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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:55:32 +0100
From: Cyriaque Dupoirieux <Cyriaque.Dupoirieux@pcotech.fr>
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Hirrein1@aol.com a �crit :
> (The questions I'm about to ask may be offtopic; the problem is that I'm  very
> new to a lot of this and hence don't know where to ask my questions.  
> Redirects
> and LARTings will be gladly accepted, similarly appreciated, and  gratuitously
> thanked.)
>  
> First, is there any way to tell Forrest about the *horizontal* layout of  a
> page? Basically what I want is to be able to have graphical stuff  surrounded
> by text on a page, like the "Demonstration" example on the FOP  homepage.
>   
First - What version of forrest are you using ?
(Can you give the url so that we can better see what you need ?)
The current developpment version of forrest is very customisable if you 
know XSL transformations...
>  
> Second, is there a way to tell FOP that I don't want the tables in my  PDF
> documents to occupy the entire width of the page? I'm trying to save page  
> space
> in the printed version of my document, and having tables span the  entire 
> width
> of the page when they don't need to is rather wasteful. I'll  gladly follow a
> redirect to the FOP user list if it's appropriate.
>   
I think you should have a look to the 
$FORREST_HOME/main/webapp/skins/common/xslt/fo/document-to-fo.xsl
edit the file, find the following lines :
    <xsl:variable name="column-width">
      <xsl:value-of select="6.25 div number($max-number-columns)"/>in
    </xsl:variable>
And change the 6.25 (I have not tested it !)

>  
> Third, is there some way to create an index with page numbers like found in  
> the
> back of most books?
>   
It is the case in the generated pdf files.
>  
> Fourth, and I apologise for the broad nature of this question, but I'm  
> really new
> to this part especially. Where can I go to learn about mixing  dynamic content
> and Forrest document-v2.0 XML? I've gotten very simple XSP to  work, but the 
> only
> thing output was the dynamic content (a "Hello, world!",  basically), without 
> any
> of the Forrest navigation or other good stuff.
>  
>   
I don't understand what you did, sorry.
If your version is the 6 or more, maybe you can try the 
org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.pdf plugin in order to integrate 
skinned php - with forrest navigation ... - pages.

> I thank you for your time and greatly appreciate any response you may  choose 
> to
> give.
>   
HTH,
Cyriaque,
>
>