Hi all,

I am writing down a piece of XSL code that I am using to display image.

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<fo:block text-align="start" border="solid" height="34mm" width="210mm">
<fo:external-graphic src="url(img/pdflogo1.png)" display-align="before" scaling="uniform" content-height="100%" content-width="100%" />
</fo:block>

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The block element that is containing the external-graphic has height = 34m. I want that graphic height should be 34mm but when I generate PDF from this XSL, it is always less than that. There is white space at the begining and end of block. I have tried following also :-

* content-height="34mm"
* content-height="scale-to-fit"

But nothing works. How can graphic height be of desired dimensions?

Atul


shinyboy

I'm not sure whether we have any xsl-fo experts monitoring this forum. You might be better off asking on the xsl-list at mulberrytech.com, or on the support list for your particular XSL-FO processor.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

I'm not good in XSL FO. But, I could suggest you to use height attribute inside <fo:external-graphic> element, and check the output. Try with cm as unit.

Rummy

I got the solution, the block containing the external-graphic has line-height of 120% by default. So if you specify it to 100% then the space before image will disappear.

Also use these properties
* alignment-adjust="before-edge"
* alignment-baseline="before-edge"

So finally "external-graphic" will look like this :-

<fo:external-graphic src="url(img/head.jpg)" height="34mm" width="210mm" alignment-adjust="before-edge" alignment-baseline="before-edge" baseline-shift="super"/>

Hope this helps anybody else.

Atul

shinyboy