Am 15.06.2012 17:04, schrieb Chanaka Amarasekara: > Just a clearification, let say we align the xml data with a > perticuler font and a font size from notepad, and we use the same > exact font and it's font matrix and use the same font and font size > in a xsl layout. In this case wouldn't the text in the generated PDF > by the FOP get the same alignmnet as it was in the xml? Will it be > the same with regardless of unisize fonts or not? If not why?
The very short answer is: TAB expansion, word spacing and, to some extend letter spacing is NOT standardized, and different layout enines (as in: notepad.exe and FOP) may place the words at different positions. Use a table, FO table rendering is standardized and will produce reproducible layouts. J.Pietschmann --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org