Answering my own question, this is possible using forms (PostScript Language Reference Manual, section 4.7) and FOP already uses them with JPEG images and optimize-resources=true.
On 22 May 2013, at 17:06, Alexios Giotis <alex.gio...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 4MB encapsulated postscript file that needs to be set as the > background of every page. The XSL:FO for testing with FOP 1.0 is [1]. The > problem is that the contents of the EPS file are repeated in every page, even > though fop.xconf.xml has: > <renderer mime="application/postscript"> > <optimize-resources>true</optimize-resources> > </renderer> > > Changing "my.eps" to "my.jpg" which is a JPEG file, works as expected. By > looking in the code, it seems that there is no supported ImageFlavor for form > creation, in other words > org.apache.fop.render.ps.PSImageUtils#isImageInlined always returns true for > EPS images. > > > Anybody knows if this is just not implemented or if this is a limitation of > postscript ? If this is not a postscript limitation, any example of how this > could be done ? I already looked in the short EPSF_Spec [2] and some > suggestions like [3] but could not create a valid postscript file. > > > Thank you, > Alexios Giotis > > > > > [1] > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";> > <fo:layout-master-set> > <fo:simple-page-master master-name="simpleA4" > page-height="29.7cm" page-width="21cm" > margin-top="0cm" > margin-bottom="0cm" margin-left="0cm" > margin-right="0cm"> > <fo:region-body background-repeat="no-repeat" > background-image="file:/Users/alex//tdesk/my.eps" /> > </fo:simple-page-master> > </fo:layout-master-set> > <fo:page-sequence master-reference="simpleA4"> > <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body"> > <fo:block break-after="page" margin-top="9cm">Page 1</fo:block> > <fo:block break-after="page" margin-top="9cm">Page 2</fo:block> > </fo:flow> > </fo:page-sequence> > </fo:root> > > > [2] http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/ps/5002.EPSF_Spec.pdf > [3] > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9820646/overlay-two-postscript-files-command-line-approach > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
