Would it be posible to iterate over your list of invoices (by using
recursion with the head and tail approach in the xslt translation). But keep
a counter of the number of invoices processed this page. When the counter
hits a certain level start a new page by doing the carried forward/brought
forward part of the page break.
That way if there are no page breaks all of the invoice lines will appear on
the one page, and if there are more invoice lines that can appear on a
single page the appropriate page break will appear.
This approach will however mean that you have a page sequence for each page.
It will also mean that you have to know how many invoice lines can appear on
a single page.
regards,
Chris
-Original Message-
From: Jeremias Maerki [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 3:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: page-position=last, FOP vs XEP, business forms
:-) We're doing mostly invoices and such but that's exactly the kind of
requirements that I've always tried to avoid. If you can figure out a
good (general) solution I'd be glad if you could post it. I regret that
I never took the time to figure it out myself. I hope somebody on this
list has a few good ideas. I've thought about markers for the subtotals,
but I don't know if they can help here.
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:33:08 +0100 Nwilan Glirt wrote:
I hope that it is possible to work around the missing
page-position=last.
What I am doing is producing a classic invoice-type document which
needs:
Special first page with adresses in the header and amount tranferred
to
next page in case of more than one page.
Middle pages with amount transferred from prev. page and amount
tranferred to next page
Special last page with amount transferred from prev. page and total
amount etc.
On top of this I need a page design for first page also beeing last
page,
with both the adress part and the total part!
I'm not even sure this can be acchived using FO as such. Does anyone
have
experiences with producing business forms such as invoices? Wanna share?
Jeremias Maerki
