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Question regarding FOP usage and PCL duplex
I have started to evaluate FOP for document production purposes.
At first look I am very impressed and hope to use it to produce PCL for
print runs of (less than 10) thousand small simple documents(2-3
pages). I also intend to store the FO make up of the document of the
document for production on demand in pdf (etc..) formats.
Firstly I would be grateful if you could let me know if this is a
sensible use for FOP.
Secondly, regarding PCL I notice that output tray selection is
supported via an extension I have tested this and it works but I cant
see how to specify a page as duplex. I am happy to get dug in to the
source code if required to achieve this. Does anyone have any
experience in generating PCL for duplex documents?
(I also have a problem with AWT rendering integrated within my java
program... would this be a good place to ask)
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Re: Question regarding FOP usage and PCL duplex
Posted by David Hurcomb <da...@mpfs.org.uk>.
>> Secondly, regarding PCL I notice that output tray selection is
>> supported via an extension I have tested this and it works but I cant
>> see how to specify a page as duplex. I am happy to get dug in to the
>> source code if required to achieve this. Does anyone have any
>> experience in generating PCL for duplex documents?
>
> There is a similar bug recorded in Bugzilla that prevents Duplex
> Printing in PCL.
>
> http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43650
>
> However, this is not about getting the duplex commands into the PCL
> stream though. I don't know how that could be done.
I thought that I could start by adding a method to
org.apache.fop.render.pcl.PCLGenerator.java and a call to it from
PCLRenderer in the same way that "paper-source" is set. But I bet it is
not that simple!
> But even if you solved that problem, the above bug would prevent the
> document being printed correctly.
That's a bit of a showstopper, but it looks like a patch has been
submitted perhaps once I can work out how to compile the code I will be
able to test it. (I'm a bit new to open source development lark)
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Re: Question regarding FOP usage and PCL duplex
Posted by Chris Bowditch <bo...@hotmail.com>.
David Hurcomb wrote:
> I have started to evaluate FOP for document production purposes.
>
> At first look I am very impressed and hope to use it to produce PCL for
> print runs of (less than 10) thousand small simple documents(2-3
> pages). I also intend to store the FO make up of the document of the
> document for production on demand in pdf (etc..) formats.
> Firstly I would be grateful if you could let me know if this is a
> sensible use for FOP.
Yes. FOP is quite capable of generating high volumes of documents in
either PCL or PDF.
>
> Secondly, regarding PCL I notice that output tray selection is
> supported via an extension I have tested this and it works but I cant
> see how to specify a page as duplex. I am happy to get dug in to the
> source code if required to achieve this. Does anyone have any
> experience in generating PCL for duplex documents?
There is a similar bug recorded in Bugzilla that prevents Duplex
Printing in PCL.
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43650
However, this is not about getting the duplex commands into the PCL
stream though. I don't know how that could be done. But even if you
solved that problem, the above bug would prevent the document being
printed correctly.
>
> (I also have a problem with AWT rendering integrated within my java
> program... would this be a good place to ask)
Yes.
Chris
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