Re: Upside down text in the table

This bug is now fixed in FOP Trunk (in the SVN repository). However, it
might still be difficult to align the glyphs but that doesn't have
anything to do with FOP.

On 05.02.2008 06:24:51 fat bold cyclop wrote:
> 
> I work on XML->XSL-FO->PDF tranformation that would produce Tsumeshogi
> problems in pdf format. In Shogi diagrams the pieces are often rotated
> (black pieces are placed heads up, white - heads down).
> 
> I need some cells of my table to be rotated by 180 deg.
> I achieve this by:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
>     <fo:layout-master-set>
>         <fo:simple-page-master master-name="first"
> page-height="29.7cm" page-width="21cm" margin-top="1cm"
>                                margin-bottom="1cm" margin-left="2.5cm"
> margin-right="2.5cm">
>             <fo:region-body margin-top="1.5cm" margin-bottom="1.5cm"/>
>         </fo:simple-page-master>
>     </fo:layout-master-set>
> 
>     <fo:page-sequence master-reference="first" language="ja">
>         <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
>             <fo:block space-before="4mm">
>                 <fo:table font-size="8pt" table-layout="fixed"
> border-collapse="separate"
>                           border-style="solid"
>                           width="2*6mm">
>                     <fo:table-column column-width="6mm"/>
>                     <fo:table-column column-width="6mm"/>
>                     <fo:table-body>
>                         <fo:table-row height="6mm">
>                             <fo:table-cell border-bottom="0.5pt solid
> black" border-right="0.5pt solid black" display-align="center">
>                                 <fo:block-container text-align="center">
>                                     <fo:block>A</fo:block>
>                                 </fo:block-container>
>                             </fo:table-cell>
>                             <fo:table-cell border-bottom="0.5pt solid
> black" border-right="0.5pt solid black">
>                                 <fo:block-container
> reference-orientation="-180" text-align="center" >
>                                     <fo:block>B</fo:block>
>                                 </fo:block-container>
>                             </fo:table-cell>
>                         </fo:table-row>
>                     </fo:table-body>
>                 </fo:table>
>             </fo:block>
>         </fo:flow>
>     </fo:page-sequence>
> </fo:root>
> 
> The key part is the use of reference-orientation:
>            <fo:block-container reference-orientation="-180"
> text-align="center" >
>                     <fo:block>B</fo:block>
>            </fo:block-container>
> 
> The rotation works fine -- the letter B in my example gets rotated.
> But it also gets misplaced: it goes outside it's cell (above the
> cell).
> 
> The PDF rendered by FOP look like this:
> http://fat.bold.cyclop.googlepages.com/upsidedown.pdf (~5k).
> 
> Is it the matter of renderer (Apache FOP 0.93) or it is a behavior
> described by xsl-fo specification? Am I doing something wrong? Maybe
> there is other way in XSL-FO to rotate text?
> 
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 
> Regards,
> fbc
> 




Jeremias Maerki

Received on Wednesday, 6 February 2008 14:10:52 UTC