[moving this over to the docbook-apps mailing list where formatting issues
are discussed]
Hi Aleksandar,
I'm afraid your expectations for the capabilities of XSL-FO exceed the
current reality. The XSL-FO standard does not have conditional floats, in
which the formatter would float a figure to the next page only if it did not
fit on the current page. The standard does have a manual float feature,
which can float an image to the top of a page and backfill the text. But
if you add that property to an image, it will always float it, not do it
only if it does not fit. Some XSL-FO processors support that feature. But
FOP does not yet support even that limited float feature yet. This page
shows what XSL-FO features FOP does not yet support:
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/compliance.html
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aleksandar Kanchev" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 9:26 AM
Subject: [docbook] Adjusting figure on page
Hello list,
I have couple of paragraphs, followed by a figure followed by more
paragraphs. Since I want PDF output I convert the docbook document to FO
and then to PDF using fop. The problem is that after the first
paragraphs the space left on the page is a little smaller than the space
needed for the figure, so a big white space is left on the page and the
figure is moved automatically to the next page followed by the remaining
paragraphs. I actually expected that the figure will be shifted before
or after the preceding or following paragraphs respectively, so that the
page's empty space is used as much as possible. Why is this happening?
Am I missing some docbook/xsl parameter?
best regards,
Aleksandar
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