XSL-FO format is off when printing pdf, but xsl-fo code appears okay? software: XML2PDF

Question

I’m using XML2PDF to create badges for printing. Unfortunately I’m running into an issue where, when creating a new page (page-break-after=”always”), the next block-container is duplicated. This seems to happen when the block-container has a specified height. Without the height attribute the data looks okay (though I need to specify the heights).

I also noticed that increasing the page-height in simple-page-master also fixes this. I'm not sure why since the block-containers and margin don't go over the 11in height.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Please let me know if I'm missing any information

Note:

There are 6 badges per page. 2 columns and 3 rows. (each badge has a width of 4 inches and a height of 3 inches)

Each page has a footer that has a width of 4 inches and a height of 1.5 inches

  
 
     
        
        
        
        
        
    

 
     
         
             
                Name - 1
                Full Name
                Company
                City, State
            
        
         
             
                Name - 2
                Full Name
                Company
                City, State
            
        
        
         
             
                Name - 3
                FullName
                Company
                City, State
            
        
         
             
                Name - 4
                Full Name
                Company
                City, State
            
        
        
         
             
                Name - 5
                Full Name 
                Company
                City, State
            
        
         
             
                Name - 6
                Full Name
                
                City, State
            
        
        
         
             Text goes here 
        
         
             
                Name - 7
                Full Name
                Company
                City, State

Kevin Brown · Accepted Answer

I believe I understand your issue, are you saying that the block-container with "Text goes here" is thrown to the following page? While you "think" that the spacing all adds up, you are missing one thing in your mind. When you throw the fo:float, it has an inherent line height based on the default font. If you want this to fit perfectly, you need to set the line-height to "0" on the floats and then set it back to normal on the block-container inside. Your file as is is actually off by the line height of the first block. This formats to two pages (note I also removed the empty fo:float elements, that is technically an error to a formatter as a float cannot be empty and they are not needed).

(Tested with RenderX's formatter only, I do not have XML2PDF):

    
        

            
                
                    Name - 1
                    Full Name
                    Company
                    City, State
                
            
            
                
                    Name - 2
                    Full Name
                    Company
                    City, State
                
            
            
                
                    Name - 3
                    FullName
                    Company
                    City, State
                
            
            
                
                    Name - 4
                    Full Name
                    Company
                    City, State
                
            
            
                
                    Name - 5
                    Full Name 
                    Company
                    City, State
                
            
            
                
                    Name - 6
                    Full Name
                    
                    City, State
                
            
            
                 Text goes here 
            
            
                
                    Name - 7
                    Full Name
                    Company
                    City, State

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XSL-FO format is off when printing pdf, but xsl-fo code appears okay? software: XML2PDF

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