region-after set size to auto

[bonekrusher]

Hi,

I have a <fo:region-after region-name="xsl-region-after"/> that holds "footer" information. Sometime there is about 3.5 inches of info and sometimes 1.0. If I set the properties to:

<fo:region-after region-name="xsl-region-after" extent="3.5"/>

and there is only 1.5in of data the "footer" is in half way up the page. Is there a way to set to "Auto"? and always be at the bottom of the page no matter how content there is in the footer?

Thx

[Amick, Eric]

I believe all you need is display-align="after" on the fo:region-after.


Eric Amick
Legislative Computer Systems
Office of the Clerk

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Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 14:15
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Subject: region-after set size to auto


Hi,

I have a <fo:region-after region-name="xsl-region-after"/> that holds
"footer" information. Sometime there is about 3.5 inches of info and
sometimes 1.0. If I set the properties to:

<fo:region-after region-name="xsl-region-after" extent="3.5"/>

and there is only 1.5in of data the "footer" is in half way up the page.
Is there a way to set to "Auto"? and always be at the bottom of the page
no matter how content there is in the footer?

Thx

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[bonekrusher]

Thanks but that didn't work. I ended up calculating the extend size based on the length of the content:

                        <!-- Calculate page footer size-->
                <xsl:variable name="content-size">
                        <xsl:value-of select="string-length(//notices)"/>
                </xsl:variable>
                <xsl:variable name="footer-size">
                        <xsl:value-of select="$content-size div 450"/>
                </xsl:variable>
                <xsl:variable name="extent-size">
                        <xsl:choose>
                                <xsl:when test="$footer-size < 1.5">1.5</xsl:when>
                                <xsl:otherwise>
                                        <xsl:value-of select="$footer-size"/>
                                </xsl:otherwise>
                        </xsl:choose>
                </xsl:variable>
.....
<fo:region-after region-name="xsl-region-after" extent="{$extent-size}in"/>

I just thought there was an easier way.

thanks for the help.

Bones

Amick, Eric wrote:

I believe all you need is display-align="after" on the fo:region-after.


Eric Amick
Legislative Computer Systems
Office of the Clerk

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From: bonekrusher [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 14:15
To: [e-mail]
Subject: region-after set size to auto


Hi,

I have a <fo:region-after region-name="xsl-region-after"/> that holds
"footer" information. Sometime there is about 3.5 inches of info and
sometimes 1.0. If I set the properties to:

<fo:region-after region-name="xsl-region-after" extent="3.5"/>

and there is only 1.5in of data the "footer" is in half way up the page.
Is there a way to set to "Auto"? and always be at the bottom of the page
no matter how content there is in the footer?

Thx

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[Andreas Delmelle-2]

On Jun 19, 2008, at 21:02, bonekrusher wrote:

Just FYI:

> Thanks but that didn't work. I ended up calculating the extend size  
> based on
> the length of the content:
>
> <!-- Calculate page footer size-->
> <xsl:variable name="content-size">
> <xsl:value-of select="string-length(//notices)"/>
> </xsl:variable>

Better, in XSLT terms would be:

<xsl:variable name="content-size" select="string-length(//notices)" />

And if you don't need the content-size variable further on, just make  
it:

<xsl:variable name="footer-size" select="(string-length(//notices)  
div 450)" />

> <snip />
> I just thought there was an easier way.

Unfortunately not. OTOH, I can't tell if this would be a feasible  
alternative for you, but you might be able to achieve the same using  
fo:footnotes and no region-after... If the footer information needs  
to be preceded by some form of static-content, then this could be  
done by means of fo:footnote-separator (?)

Maybe worth a try...

HTH!

Andreas

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[Amick, Eric]

Here's the thing, Andreas: the spec says display-align is available on
region-after, but it may be that FOP doesn't support it. Am I reading
the compliance page right?


Eric Amick
Legislative Computer Systems
Office of the Clerk

-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Delmelle [mailto:andreas.delmelle@...]
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 15:13
To: fop-users@...
Subject: Re: region-after set size to auto

On Jun 19, 2008, at 21:02, bonekrusher wrote:

Just FYI:

> Thanks but that didn't work. I ended up calculating the extend size
> based on the length of the content:
>
> <!-- Calculate page footer size-->
> <xsl:variable name="content-size">
> <xsl:value-of
select="string-length(//notices)"/>
> </xsl:variable>

Better, in XSLT terms would be:

<xsl:variable name="content-size" select="string-length(//notices)" />

And if you don't need the content-size variable further on, just make
it:

<xsl:variable name="footer-size" select="(string-length(//notices) div
450)" />

> <snip />
> I just thought there was an easier way.

Unfortunately not. OTOH, I can't tell if this would be a feasible
alternative for you, but you might be able to achieve the same using
fo:footnotes and no region-after... If the footer information needs to
be preceded by some form of static-content, then this could be done by
means of fo:footnote-separator (?)

Maybe worth a try...

HTH!

Andreas

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[bonekrusher]

Andreas,

Thanks for the help.

I will stick to the calculation, it seems to work well. If it poses a problem in the future, I will try your suggestion.

Thanks again.

bones

Andreas Delmelle-2 wrote:

On Jun 19, 2008, at 21:02, bonekrusher wrote:

Just FYI:

> Thanks but that didn't work. I ended up calculating the extend size  
> based on
> the length of the content:
>
> <!-- Calculate page footer size-->
> <xsl:variable name="content-size">
> <xsl:value-of select="string-length(//notices)"/>
> </xsl:variable>

Better, in XSLT terms would be:

<xsl:variable name="content-size" select="string-length(//notices)" />

And if you don't need the content-size variable further on, just make  
it:

<xsl:variable name="footer-size" select="(string-length(//notices)  
div 450)" />

> <snip />
> I just thought there was an easier way.

Unfortunately not. OTOH, I can't tell if this would be a feasible  
alternative for you, but you might be able to achieve the same using  
fo:footnotes and no region-after... If the footer information needs  
to be preceded by some form of static-content, then this could be  
done by means of fo:footnote-separator (?)

Maybe worth a try...

HTH!

Andreas

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[Andreas Delmelle-2]

On Jun 19, 2008, at 21:22, Amick, Eric wrote:

Hi Eric

> Here's the thing, Andreas: the spec says display-align is available on
> region-after, but it may be that FOP doesn't support it. Am I reading
> the compliance page right?

As far as I can tell, display-align in regions should work. We have  
testcase checking for this, and it's not disabled...

As I understood the OP, the issue was that the region-after, even if  
after-aligned, still takes up 3.5in of space. This could be avoided  
by putting the footer-content in an fo:footnote, whose height is  
dynamically allocated based upon the content. The only thing to watch  
out for would be that footnotes can potentially be broken over  
multiple pages, so one also needs keep-together.within-page="always"  
on the footnote-content.



Cheers

Andreas

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