Re: [XSL-FO] Re: Inline images to do boxes (tables) with rounded corners?

In a message dated 07/12/01 16:54:13 GMT Standard Time, 
AndrewWatt2001@aol.com writes:


> In a message dated 07/12/01 16:37:07 GMT Standard Time, 
> Erich.Kilmer@mmt.bellhowell.com writes: 
> 
> 
> >> Thanks to everyone for all of the help. Sorry to bother again but here 
>> goes. 
>> Can anyone tell me when inline images will be available? 
>> We are trying to build documents that are invoices. Many invoices have 
>> boxes 
>> (tables) with rounded corners. The only way that I can think of doing 
>> boxes 
>> with round corners is to lay down an inline image and then putting data 
>> inside of the image. 
>> Is there another way to do this?
> 
> Erich, 
> 
> If I understand correctly what you want to do an alternate approach would 
> be to use SVG images to create the round cornered boxes with either a 
> coloured fill or fill of "none" depending on whether or not you wanted a 
> visible background to the data. You could then use XSLT to generate SVG 
> text too, if you wish. Or use XSL-FO text. 
> 
> I am using those round cornered SVG boxes (for a slightly different 
> purpose) on 
> http://www.XMML.com/ 
> 
> If you don't already have an SVG viewer I suggest you download version 3 of 
> the Adobe SVG Viewer following the links from 
> http://www.adobe.com/svg/ 
> then you can go to the XMML.com Web site. 
> 
> If you have the Antenna House XSL Formatter you can see embedded SVG in 
> XSL-FO online -  go to 
> http://www.xsl-fo.com/default.xml (there is a stylesheet to create XSL-FO) 
> and page (at the top of the screen) to page 3 where an SVG image is 
> embedded. 
> 
> Those are the pieces which, when put together, will probably do what you 
> need. 
> 
> Andrew Watt

I have now posted a simple example file at
http://www.xsl-fo.com/Invoice.xml

Note that this will create an XSL-FO file so is viewable by Antenna House XSL 
Formatter, not a conventional HTML browser. To view it you must include the 
"http://" otherwise Antenna House Formatter looks on the local file system.

Andrew Watt