I can reproduce but I'm not in the mood to investigate and I don't think
it is proper behaviour. The PostScript renderer doesn't paint the
background beyond the border but on the other side doesn't paint the
borders correctly. A work-around could be to use a single
block-container and use SVG within.

On 12.05.2003 14:31:42 m.schaeffler wrote:
> Hi fopper,
> 
> considering the following code:
> 
> 
> <fo:block-container height="4.233333332275mm" width="30.0mm" top="15.0mm"
> left="30.0mm" 
>       position="absolute" line-height="12.0pt" border-width="0.05mm"
> border-style="solid"          
>       border-color="black" background-color="red">
>               <fo:block>Hello</fo:block>
> </fo:block-container>
> 
> <fo:block-container height="4.233333332275mm" width="30.0mm" top="19.22mm"
> left="40.0mm" 
>       position="absolute" line-height="12.0pt" border-width="0.05mm"
> border-style="solid" 
>       border-color="blue" background-color="green">
>             <fo:block>World</fo:block>
> </fo:block-container>
> 
> 
> 
> There are two things of which I expected a different representation:
> 
> 1. If you examine the border of the two block-containers in the resulting
> PDF document you will realize that the background is actually larger than the
> border.  Is that the proper behaviour??
>
> I need to exactly put a block-container under the other. The result is that
> the background of one block-container always hides a bit of the border of
> another container. The only workaround i found is to set the background-color 
> to
> "transparent", which works fine as long as you need no background-color of
> course.
> Is my XSL-FO inappropriately, or what's to correct solution to the problem ?
>
> 2. As you can see in the PDF document the text is always on the very top of
> the block-container? What's the best solution to make the text appear in the
> middle (vertically) of the block-container?
> 
> 
> Any suggestions will be highly appreciated.


Jeremias Maerki


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