RE: How to mix portrait and landscape in one document

I think you'll find this easier and more portable to boot:
 
http://www.cranesoftwrights.com/resources/psmi/index.htm
 
Eric Amick
Legislative Computer Systems
Office of the Clerk
 

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From: www-xsl-fo-request@w3.org [mailto:www-xsl-fo-request@w3.org] On
Behalf Of Roger Parkinson
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 16:43
To: www-xsl-fo@w3.org
Subject: How to mix portrait and landscape in one document


I spent a little time getting this going and it works for me so I
thought I would share it.
Sometimes I want a diagram or a table to display in landscape but I want
the rest of my doc in portrait.

I do something like this in my doc:
<landscape>
    <... definition of table or image etc >
</landscape>

This is how I got it to work (and I'm happy to hear if there is a
smarter way, of course).

        <xsl:template match="landscape">
            <xsl:text
disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[</fo:flow></fo:page-sequence>]]><
/xsl:text>
          <fo:page-sequence master-reference="landscape">
             <fo:static-content flow-name="folio">
                <xsl:call-template name="PageFooter"/><!-- set up the
page footer for landscape -->
             </fo:static-content>
            <fo:flow flow-name="text">
                <xsl:apply-templates/>
            </fo:flow>
          </fo:page-sequence>
          <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">><![CDATA[
           <fo:page-sequence master-reference="oddEven">
           ]]></xsl:text>
                  <fo:static-content flow-name="folio">
                     <xsl:call-template name="PageFooter"/> <!-- this
sets up the page footer again for the new portrait flow-->
                  </fo:static-content>
           <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[
                  <fo:flow flow-name="text">
          ]]></xsl:text>
        </xsl:template>

This matches my <landscape> tag and everything inside that is rendered
in landscape mode using the page-sequence-master "landscape"
We have to interrupt the main flow and page-sequence for this to work,
and that means using

<xsl:text
disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[</fo:flow></fo:page-sequence>]]><
/xsl:text>

because, of course, the style sheet would not be valid XML otherwise. We
restore the flow (or make a new one similar) after the landscape tag is
done.

This assumes the following has been done earlier to define the page
masters:
    <xsl:template name="PageMasterPortrait">
        <fo:simple-page-master
            master-name="oddLayout"
            page-height="29.5cm"
            page-width="21cm" 
            margin-top="0.1cm"
            margin-bottom="0.1cm"
            margin-left="1cm"
            margin-right="1cm">
            <fo:region-body 
                margin-top="0.75in" 
                margin-bottom="0.8in" 
                margin-left="0.75in" 
                margin-right="0.5in" 
                extent="0.5in" 
                region-name="text"/>
            <fo:region-before region-name="oddHead" extent="0.5in"/>
            <fo:region-after region-name="folio" extent="0.6in"/>
        </fo:simple-page-master>
        <fo:simple-page-master
            master-name="evenLayout"
            page-height="29.5cm"
            page-width="21cm" 
            margin-top="0.1cm"
            margin-bottom="0.1cm"
            margin-left="1cm"
            margin-right="1cm">
            <fo:region-body 
                margin-top="0.75in" 
                margin-bottom="0.8in" 
                margin-left="0.5in" 
                margin-right="0.75in" 
                extent="0.5in" 
                region-name="text"/>
            <fo:region-before region-name="evenHead" extent="0.5in"/>
            <fo:region-after region-name="folio" extent="0.6in"/>
        </fo:simple-page-master>
        <fo:simple-page-master
            master-name="landscapeLayout"
            page-height="21cm"
            page-width="30cm" 
            margin-top="0.1cm"
            margin-bottom="0.1cm"
            margin-left="1cm"
            margin-right="1cm">
            <fo:region-body 
                margin-top="0.75in" 
                margin-bottom="0.8in" 
                margin-left="0.5in" 
                margin-right="0.75in" 
                extent="0.5in" 
                region-name="text"/>
            <fo:region-before region-name="evenHead" extent="0.5in"/>
            <fo:region-after region-name="folio" extent="0.6in"/>
        </fo:simple-page-master>
        <fo:page-sequence-master master-name="landscape">
            <fo:single-page-master-reference
master-reference="landscapeLayout"/>
        </fo:page-sequence-master>
        <fo:page-sequence-master master-name="oddEven">
            <fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
                <fo:conditional-page-master-reference odd-or-even="odd"
master-reference="oddLayout"/>
                <fo:conditional-page-master-reference odd-or-even="even"
master-reference="evenLayout"/>
            </fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
        </fo:page-sequence-master>
     </xsl:template>

.... and the root of my XSL looks like this:

         <xsl:template match="/">
            <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
<http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format> >
               <fo:layout-master-set>
                  <xsl:call-template name="PageMasterPortrait"/>
               </fo:layout-master-set>
               <fo:page-sequence master-reference="oddEven">
                  <fo:static-content flow-name="folio">
                     <xsl:call-template name="PageFooter"/>
                  </fo:static-content>
                  <fo:flow flow-name="text">
                     <xsl:apply-templates select="doc/body"/>
                  </fo:flow>
               </fo:page-sequence>
            </fo:root>
         </xsl:template>

The page footer is just a block showing the page number and title, yours
will be different.
Enjoy!




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