Eliot Kimber wrote:
Kamal Bhatt wrote:
Hi
I want to create a page with 2 columns and a border around the 2
columns. All I seem to get is a border around each column, but not
both columns. I don't want to use tables.
The only way I can think to do this is to put the border contents
within a block that turns on borders, e.g.:
<fo:flow>
<fo:block border="black 1p solid">
<!-- actual content of flow goes here -->
</fo:block>
</fo:flow>
The main challenge here would be if you need to do column
spanning--spanning blocks must be direct children of fo:flow.
Otherwise, columns are not something you can put borders on directly,
since they are simply a side effect of layout.
About the only other solution I can think of would be to use either
background graphic for the page or one of the edge regions with an
extent that encompasses the extent of the body region and draw boxes
that will then be overlaid by the column content. This would result in
invariant column boxes on each page.
Cheers,
Eliot
OK, lets try this again
<fo:simple-page-master
master-name="A4-last"
page-width="{$page_width}mm"
page-height="{$page_height}mm"
margin-top="{$margin_top}mm"
margin-bottom="{$margin_bottom}mm"
margin-left="{$margin_left}mm"
margin-right="{$margin_right}mm">
<fo:region-body
margin-top="{$header_extent + 6}mm"
margin-bottom="{$footer_extent}mm"
margin-right="10mm"
column-count="2"
column-gap="15mm"
region-name="itin-last" />
<fo:region-before
region-name="itin-before-rest"
extent="{$header_extent}mm" />
<fo:region-after
region-name="itin-after"
extent="{$footer_extent}mm"/>
</fo:simple-page-master>
That is my page master, and here is my flow (reduced for brevities sake):
<fo:flow flow-name="itin-last">
<fo:block border-style="solid">
<fo:block border-style="none" margin-right="6mm" margin-left="6mm">
<fo:block color="#005F97" font-size="12pt"
font-family="sans-serif" font-weight="bold" margin-bottom="3mm"
border-bottom-width="0.1mm" border-bottom-style="none"
border-bottom-color="#005F97">
Terms and Conditions
</fo:block>
<fo:block font-size="9pt" font-family="sans-serif" color="#333">
<fo:block font-size="7pt" font-family="sans-serif">
<fo:block>/ Header Text: J000FOOT (usage: F) \</fo:block>
<fo:block>\ This text is supposed to be for booking series
J000. /</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>Paper Ticket Footer</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
<fo:block>*******************</fo:block>
</fo:block>
</fo:block>
</fo:block>
</fo:block>
</fo:flow>
Assuming there were enough blocks, I would get two columns each with its
own border. What I want is one border encompassing both columns. I am
using FOP 0.93
--
Kamal Bhatt