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Generate PDF files with 2 and 4 pages per sheet

2009-12-04T05:05:37Z

Hi all,

I'm using XSL-FO and Apache FOP to generate PDF documents from XML documents. I managed to transform the XML into PDF with 1 page per sheet, but I also would like to get PDFs with 2 and 4 pages per sheet. Does anyone have any idea how I can do this? I have looked in the W3Schools tutorials, but I found nothing about it.

Regards,

Rodrigo.

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span="all" problem with page-sequence master?

2009-12-04T01:55:27Z

Hi,

I have a page-sequence-master where the single-page-master-reference
region-body has one column and the repeatable-page-master-reference has two
columns.

However, I don't want the content to start appearing in columns until a
certain point in the content, so am using span="all" on the blocks up to a
point.

This works fine if the spanned content ends part way down the second page
(i.e. the first two column page). However, if it gets to the end of the
first page, it starts a second column on top of the content the same page,
but the content still has a full page width, so disappears off to the right.

This problem is not replicated if I use a simple-page-master with two
columns throughout.

Hard to explain - I have put some example files to demonstrate the problem:

http://www.anorakgirl.co.uk/examples/fop/wrap-bug.fo
http://www.anorakgirl.co.uk/examples/fop/wrap-works.fo

(Hope its ok to do this) These examples don't include the content that I
actually want to have appearing in two columns.

The reason I want to use a page-sequence-master is that I have a different
header on the first page.

Can you suggest why this is happening and how I could avoid it?
Thanks!

Tamsin

Re: underline and superscript

2009-11-29T15:20:16Z

Option 1 did not work as expected, but option 2 works perfectly.

Thanks a lot!

Nicolas

Tony Graham-3 wrote:

On Fri, Nov 27 2009 10:46:50 +0000, Tony.Graham@MenteithConsulting.com wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 27 2009 03:02:27 +0000, nicolas.senechal@gmail.com wrote:
...
>> The link rendered using this code looks weird both in fop and in antenna
>> renderer. The underline under the (R) symbol is:
>> - thinner
>> - superscripted (it is drawn just under the (R) symbol)
>
> Did you try <fo:inline text-decoration="underline"> around the unadorned
> <fo:basic-link>?

As soon as I sent that, I knew it wouldn't change anything. Sorry about
that.

You can, however, set a bottom border on the fo:basic-link that almost
looks like an underline. As you'll see if you try the FO below, the
bottom border is typically lower than an underline would be.

Regards,

Tony Graham Tony.Graham@MenteithConsulting.com
Director W3C XSL FO SG Invited Expert
Menteith Consulting Ltd XML Guild member
XML, XSL and XSLT consulting, programming and training
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:simple-page-master page-width="210mm" page-height="297mm" margin-right="0.75in" margin-left="0.2in" margin-bottom="0.0in" margin-top="0.375in" master-name="coverPage">
<fo:region-body margin-bottom="0.9in" margin-top="0.6in" region-name="xsl-region-body_coverpage"/>
<fo:region-before extent="0.5in" region-name="xsl-region-before_coverpage"/>
<fo:region-after extent="0.9in" region-name="xsl-region-after_allpages"/>
</fo:simple-page-master>
<fo:simple-page-master page-width="210mm" page-height="297mm" margin-right="0.75in" margin-left="0.2in" margin-bottom="0.0in" margin-top="0.375in" master-name="Page2">
<fo:region-body margin-bottom="0.9in" margin-top="0.6in" region-name="xsl-region-body"/>
<fo:region-before extent="0.5in" region-name="xsl-region-before_page2"/>
<fo:region-after extent="0.9in" region-name="xsl-region-after_allpages"/>
</fo:simple-page-master>
<fo:page-sequence-master master-name="master2">
<fo:repeatable-page-master-reference master-reference="Page2"/>
</fo:page-sequence-master>
</fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="master2">
<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body" font-family="Times" font-size="12pt">
<fo:block>
<fo:basic-link text-decoration="underline"
line-height-shift-adjustment="disregard-shifts">
Introducing MyProduct
<fo:inline line-height="100%" baseline-shift="20%" font-size="smaller"
>®</fo:inline>
2.4
</fo:basic-link>
</fo:block>
<fo:block>
<fo:inline text-decoration="underline"><fo:basic-link
line-height-shift-adjustment="disregard-shifts">
Introducing MyProduct
<fo:inline line-height="100%" baseline-shift="20%" font-size="smaller"
>®</fo:inline>
2.4
</fo:basic-link></fo:inline>
</fo:block>
<fo:block>
<fo:basic-link border-bottom="thin black solid"
line-height-shift-adjustment="disregard-shifts">
Introducing MyProduct
<fo:inline line-height="100%" baseline-shift="20%" font-size="smaller"
>®</fo:inline>
2.4
</fo:basic-link>
</fo:block>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>

Re: underline and superscript

2009-11-29T13:00:28Z

On Fri, Nov 27 2009 10:46:50 +0000, Tony.Graham@... wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 27 2009 03:02:27 +0000, nicolas.senechal@... wrote:
...
>> The link rendered using this code looks weird both in fop and in antenna
>> renderer. The underline under the (R) symbol is:
>> - thinner
>> - superscripted (it is drawn just under the (R) symbol)
>
> Did you try <fo:inline text-decoration="underline"> around the unadorned
> <fo:basic-link>?

As soon as I sent that, I knew it wouldn't change anything. Sorry about
that.

You can, however, set a bottom border on the fo:basic-link that almost
looks like an underline. As you'll see if you try the FO below, the
bottom border is typically lower than an underline would be.

Regards,

Tony Graham Tony.Graham@...
Director W3C XSL FO SG Invited Expert
Menteith Consulting Ltd XML Guild member
XML, XSL and XSLT consulting, programming and training
Registered Office: 13 Kelly's Bay Beach, Skerries, Co. Dublin, Ireland
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:simple-page-master page-width="210mm" page-height="297mm" margin-right="0.75in" margin-left="0.2in" margin-bottom="0.0in" margin-top="0.375in" master-name="coverPage">
<fo:region-body margin-bottom="0.9in" margin-top="0.6in" region-name="xsl-region-body_coverpage"/>
<fo:region-before extent="0.5in" region-name="xsl-region-before_coverpage"/>
<fo:region-after extent="0.9in" region-name="xsl-region-after_allpages"/>
</fo:simple-page-master>
<fo:simple-page-master page-width="210mm" page-height="297mm" margin-right="0.75in" margin-left="0.2in" margin-bottom="0.0in" margin-top="0.375in" master-name="Page2">
<fo:region-body margin-bottom="0.9in" margin-top="0.6in" region-name="xsl-region-body"/>
<fo:region-before extent="0.5in" region-name="xsl-region-before_page2"/>
<fo:region-after extent="0.9in" region-name="xsl-region-after_allpages"/>
</fo:simple-page-master>
<fo:page-sequence-master master-name="master2">
<fo:repeatable-page-master-reference master-reference="Page2"/>
</fo:page-sequence-master>
</fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="master2">
<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body" font-family="Times" font-size="12pt">
<fo:block>
<fo:basic-link text-decoration="underline"
line-height-shift-adjustment="disregard-shifts">
Introducing MyProduct
<fo:inline line-height="100%" baseline-shift="20%" font-size="smaller"
>®</fo:inline>
2.4
</fo:basic-link>
</fo:block>
<fo:block>
<fo:inline text-decoration="underline"><fo:basic-link
line-height-shift-adjustment="disregard-shifts">
Introducing MyProduct
<fo:inline line-height="100%" baseline-shift="20%" font-size="smaller"
>®</fo:inline>
2.4
</fo:basic-link></fo:inline>
</fo:block>
<fo:block>
<fo:basic-link border-bottom="thin black solid"
line-height-shift-adjustment="disregard-shifts">
Introducing MyProduct
<fo:inline line-height="100%" baseline-shift="20%" font-size="smaller"
>®</fo:inline>
2.4
</fo:basic-link>
</fo:block>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>

Re: underline and superscript

2009-11-27T02:46:50Z

On Fri, Nov 27 2009 03:02:27 +0000, nicolas.senechal@... wrote:

> I have a link defined as follows:
>
> <fo:basic-link text-decoration="underline"
> line-height-shift-adjustment="disregard-shifts">
> Introducing MyProduct
> <fo:inline line-height="100%" baseline-shift="20%" font-size="smaller"
>>®</fo:inline>
> 2.4
> </fo:basic-link>
>
>
> The link rendered using this code looks weird both in fop and in antenna
> renderer. The underline under the (R) symbol is:
> - thinner
> - superscripted (it is drawn just under the (R) symbol)

Did you try <fo:inline text-decoration="underline"> around the unadorned
<fo:basic-link>?

Regards,

Tony Graham Tony.Graham@...
Director W3C XSL FO SG Invited Expert
Menteith Consulting Ltd XML Guild member
XML, XSL and XSLT consulting, programming and training
Registered Office: 13 Kelly's Bay Beach, Skerries, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Registered in Ireland - No. 428599 http://www.menteithconsulting.com
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underline and superscript

2009-11-26T19:02:27Z

Hi,

I have a link defined as follows:

<fo:basic-link text-decoration="underline" line-height-shift-adjustment="disregard-shifts">
Introducing MyProduct
<fo:inline line-height="100%" baseline-shift="20%" font-size="smaller" >®</fo:inline>
2.4
</fo:basic-link>

The link rendered using this code looks weird both in fop and in antenna renderer. The underline under the (R) symbol is:
- thinner
- superscripted (it is drawn just under the (R) symbol)

Is there a way to fix this issue?

Thanks,

Nicolas

Rotated text in table header misbehaving

2009-11-05T08:30:47Z

I have certain table cells in which I am rotating the text with reference-orientation="-90". In most cases this is working fine, but with a long piece of text with several small words, the text is breaking after every word, and the text disappears out the righthand side of the cell.

Following are the table-row element and the table-cell element for the problem cell:

<fo:table-row block-progression-dimension="1.8in" id="" keep-together.within-page="always"
keep-with-following.within-page="always">
<fo:table-cell background-color="rgb(0,0,100)" border="solid" border-top-color="black"
border-top-style="solid" border-top-width="1pt" id="" margin-left="1pt" text-align="from-table-column()">
<fo:block-container reference-orientation="-90">
<fo:block color="white" display-align="after" font-weight="bold" margin="1pt 1pt 1pt 1pt">
<fo:block id="d1e26124" space-after="0.6em" space-after.optimum="3pt" space-before="0.6em" text-indent="0em">AUTH (includes ZDA) SALE, DEBIT </fo:block>
</fo:block>
</fo:block-container>
</fo:table-cell>

The 1.8in for the block-progression-dimension appears to be plenty for the text to appear in a maximum of two lines, but the line is breaking after every word, resulting in 5 lines.

Any thoughts?

Thank you,
David

RE: conditional page break

2009-10-23T11:49:36Z

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion, I will experiment with this, as the idea would
certainly solve the problem (Basically don't start the second section on the
same page if you're really near the bottom).
I think the problem will be that I have oversimplified the situation. My
region body has two columns, and what I have been calling 'block B' is
actually a short block header which spans both columns, followed by a long
block which does not span columns (hence my other post about getting the
spanning block to stick with the non-spanning block). I don't think I can
put both in a block-container without losing the span/don't span ability -
May have to get customer to agree to some simplifications!

Thanks for looking into this, and I will be sure to review the XSL 2.0
requirements.

Tamsin

-----Original Message-----
From: www-xsl-fo-request@... [mailto:www-xsl-fo-request@...] On Behalf
Of Tony Graham
Sent: 22 October 2009 22:34
To: www-xsl-fo@...
Subject: Re: conditional page break

On Thu, Oct 22 2009 15:07:13 +0100, John.Virgo@... wrote:
> Could you provide a little more detail around the flow-map?

The flow map directs flows to regions.

In XSL 1.1, you can have more than one fo:region-body within a
fo:simple-page-master, and each xsl:region-body has to have a different
"region-name" and may have different positions on the page.

See http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#d0e7194 for flow-map examples.

Unfortunately, I couldn't solve Tamsin's problem using flow-maps after
all: the best that I could do on the second page was to put A and B in
different regions, so it couldn't look like B directly followed A when A
overflowed onto the second page.

However, if A is always going to be large enough, and B is never going
to be small enough, that all of A and all of B can fit on one page, then
you can put B in a fo:block-container, specify a mimimum
block-progression-dimension, and set overflow to "repeat". If the
minimum is larger than the maximum BPD that A will leave on the first
page, then B will always start on the second page, but if B overflows
that page, it will just generate more areas on the third page. The
issue then becomes whether A will always leave enough room on the second
page for B's minimum BPD, otherwise B would start on the third page
instead of on the second page after the end of the large A.

------------------------------------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:simple-page-master page-height="297mm" page-width="210mm"
margin-right="0.75in" margin-left="0.2in" margin-bottom="0.0in"
margin-top="0.375in" master-name="a">
<fo:region-body margin-bottom="0.9in" margin-top="0.6in"
region-name="xsl-region-body"/>
</fo:simple-page-master>
<fo:page-sequence-master master-name="master">
<fo:repeatable-page-master-reference master-reference="a"/>
</fo:page-sequence-master>
</fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="master">
<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body" font-size="72pt">
<fo:block>A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A
A A A A A A A A A A</fo:block>
<fo:block-container overflow="repeat"
block-progression-dimension.minimum="200mm"><fo:block>B B B B B B B B B B B
B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B
B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B
B</fo:block></fo:block-container>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="master">
<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body" font-size="72pt">
<fo:block>A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A
A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A
A A A A A A A A A A A</fo:block>
<fo:block-container overflow="repeat"
block-progression-dimension.minimum="200mm"><fo:block>B B B B B B B B B B B
B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B
B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B
B</fo:block></fo:block-container>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>
------------------------------------------------------------

Regards,

Tony Graham Tony.Graham@...
Director W3C XSL FO SG Invited Expert
Menteith Consulting Ltd XML Guild member
XML, XSL and XSLT consulting, programming and training
Registered Office: 13 Kelly's Bay Beach, Skerries, Co. Dublin, Ireland
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Re: conditional page break

2009-10-22T14:53:07Z

On Thu, Oct 22 2009 09:06:11 +0100, John.Virgo@... wrote:
> I've had the same problem in a long running project (2 years) that I am still
> working.
>
> I call this problem 'layout feedback', or lack of. The problem is there is
> no accurate way of determining if 'block A fits' into any area until the FO
> has been laid out so your XSL will not be able to make the decision.

To unofficially wear my other hat for a moment, please consider
reviewing the XSL 2.0 Requirements at http://www.w3.org/TR/xslfo20-req/
to see whether they cover your problem. You may particularly want to
look at Section 2.3, "Feedback from pagination stage", and Section 3.1,
"Including information from formatting time".

The Requirements document encourages providing comments and feedback on
individual requirements using the W3C Bugzilla system at
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/. See the instructions at
http://www.w3.org/XML/2008/01/xsl-fo-bugzilla.html#comment

Regards,

Tony Graham Tony.Graham@...
Director W3C XSL FO SG Invited Expert
Menteith Consulting Ltd XML Guild member
XML, XSL and XSLT consulting, programming and training
Registered Office: 13 Kelly's Bay Beach, Skerries, Co. Dublin, Ireland
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Re: conditional page break

2009-10-22T14:34:22Z

On Thu, Oct 22 2009 15:07:13 +0100, John.Virgo@... wrote:
> Could you provide a little more detail around the flow-map?

The flow map directs flows to regions.

In XSL 1.1, you can have more than one fo:region-body within a
fo:simple-page-master, and each xsl:region-body has to have a different
"region-name" and may have different positions on the page.

See http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#d0e7194 for flow-map examples.

Unfortunately, I couldn't solve Tamsin's problem using flow-maps after
all: the best that I could do on the second page was to put A and B in
different regions, so it couldn't look like B directly followed A when A
overflowed onto the second page.

However, if A is always going to be large enough, and B is never going
to be small enough, that all of A and all of B can fit on one page, then
you can put B in a fo:block-container, specify a mimimum
block-progression-dimension, and set overflow to "repeat". If the
minimum is larger than the maximum BPD that A will leave on the first
page, then B will always start on the second page, but if B overflows
that page, it will just generate more areas on the third page. The
issue then becomes whether A will always leave enough room on the second
page for B's minimum BPD, otherwise B would start on the third page
instead of on the second page after the end of the large A.

------------------------------------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:simple-page-master page-height="297mm" page-width="210mm" margin-right="0.75in" margin-left="0.2in" margin-bottom="0.0in" margin-top="0.375in" master-name="a">
<fo:region-body margin-bottom="0.9in" margin-top="0.6in" region-name="xsl-region-body"/>
</fo:simple-page-master>
<fo:page-sequence-master master-name="master">
<fo:repeatable-page-master-reference master-reference="a"/>
</fo:page-sequence-master>
</fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="master">
<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body" font-size="72pt">
<fo:block>A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A</fo:block>
<fo:block-container overflow="repeat" block-progression-dimension.minimum="200mm"><fo:block>B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B</fo:block></fo:block-container>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="master">
<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body" font-size="72pt">
<fo:block>A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A</fo:block>
<fo:block-container overflow="repeat" block-progression-dimension.minimum="200mm"><fo:block>B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B</fo:block></fo:block-container>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>
------------------------------------------------------------

Regards,

Tony Graham Tony.Graham@...
Director W3C XSL FO SG Invited Expert
Menteith Consulting Ltd XML Guild member
XML, XSL and XSLT consulting, programming and training
Registered Office: 13 Kelly's Bay Beach, Skerries, Co. Dublin, Ireland
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keep-with-next and span="all"

2009-10-22T13:09:27Z

Hi again,

I have a region body with two columns, In the following situation, the first block quite often appears on one page, with the second block (in columns) on the second page. I can’t seem to make ‘keep-with-next’ work for the spanned block. I want the spanning block (which is a title) always to appear on the same page as the content.

Is this a known problem and can anyone suggest a work around?

…

<fo:block span=”all” keep-with-next.within-page=”always”>…</fo:block>

<fo:block keep-with-previous.within-page=”always” keep-together=”2”>….</fo:block>

Thanks,

Tamsin

Re: conditional page break

2009-10-22T07:07:12Z

Could you provide a little more detail around the flow-map?

Tony Graham-3 wrote:

On Tue, Oct 20 2009 15:55:49 +0100, tamsin@anorakgirl.co.uk wrote:
> I am trying to find a way to conditionally start a new page within a PDF.
> Basically, if block A fits on one page, even with space remaining, block B
> should start on a new page. But if block A runs onto the next page, block B
> should start straight after block A.

If you are using an XSL 1.1 processor and A is the only thing on its
page, then you could use a flow map and put A and B in separate flows.

You could direct A to its page and the second page, and direct B to the
second page. If A overflows its page, its flow would continue on the
second page.

The fo:layout-master-set would have to have just a
fo:single-page-master-reference for the first page.

Regards,

Tony Graham Tony.Graham@MenteithConsulting.com
Director W3C XSL FO SG Invited Expert
Menteith Consulting Ltd XML Guild member
XML, XSL and XSLT consulting, programming and training
Registered Office: 13 Kelly's Bay Beach, Skerries, Co. Dublin, Ireland
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Re: conditional page break

2009-10-22T06:45:15Z

On Tue, Oct 20 2009 15:55:49 +0100, tamsin@... wrote:
> I am trying to find a way to conditionally start a new page within a PDF.
> Basically, if block A fits on one page, even with space remaining, block B
> should start on a new page. But if block A runs onto the next page, block B
> should start straight after block A.

If you are using an XSL 1.1 processor and A is the only thing on its
page, then you could use a flow map and put A and B in separate flows.

You could direct A to its page and the second page, and direct B to the
second page. If A overflows its page, its flow would continue on the
second page.

The fo:layout-master-set would have to have just a
fo:single-page-master-reference for the first page.

Regards,

Tony Graham Tony.Graham@...
Director W3C XSL FO SG Invited Expert
Menteith Consulting Ltd XML Guild member
XML, XSL and XSLT consulting, programming and training
Registered Office: 13 Kelly's Bay Beach, Skerries, Co. Dublin, Ireland
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RE: conditional page break

2009-10-22T05:19:54Z

Hi,

Thanks for this - I have tried various keep together options, but it doesnt
solve the problem. Its not a case of only splitting the blocks when
absolutely necessary - I want to specifically start a new page, IF the first
block is less than a page long.

Its sounding like it can't be done, but I appreciate the suggestions.

Thanks,
Tamsin

-----Original Message-----
From: www-xsl-fo-request@... [mailto:www-xsl-fo-request@...] On Behalf
Of Jeremias Maerki
Sent: 22 October 2009 09:10
To: www-xsl-fo@...
Subject: Re: conditional page break

It's a bit difficult from your description how exactly the rules should
be but you should look at the "keep-together.within-column" property.
That allows you to keep blocks together and (using integer values) even
define relative strengths that allow a formatter to keep blocks together
or still break them if absolutely necessary. I assume you were
experimenting with break-before/break-after but that can only be used
for hard breaks. Coming from the other direction (keeps) might be your
solution. HTH

http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#keepbreak
http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#keep-together

On 20.10.2009 16:55:49 Tamsin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to find a way to conditionally start a new page within a PDF.
> Basically, if block A fits on one page, even with space remaining, block B
> should start on a new page. But if block A runs onto the next page, block
B
> should start straight after block A.
>
> I can't see a way to do this - I first looked into comparing the page
> numbers, but obviously you can't do this at the XSL step of the process.
> Wondered if anyone can suggest a solution?
>
> Thanks,
> Tamsin

Best regards,
Jeremias Märki
_________________________________________________________
Jeremias Märki, Software-Development and Consulting
Contact Information: http://www.jeremias-maerki.ch/contact.html
Blog: http://www.jeremias-maerki.ch/blog/

RE: conditional page break

2009-10-22T05:16:36Z

Hi,

Thanks very much for this - it confirms what I was thinking. Hadn't thought
of the workaround of running just block A first and getting a page count, so
may try that. My document has a lot of sections all with block A's though so
could see this slowing the process down a lot.

Thanks again,
Tamsin

-----Original Message-----
From: www-xsl-fo-request@... [mailto:www-xsl-fo-request@...] On Behalf
Of John Virgo
Sent: 22 October 2009 09:06
To: www-xsl-fo@...
Subject: Re: conditional page break

I've had the same problem in a long running project (2 years) that I am
still
working.

I call this problem 'layout feedback', or lack of. The problem is there is
no accurate way of determining if 'block A fits' into any area until the FO
has been laid out so your XSL will not be able to make the decision.

I've worked around this in several ways, none of which are pretty:
* Run a template for just block A and check the page count output, to make
the decision of which template to use.
* Manually calculate the size of block A using the font size and known
quantities of the layout directly in the FO.
* As above but with custom pre-parsing code on the input XML passing a
parameter to the XSL template.

I'm sure there were more I tried but nothing worked particularly well, in
the end we hand to settle for allow our QA users to make the decision using
a tick box on the form displaying (and regenerating) the output.

JV

Tamsin-3 wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I am trying to find a way to conditionally start a new page within a PDF.
> Basically, if block A fits on one page, even with space remaining, block B
> should start on a new page. But if block A runs onto the next page, block
> B
> should start straight after block A.
>
>
>
> I can't see a way to do this - I first looked into comparing the page
> numbers, but obviously you can't do this at the XSL step of the process.
> Wondered if anyone can suggest a solution?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tamsin
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

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Re: conditional page break

2009-10-22T01:10:13Z

It's a bit difficult from your description how exactly the rules should
be but you should look at the "keep-together.within-column" property.
That allows you to keep blocks together and (using integer values) even
define relative strengths that allow a formatter to keep blocks together
or still break them if absolutely necessary. I assume you were
experimenting with break-before/break-after but that can only be used
for hard breaks. Coming from the other direction (keeps) might be your
solution. HTH

http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#keepbreak
http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#keep-together

On 20.10.2009 16:55:49 Tamsin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to find a way to conditionally start a new page within a PDF.
> Basically, if block A fits on one page, even with space remaining, block B
> should start on a new page. But if block A runs onto the next page, block B
> should start straight after block A.
>
> I can't see a way to do this - I first looked into comparing the page
> numbers, but obviously you can't do this at the XSL step of the process.
> Wondered if anyone can suggest a solution?
>
> Thanks,
> Tamsin

Best regards,
Jeremias Märki
_________________________________________________________
Jeremias Märki, Software-Development and Consulting
Contact Information: http://www.jeremias-maerki.ch/contact.html
Blog: http://www.jeremias-maerki.ch/blog/

Re: conditional page break

2009-10-22T01:06:11Z

I've had the same problem in a long running project (2 years) that I am still working.

I call this problem 'layout feedback', or lack of. The problem is there is no accurate way of determining if 'block A fits' into any area until the FO has been laid out so your XSL will not be able to make the decision.

I've worked around this in several ways, none of which are pretty:
* Run a template for just block A and check the page count output, to make the decision of which template to use.
* Manually calculate the size of block A using the font size and known quantities of the layout directly in the FO.
* As above but with custom pre-parsing code on the input XML passing a parameter to the XSL template.

I'm sure there were more I tried but nothing worked particularly well, in the end we hand to settle for allow our QA users to make the decision using a tick box on the form displaying (and regenerating) the output.

JV

Tamsin-3 wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to find a way to conditionally start a new page within a PDF.
Basically, if block A fits on one page, even with space remaining, block B
should start on a new page. But if block A runs onto the next page, block B
should start straight after block A.

I can't see a way to do this - I first looked into comparing the page
numbers, but obviously you can't do this at the XSL step of the process.
Wondered if anyone can suggest a solution?

Thanks,

Tamsin

Re: PDFA - Problem with embedding of fonts when fo document contains more than 1 page

2009-10-22T01:03:18Z

I've just answered you on fop-users@...:
http://markmail.org/message/3pw372sdxoiuup2u

On 21.10.2009 17:26:59 G, Sivashankar wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to generate PDFA-1b document with FOP by feeding an xml and xsl file as input. When i run, the document gets generated successfully in PDFA mode. But when the content of the xsl file exceeds one page(more than one apge sequence), the processor throws PDFConformanceException saying "For PDF/A-1b, all fonts, even the base 14 fonts, have to be embedded! Offending font: Times-Roman". I am also giving the console output below.
>
>
> Oct 21, 2009 12:02:18 PM org.apache.fop.apps.FopFactoryConfigurator configure
> INFO: Default page-height set to: 29.7cm
> Oct 21, 2009 12:02:18 PM org.apache.fop.apps.FopFactoryConfigurator configure
> INFO: Default page-width set to: 21cm
> Oct 21, 2009 12:02:18 PM org.apache.fop.fonts.truetype.TTFFile determineAscDesc
> WARNING: Ascender and descender together are larger than the em box. This could lead to a wrong baseline placement in Apache FOP.
> Oct 21, 2009 12:02:18 PM org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.table.TableLayoutManager getNextKnuthElements
> INFO: table-layout="fixed" and width="auto", but auto-layout not supported => assuming width="100%"
> org.apache.fop.pdf.PDFConformanceException: For PDF/A-1b, all fonts, even the base 14 fonts, have to be embedded! Offending font: Times-Roman
>
>
> The strange thing is that this problem does not occur if my xsl page content is only in one page. If you guys have any ideas to share, it would be great.
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Sivashankar
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PDFA - Problem with embedding of fonts when fo document contains more than 1 page

2009-10-21T08:26:59Z

Hi All,

I am trying to generate PDFA-1b document with FOP by feeding an xml and xsl file as input. When i run, the document gets generated successfully in PDFA mode. But when the content of the xsl file exceeds one page(more than one apge sequence), the processor throws PDFConformanceException saying "For PDF/A-1b, all fonts, even the base 14 fonts, have to be embedded! Offending font: Times-Roman". I am also giving the console output below.

Oct 21, 2009 12:02:18 PM org.apache.fop.apps.FopFactoryConfigurator configure

INFO: Default page-height set to: 29.7cm

Oct 21, 2009 12:02:18 PM org.apache.fop.apps.FopFactoryConfigurator configure

INFO: Default page-width set to: 21cm

Oct 21, 2009 12:02:18 PM org.apache.fop.fonts.truetype.TTFFile determineAscDesc

WARNING: Ascender and descender together are larger than the em box. This could lead to a wrong baseline placement in Apache FOP.

Oct 21, 2009 12:02:18 PM org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.table.TableLayoutManager getNextKnuthElements

INFO: table-layout="fixed" and width="auto", but auto-layout not supported => assuming width="100%"

org.apache.fop.pdf.PDFConformanceException: For PDF/A-1b, all fonts, even the base 14 fonts, have to be embedded! Offending font: Times-Roman

The strange thing is that this problem does not occur if my xsl page content is only in one page. If you guys have any ideas to share, it would be great.

Thanks and regards,

Sivashankar

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conditional page break

2009-10-20T07:55:49Z

Hi,

I am trying to find a way to conditionally start a new page within a PDF. Basically, if block A fits on one page, even with space remaining, block B should start on a new page. But if block A runs onto the next page, block B should start straight after block A.

I can’t see a way to do this – I first looked into comparing the page numbers, but obviously you can’t do this at the XSL step of the process. Wondered if anyone can suggest a solution?

Thanks,

Tamsin

Design Notes for Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) 2.0

2009-10-02T20:18:03Z

The XSL-FO subgroup of the XSL Working Group has published a
First Public Working Draft of
"Design Notes for Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) 2.0",
which contains initial and early work on XSL-FO 2.0.

The document is at http://www.w3.org/TR/xslfo20/

It's very incomplete right now (hence calling it
"Design Notes" rather than a specification), and we're
very much wanting feeback -- are you likely to implement
any of it?

Or, are you a user wanting any of these features, and,
if so, will they meet your needs if someone implements them?

There are links to specific Bugzilla items in the document,
or you can send mail (see the Status section of the
document for where to send it, as always).

Liam

--
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http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/ * http://www.fromoldbooks.org/

RE: Alpha and Beta Print

2009-09-16T03:12:59Z

Hello,

The problem here is that the font you are using (probably some builtin sans-serif font) has no glyph for the alpha and beta characters. RenderX recognizes this and replaces the char with a # sign. You have two possibilities here:

use a font for all of your text that has the matching unicode glyphs in it. For arrows, we had good results with Lucida Grade Sans coming with the default Java installation. See http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts.html for reference.
use a dingbats font that contains the chars and replace the alpha and beta chars with the chars theat produce the correct chars in this font. You will need to surround them with <inline> elements that switch to font for the particular char.

Greetings,

Gabriel

From: www-xsl-fo-request@... [mailto:www-xsl-fo-request@...] On Behalf Of Michael Gajda
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 2:19 PM
To: www-xsl-fo@...
Subject: Alpha and Beta Print

Hello,

I’ve got a a little problem with the printing of the alpha and beta characters.

I am generating PDF-reports from a webinterface with XML and XSL-FO.

On this reports are the Characters “Alpha” and “Beta” from the Greek alphabet.

But if I print this form, then the Greek chars turn into # . Why?

Thanks for help!

Michael

Re: Survey: Where is XSL FO used?

2009-09-16T03:03:45Z

On Thu, Aug 20 2009 18:40:27 +0100, Tony.Graham@... wrote:
> I am giving a talk "XSL FO 2.0: A Technical Overview" at XML-in-Practice
> 2009 [1] in September.
>
> As well as discussing the XSL FO 2.0 Requirements document [2] and the
> work towards XSL FO 2.0 done to date, I want to highlight what can be
> done with XSL 1.1 and what is being achieved today.
>
> So I would like to know how you are using XSL FO. Please reply
> off-list to Tony.Graham@....

Thanks to those who responded. However, there were only five responses
(one multi-part).

There weren't enough responses to be able to discern any trends, so I've
just collated all the responses below.

I am still interested in finding out more about where XSL FO is used,
particularly if there's applications that would make the conference
audience think "I didn't know you could de that!".

If you don't need to be anonymous, I expect that responding on this list
would also be fine.

...
> Use:

1. Manuals and catalogues

2a. Laws

2b. Production of preflights for journals

2c. PDF documentation

3. CSSToXSLFO

4. Generate PDFs for a student records system, exam results

5. PDFs for a customized version of DocBook, invoices

> Volume (e.g., pages per day/week/month/year/job):

1. 20-100 Pages per Job

2a. ca. 3000 pages per day (incl. preflights), about 40 single books per
year

2b. ca. 30 pages per day

2c. ca. 10 pages per day

3. a few pages per month

CSSToXSLFO, being an XML-filter, is built into applications by
people, often to generate reports from data. I have applied it like
this myself in a project for the European Commission, where reports
are generated with customs data and a thousand page voting document
is produced in 23 languages to support the publication of the
Combined Nomenclature legislation.

4. Before we issued results only online I used generate the results
letters using cocoon which could amount to 10,000 pages in a couple
of days.

5. 130 pages per 3 months

> When you started using XSL FO:

1. 2006

2. 2002

3. 2001

5. 2001?

> Interesting aspects of job/output:

1. Great automation of publishing documents in different languages and
different Styles (Using XSL-FO).

2a. Our XML source data for a single law includes all of its
versions. So it's pretty tricky to get the currently valid version
out of the data, since there might already be some versions that
will get applicable in the future.

2b. Our authors are writing in-house articles with an specially adapted
XML editor. We included an option to produce a PDF preflight (via
XSL-FO and Cocoon) from their articles to rate its length - which is
important for setting.

2c. We are using DITA in combination with Apache Forrest for our
internal documentation and offer to generate an PDF output via
XSL-FO

5. Versatility. I get it to do exactly what I want.

> Additional comments:

2. We are really looking forwart to XSL-FO 2.0

> Anonymous (yes/no):

2. Roman Huditsch, LexisNexis Verlag ARD Orac GmbH & Co KG

3. Werner Donné

5. Éric Bischoff, Bureau Cornavin

Regards,

Tony Graham Tony.Graham@...
Director W3C XSL FO SG Invited Expert
Menteith Consulting Ltd XML Guild member
XML, XSL and XSLT consulting, programming and training
Registered Office: 13 Kelly's Bay Beach, Skerries, Co. Dublin, Ireland
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SVG2PDF Some characters not recognised when transforming to PDF

2009-09-08T09:29:54Z

BAE Systems Normal.dot

Hi there,

I have a Java Stored Procedure in Oracle that converts a CLOB feed of SVG based XML into a PDF file and stores it as a BFILE.

The following code works.

Code:

CREATE OR REPLACE AND RESOLVE JAVA SOURCE NAMED DMG."com/aca/pdfwriter" AS

package com.aca.pdfwriter;

//import Java

import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.File;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.io.OutputStream;

import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.InputStream;

import java.io.InputStreamReader;

import java.sql.PreparedStatement;

import java.sql.Blob;

import java.sql.Connection;

import java.sql.DriverManager;

import java.sql.ResultSet;

import java.sql.SQLException;

import java.sql.Statement;

//import oracle

import oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource;

import oracle.jdbc.OracleResultSet;

import oracle.sql.BFILE;

import oracle.sql.BLOB;

import oracle.sql.CLOB;

//import Batik

import org.apache.batik.transcoder.Transcoder;

import org.apache.batik.transcoder.TranscoderException;

import org.apache.batik.transcoder.TranscoderInput;

import org.apache.batik.transcoder.TranscoderOutput;

import org.apache.batik.gvt.font.GVTGlyphVector;

import org.apache.avalon.framework.configuration.Configuration;

import org.apache.avalon.framework.configuration.DefaultConfigurationBuilder;

import org.apache.fop.svg.PDFTranscoder;

import org.apache.fop.fonts.apps.PFMReader;

public class svg2pdf{

public static int convertSVG2PDF(oracle.sql.CLOB svg) throws IOException, TranscoderException,SQLException {

InputStream in = null;

int seq =0;

Transcoder transcoder = new org.apache.fop.svg.PDFTranscoder();

//Setup input

//InputStream in = new java.io.FileInputStream(svg);

//svg.open();

//in = svg.getBinaryStream();

in = svg.getAsciiStream();

try {

TranscoderInput input = new TranscoderInput(in);

//get the current connection

Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:default:connection");

conn.setAutoCommit(false); //must be set to false

//Get unique sequence number

Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();

ResultSet rset = stmt.executeQuery("select TEMP_BLOB_SEQ.nextval from dual");

while (rset.next()) {

seq = ((OracleResultSet)rset).getInt(1);

}

stmt.close();

//Prepare the new blob

PreparedStatement pstmt = conn.prepareStatement("insert into temp_blob (unique_id,blobby) values (" + seq + ", ?)");

oracle.sql.BLOB myBlob = oracle.sql.BLOB.createTemporary(conn, true, oracle.sql.BLOB.DURATION_SESSION);

//Setup the outputstream

OutputStream out = null;

out = myBlob.setBinaryStream(0);

try {

System.out.println("start PDF" );

TranscoderOutput output = new TranscoderOutput(out);

//Do the transformation

transcoder.transcode(input, output);

System.out.println("Generated PDF" );

pstmt.setBlob(1,myBlob);

pstmt.execute();

pstmt.close();

} catch (Exception e){

System.out.println(e.getMessage() );

e.printStackTrace();

PreparedStatement xxx = conn.prepareStatement("insert into z (z) values (" + e.getMessage() + ")");

xxx.execute();

xxx.close();

} finally {

out.close();

conn.commit();

conn.close();

}

} finally {

in.close();

//svg.closeFile();

}

return seq;

}

**********************************

If I use the following code as my input CLOB the source is successfully transformed to PDF output.

Source:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.0//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd">

<![CDATA[

function ToggleRptValues(){

var div = svgDocument.getElementById('Planned');

if (div != null){

var obj = svgDocument.getElementById('Planned');

vis = obj.getAttribute("style");

if (vis == "visibility:visible")

obj.setAttribute("style","visibility:hidden");

else

obj.setAttribute("style","visibility:visible");

}

div = svgDocument.getElementById('Forecast');

if (div != null){

var obj = svgDocument.getElementById('Forecast');

vis = obj.getAttribute("style");

if (vis == "visibility:visible")

obj.setAttribute("style","visibility:hidden");

else

obj.setAttribute("style","visibility:visible");

}

div = svgDocument.getElementById('Actual');

if (div != null){

var obj = svgDocument.getElementById('Actual');

vis = obj.getAttribute("style");

if (vis == "visibility:visible")

obj.setAttribute("style","visibility:hidden");

else

obj.setAttribute("style","visibility:visible");

}

div = svgDocument.getElementById('Conformant');

if (div != null){

var obj = svgDocument.getElementById('Conformant');

vis = obj.getAttribute("style");

if (vis == "visibility:visible")

obj.setAttribute("style","visibility:hidden");

else

obj.setAttribute("style","visibility:visible");

}

//]]>

</script>

<text x="528" y="26"

style="text-anchor: middle; font-family:Courier;font-size:12pt;">

CDRL Delivery Performance Report

</text>

<text x="272.384615384615384615384615384615384615" y="46" style="fill:black; stroke-width: 1; font-family:Courier;font-size:10pt;">Today</text>

<text x="90" y="302.599646486964206805125939019001325674" style="fill:blue; stroke-width: 1; font-family:Courier; font-size:10pt;">123567890 abcdefg</text>

</g>

</svg>

***************************

However, if I change the hi-lighted bit to output the character 4 or x it throws an error:

<text x="90" y="302.599646486964206805125939019001325674" style="fill:blue; stroke-width: 1; font-family:Courier; font-size:10pt;">44123567890 abcdefg</text>

*************************

Here is the error

java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException

at java.lang.System.arraycopy(System.java)

at java.awt.geom.GeneralPathIterator.currentSegment(GeneralPathIterator.java:104)

at java.awt.geom.GeneralPath.append(GeneralPath.java:309)

at java.awt.geom.GeneralPath.append(GeneralPath.java:282)

at org.apache.batik.gvt.font.AWTGVTGlyphVector.getOutline(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.batik.gvt.font.AWTGVTGlyphVector.getBounds2D(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.batik.gvt.text.GlyphLayout.getBounds2D(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.batik.gvt.renderer.StrokingTextPainter.getBounds2D(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.batik.gvt.TextNode.getPrimitiveBounds(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.batik.gvt.AbstractGraphicsNode.getTransformedPrimitiveBounds(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.batik.gvt.AbstractGraphicsNode.getTransformedBounds(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.batik.gvt.CompositeGraphicsNode.getPrimitiveBounds(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.batik.gvt.CompositeGraphicsNode.getTransformedPrimitiveBounds(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.batik.gvt.AbstractGraphicsNode.getTransformedBounds(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.batik.gvt.CompositeGraphicsNode.getPrimitiveBounds(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.batik.gvt.CompositeGraphicsNode.getTransformedPrimitiveBounds(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.batik.gvt.AbstractGraphicsNode.getTransformedBounds(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.batik.gvt.CompositeGraphicsNode.getPrimitiveBounds(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.batik.gvt.AbstractGraphicsNode.getBounds(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.batik.gvt.AbstractGraphicsNode.paint(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.fop.svg.PDFTranscoder.transcode(PDFTranscoder.java:237)

at org.apache.batik.transcoder.XMLAbstractTranscoder.transcode(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.batik.transcoder.SVGAbstractTranscoder.transcode(Unknown Source)

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Any ideas would be appreciated.

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Alpha and Beta Print

2009-09-08T05:19:12Z

Hello,

I’ve got a a little problem with the printing of the alpha and beta characters.

I am generating PDF-reports from a webinterface with XML and XSL-FO.

On this reports are the Characters “Alpha” and “Beta” from the Greek alphabet.

But if I print this form, then the Greek chars turn into # . Why?

Thanks for help!

Michael

Need help in using exslt function str:tokenize

2009-08-31T00:10:04Z

Hi all,

I am trying to tokenize a string that has empty space in between the delimiters(comma is used as delimiter).

I have the XSL code as shown below:

<xsl:variable name="Test" select="',BBBB,,DDDD,EEEE'"/>
<xsl:variable name="TestToken" select="str:tokenize($Test,',')"/>

<xsl:message>Value of first is ....<xsl:value-of select="$TestToken[1]"/></xsl:message>
<xsl:message>Value of second is ....<xsl:value-of select="$TestToken[2]"/></xsl:message>
<xsl:message>Value of Third is ....<xsl:value-of select="$TestToken[3]"/></xsl:message>
<xsl:message>Value of Fourth is ....<xsl:value-of select="$TestToken[4]"/></xsl:message>
<xsl:message>Value of Fifth is ....<xsl:value-of select="$TestToken[5]"/></xsl:message>

Upon executing this code, I get the output as follows:

Value of first is ....BBBB
Value of second is ....DDDD
Value of Third is ....EEEE
Value of Fourth is ....
Value of Fifth is ....

But my required output is as below:

Value of first is ....
Value of second is ....BBBB
Value of Third is ....
Value of Fourth is ....EEEE
Value of Fifth is ....DDDD

I would like to know how to get the required output using str:tokenize.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Priby

Re: Differing layouts with single and multi page documents

2009-08-25T09:20:54Z

ollie.petch wrote:

I'm using Apache FOP in a Java application to generate invoices, I want a footer displayed only on the final page of the invoice. Sometimes the invoices will span across multiple pages other times they will fill just a single page. After googeling extensively I have come up with the following:

<fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:simple-page-master master-name="normal" >
<fo:region-body />
<fo:region-before />
</fo:simple-page-master>

<fo:simple-page-master master-name="last">
<fo:region-body />
<fo:region-before />
<fo:region-after region-name="footer" />
</fo:simple-page-master>

<fo:page-sequence-master master-name="document">

<fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives maximum-repeats="1">
<fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="last" page-position="first" />
</fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives>


<fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives maximum-repeats="no-limit">
<fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="normal" page-position="first" />
<fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="last" page-position="last" />
<fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="normal" page-position="rest" />
</fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
</fo:page-sequence-master>
</fo:layout-master-set>

From my understanding of what I have read online because I have set maximum-repeats to 1 on the first subsequence it will be ignored for all documents with more than one page, therefore the next subsequence with maximum-repeats set to no-limit will be used. However with this setup I get the footers on the first page and the last page, but not on pages in-between. Is there something I am overlooking, to me it seems as though the maximum-repeats attribute is being ignored.

Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks
Ollie.

I'd like to add I get the exact same output when removing the maximum-repeats="1" attribute.

Ollie

Differing layouts with single and multi page documents

2009-08-25T09:01:19Z

I'm using Apache FOP in a Java application to generate invoices, I want a footer displayed only on the final page of the invoice. Sometimes the invoices will span across multiple pages other times they will fill just a single page. After googeling extensively I have come up with the following:

<fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:simple-page-master master-name="normal" >
<fo:region-body />
<fo:region-before />
</fo:simple-page-master>

<fo:simple-page-master master-name="last">
<fo:region-body />
<fo:region-before />
<fo:region-after region-name="footer" />
</fo:simple-page-master>

<fo:page-sequence-master master-name="document">

<fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives maximum-repeats="1">
<fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="last" page-position="first" />
</fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives>


<fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives maximum-repeats="no-limit">
<fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="normal" page-position="first" />
<fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="last" page-position="last" />
<fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="normal" page-position="rest" />
</fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
</fo:page-sequence-master>
</fo:layout-master-set>

From my understanding of what I have read online because I have set maximum-repeats to 1 on the first subsequence it will be ignored for all documents with more than one page, therefore the next subsequence with maximum-repeats set to no-limit will be used. However with this setup I get the footers on the first page and the last page, but not on pages in-between. Is there something I am overlooking, to me it seems as though the maximum-repeats attribute is being ignored.

Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks
Ollie.

Survey: Where is XSL FO used?

2009-08-20T10:40:27Z

I am giving a talk "XSL FO 2.0: A Technical Overview" at XML-in-Practice
2009 [1] in September.

As well as discussing the XSL FO 2.0 Requirements document [2] and the
work towards XSL FO 2.0 done to date, I want to highlight what can be
done with XSL 1.1 and what is being achieved today.

So I would like to know how you are using XSL FO. Please reply
off-list to Tony.Graham@....

To make it a bit easier, here are some categories:

Use:

Volume (e.g., pages per day/week/month/year/job):

When you started using XSL FO:

Interesting aspects of job/output:

Additional comments:

Anonymous (yes/no):

I am interested in all uses of XSL FO, and if your use is particularly
off-the-wall, I may come back to you asking for a sample or a photo of
the completed work.

I will summarise the results back to this list.

If you want to be anonymous, I won't mention you by name in any results.

Some version of the results may end up being linked to from the W3C XSL
page [3]: I haven't organised anything with the XSL FO SG, but it seems
like the sort of information that would be useful to have there.

Regards,

Tony Graham Tony.Graham@...
Director W3C XSL FO SG Invited Expert
Menteith Consulting Ltd XML Guild member
XML, XSL and XSLT consulting, programming and training
Registered Office: 13 Kelly's Bay Beach, Skerries, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Registered in Ireland - No. 428599 http://www.menteithconsulting.com
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[1] http://www.idealliance.org/conferences_and_events/xmlinpractice_2009_conference__exposition
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xslfo20-req/
[3] http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/

Re: xsl-fo validity

2009-08-20T06:14:34Z

On Fri, Aug 14 2009 06:35:06 +0100, florin.vasilian@... wrote:

> I strongly disagree.
> <prefix:element prefix:attribute="some value" xmlns:prefix="a namespace
> URI"/> is valid XML, no question about that.
> Moreover,
> <other_prefix:element other_prefix:attribute="some value"
> xmlns:other_prefix="a namespace URI"/> should be treated by the parser in
> the same manner as the first one if the namespace URI is the same.
>
> FOP can't handle either. All commercial renderers (Antenna House, Ecrion,
> RenderX) can handle both.

XSL 1.1 supports [5] both XML Names 1.0 [1] (with XML 1.0 documents) and
XML Names 1.1 [2] (with XML 1.1 documents).

Your assertions about the equality of the XML where only the namespace
prefixes differ is correct.

However, an unprefixed attribute (even when there is a default namespace
in effect) and a prefixed attribute with the same local name are not
identical.

See the second example in Section 6.3 [3][4] of either Rec. In
particular, note that there are two separate attributes in:

<good a="1" n1:a="2" />'

Which does mean that this is legal XML:

<fo:block start-indent="10.620px" fo:start-indent="620px">

The XSL 1.1 Recommendation states that it uses the 'fo:' prefix "for
referring to elements in the XSL namespace". It doesn't use it for
attributes. None of the examples in the Rec use prefixed attributes for
properties.

You have the option of your implementation equating prefixed property
names with property names, but IMO that is not the intent of the XSL
Rec, and generated FO will be more portable if it doesn't prefix the
property names.

You, or anyone, are welcome to raise a comment about this on the XSL-FO
Bugzilla [7]. (I'm going away tomorrow so I don't have time to do it
myself.)

Regards,

Tony Graham Tony.Graham@...
Director W3C XSL FO SG Invited Expert
Menteith Consulting Ltd XML Guild member
XML, XSL and XSLT consulting, programming and training
Registered Office: 13 Kelly's Bay Beach, Skerries, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Registered in Ireland - No. 428599 http://www.menteithconsulting.com
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[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names11/
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#uniqAttrs
[4] http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names11/#uniqAttrs
[5] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#d0e389
[6] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#xsl-namespace
[7] http://www.w3.org/XML/2008/01/xsl-fo-bugzilla.html

PDF Page break

2009-08-19T05:59:31Z

Hi All,

I am using FOP version 0.20.5 to generate PDF from the xml.

My requirement is say I am in the middle of a pdf page, the page may exceed that particular page and go to next page. When it exceeds, I should print all the page content in the new page.

I mean I should print all the page content in the new page.

And one more important point is from the new page if again the content flows to next page, I should have heading saying Continuation of the first page in that page.

I achieved this continuation heading requirement using different page master for different sections and define values for the fo:region-before for that page master. But when I define page master for sections that page is always coming in new pdf page.

Please let me know if I am not clear with my question. Please help me in resolving the issue.

Thanks.

Re: xsl-fo validity

2009-08-13T22:35:06Z

I strongly disagree.
<prefix:element prefix:attribute="some value" xmlns:prefix="a namespace URI"/> is valid XML, no question about that.
Moreover,
<other_prefix:element other_prefix:attribute="some value" xmlns:other_prefix="a namespace URI"/> should be treated by the parser in the same manner as the first one if the namespace URI is the same.

FOP can't handle either. All commercial renderers (Antenna House, Ecrion, RenderX) can handle both.

Florin Vasilian
Director of Software Development
Ecrion Software
www.ecrion.com

Tony Graham-3 wrote:

On Mon, Aug 03 2009 01:58:21 +0100, overtaker_ovi@hotmail.com wrote:
...
> is this a valid xsl-fo ?
>
> CODE
> <fo:block fo:start-indent="10.620px" fo:font-size="10pt">

You would do better to use unprefixed attribute names, e.g.,
'start-indent="10.620px"'.

The relevant section of the XSL 1.1 Recommendation is at
http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#d0e386, but it doesn't specifically mention
XSL attributes explicitly in the XSL namespace. You could argue that it
should be allowed, but in practice the Recommendation, and probably all
implementations, assumes unprefixed attributes.

> is there any website where i can test the validity of my xsl-fo ?

RenderX has multiple resources to download at
http://www.renderx.com/tools/validators.html

Regards,

Tony Graham Tony.Graham@MenteithConsulting.com
Director W3C XSL FO SG Invited Expert
Menteith Consulting Ltd XML Guild member
XML, XSL and XSLT consulting, programming and training
Registered Office: 13 Kelly's Bay Beach, Skerries, Co. Dublin, Ireland
Registered in Ireland - No. 428599 http://www.menteithconsulting.com
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2 Column Layout with FOP

2009-08-12T13:04:12Z

Hi,

I have an unusual problem:
I want to make a two-column layout. But:
on the left there should be only Captions and Images and on the right should be
only Text.
I struggled around with tables and other workarounds.
FOP doesn't support float.

Is there any way to do it?

My Setup:
Apache FOP 0.95

XSL FO to PDF Conversion

2009-08-06T10:37:09Z

Hi guys

Is there any way to generate PDF from XSL FO using Ruby on Rails. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Anandh

Unique Table Generation

2009-08-05T22:12:41Z

Hi All,

I have been working on this issue for the past two days. But could not get the solution.
Any help on this would be grateful.

I am using xsl 1.0 and fop 0.20.5. I am generating pdf from xml using xsl-fo's. My part of xml is as follows:

<group_head>
<description>Desc1</description>
<option type="type1">
<description>Option1</description>
<code>01</code>
<status>Standard</status>
</option>
<option type="type2">
<description>Option2</description>
<code>02</code>
<status>NonStandard</status>
</option>
</group_head>

<group_head>
<description>Desc2</description>
<option type="type3">
<description>Option3</description>
<code>01</code>
<status>Standard</status>
</option>
<option type="type4">
<description>Option4</description>
<code>02</code>
<status>Standard</status>
</option>
<option type="type4">
<description>Option5</description>
<code>02</code>
<status>Standard</status>
</option>
</group_head>

I have to loop through the <group_head> element and loop through its child element <option> and
print it on a table of rows(say for example first row will have <description>, second row will have <option> elements like <description> and <status> and it continues for all the <group_head> elements) in my pdf page like as follows.

The number of <group_head> elements and child <option> elements may vary.

Desc1
______________________
Option1 Standard
______________________
Option2 NonStandard
______________________
Desc2
______________________
Option3 Standard
______________________
Option4 Standard
______________________
Option5 Standard
______________________

The table starts at the top left corner of the area and flows down and then across. i.e i have to split the page such that half of the content comes on the left half of the page and half on the right side.

The important thing is the list(number of group_head elements) may be more than one page long, The flow is from the bottom of the second column of the first page to the first column of the second page of the pdf.

And one more important point is if the table goes to the second page, say for example we have some 4 <group_head> elements left to print on the second page, then 2 <group_head> elements should come on first colum of the second page and 2 <group_head>
elements should come on the second column.

Basically they want split it in two columns.

Please suggest me some ideas. Please get back to me if I am not clear with my question.

Regards,
Venkat