Hello, I'm trying to understand page layouts in apache fop. I have set a page width of 21 cm and margin-left + margin-right to 5 cm, so I should get 16 cm of content. When I process and print on my laser printer and *measure* I get only 15 cm for the content.
I set the extent of region-start to 3.0cm but when I measure I get 2.8cm I have printed this on a macbook, using the print menu in the preview program I have set scale to 100% and disable "scale to fit" Is this a common problem? Can I expect precise dimensions in the printed output? I'm using apache fop version 1.0 My test program is appended. If you process and print this on your local printer and them take a ruler and measure do you get a region-start of exactly 3.0cm? Or is my program wrong? Cheers /Joe Armstrong <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";> <fo:layout-master-set> <fo:simple-page-master master-name="odd" page-height="29.7cm" page-width="21cm" margin-top="2.5cm" margin-bottom="2.5cm" margin-left="3.0cm" margin-right="2.0cm"> <fo:region-body background-color="#eeeeee" region-name="xsl-region-body" margin-top="0.6in" margin-bottom="5.0cm" margin-left="3.5cm" margin-right="2.5cm"/> <fo:region-before background-color="yellow" precedence="true" region-name="xsl-region-before" extent="1.0cm"/> <fo:region-after background-color="orange" region-name="xsl-region-after" extent="1.5cm" precedence="true"/> <fo:region-start background-color="pink" region-name="xsl-region-start" extent="3.0cm"/> <fo:region-end background-color="#efefef" region-name="xsl-region-end" extent="2.0cm"/> </fo:simple-page-master> </fo:layout-master-set> <fo:page-sequence master-reference="odd" format="A"> <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-start"> <fo:block> Page: <fo:page-number/> <fo:block>This is region Start, extent=3.0cm</fo:block> </fo:block> </fo:static-content> <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-end"> <fo:block>region end. extent = "2.0cm"<fo:page-number/> </fo:block> </fo:static-content> <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before" > <fo:block display-align="before">Region before extent=1.0cm </fo:block> </fo:static-content> <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-after" display-align="after"> <fo:block text-align="center">Page <fo:page-number/> region-after extent=1.5cm </fo:block> </fo:static-content> <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body"> <fo:block linefeed-treatment="preserve" white-space-collapse="false" white-space-treatment="preserve" > These are the simple-page-master values master-name="odd" page-height="29.7cm" page-width="21cm" margin-top="2.5cm" margin-bottom="2.5cm" margin-left="3.0cm" margin-right="2.0cm"> </fo:block> <fo:block> This is xsl-region-body. margin-left="3.5cm" this is 0.5 cm larger than the extent of region-start. margin-right= 2.5 cm, ie 0.5 cm larger than the extent of the thing to the right. Margin-bottom is 5.0cm </fo:block> <fo:list-block provisional-distance-between-starts="0.5in" provisional-label-separation="0.1in" space-before.optimum="6pt" start-indent="0.5in"> <fo:list-item relative-align="baseline"> <fo:list-item-label text-align="end" start-indent="1.0cm" end-indent="6.0cm"> <fo:block text-align="justify"> The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a subset of SGML. start-indent = 1.0 cm end - indent = 6.0 cm </fo:block> </fo:list-item-label> <fo:list-item-body start-indent="5.0cm" end-indent="1.0cm"> <fo:block text-align="justify"> start-indent = 5 cm end-ident=1.0 cm The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a subset of SGML that is completely described in this document. Its goal is to enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML. The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a subset of SGML that is completely described in this document. </fo:block> </fo:list-item-body> </fo:list-item> </fo:list-block> </fo:flow> </fo:page-sequence> </fo:root> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
