Re: [xsl] FW: XSL-FO print of static area at end

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2006-02-28 10:20 +0200, Linda Burgess wrote:
> I am new to using XSL-FO.B  I want to print a
> document with a quotation section (which may be
> less than or more than one page long) followed
> with a remittance advice section, which must
> only print at the end of the document, at a
> fixed position at the bottom of the page (to
> enable user to tear it off).B  If there is no
> space for the remittance advice on the last page
> of the quotation, the remittance advice must
> print at the bottom of the next page (which will
> then be a empty page with only the remittance section printed at the
bottom).
> After investigating as well as I could, I ended up with 3 possibilities:
> 1 - using B page-master-alternatives
> ...
> 2 - to use the footnote
> ...
> 3 - Can I use a block-container?

I used (2) and (3) to get the effect you want,
and the code below works in both Antenna House
and RenderX.  Just add the below to your page
geometry for a test, changing the names of the master-reference= masters.

I put a fixed-height block-container into a
footnote, thus the top edge of the blocks in the
block container would be your tear-off line
(shown below as a dotted line).  The blocks flow
from the top of the block container.

On page 2, the footnote with the container fits, so it gets rendered on page
2.

On page 3, the footnote with the container
doesn't fit, so it gets rendered on page 4.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . Ken

<page-sequence master-reference="frame"
               xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";>

<static-content flow-name="xsl-region-after">
  <block text-align="center"><page-number/></block>
</static-content>

<flow flow-name="frame-body" font-size="40pt">
  <block space-after="20pt">This is a test</block>
  <block>Blocks of the first group</block>
  <block>Blocks of the first group</block>
  <block>Blocks of the first group</block>
  <block>Blocks of the first group</block>
  <block>Blocks of the first group</block>
  <block>Blocks of the first group</block>
  <block>Blocks of the first group</block>
  <block>Blocks of the first group</block>
  <block>Blocks of the first group</block>
  <block>Blocks of the first group</block>
  <block>Blocks of the first group</block>
  <block>Blocks of the first group</block>
  <block>Blocks of the first group</block>
  <block>Blocks of the first group</block>
  <block>Footer fits below</block>

  <block>
    <footnote>
      <inline/>
      <footnote-body>
        <block-container height="4in">
          <block border-before-style="dotted">Blocks of the footer</block>
          <block>Blocks of the footer</block>
        </block-container>
      </footnote-body>
    </footnote>
  </block>

</flow>

</page-sequence>

<page-sequence master-reference="frame"
               xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";>

<static-content flow-name="xsl-region-after">
  <block text-align="center"><page-number/></block>
</static-content>

<flow flow-name="frame-body" font-size="40pt">
  <block space-after="20pt">This is a test</block>
  <block>Blocks of the first group</block>
  <block>Blocks of the first group</block>
  <block>Blocks of the first group</block>
  <block>Blocks of the first group</block>
  <block>Blocks of the first group</block>
  <block>Blocks of the first group</block>
  <block>Blocks of the first group</block>
  <block>Blocks of the first group</block>
  <block>Blocks of the first group</block>
  <block>Blocks of the first group</block>
  <block>Footer doesn't fit below</block>

  <block>
    <footnote>
      <inline/>
      <footnote-body>
        <block-container height="4in">
          <block border-before-style="dotted">Blocks of the footer</block>
          <block>Blocks of the footer</block>
        </block-container>
      </footnote-body>
    </footnote>
  </block>

</flow>

</page-sequence>


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