Re: Fitting content to a box in FO

On Thu, November 14, 2013 6:56 am, Kevin Brown wrote:
> Tony gave some good answers. Possibly I get bonus points for doing this
> many times already.

IMO, the way for vendors to get bonus points is completely different.

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> In the XEP intermediate format, you can then easily get the actually
> height
> of the content and scale the content appropriately (proportionally) to fit
> within the actual fixed page dimensions.

That is essentially the first half of my second suggestion, if you
substitute 'intermediate format' for 'area tree'.  Doing it once and
scaling to fit the height -- no matter how you do the scaling -- is going
to reduce the width in proportion, which isn't going to be optimal for a
slide that's mostly text.

If you do the first pass multiple times with the same width and differing
font sizes, the text reflows to fit the width each time.  When you then
pick the alternative that makes the best use of the height, you should
find that it has fewer lines and a larger apparent font size compared to
scaling down the original to fit the height.

The extension from the Print and Page Layout CG [6] lets you automate that
trying of differing font sizes within the one run of the XSLT processor to
settle on the optimum font size (or whatever) [5] in one go.  You are more
than welcome to implement similar for RenderX.

Ideally this sort of copyfitting would be handled by the FO processor and
standard across all FO processors.  Copyfitting is in the last XSL-FO 2.0
draft [8] while CSS folks have only started looking at it [7], but given
the vacuum around further development of XSL-FO, it looks like it will be
another thing that's standardised in CSS rather than XSL-FO.

Regards,


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> From: "Tony Graham" <tgraham@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re:  Fitting content to a box in FO
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> The two-pass--all-FO solution -- as I describe at [3] -- would be run it
> once with unconstrained height and get the area tree to work out how to
> scale the slides.  For bonus points, you could generate an initial FO file
> that has every slide at a range of font sizes and image magnifications,
> get
> the area tree, and work out which font size works best for each slide.
>
> The bleeding-edge solution [4] is to use FOP and the FOPRunXSLTExt [5]
> extension from the Print and Page Layout CG to iteratively adjust the
> font-size, etc., and run the FO processor from within your XSLT transform
> until you have the optimal settings, which you then include in the 'real'
> FO output.  For bonus points of a different kind, you could port the
> extension to Antenna House's or RenderX's Java interface and contribute
> that
> back to the CG.
...
> [5]
http://www.w3.org/community/ppl/wiki/FOPRunXSLTExt#Example_5_-_Copyfitting_by_adjusting_.27font-size.27
> [6] http://www.w3.org/community/ppl/

[7]
http://www.w3.org/Style/2013/paged-media-tasks#automatic-selection-of-font-size
[8] http://www.w3.org/TR/xslfo20/#copyfitting