Page (re)calculation

[Erik Rehrmann <re...@ion.ag>]

Hi all,

I have to know if it is possible to calculate the content of the left page in dependence on the contents of the right page.

We have to print a book consisting of a paragraph-like left side content and a right side which describes the single paragraphs of the left side. The size of the description on the right side can have 3 lines up to 3 pages. 
And here is the problem:
There must only as many paragraphs on the left side as can be described on the right side. If a description exceeds one page, the next left page has to be empty.

Is this possible with FOP, maybe by render the right side counting the descriptive parts and then inserting the paragraph page before? If so, how has the XML file to look like?

Any suggestion is greatly appreciated,

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Erik Rehrmann - IOn AG
rehrmann@ion.ag

Re: What are people doing with FOP? [Was Re: Page (re)calculation]

[Ingo Bruell <ib...@gmx.de>]

Hi Weiqi,

WG> And here's my question to all the 'fop-users': How are you using FOP?

I am using fop in standalone applications to generate some pdf output.
For  example  an  archive system that stores the data in xml on cd-rom
and  with  a  viewer i convert the xml files into pdf. For performance
improvment it is possible that i convert them directly to pdf, so the
viewer only shows the pdf files.
I  had  generated  a  paper with docbook and used fop to convert it in
pdf.

so long


Ingo Bruell

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What are people doing with FOP? [Was Re: Page (re)calculation]

[Weiqi Gao <we...@networkusa.net>]

On 09 Jul 2001 07:40:25 +0200, Erik Rehrmann wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have to know if it is possible to calculate the content of the
> left page in dependence on the contents of the right page.
> 
> We have to print a book consisting of a paragraph-like left side
> content and a right side which describes the single paragraphs
> of the left side. The size of the description on the right side
> can have 3 lines up to 3 pages.  And here is the problem: There
> must only as many paragraphs on the left side as can be described
> on the right side. If a description exceeds one page, the next
> left page has to be empty.
> 
> Is this possible with FOP, maybe by render the right side counting
> the descriptive parts and then inserting the paragraph page
> before? If so, how has the XML file to look like?

I'm replying to this messaging for two purposes:

1. Recognize that I did receive this message, if that makes someone
happy :) .  (This is the original "Page (re)calculation" message, not
the repost.)

2. Wow!  You are doing that with FOP?

And here's my question to all the 'fop-users': How are you using FOP?

I'm using it (plan to, pending approval and load testing, etc., etc.,)
in an servlet environment where a DTD, a XSLT stylesheet, and a simple
API is provided so that any servlet can call a few line of code to
generate a PDF stream, which they send to the browser for printing:

DocGen dg = new DocGen();
byte[] ba = dg.genDoc("<doc><h1>Title</h1><p>Testing, 1, 2, 3,
...</p></doc>", DocGen.GEN_PDF);
Response.setContentType("application/pdf");
Response.getWriter().write(ba);

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