Re: [xsl] XSL-FO: Forcing blocks with images to start from the next page instead of clipping the image?

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

At 2012-05-23 17:26 +0300, Joel Peltonen wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I'm converting an XSL-FO file into pdf with Altsoft Xml2PDF 1.2.2.
>
> When I have images that start near the end of a page they are clipped so that
> the portion that does not fit on a page is not visible.

That sounds like a bug to me.  I would have expected a page-break to 
accommodate the image.

> I can get the images to
> start correctly from the next page if I remove the block entirely, 
> but then I'm
> missing some attributes.
>
> With markup like this the image gets clipped:
> <fo:block text-align="right" span="all" margin-bottom="3pt">
>     <fo:external-graphic content-height="scale-to-fit"
>                 content-width="100mm" src="url(C:/someimage.jpg)" />
> </fo:block>
>
> Simply <fo:external-graphic ... />  without the block works and the image
> starts from the next page, but I'm afraid I will lose my alignment, span and
> margin! Any advice?

Have you tried adding a keep constraint to the block?

   keep-together.within-column="always"

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . Ken


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