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Re: [xsl] [FO] image on even, table on odd, repeating image if the table is more than one page

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At 2012-07-11 20:58 +0200, Geert Bormans wrote:

well, I have a bunch of sections in a book,
each section has one partlist (= one table)
and each partlist (table) has exactly one image with it
The image the table and some titles is all there is to a section

A section needs an even number of pages,
starting with the image on the even page and the table on the odd page
if the table overflows to the next page, it needs to flow over to the next odd page,
and I need the image to repeat on the even page in between

I can figure out what the image is when the section starts,
so indeed I believe that Kens approach will likely work

I started implementing this but got stuck on step one,
it seems FOP doesn't like the way I force the even page to be empty
so I would indeed appreciate some code

Oh! What you've described is even easier than what I thought!

The example below works with Antenna House, RenderX and Ibex. It has a filler page for page 1, then starting on page 2 is the combination of a fixed image on every even page and running flow on every odd page. I haven't tested it with FOP.

You would only need to resort to markers if you needed to do this more than once in a given page-sequence. Your description implies that each section is in its own page-sequence, which is what I've coded below. No markers are needed at all in this case.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . . Ken

~/y/samp $ cat partslist.fo
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!--partslist.fo-->
<!DOCTYPE root [ <!ENTITY % geometry SYSTEM "pages.ent"> %geometry; ]>
<root font-family="Times" font-size="20pt"
         xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">

<layout-master-set>
      <simple-page-master master-name="frame-odd"
        page-height="297mm" page-width="210mm"
        margin-top="15mm" margin-bottom="15mm"
        margin-left="15mm" margin-right="15mm">
         <region-body region-name="frame-body"
           margin-top="13mm" margin-bottom="13mm"/>
      </simple-page-master>
      <simple-page-master master-name="frame-even"
        page-height="297mm" page-width="210mm"
        margin-top="15mm" margin-bottom="15mm"
        margin-left="15mm" margin-right="15mm">
         <region-body region-name="frame-image"
           margin-top="13mm" margin-bottom="13mm"/>
      </simple-page-master>
  <page-sequence-master master-name="frame-pages">
    <repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
      <conditional-page-master-reference odd-or-even="even"
        master-reference="frame-even"/>
      <conditional-page-master-reference odd-or-even="odd"
        master-reference="frame-odd"/>
    </repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
  </page-sequence-master>
</layout-master-set>

<page-sequence master-reference="frame-pages">
  <flow flow-name="frame-body">
    <block>Filler first page</block>
  </flow>
</page-sequence>

<page-sequence master-reference="frame-pages" force-page-count="even">

<static-content flow-name="frame-image">
<block>
<instream-foreign-object>
<svg
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd"
xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape"
width="744.09448819"
height="1052.3622047"
id="svg2"
version="1.1"
inkscape:version="0.47 r22583"
sodipodi:docname="New document 1">
<defs
id="defs4">
<inkscape:perspective
sodipodi:type="inkscape:persp3d"
inkscape:vp_x="0 : 526.18109 : 1"
inkscape:vp_y="0 : 1000 : 0"
inkscape:vp_z="744.09448 : 526.18109 : 1"
inkscape:persp3d-origin="372.04724 : 350.78739 : 1"
id="perspective10" />
</defs>
<sodipodi:namedview
id="base"
pagecolor="#ffffff"
bordercolor="#666666"
borderopacity="1.0"
inkscape:pageopacity="0.0"
inkscape:pageshadow="2"
inkscape:zoom="0.35"
inkscape:cx="375"
inkscape:cy="520"
inkscape:document-units="px"
inkscape:current-layer="layer1"
showgrid="false"
inkscape:window-width="1187"
inkscape:window-height="825"
inkscape:window-x="4"
inkscape:window-y="22"
inkscape:window-maximized="0" />
<metadata
id="metadata7">
<rdf:RDF>
<cc:Work
rdf:about="">
<dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format>
<dc:type
rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" />
<dc:title></dc:title>
</cc:Work>
</rdf:RDF>
</metadata>
<g
inkscape:label="Layer 1"
inkscape:groupmode="layer"
id="layer1">
<path
style="fill:none;stroke:#000000;stroke-width:1px;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-opacity:1"
d="M 345.71428,200.93361 C 165.71429,615.21932 165.71429,618.07647 165.71429,618.07647 l 405.71428,-265.71429 -457.14286,2.85715 380,260 -148.57143,-414.28572 z"
id="path2816"
sodipodi:nodetypes="cccccc" />
<text
xml:space="preserve"
style="font-size:40px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;font-family:Bitstream Vera Sans"
x="157.14287"
y="658.07648"
id="text2818"><tspan
sodipodi:role="line"
id="tspan2820"
x="157.14287"
y="658.07648">The item of parts</tspan></text>
</g>
</svg>
</instream-foreign-object>
</block>
</static-content>

<flow flow-name="frame-body" font-size="30pt">

<block>A table of parts goes here.</block>
<block>A table of parts goes here.</block>
<block>A table of parts goes here.</block>
<block>A table of parts goes here.</block>
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</flow>

</page-sequence>

</root>
~/y/samp $ cat pages.ent
<!--pages-a4.ent - for use as "pages.ent"-->
<!--Simple page geometry for testing basic constructs-->
<!--A4 page size-->

<!--copy this file over top of the "pages.ent" file to
    have the examples produce the desired page size.
-->

<!ENTITY page-width    "210mm">
<!ENTITY page-height   "297mm">
<!ENTITY margin-top    "15mm">
<!ENTITY margin-bottom "15mm">
<!ENTITY margin-left   "15mm">
<!ENTITY margin-right  "15mm">
<!ENTITY before-extent "13mm">
<!ENTITY after-extent  "13mm">

<!--end of file-->
~/y/samp $

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