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Absolute positioning and images

Hi - 

Am investigating FOP as an alternative to our current PDF solution,
Itext.

I have done some research but cannot see from the FAQ etc and googling

Can I absolutely position (to pixel positions) text on a pdf with FOP?

I need to absolutely position text on the pdf ontop of a background
image with any library I can consider as a replacement for Itext.  I am
using the PDFContentByte in Itext to do this absolute positioning.

Thanks in advance

Andrew
 
 
 

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Re: Absolute positioning and images

Posted by Vincent Hennebert <vh...@gmail.com>.
Hi Andrew,

Andrew Humphries (MEL) wrote:
> Hi - 
> 
> Am investigating FOP as an alternative to our current PDF solution,
> Itext.
> 
> I have done some research but cannot see from the FAQ etc and googling
> 
> Can I absolutely position (to pixel positions) text on a pdf with FOP?
> 
> I need to absolutely position text on the pdf ontop of a background
> image with any library I can consider as a replacement for Itext.  I am
> using the PDFContentByte in Itext to do this absolute positioning.

You want to use an absolutely-positioned block-container element:
    <fo:block-container absolute-position="absolute" top="10pt"
      left="10pt">
      <fo:block>Text in an absolutely-positioned block-container...</fo:block>
    </fo:block-container>

Note that positions in pixels don’t have much meaning in PDF. You
usually set the size of the document in cm, mm or pt, and position
objects in the PDF likewise.


HTH,
Vincent

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AW: Absolute positioning and images

Posted by Georg Datterl <ge...@geneon.de>.
Hi Andrew, 

Yes, you can. As long as you do not need to know the width or height of a published block, I haven't found anything iText can do and Fop can't. And I transfer a creation engine for 1.3K pages catalogues.

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Betreff: Absolute positioning and images


Hi - 

Am investigating FOP as an alternative to our current PDF solution, Itext.

I have done some research but cannot see from the FAQ etc and googling

Can I absolutely position (to pixel positions) text on a pdf with FOP?

I need to absolutely position text on the pdf ontop of a background image with any library I can consider as a replacement for Itext.  I am using the PDFContentByte in Itext to do this absolute positioning.

Thanks in advance

Andrew
 
 
 

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