On 04/12/2011 06:19 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> We have the need for the support of Absolute positions to allow us to
> line up content in an exact x,y position to overlay text on top of
> images. I noticed in the documentation this is currently not supported.
>
That's right.
>
> Is this something that will be supported in a next release
I'm sorry but we do not plan to support this feature in the future.
> if not what is the process of requesting to add support.
>
Sorry again but in our experience, this is a rarely needed feature (you
are the first customer to request it) and we do not intend to implement it.
Note that the full source code of the product is available to XFC dev
and site customers. Therefore, if you really need such feature, then you
can hire a programmer to implement it (of course, without any assistance
from XMLmind).
May be another solution, which does not require you to modify our source
code, is to dynamically generate images on which some text is overlaid.
In principle, our API should allow to do that.
Here's the idea:
Your XSLT stylesheets generate XSL-FO where some of the external
graphics are custom ".annotated" file.
A ".annotated" file contains the filename of a actual graphics file + a
list of one or more {x,y + text + font + color + etc}.
You hire a programmer which would develop a renderer for ".annotated"
files. Such renderer would implement this API:
Java:
http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/_distrib/doc/api/com/xmlmind/fo/graphic/GraphicFactory.html
.NET:
http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/_distrib/doc/dotnet/api/html/T_XmlMind_FoConverter_IGraphicFactory.htm
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