How to manipulate tables with CSSToXSLFO?

Hi,
I'm investigating how to use the library CSSToXSLFO, if I'm not wrong, in Cobalt you are already using it. So I wonder if maybe you can help me with some issues that I don't quite sure how they work.

Specifically, I'm now researching how to work with tables, and I've found many differences between PDF and RTF files. After convert my HTML(+ CSS) with this tool to XSLFO, I call to Prism to get the PDF or RTF and the response is not being the same. I mean, the layout of the table is not the same. For instance, RTF is not supporting most of the tables properties, as height, width, padding, border-color, border-width, etc.

Any ideas/suggestions/experiences/examples that can help me?

Thanks much!

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Ryan Morlok

Does RTF as a format not support those properties, or is it just the Prism conversion?

Zeeshan Muhammad

Ryan,

Cobalt Document have specific logic that we run to correctly populate tables with proper columns (with correct widths). However, it is known to us that from time to time, we are going to notice some in accuracies in producing table structure in FO correctly. However, our CSS design team have also created a separate CSS style sheet for delivered documents, that overrides the main style sheet. This style sheet also include some table fixes related to its structure, padding, widths and other style related problems.

Hope this answers your question.

Agustina Biscayart

Thanks much!! Actually, yesterday I found that the response from Prism depends on the environment I'm working on. I mean, the problem I described with tables, happen only connected to NIBAR, however, connected to CLIENT environment, it works well, and actually is more important client than nibar since nibar is just a test environment.

But, also I've found more differences between PDF and RTF connected to client. For instance, RTF doesn't show the header and footer of the page, and the images either. In PDF this works perfect! Have you ever had some problem similar? (I'll open another question in the forum since this has nothing to do with tables..)

Thanks again!

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