I've been testing my stylesheets with Apache, RenderX and Antenna
House processors (latest version of all of these). Basically Antenna
House and RenderX accept my stylesheet and documents and generally
produce the same results. I have a problem with tables not centering
when using RenderX, and empty table cells collapse in RenderX but
not Antenna House, but otherwise they are consistent.
When I run the same files with FOP I get a couple of different things:
- Warning that empty-cells is not implemented yet
- For one document I get a Sum of fixed column widths 468000 greater
than the maximum specified IPD - 612000 (any idea what units these
numbers are in?)
- This same document with the oversize, instead of producing 17
pages, just seems to go forever very fast. I kill it within seconds
and it says it produced 200+ pages by the time it stops.
With this over running document I have a combination of letter and
legal size pages. I have different names for these pages and the
regions on them. The front side of the legal page is to have
information printed, and the back side is to remain blank. I gave the
body region on the front side the default region name of
xsl-region-body and on the blank back side blank-body-notext. FOP
complains that xsl-region-body does not map to the region-body in
this blank page - which is what I want. FOP throws an error and
stops. If I set the blank page body region to the default name it
will run and spits out these extra pages.
When I run this stylesheet now with AntennaHouse, I no longer have my
blank back page.
I would like these stylesheets to run properly with all these tools.
So first, is it proper to try and print only one side of the page but
force a blank page? If so what should the general setup look like?
Next, which of these tools is correct in the interpretation of my stylesheet?
Lastly, any idea how to track down the problem with this oversize
error that is reported by FOP?
thanks for any help
..dan
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