[css2xslfo-support] Observations

[<aro...@cl...>]

Hi Everyone,

After some more experimentation it seems that maybe the original file I 
sent was "too large to handle." Does that seem possible? The source xml 
file is 60kb. Again, it worked fine in PrinceXML and Flying Saucer without 
errors or warnings. As far as I can discern, it seems like a good xml 
source document. It contained 8 "visitVersions" so I just ran a report 
with only a single visitVersion and tried again (a 16kb file this time). 
This worked, in that it produced both FO and ultimately PDF when used with 
Apache FOP. 

The resulting output is not as pretty as what I saw with Flying Saucer and 
PrinceXML because various styles were not showing properly. Bolding for 
example was absent. Also, even though "landscape" was specified it was 
coming out in portrait mode. These style and orientation problems might 
not be an issue with your FO producing app... they might be more of a 
problem with Apache FOP but I don't really know. 

One last bit, either I read it wrong or the documentation needs to be 
updated. I tried the following command but failed:

java -cp "lib/" -jar lib/css2fopnew1_6.jar visitReport.xml 
paper-size=letter -pdf visitReport.pdf 

I needed to issue the following command to get it to work:

java -cp "lib/" -jar lib/css2fopnew1_6.jar visitReport.xml 
paper-size=letter -fop -pdf visitReport.pdf 

The key piece missing, the "-fop" argument. When I read the docs, it 
seemed that "-pdf" was something that didn't need to be escaped into an 
FOP specific argument... But maybe that was just me. The one line examples 
don't actually show PDF creation so I probably just interpreted the 
documentation wrong.

Thanks,
-- Aaron