On 27/02/2012 15:37, Rob Sargent wrote:
Chris,
Hi Rob,
This is interesting and I may even join those dare-devils out on the
edge (I currently have a layout which should have been all
"region-before", but had to include some region-body to keep fop
happy. So I may revisit this, but in truth I don't follow the
"reference a region" part.)
By reference a region I mean:
<fo:simple-page-master master-name="nocontent">
<fo:region-body region-name="doesntexist"/>
</fo:simple-page-master>
But does it help the OP? Seems to me until page-number is an
attribute in conditional-page-master, he's still left with having to
find an alternative, no?
I'm not suggesting it does help the OP, I just wanted to correct your point.
Thanks,
Chris
On 02/27/2012 07:58 AM, Chris Bowditch wrote:
On 26/02/2012 16:01, Rob Sargent wrote:
Hi Rob,
OK, you've convinced me that you cannot do what you're hoping to
accomplish in apache FOP. You cannot have a zero-sized flow on a
page far as I know and that's what you would need to get the address
only on those pages (in some static region).
Actually it is possible for the flow to skip a page in Trunk anyway.
Just make the region-body of one of the simple-page-masters reference
a region that doesn't exist. Peter submitted a oatch last year for
this that I committed a few weeks ago.
Thanks,
Chris
This is not the "trick" I hinted at but might be a better solution
anyway.
Make the pdf without worrying about the address page(s).
Use iText to insert the address page(s) as necessary.
I think your case would be quite straight forward: Open the pdf in
iText and insert an address page after every 6th page of report data.
We use iText to affect multiple flows. We have static regions which
need a flow. We make those pages in fop with the flow as the region
body, then use iText to overlay the two pages so it appears that
there are two separate two columns portions of the page.
Now a printing house incapable of more the six pages or at least
doing the collating necessary to cover their shortcomings is another
very interesting question.
On 02/26/2012 05:06 AM, Alexios Giotis wrote:
The number of "groups of seven" is not known in advance, it depends
on the input data but the total number of pages will be less than
100. The use case is like this:
We are printing statements (transactional data) and each statement
has a different number of pages depending on the customer. Each
statement is enveloped and dispatched. The printing house has only
one type of enveloping machine that can fit at most 6 sheets into
an envelope. When a document is larger than 6 sheets, it is splited
into envelopes and all of them are send to the same address. Each
envelope has a 'window' in a predefined area where the address is
printed. Therefore, on every 7th sheet we should print on an
absolutely positioned area, the recipient address. Other than this,
the flow of the content will continue from page to page.
Any XSL:FO suggestion, even if not elegant or not fully resolving
this, is welcomed !
Alex Giotis
On Feb 26, 2012, at 5:43 AM, Rob Sargent wrote:
Re-reading (and quite likely stilll not fully inderstanding) the
repeatable-page-master reference et al, I'm inclined to agree with
Luis. If you know how many "groups of seven" you will be making,
I can give you a suggestion from something that is working for
me. It amounts to making as many page references as needed. Not
elegant, but for me it was critical.
On 02/24/2012 04:22 PM, Luis Bernardo wrote:
I am afraid that this layout is not possible with the current FOP
but I think it should be possible with a fully compliant
implementation of FO, at least the way I understand it. In any
case, I would like to be proven wrong...
The issue is with the first page of every 7th sheet. Maybe it
would help if you explain how you intend to flow the content from
page to page. When you are on page 12th and want to move to page
13th do you let the content flow or do you insert a break?
If you insert a break when you get to the first page of every 7th
sheet then it may be possible. Because then it is like a book
where you want each chapter to start on a odd page and you can
use the blank-or-not-blank trait to achieve that. However that
assumes you only insert breaks at the end of chapters, which in
your case would be the end of every 6th sheet. If you want to
insert a break at the end of every page then it will not work.
On 2/23/12 4:22 PM, Rob Sargent wrote:
OK, then I believe you can define each needed
simple-page-master: first, second-sixth, seventh and make a
page-sequence-master with a repeatable-page-master-alternative
with a reference to each of the seven pages in the sequence. Not
sure if the 2-6 can be in a conditional-page-master-reference or
not.
On 02/23/2012 02:33 AM, Maria Manta wrote:
Hello and thank you for your quick answer!
Concerning your question:
Will you be addressing the static regions of the "seventh
pages" differently from one another. In other words does e.g.
region-before or page 13 get the same content as region-before
on page 25?
The answer is no, I will not be addressing them differently.
The regions-before will be the same for pages 13,25th etc.
Cheers.
Maria
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