Xref link color transformations not correct! Using XEP FOP.

[Brent]

Ok...I have searched around on the forums for quite a bit and I have not found any info on the problem I'm having. I would very much appreciate help with the following:

I currently have a DITA/XML document with xref links throughout the document that I'm trying to transform into a PDF using XEP FO Processor.

Every time I transform the document, it gives me everything correct, EXCEPT that the xref link colors vary in the document!

In some topics the blue color is a vibrant #0000FF blue, in other topics the blue is a dark variation with a deeper saturation. I need the color to be exactly the same!

This is what I tried to do to fix it:

1.) Went to my C:\DITA-OT1.5.1\demo\fo\cfg\fo\attrs\links-attr file and changed the attribute value of xref from "blue" to the hex# value of full blue (i.e., #0000FF); it did not work .

Below is the code that is currently in the link-attr file:

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<xsl:attribute-set name="xref">

        <xsl:attribute name="color">#0000FF</xsl:attribute>

        <xsl:attribute name="font-style">normal</xsl:attribute>

    </xsl:attribute-set>

Could it be the "font-style" attribute that’s throwing it off? If so, where do I find that code and what values can I change it to?

Whats funny about all this, is when I change teh xref color attribute to red (i.e., #FF0000)the color of the links are consistent throughout.

Could this be a bug?

Any help will be MUCH appreciated!!!!


~Brent

[Radu]

Hi Brent,

One thing you could do would be to edit the transformation scenario and set the parameter clean.temp to no.
Then after the transformation open the XSL-FO file topic.fo from the temporary files directory and search in it to see if the color is properly specified to all links. They should all be something like:

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<fo:basic-link id="..." color="#0000FF"...

If the XSL-FO file consistently contains the proper color information then indeed either the used font varies in those places where you have different colors or there is a bug in XEP. I could not reproduce the issue on my side using XEP though.
Out if curiosity could you also try with the Apache FOP?

Regards,
Radu