Re: [docbook-apps] Background Color declared in DocBook XML not visible in PDF

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

I think that is a bug in FOP's handling of the graphic.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darya Said-Akbari" <darya_akbari@yahoo.com>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Background Color declared in DocBook XML not 
visible in PDF


>I did that test already. The result is that the table
> cell get its background color but the image in this
> table cell still shows a black background.
>
> Regards,
> Darya
>
> --- Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net> schrieb:
>
>> In a table cell, the processing instruction pseudo
>> attribute name is
>> 'bgcolor', not 'background-color'.  See if that
>> works, least for setting
>> the table cell background color.  I don't know if it
>> will fix the black
>> color used for transparency, though.
>>
>> Bob Stayton
>> Sagehill Enterprises
>> DocBook Consulting
>> bobs@sagehill.net
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Darya Said-Akbari" <darya_akbari@yahoo.com>
>> To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 2:15 AM
>> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Background Color
>> declared in DocBook XML not
>> visible in PDF
>>
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > whether it's inside a table cell or in common
>> text,
>> > all my tranparent pictures get a black background
>> > color.
>> >
>> > I'm not sure whether it's an FOP problem, because
>> when
>> > I check the .fo file after Saxon processing I
>> can't
>> > find any hint of <?dbfo
>> background-color="#F8F6A3"?>.
>> >
>> > The problem is that I depend on tons of
>> transparent
>> > pictures.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Darya
>> >
>> > --- bobs@sagehill.net schrieb:
>> >
>> >> This is most likely a FOP problem.
>> >>
>> >> When I test your example with XEP, I see no
>> >> background color (at least with
>> >> an opaque image).  That because the width and
>> >> content-width properties are
>> >> set to auto when those attributes are not in the
>> >> source.  This means the
>> >> image and its viewport are the same size, and the
>> >> image will cover the
>> >> entire viewport and no background color is
>> visible.
>> >>
>> >> But FOP 0.20.5 doesn't support content-width
>> >> properties, so you won't see
>> >> the effect anyway.
>> >>
>> >> Is your image transparent?
>> >>
>> >> You'll probably have better luck
>> >> putting the background color on the table entry
>> >> rather than the imagedata.
>> >> The processing instruction attribute for table
>> cells
>> >> is bgcolor instead of
>> >> background-color.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Bob Stayton
>> >> Sagehill Enterprises
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
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