Apache FOP is a document rendering engine that implements the W3C XSL-FO 1.1 Specification.
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How can you tell what version of CGM a file is?
I have been searching and while I can find many descriptions of the different versions of CGM files, I am trying to find a way to tell what version of CGM a particular file is.
I have been having some issues with printing pdf documents that include…

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PDF designing using XSL FO
I have a question regarding the PDF designing:
I have a requirement where in the whole PDF should have an image (kind of a background image) along with the header and footer repeating if the content in the body region overflows?
Thanks in advance.

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How can I specify line-length behaviour in Apache FOP?
I have rendered the same XSL-FO in a trial of Ecrion and Apache FOP, and you'll notice that the two renderers have produced different line-lengths on lines 2 and 3. The way Ecrion has rendered the text is the way I would like Apache FOP to do…

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Embedding fonts
I'm using Apache FOP with an XML document, and I'm trying to render a pdf. I have to embed a font into the resultant pdf file because it has to use international characters. Does anyone know how to do this?

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Page headers in RTF
I have some XML file which I need to transform into RTF. I also need to insert some text in header of first page.

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Creating PDF files in GWT webapp
I have a GWT webapp, and there are various tables showing in the pages.
I need to have a mechanism put in the webapp to convert the tables through XML/XSLT files into PDF files.
I researched for PDF file converters and I found the following…

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Redirect logging of a third party dll to own log-file
In my C# program I intend to catch every potential log like this:
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
using (new ConsoleToFile("./output.log"))
{
doMain(args, parser, options, directConsole);
}
}
ConsoleToFile is this classic…

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NFOP performance problem
We're using NFOP in a project (C#, ASP.NET 2.0) to ultimately return PDF files to the user.
The process currently goes like this:
Stored Procedure -> XML
XML -> XSLT -> XSL-FO
XSL-FO -> NFOP -> PDF
This works fine, the PDF is generated…

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Generate and send PDF file directly to a printer using Apache FOP.net or nFOP in C#/VB.Net
I am working on an application in .Net Frame in which I am using Apache FOP to generate and send pdf files directly to the printer.
There are two parts of this application:
1. Generate PDF files using .xml, .xsl and .fo files in .Net
2. Send the…

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Fop apache: two block fields into one line
The problem i'm having is displaying two block tags on one line:
Lot:

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Get attributes of a parent node XSLT
I want to conditionally format URL's in Apache FOP, for this, I want to check if the property is of type HYPERLINK then apply conditional formatting and convert it into an URL.
Below is my XML

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How to transform XML to PDF with XSLT using exponent characters in XML
I try to print my formulas with exponents in pdf using xml, xsl and fo to transform from xml to pdf and to html. In html, i have no problem, all exponents are shown correctly. maybe because the browsers will show all utf-8 characters. but it seems…

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The method newInstance(FopFactoryConfig) in the type FopFactory is not applicable for the arguments ()
I have a requirement to convert XML to PDF document for that am using XSL - Apache FOP (Java). Am getting the below error The method newInstance(FopFactoryConfig) in the type FopFactory is not applicable for the arguments () for the below line
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A table-cell is spanning more rows than available in its parent element
I am trying to track down the following error in my fo file [*]. Since there is no context in the error message I do not understand how I am supposed to search for the root issue.
The fo file has been generated from a proper (at least per XSD…

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apache fop: Show placeholder when transparent image can't be displayed in pdf/a
Transparent images are not allowed in pdf/a standard. Therefore apache fop transformation will fail with an exception, when a xml with an embedded transparent image is transformed to a pdf/a.
Is it possible to display an error image placeholder when…

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