At 01:41 PM 10/30/01 +0530, NagarajaRao wrote:
>Hi,
> ApacheFOP deosn't support Landscape and Portrait. Isn't it? If we want to
>have Landscape or Portrait, we need to change the dimensions accordingly. If
>i am wrong, will anyone please send me a sample?
>
>thanks & regards
>nagaraja rao
It's not FOP per se, it's XSL. XSL supports bounded and unbounded (one or
two dimensions) pages, of any width and height. Once you have specified
width and height you have established 'top', 'bottom', 'left' and 'right'.
All further content orientations are with respect to those absolutes.
Landscape and Portrait are printing concepts. Well, maybe not quite...the
idea has filtered over into page setup for drawing program configuration,
for example. Still, I am quite certain that the terms refer (or originally
referred) to the orientation of a page as it concerns printing: one expects
Portrait to print along the longer dimension of the actual paper, and one
expects Landscape to print along the shorter dimension of the actual paper.
I have become aware that recent decades have seen a fair amount of dilution
and fuzziness concerning terms in the composition, layout and printing
fields, so I may be thinking about terminology as it used to be or ought to
be, rather than what is commonly accepted; if so, I welcome correction.
Keiron Liddle has talked a fair bit about user agents in this list. One can
imagine that a complete system built around FOP, and supplying UA
information according to some API, could assist in setting up page-masters.
Such a system could consider the _printer_ to be the user agent; hence,
information could be retrieved about available paper, and used to set up at
least 2 relevant page-masters: one for Portrait layout and one for Landscape
layout. The system would then issue appropriate printing instructions.
Regards,
Arved Sandstrom
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