumiskey <ad...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

I have just stumbles upon the FOP main xdocs index pages :-

0.20.5	http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.20.5/index.html
0.93	http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.93/index.html

I believe that these 'About' descriptions no longer reflect the current 
state of the project and suggest that we should be directing our users 
to use 0.93 and not 0.20.5 anymore.

I have attached a patch file to update the descriptions to something 
which maybe better communicates to potential new FOP users which version 
of FOP we recommend they adopt in their environments.  Please feel free 
of course to amend these descriptions, I have provided them just for 
illustration.

Adrian.

Re: FOP-0.20.3 not working correctly with Adobe Reader 7.0

[Chris Bowditch <bo...@hotmail.com>]

Nikola.Ivanov@allianzworldwidecare.com wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We are using FOP-0.20.3 loaded into Oracle 9i database (Oracle9i 
> Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.7.0) in order to dynamically generate 
> PDF documents using stored in the database
> XML and XSL-FO stylesheets.

Firstly, I should mention that this is the wrong mailing to list to post 
up questions about using FOP. In future please use fop-users@ to post 
questions.

> It was working perfectly with Adobe Reader 6.x releases, but after 
> upgrading to Adobe Reader 7.0 we have the following issue:
> 
> After the PDF is created and when trying to open it, Adobe Reader 7.0 
> displays the following mesage box "There were too many arguments". When 
> clicking "OK" button to confirm, the PDF document is displayed normally.
> I would be very grateful if you can advise me how to get rid of this 
> message (without having to upgrade to newer version of FOP, since 
> FOP-0.20.3 is the only one to work correctly with Oracle 9i database).

FOP-0.20.3 is older than the hills! I understand there might be some 
effort involved in upgrading to the recent releases, i.e. 0.93, but 
0.20.5 is a straight swap for 0.20.3 and you should at the very least 
try to get onto 0.20.5. Although that too is very old...

As for FOP not working with Oracle, I assume you mean when deployed 
within the Oracle Application Server? The problem is normally down to 
buggy XML parser and XSL Transformer implementation supplied by Oracle 
which FOP uses to generate/read the FO. This problem comes up a lot on 
the users list. A quick search of the archives revealed this thread:

http://marc.info/?l=fop-user&m=116031401105281&w=2

<snip/>

Chris