Newbie questions

[Peter Truskier <pt...@collabria.com>]

Hello,

I am new to FOP, and have a few questions with which I'm hoping to get some
help:

1. I downloaded FOP from the apache distribution directory. I got
"fop_bin_0_13_0.jar", and yet when I run it, it reports: "FOP 0.12.2 [dev]".
Is this correct? 

2. Does FOP currently support table cells spanning multiple columns? If so,
what is the correct syntax? The "n-columns-spanned" used in some of
RenderX's sample files does not seem to work.

3. Does FOP support any of: keep-together, keep-with-previous, or
keep-with-next traits? I cannot seem to get them to work. A PDF is rendered
without complaint, but they seem to have no effect.

4. What is the current state of SVG support? I see the simple example in
extensive.fo supplied with the distribution. I created a more complex SVG
from Illustrator 9 which used paths, and could not get FOP to work with it. 

TIA

> Peter Truskier
Collabria, Inc.
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San Mateo, CA 94403
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Re: Newbie questions

[Fotis Jannidis <fo...@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>]

> I am new to FOP, and have a few questions with which I'm hoping to get some
> help:
> 
> 1. I downloaded FOP from the apache distribution directory. I got
> "fop_bin_0_13_0.jar", and yet when I run it, it reports: "FOP 0.12.2 [dev]".
> Is this correct? 
Yes, well it is not correct, but ..
 
> 2. Does FOP currently support table cells spanning multiple columns? If so,
> what is the correct syntax? The "n-columns-spanned" used in some of
> RenderX's sample files does not seem to work.
Not supported
 
> 3. Does FOP support any of: keep-together, keep-with-previous, or
> keep-with-next traits? I cannot seem to get them to work. A PDF is rendered
> without complaint, but they seem to have no effect.
A known bug
 
> 4. What is the current state of SVG support? I see the simple example in
> extensive.fo supplied with the distribution. I created a more complex SVG
> from Illustrator 9 which used paths, and could not get FOP to work with it. 

Keiron has improved svg support considerably; please use the cvs version.

Fotis