Re: Re: Problem with absolute positioning with block-container

2010-02-05 Thread Johannes Caspary
tandard is very clear about the absolute position of e.g. the address information to display in the window of the envelope or the folding marks, I decided to use block-container absolute positioning for these items. Thus, I tried to make up a very basic stylesheet that contains the folding mark

Re: Problem with absolute positioning with block-container

2010-02-05 Thread Pascal Sancho
n to display in the window of the > envelope or the folding marks, I decided to use block-container absolute > positioning for these items. > > Thus, I tried to make up a very basic stylesheet that contains the > folding marks at 105mm, 148,5mm and 210mm from top. Also, I included

Problem with absolute positioning with block-container

2010-02-05 Thread Johannes Caspary
absolute positioning for these items. Thus, I tried to make up a very basic stylesheet that contains the folding marks at 105mm, 148,5mm and 210mm from top. Also, I included the window for the address which is positioned at 20mm from the left and 45mm from top. The curious thing about the

Re: Absolute positioning and images

2009-08-04 Thread Vincent Hennebert
with FOP? > > I need to absolutely position text on the pdf ontop of a background > image with any library I can consider as a replacement for Itext. I am > using the PDFContentByte in Itext to do this absolute positioning. You want to use an absolutely-positioned block-cont

AW: Absolute positioning and images

2009-08-04 Thread Georg Datterl
An: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Cc: Amit Bhasin (MEL) Betreff: Absolute positioning and images Hi - Am investigating FOP as an alternative to our current PDF solution, Itext. I have done some research but cannot see from the FAQ etc and googling Can I absolutely position (to pixel positions) text

Absolute positioning and images

2009-08-04 Thread Andrew Humphries (MEL)
image with any library I can consider as a replacement for Itext. I am using the PDFContentByte in Itext to do this absolute positioning. Thanks in advance Andrew This e-mail, and any attachment, is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it from your system, do

Absolute positioning with RTF as target format

2007-07-31 Thread Simon Niederberger
Hi all We've got a FOP engine mainly used to produce PDF files. Now, output to RTF is also desired. Most formatting is good, but absolutely positioned block containers don't work. I've read some posts stating that RTF does support absolute positioning, but only for the current

Re: Absolute positioning

2007-03-19 Thread a_l . delmelle
>From: Daniel Noll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi Daniel, >> I think I've found a fix for this bug, but since I'm not 100% --how >> fitting :-)-- certain, could you compare the FO and check the PDF result >> in Bugzilla 41894, and see if that matches the expectation? > >It works now! Thankyou.

Re: Absolute positioning

2007-03-19 Thread Daniel Noll
I think I've found a fix for this bug, but since I'm not 100% --how fitting :-)-- certain, could you compare the FO and check the PDF result in Bugzilla 41894, and see if that matches the expectation? It works now! Thankyou. :-) I even tested it on a really awful example, an HTML file spat o

Re: Absolute positioning

2007-03-19 Thread Andreas L Delmelle
On Mar 19, 2007, at 18:29, Andreas L Delmelle wrote: Daniel, Posting this here because Bugzilla did not accept your address in the cc: list. So now the 1, 2 and 3 are all inside the outer box, but all at the top left corner. This could be because the inside the top-level doesn't fi

Re: Absolute positioning

2007-03-19 Thread Andreas L Delmelle
On Mar 19, 2007, at 10:02, Chris Bowditch wrote: Hi Daniel / Chris, bidi="embed"> top="16.0%"> 1fo:inline> So now the 1, 2 and 3 are all inside the outer box, but all at the top left corner. This could be because the inside the top-level doe

Re: Absolute positioning

2007-03-19 Thread Chris Bowditch
Daniel Noll wrote: top="16.0%"> 1 So now the 1, 2 and 3 are all inside the outer box, but all at the top left corner. This could be because the inside the top-level doesn't fill the entire block container. It could also be because % simply

Re: Absolute positioning

2007-03-18 Thread Daniel Noll
In that case, if you want to make further use of that library, it's probably best to file a bug with CSS2XSLFO as it generates FO of a dubious quality. I somehow doubt there's an XSL-FO implementation that renders the sample you supplied 'as expected'. The author(s) of CSS2XSLFO probably nev

Re: Absolute positioning

2007-03-18 Thread Daniel Noll
Can you post up the revised FO? Just placing a block container around the inline isn't enough. The attributes relating to absolute position have to be moved off thye fo:inline element and onto the fo:block-container element. It now looks like... (this is actually a slightly different example,

Re: Absolute positioning

2007-03-16 Thread Andreas L Delmelle
On Mar 15, 2007, at 23:03, Daniel Noll wrote: Hi Daniel, Well in actual fact, it isn't "me" using percentages or fo:inline, as it's coming out of someone else's library. :-) In that case, if you want to make further use of that library, it's probably best to file a bug with CSS2XSLFO as

Re: Absolute positioning

2007-03-16 Thread Chris Bowditch
Daniel Noll wrote: Well in actual fact, it isn't "me" using percentages or fo:inline, as it's coming out of someone else's library. :-) The best I can hope to do is contain things in blocks if they can't handle the absolute positioning themselves, by using XSL

Re: Absolute positioning

2007-03-15 Thread Daniel Noll
- Original Message - From: "Chris Bowditch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 9:02 PM Subject: Re: Absolute positioning Andreas L Delmelle wrote: On Mar 15, 2007, at 02:28, Daniel Noll wrote: Hi Daniel, I see from the compliance page that abso

Re: Absolute positioning

2007-03-15 Thread Chris Bowditch
Andreas L Delmelle wrote: On Mar 15, 2007, at 02:28, Daniel Noll wrote: Hi Daniel, I see from the compliance page that absolute positioning is implemented. However in practice I have an FO file which uses absolute positioning and it seems like it doesn't take effect at all. I culle

Re: Absolute positioning

2007-03-14 Thread Andreas L Delmelle
On Mar 15, 2007, at 02:28, Daniel Noll wrote: Hi Daniel, I see from the compliance page that absolute positioning is implemented. However in practice I have an FO file which uses absolute positioning and it seems like it doesn't take effect at all. I culled all the containing ele

Re: Absolute positioning

2007-03-14 Thread Daniel Noll
I wrote: I culled all the containing elements from my FO output just in case they were to blame somehow, and the issue still occurred. Here's the block (apologies in advance for the way this is going to break): BTW, I'd culled out the , but it didn't help to have it there either (same render

Absolute positioning

2007-03-14 Thread Daniel Noll
I see from the compliance page that absolute positioning is implemented. However in practice I have an FO file which uses absolute positioning and it seems like it doesn't take effect at all. I culled all the containing elements from my FO output just in case they were to blame somehow