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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: OMR Mark for folding machine
 Currently I want to use XSL to print our company bill statement. But I have the difficulty to put OMR into the pages since the number of OMR lines to be printed depending on the page number but the page number is unknown in XSLT and page number cannot be manipulated in XSL/FO. Does anyone know a solution for that? At 2003-03-07 14:56 +0800, PIERRES@xxxxxxxx wrote: I need to print some horizontal bar on left edge of every pages of a bill statement which is used to be read by folding machine. The folding machine will use these bars to detect some information for the folding processing. (e.g. page sequence, account sequence) Then the machine will fold the pages for one account into an envelope. I would have thought that page 16 would have zero bars and that page 17 would have been reset to 1 ... but my solution stands if the answer goes either way. If you don't mind having some "typically maximum limit" and then accommodating an overflow condition ... say you accept a 256 page limit ... that no bill will be longer than 256 pages and that if there is one that is 257 or more pages that you accept the XSL-FO formatter throwing an error to signal the pages were not totally completed. Create as many <simple-page-master>s as you have combinations of bars (so either 15 or 16 based on the answer above ... I'll assume 16). Each <simple-page-master> has a different <region-start> name, say "region-0" through "region-15". Create a <page-sequence-master> with 256 <single-page-master-reference> children, in order pointing to masters respectively with "region-0",...,"region-15","region-0",...,"region-15", etc. Create your <page-sequence> pointing to the <page-sequence-master> and including 16 definitions of <static-content> one for each of the 16 combinations of bars, with absolutely positioned block containers with a <leader> rule in each positioned where you want the folding marks. Then go ahead and format the document! If there are 257 pages in the one bill, the formatter will abend and indicate that it has run out of page geometries for the formatting run. But as long as there are enough single-page-master-references in your page-sequence-master, it will not abend and you will get the pattern of marks in the edge of your paper. Yes, it would be cleaner and there would be no limit if there were a sub-sequence-repeater object in XSL-FO (how about that as a new requirement for version 2?) but if you can accept the maximum page count and I've understood your requirement then I think you've got what you need. I hope this helps. ........................... Ken --
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