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Newbie xslfo with FOP questions
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- Subject: [xsl] Newbie xslfo with FOP questions
- From: "Paul Bell" <pbell at syncsort dot com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 16:04:07 -0500
- Organization: Syncsort Incorporated
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Hi All,
I am championing FOP at my company as the means by which one of our GUI
products can accomplish various print/reporting functions.
I have a few questions about table cell layout and other things:
1. is it true that the column-width attribute of fo:table-column does not
support percentages? I get a 'no conversion defined' error from
org.apache....PropertyException
2. I am not sure how best to handle the setting of column-width. I tried
dividing columns into equal widths based on page width. But if cell content
(at a given point size)
exceeds this width, then the content spills over into the adjacent
cell. Is there a way to 'look ahead' at the souce data to determine the
maximum width of the data for
a particular column?
3. Suppose that a user can define her own custom reports. The data for one
report might be a mere 4 columns, fitting easily across 8.5 inches. Another
report might
be 15 columns, all of which simply won't fit. What is a good way of
handling this in FOP?
4. Is external-graphic broken? I get error: [1Error while creating area :
Error while recovering Image Informations (file:/graphics/page.gif) :
\graphics\page.gif
5. Is there a restriction on placement of <fo:basic-link..>? I tried
placing it, wrapped in <fo:block> in the xsl-region-before static content
flow and get an error. The error message is
the rather cryptic '-1 < 0'
Thanks in advance.
Cordially,
Paul
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