XSL-FO specific page count

[HVV]

Hi all,

I have an XSL-FO stylesheet to transform XML documents to PDF using Oxygen 18.1 and the Apache FOP processor. The output PDF should always have a page count that is divisible by 4, so that page count mod 4 = 0.

The stylesheet has 3 page-sequence elements: one for frontmatter, one for the body, and one for backmatter. If the total number of pages of those sequences combined does not equal 0 on mod 4, then blank pages should be added after the last sequence until it does.

My question is: is this even possible using Apache FOP? I believe the force-page-count attribute is meant for this kind of requirement, but it seems to be limited to an odd or even number of pages, not an amount of pages.

Regards,
Hugo

[Radu]

Hi Hugo,

Maybe you can try to register and ask on the DITA Users List, I do not have an answer to your question and on the users list there are lots of people working with XSL-FO based customizations.

Regards,
Radu

[HVV]

Thanks for the tip, Radu!

[xephon]

I have the same question and posted it here: stackoverflow.com/questions/75542007/enforce-a-page-count-that-is-divisible-by-four