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Posted to fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org by Khaled Aly <ka...@luxsci.net> on 2007/11/01 10:29:38 UTC
FW: proper fop command line
Hi Andreas, all
Just confirming a couple of things:
- I have my Java_Home environment variable pointing to the root of
jdk1.5.0_09, the version I got installed. I see the FOP downloads labeled
jdk1.3 and jdk1.4. I assume my JDK version should be backward compatible and
this could not be the problem. Any doubt?
- The same fo file that I mentioned works fine on oXygen (I'm trying to find
out what fop version it runs); this same file produces good output when I
run fop-0.20.4 - But, all tables are removed and their areas replaced by
equal-dimensioned space. Does this mean anything, or is there a known fix
for this issue for fop 0.2?
Thanks again
Khaled
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Khaled Aly [mailto:ka.aly@luxsci.net]
| Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 4:45 PM
| To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org
| Subject: RE: proper fop command line
|
| Andreas
| Thanks for that. I'll try to reduce and see where the problems are.
|
| |-----Original Message-----
| |From: Andreas L Delmelle [mailto:a_l.delmelle@pandora.be]
| |Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 11:53 PM
| |To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org
| |Subject: Re: proper fop command line
| |
| |On Oct 30, 2007, at 22:41, Khaled Aly wrote:
| |
| |> Thanks and sorry that your response got mis-filed, I just read it.
| |>
| |> I tried 'java -cp ... org.apache.fop.cli.Main file.fo file.fo
| |> file.pdf' and I got many exceptions. No output gets produced.
| |>
| |> When using the command line in the README file: 'fop -fo
| a40.fo -pdf
| |> a42.pdf', I get a long list of exceptions. I attach a DOS response
| |> screen shot in case it might help resolving.
| |
| |We'd have to have a look at the FO that causes the
| exceptions to be of
| |help here.
| |
| |Can you send us that? If possible, it would also be very
| helpful if you
| |could already reduce it to the smallest possible FO that
| does not work.
| |
| |
| |Thanks
| |
| |Andreas
| |
| |
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Re: proper fop command line
Posted by Andreas L Delmelle <a_...@pandora.be>.
On Nov 5, 2007, at 21:13, Khaled Aly wrote:
> Andreas L Delmelle wrote:
>>
>> For more info, see also: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/
>> download.html
> It is where I downloaded my 0.94 binary last week.
OK, see the section on 'Source Download' for more info, and if you're
serious about having a go, this page will be handy as well: http://
xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/trunk/compiling.html
>>
>> and we do not serve binaries off the Trunk.
> Sorry again: what means not serve them? I see there is a last
> update date next to each src or binary?
Simply means that the only binaries ('-bin') you can currently
download are /released/ versions.
The latest development code is not offered as binary. If you want to
use it, you will need to check it out from the Subversion repo,
download and install Apache Ant, and build the fop.jar yourself.
Cheers
Andreas
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Re: proper fop command line
Posted by Khaled Aly <ka...@luxsci.net>.
Andreas L Delmelle wrote:
>
> For more info, see also: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download.html
It is where I downloaded my 0.94 binary last week.
>
> and we do not serve binaries off the Trunk.
Sorry again: what means not serve them? I see there is a last update
date next to each src or binary?
Cheers...
Re: proper fop command line
Posted by Andreas L Delmelle <a_...@pandora.be>.
On Nov 5, 2007, at 20:08, Khaled Aly wrote:
Hi Khaled
> What do you mean by the FOP trunk?
Sorry, I always forget that this doesn't ring a bell with fop-
users... :(
Anyway, FOP Trunk is the latest source code as available in the
Subversion repository. Development on FOP is never halted. Sometimes
there is very little activity, but since the 0.94 release, there have
already been a number of improvements/fixes (for which we greatly
depend on you, the users, to make us aware of them).
For more info, see also: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download.html
> I ensured the error was there on both Apache FOP download page and
> oXygen 9Beta2, which has just been released last week (though
> doesn't mean its embedded FOP 0.94 fix had been updated).
Well, the fix probably didn't make it into the release (fixed
sometime between August and now), and we do not serve binaries off
the Trunk. Maybe oXygen has something in its documentation on how you
can update the bundled fop.jar. If this is possible, you could build
one off the Trunk, and replace the fop.jar that should be located
somewhere in oXygen's directory structure.
Cheers
Andreas
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Re: proper fop command line
Posted by Khaled Aly <ka...@luxsci.net>.
Andreas
What do you mean by the FOP trunk?
I ensured the error was there on both Apache FOP download page and
oXygen 9Beta2, which has just been released last week (though doesn't
mean its embedded FOP 0.94 fix had been updated).
Thanks
Khaled
Andreas L Delmelle wrote:
> On Nov 3, 2007, at 22:09, Khaled Aly wrote:
>
> <snip />
>
> Hi Khaled / Vincent,
>
> As a heads-up: I just tried running the attached FO through FOP trunk,
> and it seems to work fine.
>
> Seems that the issue then is restricted to the 0.94 release, but has
> been resolved in the meantime (?)
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Andreas
>
>
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Re: proper fop command line
Posted by Vincent Hennebert <vi...@anyware-tech.com>.
Hi Andreas, Khaled,
Andreas L Delmelle wrote:
> On Nov 3, 2007, at 22:09, Khaled Aly wrote:
>
> <snip />
>
> Hi Khaled / Vincent,
>
> As a heads-up: I just tried running the attached FO through FOP trunk,
> and it seems to work fine.
>
> Seems that the issue then is restricted to the 0.94 release, but has
> been resolved in the meantime (?)
Yes, very probably by Jeremias in revision 584699 (table-cells with
empty content).
Khaled, this is not an error if the header has only one cell and all the
other rows have 2 cells. This simply means that the header has a missing
cell (which is different to an empty cell (!), mainly in terms of border
painting... if I’m correct). FOP Trunk accepts both cases.
You can work around the problem by putting a non-breaking space in the
empty cells. You won’t even have to put a second cell in the header.
HTH,
Vincent
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Re: proper fop command line
Posted by Andreas L Delmelle <a_...@pandora.be>.
On Nov 3, 2007, at 22:09, Khaled Aly wrote:
<snip />
Hi Khaled / Vincent,
As a heads-up: I just tried running the attached FO through FOP
trunk, and it seems to work fine.
Seems that the issue then is restricted to the 0.94 release, but has
been resolved in the meantime (?)
Cheers
Andreas
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RE: proper fop command line
Posted by Khaled Aly <ka...@luxsci.net>.
Hi Vincent
Just having reduced the FO to the table where the problem was, I found there
was an error on my behalf. While every other row had two cells, the header
row where the problem was had only one cell with the empty block. With two
cells as should be, and at least one of them non-empty, a good pdf output is
generated. But when I made both cell blocks empty, there is the same error I
mentioned before - without the "Replacing GU in slot..." lines.
In spite of my error, I note:
- FOP 0.94 should still have accepted two cells each with an empty block,
according to Andreas statement.
- The initial incorrect layout of one cell with an empty block was processed
ok by FOP 0.93.
- FO validates well in all cases.
I attach the reduced FO, console error response, and the good PDF with just
one empty block.
Thanks for taking interest.
Regards
Khaled
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Vincent Hennebert [mailto:vincent.hennebert@anyware-tech.com]
| Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 11:59 AM
| To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org
| Subject: Re: proper fop command line
|
.............
|
| Sorry that I didn't follow the thread very closely. Do you
| still have the error messages that appear on your console
| screenshot ("Replacing GU in slot...")?
| If yes, then this is not related to bug #43766. Please post
| the FO file (obfuscated, if needed) that causes the error. It
| will probably help us spot and correct a weird bug.
|
| Thanks,
| Vincent
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Re: proper fop command line
Posted by Vincent Hennebert <vi...@anyware-tech.com>.
Hi,
Andreas L Delmelle wrote:
> On Nov 1, 2007, at 21:29, Khaled Aly wrote:
>
>> Thanks Andreas for your willingness to help. I got it working fine with
>> 0.93, which is the version used by oXygen 8.2 (that's why I never noticed
>> there was a problem; somehow 0.93 is forgiving about the particular
>> issue).
>> When I tried same on oXygen 9Beta, running FOP 0.94, it failed there
>> too but
>> the error msg was more informative than the console one, indicating
>> something to do with tables. Recalling FOP 0.2 had removed the tables, I
>> used your advice to rule out, just focusing on tables. I found this
>> problem:
>>
>> <fo:table table-layout="fixed" width="100%">
>> <fo:table-header>
>> <fo:table-row>
>> <fo:table-cell>
>> <fo:block font-size="9pt" font-family="sans-serif" font-weight="bold"/>
>> <<<<< 0.94 required a non-empty block
>> </fo:table-cell>
>> </fo:table-row>
>> </fo:table-header>
>
> It seems like you have also stumbled into the bug that has been
> mentioned a couple of times:
> see http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43766
>
> It's not a violation of the XSL-FO Rec to use empty fo:blocks in
> fo:table-cells. It is only a requirement to have at least one fo:block
> child, but nothing mandates the block to have children as well.
Sorry that I didn’t follow the thread very closely. Do you still have
the error messages that appear on your console screenshot (“Replacing GU
in slot...”)?
If yes, then this is not related to bug #43766. Please post the FO file
(obfuscated, if needed) that causes the error. It will probably help us
spot and correct a weird bug.
Thanks,
Vincent
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Re: proper fop command line
Posted by Andreas L Delmelle <a_...@pandora.be>.
On Nov 1, 2007, at 21:29, Khaled Aly wrote:
> Thanks Andreas for your willingness to help. I got it working fine
> with
> 0.93, which is the version used by oXygen 8.2 (that's why I never
> noticed
> there was a problem; somehow 0.93 is forgiving about the particular
> issue).
> When I tried same on oXygen 9Beta, running FOP 0.94, it failed
> there too but
> the error msg was more informative than the console one, indicating
> something to do with tables. Recalling FOP 0.2 had removed the
> tables, I
> used your advice to rule out, just focusing on tables. I found this
> problem:
>
> <fo:table table-layout="fixed" width="100%">
> <fo:table-header>
> <fo:table-row>
> <fo:table-cell>
> <fo:block font-size="9pt" font-family="sans-serif" font-
> weight="bold"/>
> <<<<< 0.94 required a non-empty block
> </fo:table-cell>
> </fo:table-row>
> </fo:table-header>
It seems like you have also stumbled into the bug that has been
mentioned a couple of times:
see http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43766
It's not a violation of the XSL-FO Rec to use empty fo:blocks in
fo:table-cells. It is only a requirement to have at least one
fo:block child, but nothing mandates the block to have children as well.
Cheers
Andreas
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RE: proper fop command line
Posted by Khaled Aly <ka...@luxsci.net>.
Thanks Andreas for your willingness to help. I got it working fine with
0.93, which is the version used by oXygen 8.2 (that's why I never noticed
there was a problem; somehow 0.93 is forgiving about the particular issue).
When I tried same on oXygen 9Beta, running FOP 0.94, it failed there too but
the error msg was more informative than the console one, indicating
something to do with tables. Recalling FOP 0.2 had removed the tables, I
used your advice to rule out, just focusing on tables. I found this problem:
<fo:table table-layout="fixed" width="100%">
<fo:table-header>
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="9pt" font-family="sans-serif" font-weight="bold"/>
<<<<< 0.94 required a non-empty block
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
</fo:table-header>
. . .
Still curious why 0.2 rejected all the fo tables although they were all just
basic and not all had the above "violation"! But likely there is no need to
use this version. It was fun working the day through to get to know FOP that
'much' better :-| Enough to figure that 0.94 is more strictly XSL 1.1
compliant, but I couldn't find an explicit requirement in the specification
about the block content. Hope I didn't bore you.
Cheers
Khaled
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Andreas L Delmelle [mailto:a_l.delmelle@pandora.be]
| Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 11:46 AM
| To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org
| Subject: Re: proper fop command line
|
| On Nov 1, 2007, at 10:29, Khaled Aly wrote:
|
| Hi Khaled
|
| > - I have my Java_Home environment variable pointing to the root of
| > jdk1.5.0_09, the version I got installed. I see the FOP downloads
| > labeled
| > jdk1.3 and jdk1.4. I assume my JDK version should be backward
| > compatible and this could not be the problem. Any doubt?
|
| This should indeed not be an issue. I run/test FOP on Java 1.5 and
| 1.6 all the time, and haven't seen any weirdness so far.
|
| > - The same fo file that I mentioned works fine on oXygen
| (I'm trying
| > to find out what fop version it runs); this same file produces good
| > output when I run fop-0.20.4 - But, all tables are removed
| and their
| > areas replaced by equal-dimensioned space. Does this mean
| anything, or
| > is there a known fix for this issue for fop 0.2?
|
| We still haven't seen the whole FO-file, but note that there
| are some serious differences between FOP 0.20.x and 0.9x. FOs
| that worked under 0.20.x may need some work before you can
| use them with 0.9x.
| See also: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.94/upgrading.html
|
| Can you show us the FO?
|
|
| Thanks
|
| Andreas
|
|
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Re: proper fop command line
Posted by Andreas L Delmelle <a_...@pandora.be>.
On Nov 1, 2007, at 10:29, Khaled Aly wrote:
Hi Khaled
> - I have my Java_Home environment variable pointing to the root of
> jdk1.5.0_09, the version I got installed. I see the FOP downloads
> labeled
> jdk1.3 and jdk1.4. I assume my JDK version should be backward
> compatible and
> this could not be the problem. Any doubt?
This should indeed not be an issue. I run/test FOP on Java 1.5 and
1.6 all the time, and haven't seen any weirdness so far.
> - The same fo file that I mentioned works fine on oXygen (I'm
> trying to find
> out what fop version it runs); this same file produces good output
> when I
> run fop-0.20.4 - But, all tables are removed and their areas
> replaced by
> equal-dimensioned space. Does this mean anything, or is there a
> known fix
> for this issue for fop 0.2?
We still haven't seen the whole FO-file, but note that there are some
serious differences between FOP 0.20.x and 0.9x. FOs that worked
under 0.20.x may need some work before you can use them with 0.9x.
See also: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.94/upgrading.html
Can you show us the FO?
Thanks
Andreas
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