Mailing-List: contact user-help@forrest.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: user@forrest.apache.org
Received-SPF: neutral (asf.osuosl.org: local policy)
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 10:19:59 +1000
From: David Crossley <crossley@apache.org>
To: user@forrest.apache.org
Subject: Re: ugly tables in PDF files
Message-ID: <20050805001959.GB3576@igg.indexgeo.com.au>
References: <1123173782.4777.32.camel@localhost.localdomain>
 <42F24641.1080209@ece.utk.edu> <42F293B0.20004@apache.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <42F293B0.20004@apache.org>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i

Ross Gardler wrote:
> Neil Troy wrote:
> >vadim wrote:
> >
> >>Do you know what is the reason to generate tables in PDF files of fixed
> >>width and fixed (probably hardcoded) column width? Tables look really
> >>ugly! Do you know if I can adjust something somewhere to get tables in
> >>PDF files to look better?
> 
> FOP (or FO rendering engine) does not support tables that auto size. see 
> http://xml.apache.org/fop/compliance.html#fo-object-table
> 
> >I needed to fix some tables quick.  
> 
> Professional patches welcome ;-)
> 
> You could count the chars in a all the cells then allocate the space 
> accordingly. This would work better but would have problems with tables 
> that involved images.
> 
> See the files in FORREST_HOME/main/skins/common/xslt/fo/

We have not done very much work to enhance our use of
Apache FOP to transform the docs to PDF. Our stylesheets
are just a beginning. Someone would need to explore
the many powers of FOP and then enhance our xslt/fo/*.xsl

Also people could go to help the Apache FOP community
to find ways to deal with such issues.
http://xml.apache.org/fop/

Anyway please join us on the Forrest dev mailing list
if you wnat to purue this beyond the user level.

David