That's basically what I do, all precomputed data.
Most people do one extreme or the other, either calculating what fits on
a page and forcing all text into specific areas, or flowing everything
(book printing).
It is rare you would want to flow everything over like a book on 2
areas.
Of course I have a report which does that, but since I'm calculating
with fixed font size what fits it's a simple compound condition (if
{this area needs a new page} or {this area needs a new page}).
-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Delmelle [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 3:30 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Flow data in 2 different regions?
On 14 Mar 2011, at 20:09, Eric Douglas wrote:
Hi Eric
> I use the position=absolute attribute.
> With that there are attributes for left, top, width, and height.
> I set them all but they may be optional. If you just leave out height
> does it spill to the next page?
Nope. :-(
If height="auto", and the content grows sufficiently large,
absolute-positioned block-containers will eventually cause overflow at
the relevant edge of the page (or more precisely: whatever area they are
'absolutely' positioned in), but will never trigger a page-break
themselves. I guess you could see it as kind of a static-content, but
then, not repeated.
> If not, that could get complicated trying to wrap text to a new page.
Indeed. You would basically have to precompute and force all the breaks
yourself, instead of leaving that up to FOP. :-/
Regards,
Andreas
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