Subject: Re: Placing sosofos at page coordinates From: G Seshadri <SeshadriG@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 14:36:04 +0530 |
-----Original Message----- From: owner-dssslist-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-dssslist-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 1:00 PM To: dssslist-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: The DSSSList Digest V3 #244 The DSSSList Digest Monday, December 20 1999 Volume 03 : Number 244 In this issue: Re: Placing sosofos at page coordinates ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 00:50:57 +0100 (CET) From: Peter Nilsson <pnidv96@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Placing sosofos at page coordinates On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Brandon Ibach wrote: > Quoting Philippe CASIDY <pcasidy@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > I wrote a DSSSL to describe the layout for my letters. Now, I would like > > to be able to place the address of the recipient at particular x and y > > coordinates on the paper in order to be able to use mail enveloppes with > > a window. > > > > I am using Jade with Tex backend to produce PS and PDF documents. > > Is it possible and how? ;-) > > > There's no real straightforward way to do this, because DSSSL > doesn't have support for absolute positioning. However, assuming that >DSSSL supports this, through the page-sequence. A page-model would be used >with a page region for the envelope window. But, for now, this is only in >theory, since Jade/JadeTeX dose not support the page-sequence flow object. Does anyone support Jade ? I know there is something called OpenJade, but are they adding support for more DSSSL features ? what about the back-ends like MIF, who is doing the versioning? Seshadri DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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