Hi Peter On 23.04.2007 17:30:04 Peter Coppens wrote: > > Gentlepeople, > > Does anyone know how I could apply a postscript transformation on the > content of a block-container.
No, I'm afraid, that's not possible. Not from XSL-FO anyway. > What I currently do is render the container content to png and then use svg > to do the transformation. > > I would however like to keep the content as text and have not found a way to > achieve that. How about doing the whole thing in SVG? > The basic use case is arbitrary rotation of (fop formatted) text blocks, but > scaling and skewing might be nice to have as well. > > Any guidance, as always, most warmly welcomed! There's one hack you can try (0.93 or later): Manipulating the area tree XML Give your block-container an "id". If you render your document using -at, you get an XML file. Locate the "block" element that has a "prod-id" attribute with the id you've given the block-container. There may be more than one. Choose the one that has is-viewport-area="true". There, you'll find an attribute called "ctm". That's a transformation matrix. If you manipulate it you may be able to achieve the effect you seek. After modifying the XML you can render the XML file to PostScript using -atin instead of -fo. More info: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.93/intermediate.html HTH Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
