Andreas Delmelle wrote:
On May 6, 2008, at 14:16, paul womack wrote:
Hi
In effect I want to generate galleys of text,
where the formatting width is known, but the depth
of the final output is determined by the amount
of text formatted, in effect fitting the page
to the content.
What you
On May 8, 2008, at 14:17, paul womack wrote:
O.K.
I've found this documentation on the area tree internal modelling:
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/dev/design/areas.html
I think this page:
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.94/intermediate.html
says that the XML format is subject to
On May 8, 2008, at 14:52, paul womack wrote:
q1) May I assume that any particular version of FOP would be able
to consume an area tree (XML) that it had itself generated?
That's a reasonable assumption, I think.
(I have noted your other information; thank you)
This assumption may be
Andreas Delmelle wrote:
I think the problem is that you have to specify the eventual renderer to
mimic.
Try
../fop -xsl lineage.xsl -xml lineage_eg.xml -at image/tiff lineage.at.xml;
Yes; that worked (in the standard sense of did what I wanted!)
Thank you very much, for all your help.
I need to generate output (PDF) where the page
size (actually just page depth) varies
with the content.
In effect I want to generate galleys of text,
where the formatting width is known, but the depth
of the final output is determined by the amount
of text formatted, in effect fitting the page
Can't you use different page masters and select the one that is
appropriate using some (XSLT) pre-processing?
On 06 May 2008, at 14:16, paul womack wrote:
I need to generate output (PDF) where the page
size (actually just page depth) varies
with the content.
In effect I want to generate
Peter Coppens wrote:
Can't you use different page masters and select the one that is
appropriate using some (XSLT) pre-processing?
I'd need an almost infinite range of
masters - the line count could vary from 5-350,
and even line spacing could vary due to superscripts,
subscripts, emboldening
Ic...so there is no way to know what the page size will have to be
until the layout has been completed?
On 06 May 2008, at 14:25, paul womack wrote:
Peter Coppens wrote:
Can't you use different page masters and select the one that is
appropriate using some (XSLT) pre-processing?
I'd need
On May 6, 2008, at 14:16, paul womack wrote:
Hi
In effect I want to generate galleys of text,
where the formatting width is known, but the depth
of the final output is determined by the amount
of text formatted, in effect fitting the page
to the content.
What you would need:
Peter Coppens wrote:
Ic...so there is no way to know what the page size will have to be until
the layout has been completed?
No, that's rather the heart of my problem.
Consider, if you like, a different example.
I wish to make rendered images of quotations
for placement on a web site.
Of
Andreas Delmelle wrote:
On May 6, 2008, at 14:16, paul womack wrote:
Hi
In effect I want to generate galleys of text,
where the formatting width is known, but the depth
of the final output is determined by the amount
of text formatted, in effect fitting the page
to the content.
What you
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