RE: [afp-renderer-users] AFP Docs on MainFrame

[Joe S. <jo...@ex...>]

On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 14:59, Venkataramani, Prakash wrote:
> Joe,
> 
> It's hard to determine the problem from the description, but we may be able
> to gather further information to troubleshoot the problem.
> 
> A few questions for a given document that doesn't work on Windows:
> 
> * If you generate the same document on Solaris, does that print correctly on
> the MF?
> Yes, it does print fine on Solaris.

Good.

> * If the document generated on Solaris works, can you compare the that to
> the doc generated on Windows to see the differences? (Most binary diffs
> tools should be fine, or even pipe the output of `od` through
> diff)
> There is no difference between the docs generated on windows and solaris.

Now this is confusing. If the two documents are binary equivalent, then
you should be able to discount the environment in which the AFP Renderer
runs as a problem here. How is the generated AFP document being
transferred to the MF? Is there some sort of line ending conversion
happening in the transfer? (this should not be done, as it will corrupt
the document).

> If nothing becomes apparent, can you please send along the input XSL-FO, the
> generated AFP document and the afp-fonts.xml file you are using.
> Will try to send you the FO doc.
> 
> Again my rewording my question,Can I send the AFP doc generated on windows
> directly to MF without any conversion ?

Yes, this is exactly the environment in which Pete and I use the AFP
Renderer.

Cheers,
Joe