I haven't tried multiple page numbering values like you're doing.
I use FOP (version 0.95) to create reports from our Java integrated
language (called BBj).
I currently only reference the physical page sequence, with a pointer to
the last page.
I print the whole thing in one page sequence broken into blocks like
this:
<fo:page-sequence>
<xsl:attribute
name="master-reference">STANDARD_PAGE</xsl:attribute>
<fo:flow>
<xsl:attribute
name="flow-name">xsl-region-body</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:for-each select="PAGE_DATA">
<xsl:variable name="PAGE_NUMBER"
select="position()"/>
<fo:block>
<xsl:attribute
name="break-before">page</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:for-each select="*">
...
I end that with a last page marker:
</fo:block>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each>
<fo:block>
<xsl:attribute name="id">last-page</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute
name="position">absolute</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="left">0</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="top">0</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="width">0</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="height">0</xsl:attribute>
</fo:block>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
I think what you may need to figure out may involve marking pages with
the page id, subtracting the number of abc pages from the main
position() number..
________________________________
From: Lea Farmer [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 2:56 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Page numbering help
Hi Eric,
Thanks for the swift response.
Here's the layout master set:
<fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:simple-page-master master-name="main" page-height="11.69in"
page-width="8.27in" margin="0.50in">
<fo:region-body margin-top="0.75in" margin-bottom="0.75in"
column-count="1" column-gap="0.50in" />
<fo:region-after extent="0.50in" padding-before="0"/>
</fo:simple-page-master>
<fo:simple-page-master master-name="officers">
<fo:region-body margin-top="0.75in" margin-bottom="0.75in"
column-count="1" column-gap="0.50in" />
<fo:region-after extent="0.50in" padding-before="0"/>
</fo:simple-page-master>
</fo:layout-master-set>
I'm then specifying the page-sequences as follows
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="main" initial-page-number="auto"
format="1" force-page-count="no-force">
.... some data
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="officers" initial-page-number="1"
force-page-count="no-force" format="a">
.... some data
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="main" initial-page-number="auto"
format="1">
.... some data
in the attempt to see if master-reference="main" kept a reference on
what the last page was on the previous 'main' sequence (more of a shot
in the dark :)
I reference the page numbers in the following way for the "main"
sequences.
// This creates the 1,2,3,4,5,6
<fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-after">
<fo:block>
<fo:inline font-weight="bold"><xsl:text>Page:
</xsl:text></fo:inline><fo:page-number font-weight="bold"/>
</fo:block>
</fo:static-content>
On the last part of the first "main" sequence I place a <fo:block
id="endOfOfficers"></fo:block> element.
I then reference the page numbers within the "officers" sequence in the
following way:
// This creates the 3a,3b,3c,3e,3f etc
<fo:block>
<fo:inline font-weight="bold"><xsl:text>Page:
</xsl:text></fo:inline>
<fo:page-number-citation ref-id="endOfOfficers"/><fo:page-number/>
</fo:block>
I think I could fix it if I could pass in the <fo:page-number-citation
ref-id into the next page-sequence initial-page-number value, but don't
know how too.
Would this have to be done within a two pass solution? And if so how
would I get that value?
If a more complete example is needed I can mail directly. Thanks for
your help.
>>> "Eric Douglas" <[email protected]> 19/05/2010 20:00 >>>
How are you determining and displaying the page number?
We'd need to see some code (xml,xsl,fo) to determine why it isn't
working or how it should work.
There shouldn't be any issues if you're writing the values of each page
to your xml and setting the page numbers into tag values.
________________________________
From: Lea Farmer [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 4:44 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Page numbering help
Hi,
I have searched the forums but have not been able to find a solution to
my problem.
I am trying to create a document that will have specific page numbering
like the one below:
1,2,3,3a,3b,3c,3d,3e,3f,4,5,6,7,8
I have been able to produce a document that goes up to 3f using a
combination of
page-number-citation
page-sequence
But when I restart another page sequence for pages 4-8 it uses the last
page sequence for the start value (ie g = 7) so I get:
1,2,3,3a,3b,3c,3d,3e,3f,7,8,9,10,11
The problem is I cannot guarantee that the sub sections will always
start on page 3, and the number of subsections a,b,c are very likely to
change on each document created?
I'm sure there's a neat solution, but I cant see the wood for the trees
at the mo :)
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