Floating image

[jantje]

Hi there,

With Apache Fop, I generate documentation (in .pdf), to documentate my application.

If there is not enough available space on a page (to display an image), the image will be displayed on the next page. This leaves a large whitespace on the  previous page. (If the image is very large, the responding large white-space on the previous page looks very ugly!)

Is there a possibility in "fo" to make the image "floating".. This means:
 - if the image is to large for this page, place it on the next.
 - pull up (one ore more) other blocks (paragraphs of text) to fill the previous page.

In LaTeX, this is possible, hopefully also in fo :-)

Greetings and thanks

[Tony Graham-3]

On Fri, Mar 28 2008 14:26:04 +0000, janvanoppen@... wrote:
...
> If there is not enough available space on a page (to display an image), the
> image will be displayed on the next page. This leaves a large whitespace on
> the  previous page. (If the image is very large, the responding large
> white-space on the previous page looks very ugly!)
>
> Is there a possibility in "fo" to make the image "floating".. This means:
>  - if the image is to large for this page, place it on the next.
>  - pull up (one ore more) other blocks (paragraphs of text) to fill the
> previous page.

The XSL spec includes fo:float [1] (and an example [2] of how to use
it), but the FOP compliance page says that FOP doesn't support it [3].

Regards,


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[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#fo_float
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#d0e14402
[3] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/compliance.html#fo-object-float