Hi Vincent Many thanks for your guidance.
I have tried with one surrounding block-container, which looks to be working OK. If I then place that within a table or alongside other non-positioned block-containers it does not work. I will need to test this some more and will come back with my findings Kind regards Stuart Scott -----Original Message----- From: Vincent Hennebert [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 15 February 2010 11:01 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Flowing absolute positioned block-containers Hi Stuart, Just enclose your construct in another fo:block-container and that should do it. Absolute positioning is done WRT the nearest ancestor 'reference area', which fo:block-container appears to generate. If you put your block containers as direct children of fo:flow, they will be positioned within the page. If you enclose them with a non absolutely-positioned fo:block-container, they will be placed within that block-container, which will itself flow on the page. HTH, Vincent Stuart Scott wrote: > Sorry, the end of the sentence should have read: > > This relies heavily on positioning within the parent. However, I need > this to move depending on other content down the page and possibly > onto the next page as necessary. I have tried placing this within a > table but it obviously does not move as the position is absolute. I > have tried using absolute-position="static" but then I lose the > ability to specify the dimensions of the block, plus I could not get > it to work. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stuart Scott > Sent: 12 February 2010 11:11 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Flowing absolute positioned block-containers > > > The following code (which has been cut down to use as an > example) uses two circles onto a block container to create the > illusion of a table with space between the two circles (see attached): > > <fo:block-container absolute-position="absolute" left="0.8cm" > top="1cm" width="17cm" height="1.3cm" background-color="red"> > <fo:block font-family="Helvetica" > font-size="6"> </fo:block> > </fo:block-container> > <fo:block-container absolute-position="absolute" left="0.2cm" > top="0.56cm"> > <fo:block font-family="Helvetica" font-size="11" > font-weight="bold" color="#0A3548"> > <fo:instream-foreign-object content-height="5.2em"> > <svg:svg xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; > height="500" width="500" viewBox="-50 -50 100 100"> > <svg:circle r="50" style="fill:white; stroke:none"/> > </svg:svg> > </fo:instream-foreign-object> > </fo:block> > </fo:block-container> > <fo:block-container absolute-position="absolute" left="0.2cm" > top="0.6cm"> > <fo:block font-family="Helvetica" font-size="11" > font-weight="bold" color="#0A3548"> > <fo:instream-foreign-object content-height="5em"> > <svg:svg xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; > height="500" width="500" viewBox="-50 -50 100 100"> > <svg:circle r="50" style="fill:red; stroke:none"/> > </svg:svg> > </fo:instream-foreign-object> > </fo:block> > </fo:block-container> > > This relies heavily on positioning within the parent. However, I > need this to move depending on other content down the page and > possibly onto the next page as necessary. I have tried placing this > within a table but it obviously does not move as the position is > absolute. I have tried > > Can anyone tell me if this is the best way of achieving this and > indeed if this is possible? > > I am currently using FOP 0.93 and can't upgrade at this time. > > Kind regards > > Stuart Scott > For email disclaimer details please click or visit - > http://www.countrywideplc.co.uk/disclaimer > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
