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FOP and barcode
Hi,
we are generating PDF through XML/XSLT using FOP and I would like to know
if it is possible to generate barcode in the resulting PDF document.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Mathias
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Re: Table borders
Posted by Steven Lane <sl...@mail.fmpro.com>.
>--- Steven Lane <sl...@mail.fmpro.com> wrote:
>> ... Or should I just grit my teeth and go to the W3C standard?
>
>This is highly recommended. There seems little point in repeating
>the W3C standard in our docs. Unfortunately it isn't all implemented
>but...
I guess I shouldn't have said either-or :-> Naturally I will keep referring
to the W3C docs. I guess I was hoping wishfully for a rundown of known
issues or anomalies in FOP's handling of the pieces it does implement. I
don't know if the current bug list would be a place to start. I know how
hard it is to program and document at the same time, anyway . . .
thanks,
steve
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Re: Table borders
Posted by "D. van den Bos - RJ Uhlhorn" <dv...@cistron.nl>.
Hi,
I am wondering which known table-border problems there are...
At the moment I'm trying the following:
<fo:table border-top-width="0.5pt" border-top-style="solid"
border-bottom-width="0.5pt" border-bottom-style="solid">
<fo:table-header border-bottom-width="0.5pt" border-bottom-style="solid">
No borders appear...
Is this a know problem or am I doing something wrong ?
Thanks!
Greetings,
Dineke van den Bos
At 12:53 AM 4/11/01 -0500, you wrote:
>At 5:47 PM +0200 4/8/01, Karen Lease wrote:
> >Hi Steven,
> >
> >The current version of FOP has some known table-border problems. I'm
> >currently working on this and hopefully it will be better in a couple of
> >days. (I said that on Thursday too, but I've been installing my new
> >Linux PC this weekend, so I didn't get very far with FOP. But now my
> >compiles will go a LOT FASTER.)
> >
> >However, a few hints. . .
>
>Karen:
>
>Thanks for taking the time to send such a detailed answer. This tells me a
>lot of what I need to know. If I knew the FOP code well enough I'd love to
>help out, but it will take some time to get there. For now, I've found that
>certain combinations of attributes work fine. Adding padding to a
>multi-column cell seems to give odd results. Changing the start-indent of
>the mandatory <fo:block> element inside the cell gives the right effect and
>preserves the cell borders perfectly.
>
>Thanks,
>
>steve
>
>
>----------
>Steve Lane
>Senior Project Manager
>Chris Moyer Consulting, Inc.
>833 West Chicago Ave Suite 203
>(312) 433-2421
>http://www.fmpro.com
>
>
>
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Re: Table borders
Posted by Denis Perchine <dy...@perchine.com>.
On Sunday 22 April 2001 16:38, D. van den Bos - RJ Uhlhorn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am wondering which known table-border problems there are...
> At the moment I'm trying the following:
>
> <fo:table border-top-width="0.5pt" border-top-style="solid"
> border-bottom-width="0.5pt" border-bottom-style="solid">
> <fo:table-header border-bottom-width="0.5pt" border-bottom-style="solid">
>
> No borders appear...
>
> Is this a know problem or am I doing something wrong ?
Try to add border-color="black"
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Re: Table borders
Posted by Karen Lease <ka...@club-internet.fr>.
Hi,
Which version of FOP are you using? I just tried an example like this
using the latest CVS and it seems fine. If that's what you are using,
perhaps you can show us a little more of your fo file.
Attached is the one I just tested with correct results.
Regards,
Karen
"D. van den Bos - RJ Uhlhorn" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am wondering which known table-border problems there are...
> At the moment I'm trying the following:
>
> <fo:table border-top-width="0.5pt" border-top-style="solid"
> border-bottom-width="0.5pt" border-bottom-style="solid">
> <fo:table-header border-bottom-width="0.5pt" border-bottom-style="solid">
>
> No borders appear...
>
> Is this a know problem or am I doing something wrong ?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Greetings,
> Dineke van den Bos
Re: Table borders
Posted by "D. van den Bos - RJ Uhlhorn" <dv...@cistron.nl>.
Hi,
I am wondering which known table-border problems there are...
At the moment I'm trying the following:
<fo:table border-top-width="0.5pt" border-top-style="solid"
border-bottom-width="0.5pt" border-bottom-style="solid">
<fo:table-header border-bottom-width="0.5pt" border-bottom-style="solid">
No borders appear...
Is this a know problem or am I doing something wrong ?
Thanks!
Greetings,
Dineke van den Bos
At 12:53 AM 4/11/01 -0500, you wrote:
>At 5:47 PM +0200 4/8/01, Karen Lease wrote:
> >Hi Steven,
> >
> >The current version of FOP has some known table-border problems. I'm
> >currently working on this and hopefully it will be better in a couple of
> >days. (I said that on Thursday too, but I've been installing my new
> >Linux PC this weekend, so I didn't get very far with FOP. But now my
> >compiles will go a LOT FASTER.)
> >
> >However, a few hints. . .
>
>Karen:
>
>Thanks for taking the time to send such a detailed answer. This tells me a
>lot of what I need to know. If I knew the FOP code well enough I'd love to
>help out, but it will take some time to get there. For now, I've found that
>certain combinations of attributes work fine. Adding padding to a
>multi-column cell seems to give odd results. Changing the start-indent of
>the mandatory <fo:block> element inside the cell gives the right effect and
>preserves the cell borders perfectly.
>
>Thanks,
>
>steve
>
>
>----------
>Steve Lane
>Senior Project Manager
>Chris Moyer Consulting, Inc.
>833 West Chicago Ave Suite 203
>(312) 433-2421
>http://www.fmpro.com
>
>
>
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Re: Table borders
Posted by Steven Lane <sl...@mail.fmpro.com>.
At 5:47 PM +0200 4/8/01, Karen Lease wrote:
>Hi Steven,
>
>The current version of FOP has some known table-border problems. I'm
>currently working on this and hopefully it will be better in a couple of
>days. (I said that on Thursday too, but I've been installing my new
>Linux PC this weekend, so I didn't get very far with FOP. But now my
>compiles will go a LOT FASTER.)
>
>However, a few hints. . .
Karen:
Thanks for taking the time to send such a detailed answer. This tells me a
lot of what I need to know. If I knew the FOP code well enough I'd love to
help out, but it will take some time to get there. For now, I've found that
certain combinations of attributes work fine. Adding padding to a
multi-column cell seems to give odd results. Changing the start-indent of
the mandatory <fo:block> element inside the cell gives the right effect and
preserves the cell borders perfectly.
Thanks,
steve
----------
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Senior Project Manager
Chris Moyer Consulting, Inc.
833 West Chicago Ave Suite 203
(312) 433-2421
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Re: Table borders
Posted by Karen Lease <ka...@club-internet.fr>.
Hi Steven,
The current version of FOP has some known table-border problems. I'm
currently working on this and hopefully it will be better in a couple of
days. (I said that on Thursday too, but I've been installing my new
Linux PC this weekend, so I didn't get very far with FOP. But now my
compiles will go a LOT FASTER.)
However, a few hints. In the W3C CR, there are two kinds of table and
cell borders: separate and collapse. The one used is controlled by the
"border-collapse" property which you can specify on the table. The
default value is "collapse". Unfortunately, until now FOP only supports
"separate", no matter what was specified. When I commit the first batch
of changes it will still only (correcltly) support "separate", but now
you'll have to specify it!
What's the difference? In the "separate" model, each cell has its own
borders which are drawn inside the theoretical grid lines. They are
separated from the theoretical grid line by half the value of the
"border-separation" property. So if that is 0pt (the default value), and
you set a border of "1pt" on all of your cells, you should see an
effective "2pt" border between each cell. The table border will be drawn
outside the table rectangle (whose width is the sum of all the column
widths). So if you specify 1pt borders on the table too, you should get
2pt borders everywhere, including on the outermost cells.
In the collapse border, there is only one border drawn where any two
cells meet. Its thickness is determined by some complicated rules
(influenced by CSS) and also by the "border-before-precedence",
border-after-precedence, etc properties. These aren't currently
supported by FOP. I hope to do these in a second round of work, as soon
as I finish the "separate" fixes. You'll have to look at the W3C
document (chapter 6, section 7 on table FOs) for more details.
Another warning: FOP only knows how to span columns for now, not rows. I
hope to get around to that too (third stage), as long as I'm in the
table code.
Good luck,
Karen Lease
Steven Lane wrote:
>
> Hello all:
>
> I'm having some trouble with table borders in FOP. I don't know if it's
> just my own ignorance of FO in general, or what.
>
> I have a fairly complicated table I need to render. Some cells span
> multiple columns, others span multiple rows. Nothing too terrible. Each
> cell, or in some cases a few merged cells, needs a single outline.
>
> I started with a "border" attribute on the whole table, and just gave it
> one row. That looked fine. Then I wanted vertical borders on the table
> cells, to divide them from each other. so I gave each one a border-right.
> That looked OK too but there were a couple of problems.
>
> 1) The vertical border-rights did not come up and meet the table border,
> but rather left a gap above.
> 2) The rightmost cell had a double-thick right border, the apparent result
> of seeing both a table border and a cell border.
>
> Neither of these made sense to me. I would have assumed that a table's
> borders were the same as those of its outermost cells. Is this true? It
> didn't seem to be.
>
> So, I took off the table border and put on nothing but cell borders. More
> of the same problems -- borders between cells were double-thick, but worse,
> the border-rights were too tall -- they jut out a pixel or two above the
> top of the cell border.
>
> So then I put a table border back on the lot to see how it related to the
> cell border. It came in several pixels above the cell borders, even though
> I didn't have any padding attributes. Again I wondered why a table would
> have a different border from its top row of cells.
>
> So -- are these problems my own ignorance, or are there any problems with
> how FOP 0.18.1 handles table borders? I noticed that the border.fo document
> in docs/examples/fo comes out with some problems under 0.18. If this is my
> own ignorance, is there a convenient document that shows how table borders
> fit together? Or should I just grit my teeth and go to the W3C standard?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> steve
>
> ----------
> Steve Lane
> Senior Project Manager
> Chris Moyer Consulting, Inc.
> 833 West Chicago Ave Suite 203
> (312) 433-2421
> http://www.fmpro.com
>
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Re: Table borders
Posted by Alex McLintock <al...@yahoo.com>.
--- Steven Lane <sl...@mail.fmpro.com> wrote:
> ... Or should I just grit my teeth and go to the W3C standard?
This is highly recommended. There seems little point in repeating
the W3C standard in our docs. Unfortunately it isn't all implemented
but...
Alex
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Re: Table borders
Posted by Steven Lane <sl...@mail.fmpro.com>.
Hello all:
I'm having some trouble with table borders in FOP. I don't know if it's
just my own ignorance of FO in general, or what.
I have a fairly complicated table I need to render. Some cells span
multiple columns, others span multiple rows. Nothing too terrible. Each
cell, or in some cases a few merged cells, needs a single outline.
I started with a "border" attribute on the whole table, and just gave it
one row. That looked fine. Then I wanted vertical borders on the table
cells, to divide them from each other. so I gave each one a border-right.
That looked OK too but there were a couple of problems.
1) The vertical border-rights did not come up and meet the table border,
but rather left a gap above.
2) The rightmost cell had a double-thick right border, the apparent result
of seeing both a table border and a cell border.
Neither of these made sense to me. I would have assumed that a table's
borders were the same as those of its outermost cells. Is this true? It
didn't seem to be.
So, I took off the table border and put on nothing but cell borders. More
of the same problems -- borders between cells were double-thick, but worse,
the border-rights were too tall -- they jut out a pixel or two above the
top of the cell border.
So then I put a table border back on the lot to see how it related to the
cell border. It came in several pixels above the cell borders, even though
I didn't have any padding attributes. Again I wondered why a table would
have a different border from its top row of cells.
So -- are these problems my own ignorance, or are there any problems with
how FOP 0.18.1 handles table borders? I noticed that the border.fo document
in docs/examples/fo comes out with some problems under 0.18. If this is my
own ignorance, is there a convenient document that shows how table borders
fit together? Or should I just grit my teeth and go to the W3C standard?
Thanks in advance,
steve
----------
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Senior Project Manager
Chris Moyer Consulting, Inc.
833 West Chicago Ave Suite 203
(312) 433-2421
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Re: FOP and barcode
Posted by Tim Landscheidt <ti...@gmx.de>.
Mathias.Ruegner@synthesis.de wrote:
> we are generating PDF through XML/XSLT using FOP and I would like to know
> if it is possible to generate barcode in the resulting PDF document.
> Any ideas?
<URI:http://www.renderx.com/Demos/barcode/>.
Tim
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Re: FOP and barcode
Posted by Eric Richardson <mi...@milagrosoft.com>.
Torkild Ulvøy Resheim wrote:
>
> I wrote some XSL code to create CODE-39 barcodes in SVG some time ago, these can easily be embedded in the final PDF document. Someone on this mailing list also wrote XSL to produce SVG for EAN.
> If anyone is interested I could post my code somewhere. It's not 100% clean code but it works and made our customers very happy :-)
> Using SVG to produce barcodes is in my opinion less work demanding and more "clean" than using fonts.
I'm interested!
Eric :-)
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Re: FOP and barcode
Posted by Torkild Ulvøy Resheim <tr...@online.no>.
I wrote some XSL code to create CODE-39 barcodes in SVG some time ago, these can easily be embedded in the final PDF document. Someone on this mailing list also wrote XSL to produce SVG for EAN.
If anyone is interested I could post my code somewhere. It's not 100% clean code but it works and made our customers very happy :-)
Using SVG to produce barcodes is in my opinion less work demanding and more "clean" than using fonts.
Torkild U. Resheim
Emma EDB AS
----- Original Message -----
From: <Ma...@synthesis.de>
To: <fo...@xml.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 7:16 PM
Subject: FOP and barcode
Hi,
we are generating PDF through XML/XSLT using FOP and I would like to know
if it is possible to generate barcode in the resulting PDF document.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Mathias
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synthesis GmbH
Schockenriedstrasse 8 b
70565 Stuttgart, Germany
mail: mathias.ruegner@synthesis.de
phone: +49 711 90680 0
fax: +49 711 90680 66
web: www.synthesis.de
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