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XSF file corruption

Redflex — GMT

Hello all,

I am new to XSLFast.

I was playing around with XSLFast 5.0 yesterday. I drew lines, tables etc. Then, with the editor open, I changed the Unit of Measure under Tools -> XSLFast preferences -> Additional Options from 'centimeter' to 'pixel'. I was prompted to restart XSLFast. Upon restart, XSLFast complained about being unable to open the xsf file. I have attached this file.

Would someone know why I can't seem to open the file anymore?

Thanking you in advance.

XSLfast 5.0 Beta released

Milosz Araszewicz — GMT

[b]XSLfast 5.0 Beta [/b]

We listened to your needs and over the last 15 months developed XSLfast 5.0. Finally, the 5.0 Beta is there and we invite you to [b]get a preview[/b] before we release the final version. You can see the [b]brand-new features[/b] and enjoy the[b] simplified and accelerated layout creation process[/b].

Try it yourself and [url=http://xslfast.com/content/Downloads]download XSLfast 5.0 Beta [/url]!

We are looking forward to be ready with the final version of XSLfast 5.0 early next year. As soon as it is available, we will let you know!

In the meantime, you can give us your comments, exchange ideas, discuss features or just get in touch with other XSLfast users.

Yours
XSLfast Team

How to let XSLfast manage visual parts, and let me write the logic behind in notepad++?

Victor Krapivin — GMT

Often, we have questions like this:

[quote]I want to change XSL file in Notepad++, but let XSLfast manage it too. How to do this?[/quote]

In general, XSLfast does not able to open any XSL file and open it as a layout - it only imports templates as XSL code.

Should it mean the answer is "no, it doesn't"?

Way is there, but it is based upon separation of XSL pieces: visual part and logic behind.

So, for this case your flow might be as follows:

Move all data you need to change into templates, visually.
Export XSL file from XSLfast.
Consume templates you need in text editor, and move it into different file foo.tpl.
Return back to XSLfast, and remove all visual elements you moved to external templates.
In Layout settings, add your foo.tpl file as external templates file, and save the prepared layout.

Now, the visual elements are in XSLfast, and the logic in separate file. And you can use your foo.tpl freely in text or XML editor as you need, and XSLfast still able to manage its' layouts.

This hybrid way is alone right now.

Dynamic Data in a Table.

Gcenzi — GMT

Hello all,

I'm testing XSLFast and I'm facing the following problem:

There are several rows in the source file, however, when I map them into a table inside the 'development' area, the system doesn't load them all, it limits it only until the end of the first page.

What should I do to let it continues to the other PDF pages?

Thank you,
Guilherme

Dynamic Content

dannykamwo — GMT

Hello,

We have a online shopping program developed in Java. We are using xlstfast to generate a couple of forms. Depending on the condition, a image is supposed to show or hide. Is there any possibilities that I can do the following:

------------------
if
isPrinted = 1

then
image show

Else
blank

------------------

where, isPrinted is a node from xml, which would be queried out from database.

Thank you in advance.

Danny

Differing rows in a table from XML

Ray Herring — GMT

So i have a bit of an unusual problem, not sure if this one is even possible or not.

Basically i have in my XML file, something like:

[code]

1
1
HOL1000

2
2

Some comment that goes with the row above

3
1
6B2380L

[/code]

Now, when creating the table from the XML file, if 'row_type' == 1 then the row needs to look a certain way (basically have 8 columns of data), however, if the 'row_type' == 2 then it needs to only have 2 columns (the first one is blank, the second one colspan's over the other 7 of them). I can't seem to work out how to do this though.

Ray

Loop around the pages

vijaya — GMT

Hi,

I am new to XSL Fast 4.0. I have a 2 page layout.

I want to know..

1. How to use For-each for pages instread of each block.
2. How to add blank pages in pdf using the tool.

Appreciate a quick response.
:(

Text rotation

Anders Erikson — GMT

Hello,

I'm wondering if its possible to rotate textboxes 90 or 180 degrees?

I'm using XSLfast 4.0.2

BR,

Anders

Problem with activation

montyken — GMT

Hi there, I dont know if I am writing in a proper board but I have got a problem with activation, link i receive in email is not working... [url=http://forums.jcatalog.com/?d5b20070fec44dd18923b9c8063]http://forums.jcatalog.com/?d5b20070fec44dd18923b9c8063[/url],

dynamic column width

agnes bennen — GMT

I would like to have the column width dependend on the information in the column. So if there are 25 characters in the column then the column is wider than if there are 3 characters.

border around cell element

agnes bennen — GMT

I would like to have a border around an image in a cell. How can I achieve this?

pivot table

mesnil — GMT

I have made documents with pivot table.
It works well when I try them with Xslfast
But when I want to test them directly with fop 0.95 or fop 1.0 I have a lot of error messages

I think I have done something wrong but I do not know what.

I have attached my xsf and xml files for a simple example.

Thank you

XSL-FO

Rajendran — GMT

Hi,

Could you please clarify the below doubts in the XSL-FO.

I'm the beginning stage of XSL-FO.

I've generating two column format PDF from XML via XSL-FO.

When i'm using fo:float with "before" option for table and figures (Note: I've applied span="all" for tables and figures only), it will start in the new page. But the table size is larger than single page, it won't continue to next page.

If i doesn't use float for table and figures, it is generating some extra space before table, i.e., second column is taken some extra space as like attached.

Thanks,
Rajendran

Conditional Content...xsl:choose assistance

aintnoprophet — GMT

I am trying to use a xsl:choose in xslfast 4.0.

I have a table that i want it's content to be conditional on a piece of data. I would even accept having two tables and have one display on one condition else the other display.

I have a xsl template that i have achieved what i want to do...using just xslt code. however, i need to figure out how to do this in xslfast.

the code that i have is:

[code]

CREDIT - DO NOT PAY

[/code]

how do i achieve this in xslfast?

thanks,

jc

table obove bottom of page

mesnil — GMT

Sorry for my bad english. I begin with xslfast in my job and I have a problem.
I want to edit invoices.After all the lines ( on one or several pages) on the last page I want to edit three table just above the bottom. The number of lines of each table is varrying ( not the same for all the invoices)
I know that the absolute solution in not the good one ( I want that the place of theses tables is use just at the last page and occuped by by the lines for the others ones) but I don't see what to do.
I can't say to xslfast if it is the last page look if the is place for the three tables and place them just at the right place.

---------------------- ------------------------------------------
top top
--------------------- -----------------------------------------
line line

line

line
line ! table 1 ! ! table 2 ! !table 3 !
------------------- ------------------------------------------
bottom page 1 bottom page 2
-------------------- -------------------------------------------
If somebody can help me
Merci
Guy Mesnil