Thanks Hussein for quick response and alternatives. -----Original Message----- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 1:19 PM To: Shapiro, David C (GRC) Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [XFC] Absolute Position properties
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/graph ic/GraphicFactory.html .NET: http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/_distrib/doc/dotnet/api/html/T_XmlMin d_FoConverter_IGraphicFactory.htm -- XMLmind FO Converter Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xfc-support
