Dear FOP mailinglist readers,
I’ve been fighting with the Apache FOP source for a week, but I can’t solve my
problem alone…
One of the features of the application I’m writing produces a PDF, based on an
XML that follows a simple schema (header info, tables, images and text, but
nothing fancy). Generating the FO then the PDF are the easy steps. Fop does the
job marvelously. Now I need to output to the user the coordinates of bounding
boxes. Those bounding boxes must represent the placement in the PDF of the
original text within the XML. To provide an example:
If I had in my original XML ,
<text id=”xxx”>This text appears somewhere in the PDF</text>
I would want, during the XML to PDF process, to output something like
Bounding_box {id=”xxx”, x=34, y=45, w=444,h=25}
I understand this as “the original text of tag xxx is contained in the pdf in
the rectangle starting at point (34,45), of width 444, and height 25”
(if the text is split into several pages or areas, receiving a list of
rectangles would be fine)
To summarize: how can I know the position in the final PDF of the original text?
I’ve tried decorating different classes of FOP, looking at the FOTreeBuilder,
the AreaTreeParser, but failed to maintain the identifier of the original text
tags.
I’d prefer staying with release 0.95, but can also use the trunk if required.
While browsing, I thought that the accessibility features might help, but
couldn’t figure out how
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/src/documentation/content/xdocs/trunk/accessibility.xml?view=markup
I thought relying on the Area Tree, but couldn’t retrieve the original id that
were set to the original XML tags.
http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/AreaTreeXMLDocumentation
http://old.nabble.com/Area-Tree-Handling-to24431098.html
Thanks for any help
Igor
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