xsl-fo – Tarik Billa

Scale down to fit an image in FOP

January 9, 2024 by Tarik

I found this page here explaining how scaling works with XSL-FO. Essentially, this is the snippet that I used to make it work: <fo:external-graphic src=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6220316/url(“https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6220316/…”)” width=”100%” content-height=”100%” content-width=”scale-to-fit” scaling=”uniform” xsl:use-attribute-sets=”img”/> I found that width=”100%” was the missing piece in your own attempts. Hope this helps future visitors.

Use of XSL-FO, CSS3 instead of CSS2 to create Paginated documents like PDF?

December 4, 2023 by Tarik

Thanks all comments and answers! Now, 2014, passed over 1.5 years of my post (May 17 ’12), is time to consolidate: no answer was, for me, a “full answer”, but all answers (see Nenotlep’s and Alex’s) contributed to form a big picture. My main motivation now, to consolidate, is the @mzjn’s news (here) of 2013-11. … Read more

Inserting a line break in a PDF generated from XSL FO using

November 30, 2023 by Tarik

You could also replace <br/> with 
 and add a linefeed-treatment=”preserve” attribute to your <fo:block>. Something like: <fo:block linefeed-treatment=”preserve”>This is an example Description.
List item 1
List item 2
List item 3
List item 4</fo:block> Edit Some users may need to use \n instead of 
 depending on how they are creating the XML. See Retain the 
 during … Read more

What’s the difference between XSLT and XSL-FO?

June 7, 2023 by Tarik

I was wondering about the basis of the question because I thought it was easy to answer, however as soon as you go here: http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/ it becomes clear that its actually a good question – because pretty much the first thing on the page is this statement: This specification defines the features and syntax for … Read more