Re: supress object print

Plain visibility="hidden" is easy (somebody simply has to implement it
in FOP). You're right there. But the poster actually wants some content
to appear in the PDF viewer which should not be printed. And that
requires some special PDF features if it's possible at all.

On 09.07.2008 12:00:38 Tony Graham wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jul 09 2008 08:07:16 +0100, dev@jeremias-maerki.ch wrote:
> > You can't, at least not with Apache FOP. I'm really curious if other
> > implementations support this (and how).
> ...
> >> > On 02.07.2008 17:41:05 good_guddu wrote:
> ...
> >> >> can it be done?
> >> >> Tried visibility="hidden" does not work.
> 
> AntennaHouse says they do it [1], RenderX says they don't [2].  xmlroff
> doesn't do it.
> 
> It doesn't seem to be that hard to implement: you'd just need to not
> draw certain areas in the area tree.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
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> [1] http://www.antennahouse.com/xslfo/axf4fo.htm
> [2] http://www.renderx.com/reference.html




Jeremias Maerki

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