absolute positioning in an pdf

[Enrico Horn]

Hi,
I am using FOP 0.20.3 and it works quite well for me.
But there is some issue that I would like some advice:

When FOP writes a line in PDF with spacing between
characters for instance in a table with 2 or more cells per rows
or words in general each word is positioned relative to the last one on
the same line.
What I would like to do is to make the start position of each word
absolute. Is there any way to do this?
Where would I have to start looking?

Thanks in advance
Enrico
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pdf generation of absolute block-container

[Enrico Horn]

Hi,
I have a problem with FOP-0.20.3 and way its generating
the pdf output of absolut positioned block-containers.
Here is my problem:
(Text has been modified to protect the innocent)
I define block containers in a page-sequence like this:
fo:block-container height=1.5cm width=5cm top=18.5cm left=4cm 
position=absolute
fo:block text-align=start line-height=10pt font-family=Helvetica 
font-size=8pt
some text
/fo:block
/fo:block-container
fo:block-container height=1.5cm width=5cm top=18.5cm left=9cm 
position=absolute
fo:block text-align=start line-height=10pt font-family=Helvetica 
font-size=8pt
some more text
/fo:block
/fo:block-container
fo:block-container height=1.5cm width=5cm top=18.5cm left=14cm 
position=absolute
fo:block text-align=start line-height=10pt font-family=Helvetica 
font-size=8pt
even more text
/fo:block
/fo:block-container

As you can see all of the block containers share the same height,width and 
top.the only difference is the
positioning for left.
Now that is what Fop generates in the pdf:
/F1 8 Tf
0.0 Tc
1 0 0 1 141.731 268.217 Tm [(some text) 0.0 Tc
 
Definition of the Text Matrix
-11437.625 (some more text) 0.0 Tc
^ 
relative positioning
-11326.5 (even more text) ] TJ

As you can see only the first block is positioned absolut(it has a text 
matrix defined) all
others are defined relative to the first one which is exactly what i dont 
want(besides all those line break
that seem to blow up the size of the file).

My question:
Any way to change that so that all blocks are generated absolut?

Thanks for your help
It is very appreciated in this matter.
Enrico Horn
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P.S.Please dont ask why I need this behaviour, I need it and would expect 
it from the way
I define my xsf-fo.


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