Re: [docbook] Prepress Support - Crop marks Apache Fop 2.1

[Peter Fleck <peterfleck@gmail.com>]

Thanks Bob, very helpful.

I fear that it would be a step beyond my technical abilities. If I find 
time I'll give it a go.

Peter


On 28/09/2016 17:49, Bob Stayton wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> Crop marks would not be part of the DocBook schema, but are a 
> formatting feature that the stylesheets need to support (so I'm 
> copying to docbook-apps as well).  Since crop marks are not defined in 
> the XSLT standard, each XSL-FO implementation has to provide their own 
> extension elements to support it.  In the 1.79.1 stylesheets, the crop 
> mark extensions for Antenna House and XEP are implemented in 
> fo/axf.xsl and fo/xep.xsl, respectively.
>
> Since FOP has their own extension elements for crop marks using the 
> fox: namespace, support for them would need to be implemented in 
> fo/fop1.xsl.  That could be done in the next release.  If you want to 
> try it yourself, you could see if their elements align with either XEP 
> or Antenna House elements and write your own extension using fox: 
> elements instead.
>
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> bobs@sagehill.net
>
> On 9/28/2016 4:07 AM, Peter Fleck wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I see that Prepress Support is now available in Apache Fop 2.1. In
> > particular I am interested in adding crop marks.
> >
> > https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/2.1/extensions.html
> >
> > Is this implemented in Docbook 5.1? How would I go about adding it in?
> >
> > I tried using <xsl:param name="crop.marks" select="1"/> with  <xsl:param
> > name="fop1.extensions" select="1"></xsl:param> but it didn't work.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
> >
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