At 2005-10-10 08:54 -0400, gayle.greene@exxonmobil.com wrote:
>I have set up conditional page master references for
>different footers for first, rest and last. The majority of the time the
>documents will be multiple pages and this works. I want to control for the
>possibility of a single page document which would need the footer that is
>unique to the first page and the footer that is unique to the last page.
>The first page has an icon and the last page has legal text. The single
>page document would need the icon and the legal text. From testing, the
>document is interpreted as first page but not first and last. I have
>searched on the web and it seems that I cannot use page-count as a
>variable.
Correct you cannot use page-count as a variable.
When I need to accommodate a one-page difference from a
first/middle/last page pattern, I use two page
repeatable-page-master-alternatives, where the first one is tested
only a single time, along the lines of:
<page-sequence-master master-name="whatever">
<repeatable-page-master-alternatives maximum-repeats="1">
<conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="only-page-layout"
page-position="last"/>
<conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="first-page-layout"
page-position="first"/>
</repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
<repeatable-page-master-alternatives maximum-repeats="no-limit">
<conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="last-page-layout"
page-position="last"/>
<conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="rest-page-layout"
page-position="rest"/>
</repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
</page-sequence-master>
Note the document order of the conditional page master references: a
one-page page sequence is both the first and the last, so I test for
last first and, if if the first page isn't the last page, then it is
the first page of a multiple page sequence.
For the next page and remainder of the pages, the first set of
alternatives is ignored, and the second set of alternatives is the
only one used, checking for the last in the sequence or otherwise.
Thus, four unique conditions are tested, not just three. The
complete example is below.
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . . . . . Ken
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><!--pgseq-four-conditions.fo-->
<root xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
font-family="Times" font-size="20pt">
<layout-master-set>
<simple-page-master master-name="only-page-layout"
page-height="297mm" page-width="210mm"
margin-top="15mm" margin-bottom="15mm"
margin-left="15mm" margin-right="15mm">
<region-body region-name="frame-body" margin-top="10mm"/>
<region-before region-name="only-region" extent="10mm"/>
</simple-page-master>
<simple-page-master master-name="first-page-layout"
page-height="297mm" page-width="210mm"
margin-top="15mm" margin-bottom="15mm"
margin-left="15mm" margin-right="15mm">
<region-body region-name="frame-body" margin-top="10mm"/>
<region-before region-name="first-region" extent="10mm"/>
</simple-page-master>
<simple-page-master master-name="last-page-layout"
page-height="297mm" page-width="210mm"
margin-top="15mm" margin-bottom="15mm"
margin-left="15mm" margin-right="15mm">
<region-body region-name="frame-body" margin-top="10mm"/>
<region-before region-name="last-region" extent="10mm"/>
</simple-page-master>
<simple-page-master master-name="rest-page-layout"
page-height="297mm" page-width="210mm"
margin-top="15mm" margin-bottom="15mm"
margin-left="15mm" margin-right="15mm">
<region-body region-name="frame-body" margin-top="10mm"/>
<region-before region-name="rest-region" extent="10mm"/>
</simple-page-master>
<page-sequence-master master-name="whatever">
<repeatable-page-master-alternatives maximum-repeats="1">
<conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="only-page-layout"
page-position="last"/>
<conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="first-page-layout"
page-position="first"/>
</repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
<repeatable-page-master-alternatives maximum-repeats="no-limit">
<conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="last-page-layout"
page-position="last"/>
<conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="rest-page-layout"
page-position="rest"/>
</repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
</page-sequence-master>
</layout-master-set>
<page-sequence master-reference="whatever">
<static-content flow-name="only-region">
<block text-align="center">only</block>
</static-content>
<flow flow-name="frame-body">
<block>This is the only page</block>
</flow>
</page-sequence>
<page-sequence master-reference="whatever">
<static-content flow-name="only-region">
<block text-align="center">only</block>
</static-content>
<static-content flow-name="first-region">
<block text-align="center">first</block>
</static-content>
<static-content flow-name="last-region">
<block text-align="center">last</block>
</static-content>
<static-content flow-name="rest-region">
<block text-align="center">rest</block>
</static-content>
<flow flow-name="frame-body">
<block>This is the first page</block>
<block break-before="page">This is a middle page</block>
<block break-before="page">This is a middle page</block>
<block break-before="page">This is the last page</block>
</flow>
</page-sequence>
</root>
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