Hi,

Just to add to Peter's notes, the file path for Windows users is
slightly different and should be:
<fo:external-graphic src="file:/<INSERT FILE PATH>"/>

e.g.
<fo:external-graphic src="file:/c:/tmp/pdf-image/overlay.pdf"/>

rather than for Unix users:
<fo:external-graphic src="file:///tmp/pdf-image/overlay.pdf"/>

Just in case that causes any confusion.

Thanks

Mehdi

On 2 November 2010 10:07, Peter Hancock <[email protected]> wrote:
> Whoops - the attachment!
>
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Peter Hancock <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Hi Erik,
>>
>> I am not sure if my solution is the most elegant but for ideas have a
>> look at the files in the attached zip.
>> in.fo is  for the final document- you will have to change the path to
>> the generated overlay.pdf.
>> overlay.fo was used to create overlay.pdf.
>> out.pdf is the final result.
>>
>> For busy readers who do not have time to look at the attacmnet the
>> relavent fo snippet is
>>
>> <fo:block-container>
>>    <fo:block-container position="absolute">
>>      <fo:block font-size="20pt">
>>      Apache FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is a print formatter driven by
>>      XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO) and an output independent formatter.
>>      It is a Java application that reads a formatting object (FO) tree and 
>> rend
>>      Output formats currently supported include
>>      PDF, PS, PCL, AFP, XML (area tree representation), Print,
>>      AWT and PNG, and to a lesser extent, RTF and TXT.
>>      The primary output target is PDF </fo:block>
>>    </fo:block-container>
>>
>>    <fo:block-container position="absolute">
>>        <fo:block>
>>            <fo:external-graphic src="file:///tmp/pdf-image/overlay.pdf"/>
>>        </fo:block>
>>    </fo:block-container>
>> </fo:block-container>
>>
>> I hope this helps.
>>
>> pete
>> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 1:25 AM, erik pepermans <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I tried to combine fop-pdf-images-2.0.0 with fop-1.0
>>>
>>> So far so good. How can I use the pdf document from the  fo:external-graphic
>>> command as an overlay for subsequent blocks ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Brgds
>>>
>>> Erik
>>>
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