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Hobbes
Hobbes

Reputation: 2125

XSL-FO: place text on odd pages only, skip even pages

I have a document where I want to place text on the odd pages, and an accompanying drawing on the even pages. My page definitions look like this:

<fo:simple-page-master master-name="page_even" page-height="210mm" page-width="297mm" margin="{$page-margin}">
    <fo:region-body region-name="body" margin-top="190mm" margin-bottom="20mm" margin-left="200mm" margin-right="97mm"/>
    <fo:region-before region-name="header-even" extent="190mm" precedence="true"/>
    <fo:region-after region-name="footer-even" extent="20mm" precedence="true"/>
    <fo:region-start region-name="outside" extent="15mm"/>
    <fo:region-end region-name="inside" extent="15mm"/>
</fo:simple-page-master>

<fo:simple-page-master master-name="page_odd" page-height="210mm" page-width="297mm" margin="{$page-margin}">
    <fo:region-body region-name="body" margin-top="20mm" margin-bottom="20mm" margin-left="15mm" margin-right="15mm" padding="0pt"/>
    <fo:region-before region-name="header-odd" extent="20mm" precedence="true"/>
    <fo:region-after region-name="footer-odd" extent="{20mm" precedence="true"/>
    <fo:region-start region-name="inside" extent="15mm"/>
    <fo:region-end region-name="outside" extent="15mm"/>
</fo:simple-page-master>

So on the even pages I've got a really large header where I'll place the drawing. The body region is 0 mm high and 0 mm wide, so no text should fit in this region and it should automatically flow to the next page.

The text consists of some data placed in a table (17 cm wide and 1.5 cm high). On the odd pages, about 10 of these tables fit, and the 11th gets moved to the next available page. So far, so good.

My XML consists of data blocks in this vein:

<data id="3" name="blah" drawing="xyz">

I use markers to extract the contents of the 'drawing' attribute. The even page header refers to this marker, so the even page slows the drawing listed in the first data block of the odd page.

The renderer (Antennahouse) still places one table on each even page. The table is placed on top of the footer, overlapping the footer text. The table is larger than the region it is placed in, so it should be moved to the next page, but that logic fails here. There is an 'overlap' property, but this does not have the effect I need: there is no way to specify "don't overlap at all', just ways to handle the overlap.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1622

Answers (1)

Tony Graham
Tony Graham

Reputation: 8068

Use a different name for fo:region-body/@region-name in page_even so your flow won't flow onto even pages.

Upvotes: 2

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