Printing on HP Unix using FOP

["Gosselin, Michael" <Mi...@AthenaDiagnostics.com>]

Hello,

We have installed FOP on our HP/Compaq Tru64 UNIX V5.1A (Rev. 1885)
operating system.  We've done this so I can develop a java program to print
a PDF (or other similarly rendered file) to a printer.

The documentation for fop -print help is, well, limited.  There seems to be
some setup we need to do in order to get this working.

Has anyone been able to create a PDF file using FOP, and then print it to a
printer?

All help is appreciated.

Oh, I can see the Yahoo! group, but searching for "-print" doesn't help
much.

Michael Gosselin


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Re: Printing on HP Unix using FOP

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

Gosselin, Michael wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> We have installed FOP on our HP/Compaq Tru64 UNIX V5.1A (Rev. 1885)
> operating system.  We've done this so I can develop a java program to print
> a PDF (or other similarly rendered file) to a printer.

What version of FOP are you using?

> 
> The documentation for fop -print help is, well, limited.  There seems to be
> some setup we need to do in order to get this working.

I replied to this in the other thread on fop-dev. It uses the AWT 
Renderer, which looks nothing like PDF.

> 
> Has anyone been able to create a PDF file using FOP, and then print it to a
> printer?

The PDF and PS Renderer use identical Font metrics and common layout 
algorithms. If you are using 0.20.5 though, the PS Renderer has a few 
bug and missing features compared to PDF. In 0.91beta, their 
functionality is equivalent.

The recommended approach is to render a PS file, and then use the lp 
command to send the PS file directly to the Printer. Assuming your 
Printer understands Postscript of course ;)

Chris



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