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Proposal/Discussion page for prepress features as discussed in #47311

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This page discusses and proposes prepress features for Apache FOP.

= Concepts =

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepress
 * http://www.prepressure.com/pdf/basics/page_boxes

== Related Bugzilla Issues ==

 * https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47311

= Basic rules =

The simple-page-master's width and height properties shall define the TrimBox. 
If there is no bleed and crop mark area, the MediaBox will be equal to the 
TrimBox. In the PDF case, just the MediaBox is generated and the other values 
follow the defaulting rules of the PDF specification.

= Extensions =

== fox:bleed ==

 * Value: <length>{1,4}
 * Default: 0pt

If there is only one value, it applies to all sides. If there are two values,
the top and bottom bleed widths are set to the first value and the right and
left bleed widths are set to the second. If there are three values, the top is
set to the first value, the left and right are set to the second, and the
bottom is set to the third. If there are four values, they apply to the top,
right, bottom, and left, respectively. (Corresponds to
http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#padding)

This extension indirectly defines the BleedBox and is calculated by expanding 
the TrimBox by the bleed widths. The lengths must be non-negative.

== fox:crop-offset ==

 * Value: <length>{1,4}
 * Default: 0pt

Same behaviour as with fox:bleed.

This extension indirectly defines the MediaBox and is calculated by expanding 
the TrimBox by the crop offsets. The lengths must be non-negative.

== fox:crop-box ==

Alternative names due to the closeness to fox:crop-offset: crop-box-selector, 
crop-box-source, page-clip-area

 * Value: (trim-box|bleed-box|media-box)
 * Default: media-box

The crop box controls how Acrobat displays the page (CropBox in PDF) or how the 
Java2DRenderer sizes the output media. The PDF spec defines that the CropBox 
defaults to the MediaBox. This extension follows that definition. To simplify 
usage and cover most use cases, the three supported enumeration values 
"trim-box", "bleed-box" and
"media-box" set the CropBox to one of those three other boxes.

If requested in the future, we could offer to specify the CropBox in absolute 
coordinates rather than just be referencing another box.

= Notes =

 * The PDF ArtBox is left out for now as we currently have no requirements in 
this area.
 * We define the MediaBox as the boundaries of the area in which the crop marks 
are located. The MediaBox could actually be bigger in some cases. At the 
moment, we don't support this case.

= Further Ideas =

 * Crop marks painting plug-ins (get a Graphics2D interface and some additional 
parameters and paint the crop marks as you like)
 * Imposition functionality (can already be emulated using intermediate format 
manipulation)

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