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need a sample on usage of afp:include-page-segment tag
Hello,
Can someone please provide me with a sample fo file on how to use AFP Page
segment extension (afp:include-page-segment tag). Basically I am using FOP
version .95 and am trying to develop alternative ways of printing PSEG/AFP
documents. We have lot of .psg files that are embeded in AFP document using
XML as datasource for documents. currently we parse the XML using brute
COBOL (this was developed in 2000) and create AFP steams. Now we are
looking for other options and would like to replace COBOL with java
processing and onto windows or linux platform.
Thanks
Sree
Re: need a sample on usage of afp:include-page-segment tag
Posted by sreenaresh gopu <sr...@gmail.com>.
Hello Jeremias,
Thank you for the info. I was under the impression that I can use page
segments directly. But your email and example cleared all my confusion and
answered my question. Once again thanks
Sree
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Jeremias Maerki <de...@jeremias-maerki.ch>wrote:
> Hi Sree,
>
> I guess that extension can be a bit confusing. I assume you've seen the
> documentation here:
> http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/output.html#afp-page-segment
>
> Anyway, AFP page segments in FOP don't work like any other images
> (unfortunately). Basically, you have to have a normal bitmap or vector
> image
> (PNG, JPEG, SVG....) that serves as provider for the intrinsic size of
> the image which FOP needs for layout. FOP cannot currently extract the
> intrinsic size of a page segment directly from the resource. Instead you
> basically define a place-holder using some other image (you may have to
> set the dimensions explicitely using the width and height properties on
> the fo:external-graphic) and the AFP output will then replace the
> placeholder image with an invocation of the page segment whenever it
> encounters the URI that was used in the afp-page-segment extension.
> Please note that the page segment itself will not be embedded in the
> output file but is required to be present on the target platform. Surely,
> there is room for improvement here.
>
> I've attached a minimal example that demonstrates the extension.
>
> HTH
>
> On 09.04.2009 06:41:08 sreenaresh gopu wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Can someone please provide me with a sample fo file on how to use AFP
> Page
> > segment extension (afp:include-page-segment tag). Basically I am using
> FOP
> > version .95 and am trying to develop alternative ways of printing
> PSEG/AFP
> > documents. We have lot of .psg files that are embeded in AFP document
> using
> > XML as datasource for documents. currently we parse the XML using brute
> > COBOL (this was developed in 2000) and create AFP steams. Now we are
> > looking for other options and would like to replace COBOL with java
> > processing and onto windows or linux platform.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Sree
>
>
>
>
> Jeremias Maerki
>
>
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Re: need a sample on usage of afp:include-page-segment tag
Posted by Jeremias Maerki <de...@jeremias-maerki.ch>.
Hi Sree,
I guess that extension can be a bit confusing. I assume you've seen the
documentation here:
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/output.html#afp-page-segment
Anyway, AFP page segments in FOP don't work like any other images
(unfortunately). Basically, you have to have a normal bitmap or vector image
(PNG, JPEG, SVG....) that serves as provider for the intrinsic size of
the image which FOP needs for layout. FOP cannot currently extract the
intrinsic size of a page segment directly from the resource. Instead you
basically define a place-holder using some other image (you may have to
set the dimensions explicitely using the width and height properties on
the fo:external-graphic) and the AFP output will then replace the
placeholder image with an invocation of the page segment whenever it
encounters the URI that was used in the afp-page-segment extension.
Please note that the page segment itself will not be embedded in the
output file but is required to be present on the target platform. Surely,
there is room for improvement here.
I've attached a minimal example that demonstrates the extension.
HTH
On 09.04.2009 06:41:08 sreenaresh gopu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can someone please provide me with a sample fo file on how to use AFP Page
> segment extension (afp:include-page-segment tag). Basically I am using FOP
> version .95 and am trying to develop alternative ways of printing PSEG/AFP
> documents. We have lot of .psg files that are embeded in AFP document using
> XML as datasource for documents. currently we parse the XML using brute
> COBOL (this was developed in 2000) and create AFP steams. Now we are
> looking for other options and would like to replace COBOL with java
> processing and onto windows or linux platform.
>
> Thanks
> Sree
Jeremias Maerki