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Joao Goncalves edited comment on FOP-3306 at 7/15/26 5:29 PM:
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-It's not possible to change the character when using a rule. I thought it was
possible, but upon looking at the code again, I can see it's not.- The size and
spacing can be changed using rule-thickness and leader-pattern-width.
Edit: it's actually possible to have a square, but it requires a FOP change.
I'll raise a new ticket for the improvement
was (Author: JIRAUSER302961):
It's not possible to change the character when using a rule. I thought it was
possible, but upon looking at the code again, I can see it's not. The size and
spacing can be changed using rule-thickness and leader-pattern-width.
> Multiple Artifacts for fo:leader dots in the accessible PDF
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: FOP-3306
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-3306
> Project: FOP
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Alexander Dyuzhev
> Assignee: Joao Goncalves
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: fop.xconf, image-2026-07-08-22-43-55-471.png, test.fo,
> test.pdf, test_2026-05-29.fo, test_2026-05-29.pdf
>
>
> I have a simple XSL-FO with \{{<fo:leader leader-pattern="dots"/>}}.
> In the generated PDF, each dot is individually marked as Artifact:
> {code:java}
> EMC
> /Link << /MCID 1 >> BDC
> BT
> /F1 12 Tf
> 1 0 0 -1 0 24.666 Tm
> [ (Introduction ) -115.6667 () ] TJ
> ET
> EMC
> /Artifact BMC
> BT
> /F1 12 Tf
> 1 0 0 -1 67.424 24.666 Tm
> [ (.) ] TJ
> ET
> EMC
> /Artifact BMC
> BT
> /F1 12 Tf
> 1 0 0 -1 70.76 24.666 Tm
> [ (.) ] TJ
> ET
> EMC
> /Artifact BMC
> BT
> /F1 12 Tf
> 1 0 0 -1 74.096 24.666 Tm
> [ (.) ] TJ
> ET
> EMC
> /Artifact BMC
> BT
> /F1 12 Tf
> 1 0 0 -1 77.432 24.666 Tm
> [ (.) ] TJ
> ET
> EMC
> /Artifact BMC
> ...{code}
> (I use PDFBox's PDFDebugger tool)
>
> How to mark the entire run of dots as a single artifact?
> {code:java}
> /Artifact BMC
> BT
> /F1 12 Tf
> 1 0 0 -1 410.67 24.666 Tm
> [ (..................) ] TJ
> ET
> EMC{code}
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