Re: page-position=last, FOP vs XEP, business forms

[Nwilan Glirt <nw...@hotmail.com>]

I hope that it is possible to work around the missing "page-position=last". 
What I am doing is producing a "classic" invoice-type document which needs:
   Special first page with adresses in the header and "amount tranferred to 
next page" in case of more than one page.
   Middle pages with "amount transferred from prev. page" and "amount 
tranferred to next page"
   Special last page with "amount transferred from prev. page" and total 
amount etc.

On top of this I need a page design for first page also beeing last page, 
with both the adress part and the total part!

I'm not even sure this can be acchived using FO as such. Does anyone have 
experiences with producing business forms such as invoices? Wanna share?






>From: Jeremias Maerki <de...@greenmail.ch>
>Reply-To: fop-user@xml.apache.org
>To: fop-user@xml.apache.org
>Subject: Re: page-position=last, FOP vs XEP
>Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:26:04 +0100
>
>
>On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 14:33:22 +0100 Nwilan Glirt wrote:
> > It has come to my attention that page-position=last is not yet 
>implemented
> > in FOP. That is a big problem for the purpose I have. I tried with XEP 
>(from
> > RenderX) and it seems to work here. The problem with XEP is a) it does 
>note
> > support pcl output, which I need, and b) it is a Windows-only-thing, 
>which
> > is also a problem.
> >
> > I want to stick with FOP. Can anybody tell me when page-position=last 
>will
> > be supported in FOP?
>
>No, it will be done during the redesign phase, but we can't give you a
>date, yet. We were facing the same problem and therefore tried to change
>(or to make our customers change) the layout so we didn't need the
>page-position="last" functionality. Maybe it's also possible with your
>layout.
>
>Jeremias Maerki


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Re: page-position=last, FOP vs XEP, business forms

[Jeremias Maerki <de...@greenmail.ch>]

:-) We're doing mostly invoices and such but that's exactly the kind of
requirements that I've always tried to avoid. If you can figure out a
good (general) solution I'd be glad if you could post it. I regret that
I never took the time to figure it out myself. I hope somebody on this
list has a few good ideas. I've thought about markers for the subtotals,
but I don't know if they can help here.

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:33:08 +0100 Nwilan Glirt wrote:
> I hope that it is possible to work around the missing "page-position=last". 
> What I am doing is producing a "classic" invoice-type document which needs:
>    Special first page with adresses in the header and "amount tranferred to 
> next page" in case of more than one page.
>    Middle pages with "amount transferred from prev. page" and "amount 
> tranferred to next page"
>    Special last page with "amount transferred from prev. page" and total 
> amount etc.
> 
> On top of this I need a page design for first page also beeing last page, 
> with both the adress part and the total part!
> 
> I'm not even sure this can be acchived using FO as such. Does anyone have 
> experiences with producing business forms such as invoices? Wanna share?


Jeremias Maerki