Thanks Kevin
I have been using PMSI to rotate to landscape a wide, multi-page table
in a portrait Docbook document. I just thought this might prove a
simpler way.
Ron
On 8/10/10 11:45 AM, Kevin Brown wrote:
> Ron:
>
> 1) Can this be applied to part of a document?
>
> Certainly. Taking into account that the special XEPOUT tags like
> <xep:translate> and<xep:transform> simply operate on all content that
> follows them inside the page -- which means they are also additive. Try this
> sample --- save it to "sample.xep" and run it with xep.bat -xep "sample.xep"
> -pdf "fancy.pdf".
>
> In this sample you can see a series of<xep:transform> elements are placed
> to incrementally shrink and rotate text.
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>
> <xep:document xmlns:xep="http://www.renderx.com/XEP/xep" producer="XEP 4.17
> build 20091204"
> creator="RenderX VisualXSL" author="Unknown" title="Untitled">
> <xep:page width="612000" height="792000" page-number="1" page-id="1">
> <xep:word-spacing value="0"/>
> <xep:letter-spacing value="0"/>
> <xep:font-stretch value="1.0"/>
>
> <!-- Put the pinwheel wherever on the page -->
> <xep:translate x="250000" y="500000"/>
>
> <xep:gray-color gray="0.0"/>
> <xep:font family="Helvetica" weight="400" style="normal"
> variant="normal" size="22000"/>
> <xep:text value="My life is slowly draining away, help me" x="20000"
> y="0" width="8985"/>
>
> <xep:gray-color gray="0.083"/>
> <xep:font family="Helvetica" weight="375" style="normal"
> variant="normal" size="20000"/>
> <!-- Rotate and shrink the text -->
> <xep:transform a="0.866025" b="-0.5" c="0.5" d="0.866025" e="0"
> f="0"/>
> <xep:text value="My life is slowly draining away, help me" x="18000"
> y="0" width="8985"/>
>
> <xep:gray-color gray="0.0909"/>
> <xep:font family="Helvetica" weight="350" style="normal"
> variant="normal" size="18000"/>
> <xep:transform a="0.866025" b="-0.5" c="0.5" d="0.866025" e="0"
> f="0"/>
> <xep:text value="My life is slowly draining away, help me" x="16000"
> y="0" width="8985"/>
>
> <xep:gray-color gray="0.1"/>
> <xep:font family="Helvetica" weight="325" style="normal"
> variant="normal" size="16000"/>
> <xep:transform a="0.866025" b="-0.5" c="0.5" d="0.866025" e="0"
> f="0"/>
> <xep:text value="My life is slowly draining away, help me" x="14000"
> y="0" width="8985"/>
>
> <xep:gray-color gray="0.1111"/>
> <xep:font family="Helvetica" weight="300" style="normal"
> variant="normal" size="14000"/>
> <xep:transform a="0.866025" b="-0.5" c="0.5" d="0.866025" e="0"
> f="0"/>
> <xep:text value="My life is slowly draining away, help me" x="12000"
> y="0" width="8985"/>
>
> <xep:gray-color gray="0.125"/>
> <xep:font family="Helvetica" weight="275" style="normal"
> variant="normal" size="12000"/>
> <xep:transform a="0.866025" b="-0.5" c="0.5" d="0.866025" e="0"
> f="0"/>
> <xep:text value="My life is slowly draining away, help me" x="10000"
> y="0" width="8985"/>
>
> <xep:gray-color gray="0.1428"/>
> <xep:font family="Helvetica" weight="250" style="normal"
> variant="normal" size="10000"/>
> <xep:transform a="0.866025" b="-0.5" c="0.5" d="0.866025" e="0"
> f="0"/>
> <xep:text value="My life is slowly draining away, help me" x="8000"
> y="0" width="8985"/>
>
> <xep:gray-color gray="0.1666"/>
> <xep:font family="Helvetica" weight="225" style="normal"
> variant="normal" size="8000"/>
> <xep:transform a="0.866025" b="-0.5" c="0.5" d="0.866025" e="0"
> f="0"/>
> <xep:text value="My life is slowly draining away, help me" x="6000"
> y="0" width="8985"/>
>
> <xep:gray-color gray="0.2"/>
> <xep:font family="Helvetica" weight="200" style="normal"
> variant="normal" size="6000"/>
> <xep:transform a="0.866025" b="-0.5" c="0.5" d="0.866025" e="0"
> f="0"/>
> <xep:text value="My life is slowly draining away, help me" x="4000"
> y="0" width="8985"/>
>
> <xep:gray-color gray="0.25"/>
> <xep:font family="Helvetica" weight="175" style="normal"
> variant="normal" size="4000"/>
> <xep:transform a="0.866025" b="-0.5" c="0.5" d="0.866025" e="0"
> f="0"/>
> <xep:text value="My life is slowly draining away, help me" x="2000"
> y="0" width="8985"/>
>
> <xep:gray-color gray="0.333333"/>
> <xep:font family="Helvetica" weight="150" style="normal"
> variant="normal" size="2000"/>
> <xep:transform a="0.866025" b="-0.5" c="0.5" d="0.866025" e="0"
> f="0"/>
> <xep:text value="My life is slowly draining away, help me" x="1000"
> y="0" width="8985"/>
>
> <xep:gray-color gray="0.5"/>
> <xep:font family="Helvetica" weight="125" style="normal"
> variant="normal" size="1000"/>
> <xep:transform a="0.866025" b="-0.5" c="0.5" d="0.866025" e="0"
> f="0"/>
> <xep:text value="My life is slowly draining away, help me" x="0"
> y="0" width="8985"/>
>
> </xep:page>
> </xep:document>
>
> 2) It looks as though I could insert an affine matrix for 90 degree rotation
> before the table, and apply another after the table to rotate in the
> opposite sense.
>
> I am not sure what you are trying to accomplish. Remember that you are
> operating on post-composed content here. You would need to build the content
> first, this is only allowing you to change the appearance of that content
> after composed. We have done some things like you mention using PMSI from
> Ken Holman or even some custom XSLs for "table cutting" -- chopping "a"
> table (one that exceeds pages in both dimensions) into a smaller table
> (knowing the number of columns that fit on a page), formatting that table to
> output and then reordering the pages in the XEPOUT to go "across" instead of
> "down".
>
> Remember all -- we are always happy to see a challenge and solve the issue
> so send something along for us to understand what you are trying to
> accomplish and we'll see what we can dream up. If you run the example above,
> you can see that there are things you can do with XEP that you never knew
> you could!
>
> Kevin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xep-support@renderx.com [mailto:owner-xep-support@renderx.com]
> On Behalf Of Ron Catterall
> Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 8:42 AM
> To: xep-support@renderx.com
> Subject: [SPAM] Re: [xep-support] New Installment of CoolTools - The
> Document Magnifier
>
> Hi
> Can this be applied to part of a document? Specifically, a landscape wide
> table spread over several pages in the middle of a portrait orientation
> document. It looks as though I could insert an affine matrix for 90 degree
> rotation before the table, and apply another after the table to rotate in
> the opposite sense.
> I'm thinking of Docbook, where landscape can only be applied to a single
> page. I know it can be done on the Docbook FO output, but this looks like a
> neater way to do it.
> Or have I got it all wrong?
> Ron
>
> On 8/7/10 9:03 AM, Andy Black wrote:
>> Thanks, Kevin. This worked great for me. Much appreciated.
>>
>> --Andy
>>
>> On 8/5/2010 4:53 PM, Kevin Brown wrote:
>>> Inspired by a recent post by Andy Black, I thought I would put
>>> together a quick XSL for magnifying documents.
>>>
>>> As with most CoolTools, this one relies on the XEP Intermediate
>>> Format -- we call it XEPOUT. This format is documented here:
>>>
>>> http://www.renderx.com/reference.html#IntermediateFormatSpecification
>>>
>>> Remember -- there are many ways to get XEPOUT format. If you are
>>> running from the command line, you can use xep.bat. Instead of
>>> specifying -pdf or -ps for the output format, you just use -xep. So
>>> you might have something
>>> like:
>>>
>>> xep.bat -xml myxml.xml -xsl myxsl.xsl -xep resultXEPOUT.xep
>>>
>>> You can also get XEPOUT programmatically by setting the mimetype to
>>> "application/xep". To format a modified XEPOUT, one just passes it
>>> back through RenderX. For xep.bat, one would use:
>>>
>>> xep.bat -xep resultXEPOUT.xep -pdf mypdf.pdf
>>>
>>> The document is not recomposed, only the final output is generated.
>>> As we have shown in previous posts, you can do something like
>>> concatenate 1000s of XEPOUT files together and create *huge* outputs
>>> as this final process from XEPOUT to output (like PDF or PostScript)
>>> is very fast and takes very little memory.
>>>
>>> What is not documented at the above link is that there is also an
>>> XEPOUT element called "xep:transform". It is not documented because
>>> while it is built into the XEP Engine, there are no constructs in FO
>>> that currently cause this element to be created. However, that
>>> doesn't stop us from telling you about it nor using it in various
> projects we have created.
>>>
>>> The "transform" element allows you to apply an affine matrix to all
>>> content that follows this element. Since Andy is looking for scaling,
>>> we could insert something like this in the XEPOUT document to scale
>>> the elements that
>>> follow:
>>>
>>> <xep:transform a="2" b="0" c="0" d="2" e="0" f="0"/>
>>>
>>> Now, for the engineers out there, you would recall this is
>>> essentially (my math is rusty but I think I have this one right!):
>>>
>>> | 2 0 0 |
>>> | 0 2 0 |
>>> | 0 0 1 |
>>>
>>> Where the attributes are as following for an affine matrix:
>>>
>>> | a b 0 |
>>> | c d 0 |
>>> | e f 1 |
>>>
>>> If the above<xep:transform> element inserted into the XEPOUT, it
>>> would scale all content following it. The scale would be "2" (double
>>> the size) because "a" and "d" (scale-x and scale-y respectively) are
>>> 2. You should note that all elements work ... if you would like to
>>> see cool examples with text that is rotated at arbitrary degrees and
>>> progressively scaled, just say so. This element allows you to scale,
> translate and rotate.
>>>
>>> Back to Andy's needs .... Now, we also need to change the page
>>> dimensions to accommodate the size. We could write an easy
>>> identity-translate to operate on XEPOUT and scale pages. By the way,
>>> choosing something like scale-x as "5" and scale-y as "1" will turn
>>> you pages into silly putty, if that is what you want, my kids thought
> that way funny when I did it!
>>>
>>> *****************************************
>>>
>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet
>>> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>>> xmlns:xep="http://www.renderx.com/XEP/xep" version="1.0">
>>> <xsl:param name="scale-x">3</xsl:param>
>>> <xsl:param name="scale-y">3</xsl:param>
>>> <xsl:template match="xep:document">
>>> <xsl:copy>
>>> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*" mode="identity-copy"/>
>>> <xsl:apply-templates/>
>>> </xsl:copy>
>>> </xsl:template>
>>>
>>> <xsl:template match="xep:page">
>>> <xep:page>
>>> <!-- Scale the page width and height -->
>>> <xsl:attribute name="width">
>>> <xsl:value-of select="@width * $scale-x"/>
>>> </xsl:attribute>
>>> <xsl:attribute name="height">
>>> <xsl:value-of select="@height * $scale-y"/>
>>> </xsl:attribute>
>>> <xsl:attribute name="page-number">
>>> <xsl:value-of select="@page-number"/>
>>> </xsl:attribute>
>>> <xsl:attribute name="page-id">
>>> <xsl:value-of select="@page-id"/>
>>> </xsl:attribute>
>>> <!-- Insert Transform -->
>>> <xep:transform a="{$scale-x}" b="0" c="0" d="{$scale-y}"
> e="0"
>>> f="0"/>
>>> <!-- Output Content -->
>>> <xsl:apply-templates select="*" mode="identity-copy"/>
>>> </xep:page>
>>> </xsl:template>
>>>
>>> <!-- identity copy rules -->
>>> <xsl:template match="node() | @*" mode="identity-copy"
>>> name="identity-copy">
>>> <xsl:copy>
>>> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*" mode="identity-copy"/>
>>> <xsl:apply-templates select="node()" mode="identity-copy"/>
>>> </xsl:copy>
>>> </xsl:template>
>>>
>>> </xsl:stylesheet>
>>>
>>> *************************************************
>>>
>>> Give it a try! If you would like a set of samples, I would be happy
>>> to share but I promised a quick post to help Andy out and here it is.
>>>
>>> Kevin Brown
>>> RenderX Inc
>>> kevin@renderx.com
>>> 650-327-1000
>>>
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