Hi Roland.
Yes - I've tried height and width on the fo:external graphic - and they do control the size in FOP - but not in XEP (3.8).
In XEP these set the height and width of the region for the fo:external graphic area - but the image can spill outside this region - which is why content-height and content-width are needed.
I'm assuming that - as this is the case - the scaling attribute is supposed to apply to the content-h/w attributes?
I haven't tried this in FOP with scaling specified as well - but I'm trying to come up with something that behaves the same in both XEP and FOP at the moment.
Mike
Roland Neilands wrote:
Mike,
That's interesting, and possibly consistent with what I saw. I'll test that when I get a chance. Have you tried setting height &/or width (use scaling="uniform" if both) attributes on the external-graphic itself?
Cheers, Roland
-----Original Message----- From: Mike Trotman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 19 April 2005 10:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: FOP - external-graphic in absolutely positioned block container - Solved
Thanks for checking the archives. I also did a quick scan but couldn't find anything.
I think I have pinned down when the image vanishes.
It is when both dimensions of the image display size are too large to fit in the box.
With a smaller width - the image is constrained in the box by width - and the height is smaller than the box.
When I increase the width - the image expands to fill the width - and the bottom of the image gets closer to the bottom of the box.
When I go beyond to the point where the image height exceeds the box - then the image vanishes!
At 2.3in width - the image displays and just fills the box, at 2.4in the image does not display as it's height would be larger than the box.
And I increased my sizes by 0.5in which allowed the image to expand and vanish!
SO - an image IS constrained by the WIDTH of a box - but NOT the HEIGHT! (And an image display that is too large to fit the box gets suppressed.)
I was using content-height and content-width as these correctly constrain the image in XEP (height and width don't)
and obviously using the size of the block-container to constrain the size in FOP.
But it was too long ago when I set this up.
I have now added a large comment to the relevant XSLT code.
Anyway - thanks to all those who responded.
Mike
Roland Neilands wrote:
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