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| 199 | <span class="sel"><font color="#ffcc00">XSL-FO</font></span>
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| 278 | <!--================= start Content==================-->
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| 280 | <td align="left" width="10"><img width="10" height="1" alt="" src="skin/images/spacer.gif"></td><td align="left" width="100%">
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| 281 | <div class="content">
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| 282 | <table class="title" summary="">
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| 283 | <tr>
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| 284 | <td valign="middle">
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| 285 | <h1>XSL-FO Input</h1>
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| 286 | </td><td nowrap="nowrap" width="80" align="center"><a class="dida" href="fo.pdf"><img alt="printer" src="skin/images/printer.gif" border="0"><br>
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| 287 | print-friendly<br>
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| 288 | PDF</a></td>
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| 289 | </tr>
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| 290 | </table>
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| 291 | <h3>Basic Help for Using XML, XSLT, and XSL-FO</h3>
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| 292 | <ul class="minitoc">
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| 293 | <li>
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| 294 | <a href="#overview">Overview</a>
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| 295 | </li>
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| 296 | <li>
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| 297 | <a href="#xml">XML Issues</a>
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| 298 | <ul class="minitoc">
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| 299 | <li>
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| 300 | <a href="#xml-special-chars">Special Characters</a>
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| 301 | </li>
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| 302 | <li>
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| 303 | <a href="#xml-entity-chars">Entity Characters</a>
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| 304 | </li>
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| 305 | <li>
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| 306 | <a href="#xml-encoding">Encoding Issues</a>
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| 307 | </li>
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| 308 | </ul>
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| 309 | </li>
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| 310 | <li>
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| 311 | <a href="#xsl-fo">XSL-FO Issues</a>
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| 312 | <ul class="minitoc">
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| 313 | <li>
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| 314 | <a href="#fo-center-vertical">Vertical Centering</a>
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| 315 | </li>
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| 316 | <li>
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| 317 | <a href="#fo-center-table-horizon">Horizontal Centering (Tables)</a>
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| 318 | </li>
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| 319 | <li>
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| 320 | <a href="#fo-oddeven">Recto/Verso Static Content Differences</a>
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| 321 | </li>
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| 322 | <li>
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| 323 | <a href="#fo-first-page">Making the First Page Special</a>
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| 324 | </li>
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| 325 | <li>
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| 326 | <a href="#fo-blank-pages">Blank Pages</a>
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| 327 | </li>
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| 328 | <li>
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| 329 | <a href="#fo-preformat">Preformatting Content</a>
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| 330 | </li>
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| 331 | <li>
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| 332 | <a href="#fo-total-pages">Total Document Pages</a>
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| 333 | </li>
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| 334 | <li>
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| 335 | <a href="#fo-region-align">Aligning Regions</a>
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| 336 | </li>
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| 337 | <li>
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| 338 | <a href="#fo-lines">Drawing Lines</a>
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| 339 | </li>
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| 340 | <li>
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| 341 | <a href="#fo-validate">Validating XSL-FO</a>
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| 342 | </li>
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| 343 | <li>
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| 344 | <a href="#landscape">Producing landscape pages</a>
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| 345 | </li>
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| 346 | <li>
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| 347 | <a href="#external-resources">External Resources</a>
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| 348 | </li>
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| 349 | </ul>
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| 350 | </li>
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| 351 | </ul>
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| 352 |
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| 353 | <a name="N101C1"></a><a name="overview"></a>
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| 354 | <h3>Overview</h3>
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| 355 | <div style="margin-left: 0 ; border: 2px">
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| 356 | <p>
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| 357 | FOP uses XSL-FO as input.
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| 358 | It is the responsibility of the user to make sure that the XSL-FO submitted to FOP is correct.
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| 359 | The tutorial items presented here are not comprehensive, but are of the FAQ variety. Another
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| 360 | good FAQ is <a target="_blank" href="http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/xslfaq.html">Dave Pawson's XSL FAQ</a>.
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| 361 | </p>
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| 362 | </div>
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| 363 |
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| 364 | <a name="N101CF"></a><a name="xml"></a>
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| 365 | <h3>XML Issues</h3>
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| 366 | <div style="margin-left: 0 ; border: 2px">
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| 367 | <a name="N101D5"></a><a name="xml-special-chars"></a>
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| 368 | <h4>Special Characters</h4>
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| 369 | <div style="margin-left: 0 ; border: 2px">
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| 370 | <p>
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| 371 | When entering special (non-ASCII) characters in XML, the general rule is to use the applicable Unicode character instead of trying to use a character entity as you would with HTML.
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| 372 | Remember that HTML is an SGML document type.
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| 373 | SGML has a limited character set, which requires it to use character entities to represent special characters.
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| 374 | One of the improvements of XML over SGML (and thus HTML) is native support for Unicode.
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| 375 | Basic XML has only a handful of character entities, primarily because it doesn't really need more.
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| 376 | </p>
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| 377 | <p>
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| 378 | Entities such as <span class="codefrag">&uuml;</span> (u with an umlaut), which work in HTML, will be flagged as undefined entities unless you define them yourself in your DTD.
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| 379 | Use the corresponding Unicode character instead.
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| 380 | A list of predefined HTML entities and their Unicode codepoints can be found at <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html">Character entity references in HTML 4</a>.
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| 381 | </p>
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| 382 | <p>
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| 383 | One common example is <span class="codefrag">&nbsp;</span>, used to obtain a non-breaking space in HTML.
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| 384 | In XML, use &#160; instead.
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| 385 | </p>
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| 386 | <p>
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| 387 | For other non-ASCII characters, such as the Euro symbol, checkbox, etc., see the <a href="http://www.unicode.org/charts/charindex.html">Unicode Reference By Name</a> document that is found at the <a href="http://www.unicode.org">Unicode Consortium</a> site.
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| 388 | </p>
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| 389 | <p>
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| 390 | After finding the correct Unicode codepoint to represent the character, use <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#sec-references">XML Character References</a> to put the character into your source XML, XSLT or FO.
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| 391 | See the non-breaking-space comments above for an example of the syntax using decimal notation.
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| 392 | The following hexadecimal example will result in a Euro sign:
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| 393 | </p>
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| 394 | <pre class="code">&#x20AC;</pre>
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| 395 | <p>
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| 396 | Getting your XML correctly encoded is only part of the job.
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| 397 | If you want the character to display or print correctly (and you probably do), then the selected font must contain the necessary glyph.
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| 398 | Because of differences between font encoding methods, and limitations in some font technologies, this can be a troublesome issue, especially for symbol characters.
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| 399 | The FOP example file <a href="fo/fonts.fo.pdf">Base-14 Font Character Mapping</a> is a very useful resource in sorting these issues out for the Base-14 fonts.
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| 400 | For other fonts, use font editing sofware or operating system utilities (such as the Character Map in most Windows platforms) to determine what characters the font supports.
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| 401 | </p>
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| 402 | <p>
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| 403 | An alternative to encoding the character and making it available through a font is to use an embedded graphic to represent the character: GIF, PNG, SVG, etc.
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| 404 | </p>
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| 405 | </div>
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| 406 | <a name="N1020F"></a><a name="xml-entity-chars"></a>
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| 407 | <h4>Entity Characters</h4>
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| 408 | <div style="margin-left: 0 ; border: 2px">
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| 409 | <p>
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| 410 | The handful of basic XML character entities that do exist are the ampersand, apostrophe, less-than, greater-than, and single-quote characters.
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| 411 | These are needed to distinguish markup tags from content, and to distinguish character entities from content.
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| 412 | To avoid parser complaints about illegal characters and entities in your input, ensure that ampersands in text and attributes are written as &amp;, "<" is written as &lt;, and ">" as &gt;.
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| 413 | It is not necessary everywhere, but it is wise to do so anyway, just to be sure.
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| 414 | </p>
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| 415 | <p>
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| 416 | Most XML parsers will provide a line number and sometimes a column number for offending characters.
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| 417 | </p>
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| 418 | <p>
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| 419 | Review the <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/">XML Specification</a> or a good tutorial for details of the XML file format.
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| 420 | </p>
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| 421 | </div>
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| 422 | <a name="N10223"></a><a name="xml-encoding"></a>
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| 423 | <h4>Encoding Issues</h4>
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| 424 | <div style="margin-left: 0 ; border: 2px">
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| 425 | <p>
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| 426 | If the parser complains about illegal bytes or characters in the input, or there are unexpected characters in the output, this is usually is the result of a character encoding problem.
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| 427 | See the <a href="http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl">XSL FAQ</a> for additional information.
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| 428 | Many software packages that produce XML, including XSLT processors, use UTF-8 encoding as a default.
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| 429 | If you view their output with something not aware of the encoding, like Notepad for Win95/98/ME/NT, funny characters are displayed. A Å is a giveaway.
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| 430 | </p>
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| 431 | </div>
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| 432 | </div>
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| 433 |
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| 434 | <a name="N10232"></a><a name="xsl-fo"></a>
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| 435 | <h3>XSL-FO Issues</h3>
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| 436 | <div style="margin-left: 0 ; border: 2px">
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| 437 | <a name="N10238"></a><a name="fo-center-vertical"></a>
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| 438 | <h4>Vertical Centering</h4>
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|---|
| 439 | <div style="margin-left: 0 ; border: 2px">
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| 440 | <p>
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|---|
| 441 | To vertically center an image, table, or other item, use display-align="center".
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| 442 | See <a href="compliance.html#fo-property-display-align">display-align Compliance</a> for implementation status.
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| 443 | Here is a small, self-contained document centering an image on a page:
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|---|
| 444 | </p>
|
|---|
| 445 | <pre class="code"><?xml version="1.0"?>
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| 446 | <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
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| 447 | <fo:layout-master-set>
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| 448 | <fo:simple-page-master master-name="content"
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| 449 | page-width="210mm" page-height="297mm">
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| 450 | <fo:region-body/>
|
|---|
| 451 | </fo:simple-page-master>
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| 452 | </fo:layout-master-set>
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| 453 | <fo:page-sequence master-reference="content">
|
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| 454 | <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
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| 455 | <fo:table table-layout="fixed" width="100%">
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| 456 | <fo:table-column column-width="proportional-column-width(1)"/>
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| 457 | <fo:table-body>
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| 458 | <fo:table-row height="297mm">
|
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| 459 | <fo:table-cell display-align="center">
|
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| 460 | <fo:block text-align="center">
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|---|
| 461 | <fo:external-graphic src="fop.jpg"/>
|
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| 462 | </fo:block>
|
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| 463 | </fo:table-cell>
|
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| 464 | </fo:table-row>
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| 465 | </fo:table-body>
|
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| 466 | </fo:table>
|
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| 467 | </fo:flow>
|
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| 468 | </fo:page-sequence>
|
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| 469 | </fo:root></pre>
|
|---|
| 470 | </div>
|
|---|
| 471 | <a name="N1024A"></a><a name="fo-center-table-horizon"></a>
|
|---|
| 472 | <h4>Horizontal Centering (Tables)</h4>
|
|---|
| 473 | <div style="margin-left: 0 ; border: 2px">
|
|---|
| 474 | <p>
|
|---|
| 475 | To center a table horizontally, one possibility is to add one column on the left and one on the right which pad the table so that the visible part is centered:
|
|---|
| 476 | </p>
|
|---|
| 477 | <pre class="code"><?xml version="1.0"?>
|
|---|
| 478 | <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
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| 479 | <fo:layout-master-set>
|
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| 480 | <fo:simple-page-master master-name="content"
|
|---|
| 481 | page-width="210mm" page-height="297mm">
|
|---|
| 482 | <fo:region-body/>
|
|---|
| 483 | </fo:simple-page-master>
|
|---|
| 484 | </fo:layout-master-set>
|
|---|
| 485 | <fo:page-sequence master-reference="content">
|
|---|
| 486 | <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
|
|---|
| 487 | <fo:table table-layout="fixed" width="100%">
|
|---|
| 488 | <fo:table-column column-width="proportional-column-width(1)"/>
|
|---|
| 489 | <fo:table-column column-width="100mm"/>
|
|---|
| 490 | <fo:table-column column-width="proportional-column-width(1)"/>
|
|---|
| 491 | <fo:table-body>
|
|---|
| 492 | <fo:table-row>
|
|---|
| 493 | <fo:table-cell/>
|
|---|
| 494 | <fo:table-cell>
|
|---|
| 495 | <fo:block>foo</fo:block>
|
|---|
| 496 | </fo:table-cell>
|
|---|
| 497 | <fo:table-cell/>
|
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| 498 | </fo:table-row>
|
|---|
| 499 | </fo:table-body>
|
|---|
| 500 | </fo:table>
|
|---|
| 501 | </fo:flow>
|
|---|
| 502 | </fo:page-sequence>
|
|---|
| 503 | </fo:root></pre>
|
|---|
| 504 | <p>
|
|---|
| 505 | If your table is more complicated, or if defining borders on individual cells becomes too much work, use the code above and nest your table within the middle cell.
|
|---|
| 506 | </p>
|
|---|
| 507 | </div>
|
|---|
| 508 | <a name="N1025B"></a><a name="fo-oddeven"></a>
|
|---|
| 509 | <h4>Recto/Verso Static Content Differences</h4>
|
|---|
| 510 | <div style="margin-left: 0 ; border: 2px">
|
|---|
| 511 | <p>
|
|---|
| 512 | One frequent request is that static content be different between recto pages (right-side or odd-numbered pages typically) and verso pages(left-side or even-numbered pages typically).
|
|---|
| 513 | For example, you may wish to place the page number on the "outer" side of each page.
|
|---|
| 514 | There are examples in the FO distribution and in the <a href="http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect3/index.html">XSL FAQ FO section</a>.
|
|---|
| 515 | </p>
|
|---|
| 516 | <p>
|
|---|
| 517 | First, define a page master with alternating pages masters for odd and even pages.
|
|---|
| 518 | Then specify appropriate regions in these page masters, giving them different names.
|
|---|
| 519 | Use these names to put different static content in these regions. Here is a self-contained demonstration:
|
|---|
| 520 | </p>
|
|---|
| 521 | <pre class="code"><?xml version="1.0"?>
|
|---|
| 522 | <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
|
|---|
| 523 | <fo:layout-master-set>
|
|---|
| 524 | <fo:simple-page-master master-name="even"
|
|---|
| 525 | page-height="297mm" page-width="210mm"
|
|---|
| 526 | margin-top="20mm" margin-bottom="20mm"
|
|---|
| 527 | margin-left="25mm" margin-right="25mm">
|
|---|
| 528 | <fo:region-body margin-bottom="20mm"/>
|
|---|
| 529 | <fo:region-after region-name="footer-even" extent="20mm"/>
|
|---|
| 530 | </fo:simple-page-master>
|
|---|
| 531 | <fo:simple-page-master master-name="odd"
|
|---|
| 532 | page-height="297mm" page-width="210mm"
|
|---|
| 533 | margin-top="20mm" margin-bottom="20mm"
|
|---|
| 534 | margin-left="25mm" margin-right="25mm">
|
|---|
| 535 | <fo:region-body margin-bottom="20mm"/>
|
|---|
| 536 | <fo:region-after region-name="footer-odd" extent="20mm"/>
|
|---|
| 537 | </fo:simple-page-master>
|
|---|
| 538 | <fo:page-sequence-master master-name="document">
|
|---|
| 539 | <fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
|
|---|
| 540 | <fo:conditional-page-master-reference odd-or-even="even"
|
|---|
| 541 | master-reference="even"/>
|
|---|
| 542 | <fo:conditional-page-master-reference odd-or-even="odd"
|
|---|
| 543 | master-reference="odd"/>
|
|---|
| 544 | </fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
|
|---|
| 545 | </fo:page-sequence-master>
|
|---|
| 546 | </fo:layout-master-set>
|
|---|
| 547 | <fo:page-sequence master-reference="document">
|
|---|
| 548 | <fo:static-content flow-name="footer-even">
|
|---|
| 549 | <fo:block text-align="start"><fo:page-number/></fo:block>
|
|---|
| 550 | </fo:static-content>
|
|---|
| 551 | <fo:static-content flow-name="footer-odd">
|
|---|
| 552 | <fo:block text-align-last="end"><fo:page-number/></fo:block>
|
|---|
| 553 | </fo:static-content>
|
|---|
| 554 | <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
|
|---|
| 555 | <fo:block/>
|
|---|
| 556 | <fo:block break-before="page"/>
|
|---|
| 557 | </fo:flow>
|
|---|
| 558 | </fo:page-sequence>
|
|---|
| 559 | </fo:root></pre>
|
|---|
| 560 | </div>
|
|---|
| 561 | <a name="N10270"></a><a name="fo-first-page"></a>
|
|---|
| 562 | <h4>Making the First Page Special</h4>
|
|---|
| 563 | <div style="margin-left: 0 ; border: 2px">
|
|---|
| 564 | <p>
|
|---|
| 565 | To get a special header on the first page, one possibility is to insert it into the flow instead of the static content. Alternatively, use a page master referring to different page masters for the first page and the rest. Here is a code sample:
|
|---|
| 566 | </p>
|
|---|
| 567 | <pre class="code"><?xml version="1.0"?>
|
|---|
| 568 | <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
|
|---|
| 569 | <fo:layout-master-set>
|
|---|
| 570 | <fo:simple-page-master master-name="first"
|
|---|
| 571 | page-height="297mm" page-width="210mm"
|
|---|
| 572 | margin-top="20mm" margin-bottom="20mm"
|
|---|
| 573 | margin-left="25mm" margin-right="25mm">
|
|---|
| 574 | <fo:region-body margin-bottom="20mm"/>
|
|---|
| 575 | <fo:region-after region-name="footer-first" extent="20mm"/>
|
|---|
| 576 | </fo:simple-page-master>
|
|---|
| 577 | <fo:simple-page-master master-name="rest"
|
|---|
| 578 | page-height="297mm" page-width="210mm"
|
|---|
| 579 | margin-top="20mm" margin-bottom="20mm"
|
|---|
| 580 | margin-left="25mm" margin-right="25mm">
|
|---|
| 581 | <fo:region-body margin-bottom="20mm"/>
|
|---|
| 582 | <fo:region-after region-name="footer-rest" extent="20mm"/>
|
|---|
| 583 | </fo:simple-page-master>
|
|---|
| 584 | <fo:page-sequence-master master-name="document">
|
|---|
| 585 | <fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
|
|---|
| 586 | <fo:conditional-page-master-reference page-position="first"
|
|---|
| 587 | master-reference="first"/>
|
|---|
| 588 | <fo:conditional-page-master-reference page-position="rest"
|
|---|
| 589 | master-reference="rest"/>
|
|---|
| 590 | </fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
|
|---|
| 591 | </fo:page-sequence-master>
|
|---|
| 592 | </fo:layout-master-set>
|
|---|
| 593 | <fo:page-sequence master-reference="document">
|
|---|
| 594 | <fo:static-content flow-name="footer-first">
|
|---|
| 595 | <fo:block text-align="center">First page.</fo:block>
|
|---|
| 596 | </fo:static-content>
|
|---|
| 597 | <fo:static-content flow-name="footer-rest">
|
|---|
| 598 | <fo:block text-align-last="center">Other page.</fo:block>
|
|---|
| 599 | </fo:static-content>
|
|---|
| 600 | <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
|
|---|
| 601 | <fo:block/>
|
|---|
| 602 | <fo:block break-before="page"/>
|
|---|
| 603 | <fo:block break-before="page"/>
|
|---|
| 604 | </fo:flow>
|
|---|
| 605 | </fo:page-sequence>
|
|---|
| 606 | </fo:root></pre>
|
|---|
| 607 | </div>
|
|---|
| 608 | <a name="N1027E"></a><a name="fo-blank-pages"></a>
|
|---|
| 609 | <h4>Blank Pages</h4>
|
|---|
| 610 | <div style="margin-left: 0 ; border: 2px">
|
|---|
| 611 | <p>
|
|---|
| 612 | Sometimes it is desirable to insert blank pages within your output, starting, for example, a new chapter on an odd page or an even page.
|
|---|
| 613 | A blank page can be forced by using <span class="codefrag">break-before="page-even"</span> or similar properties, or by a force-page-count="end-on-odd" on a page sequence.
|
|---|
| 614 | </p>
|
|---|
| 615 | <p>
|
|---|
| 616 | To write "This page is intentionally left blank" (or something similar) on an intentionally blank page, first define a conditional page master with a page master specific for blank pages.
|
|---|
| 617 | This allows you to specify static content for blank pages (by definition, a page is blank if no content from a flow is rendered on the page).
|
|---|
| 618 | Omit your normal headers and footers, and use (for example) an extended header to print the "..left blank" statement:
|
|---|
| 619 | </p>
|
|---|
| 620 | <pre class="code"><?xml version="1.0"?>
|
|---|
| 621 | <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
|
|---|
| 622 | <fo:layout-master-set>
|
|---|
| 623 | <fo:simple-page-master master-name="normal"
|
|---|
| 624 | page-height="297mm" page-width="210mm"
|
|---|
| 625 | margin-top="20mm" margin-bottom="20mm"
|
|---|
| 626 | margin-left="25mm" margin-right="25mm">
|
|---|
| 627 | <fo:region-body margin-bottom="20mm"/>
|
|---|
| 628 | <fo:region-after region-name="footer-normal" extent="20mm"/>
|
|---|
| 629 | </fo:simple-page-master>
|
|---|
| 630 | <fo:simple-page-master master-name="blank"
|
|---|
| 631 | page-height="297mm" page-width="210mm"
|
|---|
| 632 | margin-top="20mm" margin-bottom="20mm"
|
|---|
| 633 | margin-left="25mm" margin-right="25mm">
|
|---|
| 634 | <fo:region-body/>
|
|---|
| 635 | <fo:region-before region-name="header-blank" extent="297mm"/>
|
|---|
| 636 | </fo:simple-page-master>
|
|---|
| 637 | <fo:page-sequence-master master-name="document">
|
|---|
| 638 | <fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
|
|---|
| 639 | <fo:conditional-page-master-reference blank-or-not-blank="not-blank"
|
|---|
| 640 | master-reference="normal"/>
|
|---|
| 641 | <fo:conditional-page-master-reference blank-or-not-blank="blank"
|
|---|
| 642 | master-reference="blank"/>
|
|---|
| 643 | </fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
|
|---|
| 644 | </fo:page-sequence-master>
|
|---|
| 645 | </fo:layout-master-set>
|
|---|
| 646 | <fo:page-sequence master-reference="document" force-page-count="end-on-even">
|
|---|
| 647 | <fo:static-content flow-name="footer-normal">
|
|---|
| 648 | <fo:block text-align="center">Normal footer</fo:block>
|
|---|
| 649 | </fo:static-content>
|
|---|
| 650 | <fo:static-content flow-name="header-blank">
|
|---|
| 651 | <fo:block space-before="100mm" text-align-last="center">
|
|---|
| 652 | Intentionally left blank.</fo:block>
|
|---|
| 653 | </fo:static-content>
|
|---|
| 654 | <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
|
|---|
| 655 | <fo:block/>
|
|---|
| 656 | </fo:flow>
|
|---|
| 657 | </fo:page-sequence>
|
|---|
| 658 | </fo:root></pre>
|
|---|
| 659 | </div>
|
|---|
| 660 | <a name="N10292"></a><a name="fo-preformat"></a>
|
|---|
| 661 | <h4>Preformatting Content</h4>
|
|---|
| 662 | <div style="margin-left: 0 ; border: 2px">
|
|---|
| 663 | <p>
|
|---|
| 664 | Sometimes it is desirable to retain linebreaks and hard spaces, and to get preformatted text to pass through without being changed.
|
|---|
| 665 | The XSL-FO specification provides some properties for this: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/slice7.html#white-space-collapse">white-space-collapse</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/slice7.html#linefeed-treatment">linefeed-treatment</a>.
|
|---|
| 666 | In FOP, use white-space-collapse="false" on an enclosing block.
|
|---|
| 667 | </p>
|
|---|
| 668 | <div class="frame warning">
|
|---|
| 669 | <div class="label">Warning</div>
|
|---|
| 670 | <div class="content">
|
|---|
| 671 | Due to a bug in current versions of FOP, setting white-space-collapse="false" will also preserve line breaks in the text. Do not rely on this behavior, as it is non-conformant and will be changed.
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| 672 | </div>
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| 673 | </div>
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| 674 | </div>
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| 675 | <a name="N102A7"></a><a name="fo-total-pages"></a>
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| 676 | <h4>Total Document Pages</h4>
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| 677 | <div style="margin-left: 0 ; border: 2px">
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| 678 | <p>
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| 679 | It is frequently desirable to know the total number of pages in a document and to use that number within the document.
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| 680 | For example, you might wish to show the page number on the first page as being "page 1 of 12".
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| 681 | To accomplish this, place an empty block with an id at the end of the flow:
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| 682 | </p>
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| 683 | <pre class="code"><fo:flow ...>
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| 684 | ...
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| 685 | <fo:block id="last-page"/>
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| 686 | </fo:flow></pre>
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| 687 | <p>
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| 688 | Get the number of the last page as follows:
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| 689 | </p>
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| 690 | <pre class="code"> <fo:page-number-citation ref-id="last-page"/></pre>
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| 691 | <p>
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| 692 | This does not work in certain situations: multiple page sequences, an initial page number other than 1, or forcing a certain page count, thereby producing blank pages at the end.
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| 693 | </p>
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| 694 | <div class="frame warning">
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| 695 | <div class="label">Warning</div>
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| 696 | <div class="content">
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| 697 | There is no reliable way to get the real total page count with FO mechanisms. You can only get <em>page numbers</em>.
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| 698 | </div>
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| 699 | </div>
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| 700 | <p>
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| 701 | The FOP library provides a method to get the total page count after an FO document has been rendered.
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| 702 | One possibility is to implement your own wrapper to do a dummy rendering, inquire the total page count and then perform the real rendering, passing the total page count to the XSLT processor to splice it into the generated FO.
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| 703 | For example:
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| 704 | </p>
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| 705 | <pre class="code">import org.apache.fop.apps.*;
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| 706 | import org.xml.sax.*;
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| 707 | import java.io.*;
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| 708 | import javax.xml.transform.*;
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| 709 | import javax.xml.transform.sax.*;
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| 710 | import javax.xml.transform.stream.*;
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| 711 |
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| 712 | class rendtest {
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| 713 |
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| 714 | public static void main(String args[]) {
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| 715 | try {
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| 716 | Driver driver=new Driver();
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| 717 | driver.setOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(args[2]));
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| 718 | driver.setRenderer(Driver.RENDER_PDF);
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| 719 | Transformer transformer=TransformerFactory.newInstance()
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| 720 | .newTransformer(new StreamSource(new File(args[1])));
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| 721 | transformer.setParameter("page-count","#");
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| 722 | transformer.transform(new StreamSource(new File(args[0])),
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| 723 | new SAXResult(driver.getContentHandler()));
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| 724 | String pageCount=Integer.toString(driver.getResults().getPageCount());
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| 725 | driver=new Driver();
|
|---|
| 726 | driver.setOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(args[2]));
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|---|
| 727 | driver.setRenderer(Driver.RENDER_PDF);
|
|---|
| 728 | transformer=TransformerFactory.newInstance()
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|---|
| 729 | .newTransformer(new StreamSource(new File(args[1])));
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|---|
| 730 | transformer.setParameter("page-count",pageCount);
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|---|
| 731 | transformer.transform(new StreamSource(new File(args[0])),
|
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| 732 | new SAXResult(driver.getContentHandler()));
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| 733 | }
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| 734 | catch( Exception e) {
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|---|
| 735 | e.printStackTrace();
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| 736 | }
|
|---|
| 737 | }
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|---|
| 738 | }</pre>
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|---|
| 739 | <p>
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|---|
| 740 | Declare and use the parameter "page-count" in your XSLT.
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|---|
| 741 | </p>
|
|---|
| 742 | <div class="frame warning">
|
|---|
| 743 | <div class="label">Warning</div>
|
|---|
| 744 | <div class="content">
|
|---|
| 745 | It is possible to run into a convergence problem with this solution. Replacing the "#" placeholder in the first run with the actual page count in the second run, may change the total number of pages in the document.
|
|---|
| 746 | </div>
|
|---|
| 747 | </div>
|
|---|
| 748 | </div>
|
|---|
| 749 | <a name="N102D2"></a><a name="fo-region-align"></a>
|
|---|
| 750 | <h4>Aligning Regions</h4>
|
|---|
| 751 | <div style="margin-left: 0 ; border: 2px">
|
|---|
| 752 | <p>
|
|---|
| 753 | Although it may seem counterintuitive, the regions on a page may overlap.
|
|---|
| 754 | Defining a certain body region does not automatically constrain other regions.
|
|---|
| 755 | Instead, this has to be done explicitly.
|
|---|
| 756 | Sometimes for creative reasons it may be desirable to have the regions overlap.
|
|---|
| 757 | Otherwise, you will want to set them up so that the header does not overlap body content or the body extend into the footer.
|
|---|
| 758 | </p>
|
|---|
| 759 | <p>
|
|---|
| 760 | Assuming you wish to keep the regions separate, if you have a header region with an extent of 20mm, you should define a margin for the body region of at least 20mm too.
|
|---|
| 761 | Otherwise the header content may overwrite some stuff in the body region.
|
|---|
| 762 | This applies similarly to the extent of the after region and the bottom margin of the body region.
|
|---|
| 763 | </p>
|
|---|
| 764 | </div>
|
|---|
| 765 | <a name="N102DF"></a><a name="fo-lines"></a>
|
|---|
| 766 | <h4>Drawing Lines</h4>
|
|---|
| 767 | <div style="margin-left: 0 ; border: 2px">
|
|---|
| 768 | <p>
|
|---|
| 769 | It is frequently desirable to draw lines in a document, as separators, side bars or folding marks. There are several possibilities:
|
|---|
| 770 | </p>
|
|---|
| 771 | <ul>
|
|---|
| 772 |
|
|---|
| 773 | <li>
|
|---|
| 774 | Horizontal lines can be drawn using <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/slice6.html#fo_leader">fo:leader</a>.
|
|---|
| 775 | </li>
|
|---|
| 776 |
|
|---|
| 777 | <li>
|
|---|
| 778 | Use a solid border on a suitable fo:block. This will work for horizontal and vertical lines only.
|
|---|
| 779 | </li>
|
|---|
| 780 |
|
|---|
| 781 | <li>
|
|---|
| 782 | Insert a graphic. GIF, PNG SVG, whatever.
|
|---|
| 783 | </li>
|
|---|
| 784 |
|
|---|
| 785 | </ul>
|
|---|
| 786 | </div>
|
|---|
| 787 | <a name="N102F9"></a><a name="fo-validate"></a>
|
|---|
| 788 | <h4>Validating XSL-FO</h4>
|
|---|
| 789 | <div style="margin-left: 0 ; border: 2px">
|
|---|
| 790 | <p>
|
|---|
| 791 |
|
|---|
| 792 | <a href="http://www.renderx.com">RenderX</a> has provided an <a href="http://www.renderx.com/Tests/validator/fo.dtd.html">Unofficial DTD for FO Documents</a>, which may be helpful in validating general FO issues.
|
|---|
| 793 | </p>
|
|---|
| 794 | <p>
|
|---|
| 795 | FOP also maintains an <a href="http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/xml-fop/docs/foschema/fop.xsd?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain">Unofficial FOP Schema</a> in the FOP CVS Repository.
|
|---|
| 796 | This document can be used either to validate against the FO standard, or against the actual FOP implementation.
|
|---|
| 797 | See the notes near the beginning of the document for instructions on how to use it.
|
|---|
| 798 | </p>
|
|---|
| 799 | </div>
|
|---|
| 800 | <a name="N10312"></a><a name="landscape"></a>
|
|---|
| 801 | <h4>Producing landscape pages</h4>
|
|---|
| 802 | <div style="margin-left: 0 ; border: 2px">
|
|---|
| 803 | <p>
|
|---|
| 804 | Pages in landscape format can easily be produced by exchanging the page-height and page-width values of a simple-page-master element.
|
|---|
| 805 | </p>
|
|---|
| 806 | <pre class="code"><fo:layout-master-set>
|
|---|
| 807 | <fo:simple-page-master master-name="A4-portrait" page-height="29.7cm" page-width="21cm" [..]>
|
|---|
| 808 | <fo:region-body/>
|
|---|
| 809 | </fo:simple-page-master>
|
|---|
| 810 | <fo:simple-page-master master-name="A4-landscape" page-height="21cm" page-width="29.7cm" [..]>
|
|---|
| 811 | <fo:region-body/>
|
|---|
| 812 | </fo:simple-page-master>
|
|---|
| 813 | </fo:layout-master-set></pre>
|
|---|
| 814 | </div>
|
|---|
| 815 | <a name="N10320"></a><a name="external-resources"></a>
|
|---|
| 816 | <h4>External Resources</h4>
|
|---|
| 817 | <div style="margin-left: 0 ; border: 2px">
|
|---|
| 818 | <p>Resources needed by an XSL-FO file that are external to it (graphics, for example), are defined in the XSL-FO standard as being of type "uri-specification". This is defined in the standard at <a target="_top" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/slice5.html#section-N8794-Property-Datatypes">Section 5.11 Property Datatypes</a>, which includes a link to the URI standard itself. Refer to the XSL-FO and URI standards themselves for more detailed instructions.</p>
|
|---|
| 819 | <p>URIs may be either absolute or relative to a base URI. (See <a href="configuration.html">FOP: Configuration</a> for information on setting the base URI for a FOP session). Here is an example referencing an external-graphic that is relative to the base URI:</p>
|
|---|
| 820 | <pre class="code"><fo:external-graphic src="url('images/logo.jpg')"/></pre>
|
|---|
| 821 | <p>Here is an example referencing an external-graphic that is an absolute URI on a local filesystem:</p>
|
|---|
| 822 | <pre class="code">fo:external-graphic src="url('file:d:///images/logo.jpg')"/></pre>
|
|---|
| 823 | </div>
|
|---|
| 824 | </div>
|
|---|
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|
|---|
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|
|---|
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