XSL Formatter Q&A

Operation

GUI

• Can I acquire the "area tree" by using interfaces other than the XSL Formatter GUI? [No.2004121002]

• Why does the formatting with GUI stop at 3000 pages? [No.2005040101]

Command-line

• I used XSL Formatter for Solaris, but the following errors occur. ld.so.1: /tools/AntennaHouse/opt/ANTHaxfov3/bin/XSLCmd: fatal: relocation error: file /tools/AntennaHouse/opt/ANTHaxfov3/lib/libXfoCommon.so.3: symbol __floorf: referenced symbol not found [No.2006100601]

PDF Output

• Can I output stream PDF made on the server to the Web browser of the client? [No.2002041204]

• Do you offer the ability to set security options for the PDF for creating secure documents, such as contracts? [No.2002062804]

• How can I produce PDF form in my PDF data? [No.2002062807]

• How can I embed JavaScript in my PDF data? [No.2002062808]

• Do you have any Antenna House extensions that allow me to specify Title, Author and other metadata in a PDF document that I generate using XSL Formatter with PDF output? [No.2002122001]

• Rendering PDF seems to be quite slow even when using moderately sized images (pictures). I'm guessing that images somehow are "re-rendered" when generating PDF. Is there any way to speed up PDF rendering for images? What settings can I use, differences between image file formats, etc.? [No.2003030702]

• When I open PDF with Adobe Acrobat 5.0, the bold character is not displayed. [No.2004051101]

• The error "These documents contain subset fonts that have the same name and cannot be merged." occurs when merging some PDF files with Acrobat4.x or Acrobat5.x. [No.2004111601]

• Restricted PDF file is generated though neither "Master Password" nor "User Password" is set. Why? [No.2004122403]

• When PDF made with XSL Formatter is displayed by using Adobe Acrobat(Reader), display of page number on window bottom is "1(1/9) i(2/9) ii(3/9)". Why? [No.2006032401]

Bookmark, Link

• Are there any differences between XSL Formatter and FOP in creating bookmarks in PDF? What's the difference? [No.2002050201]

• Thai characters appear as dots when creating the bookmarks using Distiller. [No.2002110803]

• Would it be possible for the XSL Formatter to not output to PostScript special characters that are not supported in the bookmarks? [No.2002122002]

• I want to output PDF by dividing a big document. And, can it have the link and the bookmark to which divided PDFs refer mutually? [No.2003061301]

• Can the bookmark of PDF be generated with the page number? [No.2003070401]

Acrobat Distiller

• In the FO, I set the rotation direction 90 degrees. When I view in XSL Formatter, the page is landscape oriented correctly, but when I view the PDF using Distiller the page is portrait oriented. Why? [No.2002110102]

• I specified Acrobat Distiller as a printer using Command line Interface. Then PS file was created although PDF file was expected to be outputted. How can I create PDF file? [No.2003061302]

• When I make the PS file with PS printer driver, CMYK is not reflected in the result. [No.2007041201]

Printing

• Can XSL Formatter output the file to PostScript? [No.2002032902]

• Can I embed ps-command in a PostScript file when creating a PostScript file using a PostScript printer driver? [No.2003090507]

• When the raster image rotated by the reference-orientation is printed directly from XSL Formatter, the aspect ratio of the image is not correct. There is no problem on the display with GUI and output PDF file. [No.2005020402]

• What should I do to print directly from the ASP program using the COM interface? [No.2005042802]

• I want to display "print setting Dialog" in the Web application. [No.2005042803]

• I generated PDF with the use of XSL Formatter from FO where the GIF image was included. And, when this PDF was printed by using Acrobat, the following error was printed. ERROR: ioerror OFFENDING COMMAND: image STACK -dictionary- -savelevel- [No.2007041202]

Font

• We are using Arial as the font for this document. We noticed that Unicode character U+2003 (Em Space) shows up as a box in XSL Formatter, while Zero-width space, U+200B does not show a box. Why? [No.2002032505]

• Is there any way to specify MS Mincho to the Default font, specify Arial to the Western font separately? When I specify font-family="MS Mincho, Arial", all fonts become MS Mincho. [No.2002062102]

• We're specifying Arial for the document. Are system fonts used or are fonts shipped with the product used? [No.2002071201]

• The specified Type1 font is not displayed. [No.2004111501]

• The specification of the Futura font is not reflected in the result. [No.2004111502]

• The resulting PDF that has something encoded within that requires a Japanese character set to be downloaded and installed though we don't set Japanese fonts. [No.2004111602]

Graphics

• How can I display and print CGM（Computer Graphics Metafile)? [No.2002062802]

• Can I display and print a formula written by using MathML? [No.2002093003]

• How can I embed SVG in a document? [No.2002101501]

• Can the non-compressed GIF Graphic file be displayed without LZW license? [No.2002110801]

• I describe the data of MathML directly in XSL-FO. However nothing appears. What's wrong? [No.2003011702]

• I installed ActiveCGM to use CGM Image formatting. However, the image is not displayed. [No.2003051601]

Multilanguages

• We couldn't render Arabic script correctly in XSL Formatter. How can I render the script right-to left as it should ? [No.2002070503]

• When I format multilingual documents, I cannot put the xml:lang attribute on the fo:root element. Please tell me where the xml:lang attribute need to be. [No.2002101804]

• In order to format multilingual documents, what fonts do I need to specify? If I specify Arial Unicode MS in the FO as the font for the entire document, will that font display correctly in XSL Formatter for all the languages? If not, do I need to specify a different font in the FO for each language in the document. [No.2002101805]

• When I format the document with mixture of English (writing mode is from left to right) and Arabic (writing mode is from right to left), the parentheses enclosing English text is not displayed correctly. Is it a bug? [No.2002102508]

• In the text mixed with Hebrew and numbers, the parent's path is even (level 0) so my interpretation is that Hebrew is at level 1 and the numbers should be at level 2 in BIDI algorithm. Is that right? [No.2002111504]

• Where is the code specified for script described? [No.2005032502]

• When I specified font-family="Helvetica, MingLiu" for sentences where Traditional Chinese and English exist together, all output characters used the MingLiu font. I expected the alphabet part to be output with Helvetica. Am I doing something wrong here? In XSL Formatter V2.5, I could achieve the expected behavior by this code. <fo:block script="zh-TW" font-family="Helvetica, MingLiu"> <fo:block>北京市 (Beijing) 朝陽区 (Traditional Chinese text)</fo:block> </fo:block> [No.2005060301]

• XSL Formatter V3.x incorrectly renders Hindi characters. [No.2005061002]

Others

• Can I acquire the total number of formatted pages after printing or outputting PDF files? (I don't use GUI.) [No.2005021802]

• Can I confirm whether XSL Formatter Hyphenation Option is installed? [No.2005021803]

• Is it possible for XSL Formatter to process two or more FO documents concurrently? [No.2005040802]