Rob, I guess it's easiest if you produce the area tree XML (-at, application/X-fop-areatree) and then retrieve the span elements' "bpda" values (block-progression-dimension allocated). XPath: /areaTree/pageSequence/pageViewport/page/regionViewport/regionBody/mainReference/span/flow
The values returned are in millipoints (1000ths of a point), FOP's internal measurement unit. See also: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/1.0/intermediate.html#usage On 14.05.2011 00:26:29 Rob Sargent wrote: > I'm in fop-1.0 source (thank you all very much) trying to find the last > element written to the pdf. > > > Situation: > I need to dynamically size static regions such that I can accurately > apportion the page. We generate a separate pdf for table(s) then > calculate depth of that and use that value to size a region-before. (The > two pdfs are then overlayed to generate a single pdf.) > > History: > We have code which works in for fop-0.94 and works to a certain extent > in fop-0.95 but I would rather converge our shop on fop-1.0. The 095 > implementation does not find "stuff" below about half the page. > > Confession: > Both implementations are, by the admission of the author, wild-ass > guesses of what the content of the pdf-as-byte-array means. > > Aspirations: > Find a definitive answer to the age-old question Where is the text in a > pdf? Hoping against hope that I can detect something useful during the > fo->pdf transformation that I can look for later in our application. > > > Any suggestions welcome. > > Thanks. Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
