Thanks for your input. I have run out of ideas trying to get the text to fit and now looking into commercial formatters. I have an issue with images also. I am setting the content width and content height to fit images within a certain boundaries. This works great for images larger than the area. FOP shrinks it to the correct size. But, now the images smaller than the region are getting stretched. I am using eps image files. Any way to shrink large images (which I have achieved) but avoid smaller images from stretching?
Vinuta Nagaraddi -----Original Message----- From: Chris Bowditch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 9:28 AM To: Vinuta Nagaraddi Subject: Re: Need text to flow outside the block Vinuta Nagaraddi wrote: > Yes, I am using block container for absolute positioning. I am setting > left, top, width, and height attributes which can not be changed. There > are two situations: > 1. Text is too long and not all the text is being displayed. I have put > the text into a table because I wasn't able to use the display align > property on the block container. Ex: Huh? display-align should work on block-container according to compliance page: http://xml.apache.org/fop/compliance.html#fo-property-display-align <snip/> > I need to make the text in both situations overflow the block container > boundaries. There is no easy way to get this working with FOP. The possible options as I see them: 1) redesign your document so that absolutely positioned text doesn thave variable height. 2) redesign your stylesheet/FO making use of an outer table with nested tables. This is difficult to explain in an e-mail, but I have had to do this myself for a customers rather complicated statement with lots of absolutely positioned items. 3) I hate to admit defeat, but you may have to consider a commercial XSL-FO formatter. <snip/> Chris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
