I'm trying to convert an HTML newsletter to PDF format.  

The HTML newsletter's format is something like this:

<table border="0">
<tr><td colspan="2">&lt;img src="headerimage.png"/&gt;</td></tr>
<tr><td bgcolor="#696969">Side column text here</td><td>Newsletter body text
here</td></tr>
</table>

I started by trying to use tables in FOP, but the problem I ran into was
that I kept getting gaps between the header image and the next table row. 
It didn't look good.  

So, I thought about using fo:block-container to position the header image
absolutely at the top of the page and then use fo tables for the body. 
There's a problem with that, though.  If the newsletter's body text takes up
more than one PDF page, the fo table all gets moved to page 2 and the header
image in the fo:block-container stays on page 1.  

Basically, I want a way to do gapless header graphics with no space between
it and the next row, and I'd like to be able to make the body an arbitrary
number of pages.  The header image should always be at the top of the page,
but the body text should be able to span across as many pages as it needs.  

Thanks for your help!
Joseph Caporale
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