On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Trond Danielsen wrote: > On 10/1/06, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > but why do you specifically not want to use FOP? it seems to work, > > i've used it with great success for quite some time. > > > > Is it possible to use FOP without sun-java? I have used it, but I get > a lot of errors: > > [INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser as SAX2 Parser > [INFO] FOP 0.20.5 > [INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser as SAX2 Parser > [INFO] building formatting object tree > [INFO] setting up fonts > [ERROR] property - "background-position-horizontal" is not implemented yet. > [ERROR] property - "background-position-vertical" is not implemented yet. errors like this have nothing to do with java. you're being told that your version of FOP doesn't support certain features. you can check what's implemented and what isn't here: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/compliance.html#fo-property-section note how "background-position" is *not* implemented in the current stable version of FOP, but *is* implemented in the current beta version. you might want to try the beta version and see how many of these errors go away. rday