Hi, Sorry, my bad, looks like I could learn a thing or two about file paths:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_URI_scheme Though curiously in the format "file:/path" FOP worked for me... hmmm... Mehdi On 2 November 2010 10:15, mehdi houshmand <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> This message has been scanned for viruses and >>>> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >>>> believed to be clean. >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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]
