AW: PDF: leading - Fop:???
Hi Andreas, Basically, I have to position a text in a block based on a value distanceToPreviousBlock and a value distanceToNextLineIfThereIsALineInThisBlock. XSL-FO has the concept of 'half-leading'. (see XSL-FO 1.1 -- 4.5 Line areas, and) Another idea may be to play with negative, forced space-before on the block that generates the lines, which could generate the effect of the first line being 'drawn towards' the preceding block. I neither understand half-leading nor line-height.conditionality, but playing with a calculated space-before might be the best idea. Regards, Georg Datterl -- Kontakt -- Georg Datterl Geneon media solutions gmbh Gutenstetter Straße 8a 90449 Nürnberg HRB Nürnberg: 17193 Geschäftsführer: Yong-Harry Steiert Tel.: 0911/36 78 88 - 26 Fax: 0911/36 78 88 - 20 www.geneon.de Weitere Mitglieder der Willmy MediaGroup: IRS Integrated Realization Services GmbH:www.irs-nbg.de Willmy PrintMedia GmbH:www.willmy.de Willmy Consult Content GmbH: www.willmycc.de - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PDF: leading - Fop:???
Hi everybody, I'm fooling around with linespaces at the moment and I get a value for leading. Leading for PDFs means, as I'm sure everybody knows, the baseline-to-baseline distance between two lines. First I tried to translate it to attribute line-height, but that's not quite the same, because leading is ignored if the text has only one line. A high value for leading in PDF would give me much space between two lines, but doesn't say anything about the distance to the previous block, whereas a high value for line-height does say something about the distance to the previous block. I have a feeling that line-height.conditionality might be helpful, but I'm not quite sure. Basically, I have to position a text in a block based on a value distanceToPreviousBlock and a value distanceToNextLineIfThereIsALineInThisBlock. And something completely different: Is there a reason why a line-height=20pt+1em works, whereas line-height=20pt-1em doesn't? Regards, Georg Datterl -- Kontakt -- Georg Datterl Geneon media solutions gmbh Gutenstetter Straße 8a 90449 Nürnberg HRB Nürnberg: 17193 Geschäftsführer: Yong-Harry Steiert Tel.: 0911/36 78 88 - 26 Fax: 0911/36 78 88 - 20 www.geneon.de Weitere Mitglieder der Willmy MediaGroup: IRS Integrated Realization Services GmbH:www.irs-nbg.de Willmy PrintMedia GmbH:www.willmy.de Willmy Consult Content GmbH: www.willmycc.de - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PDF: leading - Fop:???
On 05 Dec 2008, at 12:57, Georg Datterl wrote: Hi Georg, I'm fooling around with linespaces at the moment and I get a value for leading. Leading for PDFs means, as I'm sure everybody knows, the baseline-to-baseline distance between two lines. XSL-FO has the concept of 'half-leading'. (see XSL-FO 1.1 -- 4.5 Line areas, and) First I tried to translate it to attribute line-height, but that's not quite the same, because leading is ignored if the text has only one line. A high value for leading in PDF would give me much space between two lines, but doesn't say anything about the distance to the previous block, whereas a high value for line-height does say something about the distance to the previous block. I have a feeling that line-height.conditionality might be helpful, but I'm not quite sure. Basically, I have to position a text in a block based on a value distanceToPreviousBlock and a value distanceToNextLineIfThereIsALineInThisBlock. Do I understand correctly that you mean you can already achieve what you need, apart from the first line in a block? If so, then I guess fo:initial-property-set would be your answer. Unfortunately not yet implemented in FOP, but theoretically, that would allow you to set a smaller value for line-height for the first line-area generated by a block. Another idea may be to play with negative, forced space-before on the block that generates the lines, which could generate the effect of the first line being 'drawn towards' the preceding block. HTH! Andreas - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
