RE: image in table header overlapping table body <-- possible ? [additional info]
> > Use nested tables: > > That is what i tried yesterday, too. Thanks anyway. > It's a solution to get the image in the first header of the table. But i > still end up with the problem having it repeated after a page break. > The text header will be repeated as there is data in its table-body being > continued after the page break. But there is no data in the table-body that > belongs to the image header so there is no reason for FOP to repeat the > header (the image) on the next page. So put a single cell in the body beneath the image. Put a blank image or a non-breaking space( ) in it to force it to appear. Cheers, Roland - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: image in table header overlapping table body <-- possible ? [additional info]
> > > -Original Message- > > > From: Roland Neilands [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Roland, > > > > > > Use nested tables: > > > > That is what i tried yesterday, too. Thanks anyway. > > It's a solution to get the image in the first header of the table. But i > > still end up with the problem having it repeated after a page break. > > Aaah... you *don't* need the image repeated across pages. Ooops ... no sorry. One of these situations, my lack of practice with the english language shows up. I *absolutely need* it to be repeated. Thanks again, Roland - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: image in table header overlapping table body <-- possible ? [additional info]
> -Original Message- > From: Roland Schroth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Roland Neilands [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Roland, > > > > Use nested tables: > > That is what i tried yesterday, too. Thanks anyway. > It's a solution to get the image in the first header of the table. But i > still end up with the problem having it repeated after a page break. Aaah... you *don't* need the image repeated across pages. > The text header will be repeated as there is data in its table-body being > continued after the page break. But there is no data in the > table-body that So, the image would actually belong to the table-body, and only the text belongs to table-header (? correct?). In that case my proposal could work, if it were not for the complication described below. > There occur line breaks in the rows (mostly generated within FOP caused by > hyphenation), that i cannot calculate that easy. Therefore i cannot set a > fixed row height and i do not know how many rows there will be on > a page. I > tried to calculate these linebreaks according to the amount of text in the > fields but that's quite dirty (and not completely functioning at all ...) > Very dirty indeed... Imagine having to deal with a situation like this and having to base your calculations on the metrics of the particular font being used. (for fixed-width fonts this would be a bit less complicated since you can just take the number of chars and multiply that by the charwidth). > I think i will try to get some other things working first and come back to > this one next week. Sometimes a weekend of doing nothing helps more than > days of thinking ;-) > Very wise indeed! Cheerz, Andreas - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: image in table header overlapping table body <-- possible ? [additional info]
> -Original Message- > From: Roland Neilands [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Roland, > > Use nested tables: That is what i tried yesterday, too. Thanks anyway. It's a solution to get the image in the first header of the table. But i still end up with the problem having it repeated after a page break. The text header will be repeated as there is data in its table-body being continued after the page break. But there is no data in the table-body that belongs to the image header so there is no reason for FOP to repeat the header (the image) on the next page. And with this problem in mind i come to the idea of Andreas. > - Original Message - > From: "Andreas L. Delmelle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I see a remote possiblity in performing some XSL trickery (resting on the > assumption that the rows in the table body are generated by XML elements). > If you define a row height globally in your stylesheet, as well as the > region-body height... You know in advance how many rows will fit on a > page... ( $regbh div $rowh ). And here we have my next problem ... There occur line breaks in the rows (mostly generated within FOP caused by hyphenation), that i cannot calculate that easy. Therefore i cannot set a fixed row height and i do not know how many rows there will be on a page. I tried to calculate these linebreaks according to the amount of text in the fields but that's quite dirty (and not completely functioning at all ...) > For the moment, however, it's the closest thing to a solution I can come up > with... I agree. I think i will try to get some other things working first and come back to this one next week. Sometimes a weekend of doing nothing helps more than days of thinking ;-) Thanks to both of you and have a nice weekend, Roland - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: image in table header overlapping table body <-- possible ? [additional info]
> -Original Message- > From: Roland Schroth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I think your idea could work if i had only one table starting at > the top of > the page. > The mistake was mine... Didn't study the drawing closely enough to see that it was about *table* headers. Sorry 'bout that. >But (sorry that i did not mention that) i have a sequence of tables of >different lengths that therefore also may start in the middle > of a page. >There are tables being only a few rows long an others spanning 2 or 3 >pages. So i need something that will work for that case too. > A very tough one... I see a remote possiblity in performing some XSL trickery (resting on the assumption that the rows in the table body are generated by XML elements). If you define a row height globally in your stylesheet, as well as the region-body height... You know in advance how many rows will fit on a page... ( $regbh div $rowh ). Then, for each set of XML elements (corresponding to a table) you know in advance how many rows will be generated (counting the nodes). You also know that the first element of the set/table will generate an additional row to accomodate the header-text & the image --first cell has a rowspan of 4 - so if a table starts at the top of the page, you will be able to put ( ( $regbh div $rowh ) - 1 ) of the XML elements (rows) on the same page. If the table starts in the middle of a page and each table is being generated by a template, maybe the maximum possible number of rows that can still fit on the 'page' can be passed in as a parameter... (Keep in mind that this is all pure calculation, as there is no concept of a page-layout at the XSLT stage.) Then again... having to keep count of the elements and inserting a 'fake' header at every expected page-break is hardly an ideal situation. (Not to mention that it will lead to trouble if somehow the page-break doesn't end up where expected) For the moment, however, it's the closest thing to a solution I can come up with... Anyone? Cheerz, Andreas - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: image in table header overlapping table body <-- possible ? [additional info]
I think your idea could work if i had only one table starting at the top of the page. But (sorry that i did not mention that) i have a sequence of tables of different lengths that therefore also may start in the middle of a page. There are tables being only a few rows long an others spanning 2 or 3 pages. So i need something that will work for that case too. Anyway, thanks for your quick response. Roland > > But i need the image to overflow the bottom of the header line > > (leaving its > > height unchanged) so that it flows right into the body area. The > > problem is > > that the overflow property isn't supported yet and a number-rows-spanned > > does not seem to work here because header and body rows obviously > > cannot be > > mixed. > > > > Try the following (for example): > > in the simple-page-master, set the margin-top for the region body to the > height of the one line containing 'Some Header Text' --depending on the > font-size of the text, of course. > Then set the height of the region-before to be greater than the margin-top > just defined (roughly equivalent to the height of the image). > > This way your region-before will actually overlap the region-body by > (region-body-margin-top - region-before-height). > > (This trick has often been advised as a workaround for adding watermarks, so > I guess the result would be that the header-image actually ends up being > overwritten by the content of the region-body --if any... So if you make > sure the first rows have no content at all in the first columns, this should > actually work.) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]