Re: [docbook-apps] PDF transformation: Why is the right border of my inline "box" missing when I transform to PDF. It works for HTML and Oxygen XML Editor.

[daniel.keyes@finaris.de]

Hi Simon,

your question isn´t stupid at all. Adobe
Acrobat has some problems displaying thin borders or details. It really
depends on the magnification.

I tried your advice. The border is thicker,
but the right border is still missing. I checked it with Adobe Acrobat
( zooming in and out), as well as simply printing a page.


Greetings

Daniel



From:      
 "Dew, Simon"
<Simon.Dew@sbdinc.com>
To:      
 "docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org"
<docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>, 
Date:      
 12.10.2012 11:35
Subject:    
   Re: [docbook-apps]
PDF transformation: Why is the right border of my inline "box"
missing when I transform to PDF. It works for HTML  and Oxygen XML
Editor.

---

Hi Daniel

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but could the problem come from your
PDF viewer?

Sometimes I find that Adobe Acrobat does not display all thin borders 
around a shaded area at 100% magnification. But they are there; you can
see them if you increase the magnification or if you print the page.

If this is the case making the border a little thicker may help. Try 
border-width="1pt".

Simon Dew

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On 12/10/2012 09:41, daniel.keyes@finaris.de wrote:

> Hello,
> my last request had some substantial mistakes. The problem still exists
> and a solution is not yet in sight. I´m afraid that I still need your
help.
>
> We use Oxygen and DocBook to write and maintain our user manuals.
> Since these manuals describe various software applications, we often
> insert "buttons".
> Until recently, these buttons were inserted as screen shots, taken
from
> the original application.
>
> In the course of time, we realized that the effort maintaining the
> amount of screens shots was to high, so we decided to add a new style
to
> our XSL style sheet to imitate the original buttons. Basically what
we
> did is to create a format for an inline "box" with a solid
border.:
>
> <xsl:template match="d:button">
> <fo:inline background-color="#D3D3D3" color="#4B0082"
> font-family="Courier New" font-weight="bold" text-align="start"
> border-style="solid" border-width="thin" padding="1pt"
>
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </fo:inline>
> </xsl:template>
>
> The expected result was a solid box to indicate that its content was
a
> "button":
>
> ---------
> | Button |
> ---------
>
> It worked out fine for the HTML output, as well as the editor View.
>
> However, transforming to PDF results in
>
> ---------
> | Button
> ---------
>
> The right border is missing, and we can´t figure out why.
> The strange thing is, it works when we replace the fo:inline by a
> fo:block. Nevertheless, this is not a solution, since the button is
> supposed to be an in-line element:
>
>
>   ---------
> Click on | Button | to ....
>              ---------
>
> The FO transformer is Saxon 6.5.5. The entire documentation, including
> the transformation is done with Oxygen XML editor.
>
>
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Daniel Keyes
>
>
>
>
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