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List:       fop-user
Subject:    Re: "Yellow pages"
From:       Jean-François_El_Fouly <jean-francois () elfouly ! fr>
Date:       2010-01-28 15:23:37
Message-ID: D565A863-86D8-4ABC-931F-8491FD9C7B67 () elfouly ! fr
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You're probably right, I think I understand -- I didn't place the stanza in the \
correct region. I can try it that way, too.

Thanks !

Le 28 janv. 2010 à 16:13, Pascal Sancho a écrit :

> If you leave precedence properties to default, the upper-left corner of
> the page is within the region-start...
> So, the (0,0) coordinates of the page is same as in the static region
> that correspond to left margin, not page-header.
> 
> Pascal
> 
> Jean-François El Fouly a écrit :
> > Wow. This looks very much like black magic -- or a FOP black belt trick :-)
> > Is there another deeper layer of magic in $x_left, $page_width.. ?
> > I tried with left="0" top="0" width="210mm" height="297mm" in the static content \
> > area of the page header. But I guess the origin is the upper left corner of that \
> > area so now I have the right and bottom margins colored yellow but the top and \
> > left margins still white. In a certain sense my problem is half solved but the \
> > page looks even more strange. 
> > Le 28 janv. 2010 à 15:22, Pascal Sancho a écrit :
> > 
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > You can add a fo:block-container in a static region, and place it in
> > > absolute-position:
> > > <fo:block-container absolute-position="absolute" background-color="yellow"
> > > left="{$x_left}" top="{$y_top}" width="{$page_width}"
> > > height="{$page_height}">
> > > <fo:block/>
> > > </fo:block-container>
> > > Pascal
> > > 
> > > Jean-François El Fouly a écrit :
> > > 
> > > > Aviation regulation authorities state that certain pages of aircraft manuals \
> > > > (maintenance, policy, etc.) must be printed on yellow paper. I need to \
> > > > simulate that in PDF by painting the background of my FOP document yellow. I \
> > > > had no problem generating the blank pages with a 5-line iText program (first \
> > > > page) but for the pages I generate with FOP the best I could do (until now) \
> > > > is to add the background-color="yellow" attribute to fo:region-body, \
> > > > fo:region-before and fo:region-after. All in all the result doesn't look that \
> > > > good (second page). There must be a better/simpler solution. 
> > > > If anyone could help me or give me a hint I'd be very grateful !
> > > > 
> > > > Jean-François El Fouly
> > > > 
> 
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