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Posted to fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org by Jeremias Maerki <de...@jeremias-maerki.ch> on 2009/10/01 09:26:55 UTC
Re: AW: AW: Text rendering with FOP
I think this is about FOP's text renderer, not RTF. I don't think it's
easily possible to use the same stylesheet for PDF and text output, as
the text output is quite restricted in what it can do, first because
text output has a much reduced resolution and it has to find the best
possible way to map characters to a text position in the output. That's
why the following page contains some hints what to do to improve the
chances of getting good text output:
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/output.html#txt
Georg, RTF doesn't have no users. Actually, a surprisingly large number
of people use it. The thing is: it's not well maintained and there are
severe restrictions concerning what can be mapped from XSL-FO to RTF.
But that's not the same as "discontinuing RTF functionality". It's still
available and will remain so for now (with the current restrictions).
On 30.09.2009 16:58:16 Georg Datterl wrote:
> Hi fopit,
>
> I see. Instead of rendering a pdf you want a text file. Or RTF? I think,
> I read something lately about discontinuing the rtf functionality
> because nobody uses it, but I leave the topic to the experts, since I
> only render to pdf. Maybe you could post a shortened fo file and the
> text file so the experts can actually see what's wrong.
>
> Regards,
>
> Georg Datterl
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> Von: fopit [mailto:lemailinconnu@gmail.com]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. September 2009 16:53
> An: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org
> Betreff: Re: AW: Text rendering with FOP
>
>
> Hello Georg, and thank you for answering,
>
> In fact, that's not exactly what I want.
> I explain :
> I have indeed an XML file, and an XSL file, that create an FO file, which I use to create a PDF, with FOP. Without any problem.
>
> But I want to use the same XSL file, and so, the same FO file, to create a plain-text document, that will be a kind of a viewer of the PDF for the user.
> And using FOP is not a success, for I only have what correspond to the beginning of my PDF.
>
> To resume, I want, from the same XSL, to have a PDF and a plain-text documents, where the plain-text is not as "beautiful" as the pdf. I successly create the pdf, but, in the text-version, I only have the beginning of it.
>
> Is it clearer?
> Thanks
>
>
> Georg Datterl wrote:
> >
> > Hello fopit,
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand what you want. Let me rephrase and tell me,
> > if I'm correct:
> >
> > * You have an XML file and a XSL file and generate PDFs.
> > * You want to generate a PDF, where only the first few lines of a text
> > are displayed
> > * You want to use the same XML file and the same XSL file
> >
> > If that is correct, you can reuse your XML file, but need a slightly
> > different transformation in which the text is shortend. That's not
> > correct xsl code, but in place of
> > <fo:block>$variable_holding_long_text</fo:block>
> > you would need a <fo:block>substring($variable_holding_long_text, 1,
> > $variable_holding_number_of_characters_to_display</fo:block>
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Georg Datterl
> >
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> > Von: fopit [mailto:lemailinconnu@gmail.com]
> > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. September 2009 16:03
> > An: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org
> > Betreff: Text rendering with FOP
> >
> >
> > Hello there
> >
> > First of all, as english is not my natural tongue, i beg you to excuse
> > faults or nonsense that would eventually come.
> >
> > I'm using FOP to create PDF from XML. Nothing particular, and it works
> > great.
> > But I also want to use it - and the same XSL-FO - to create a text
> > from the XML, a simple viewer of the PDF for final users, and there,
> > problems begin :
> > it's like having a very size-limited buffer, only the beginning of my
> > text is render.
> >
> > I read here and there that fop wasn't the best thing to do
> > text-rendering, but, really, I just want a viewer, nothing complicate or fancy.
> >
> > So, I wonder, why do fop render me only the beginning of my text, and
> > is there anything to do to change that?
> >
> > Thanks
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