XSL-FO Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v2.25, by Herong Yang
What Is an Area
This section describes XSL-FO Area, which is a rectangular area with formatting properties on the presentation medium that represents a unit of formatted information.
What Is a Area? - An area in XSL-FO is a rectangular area with formatting properties on the presentation medium that represents a unit of formatted information. Multiple smaller areas can be put together to create a larger area.
For example, in a printed book, a single glyph is considered as an area representing a letter with a specific font style, color and geometric properties.
A paragraph is also considered as an area made of lines of glyph areas with paragraph geometric properties.
A page is also considered as an area made of multiple paragraph area s with page geometric properties.
The most important and common properties of an area are its geometric properties, which can summarized as:
The following diagram illustrates geometric properties of a paragraph area:
As you can see from the above diagram, geometric properties of an area can be described in more details as below:
Table of Contents
Apache™ FOP (Formatting Objects Processor)
Inline Stacking and Block Stacking
XSL-FO Document Basics and Examples
Block-Level Formatting Objects
Inline-Level Formatting Objects
Including Graphics in XSL-FO document
Floating Blocks - "float" and "footnote"
Hyperlinks, Table of Contents and Indexes
Headers and Footers using "static-content"
Font Attributes and Font Families
Apache FOP Font Configurations