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Support for arbitrary regions in XSL-FO

Authors:

Ana Cristina B. da Silva,

Joao B. S. de Oliveira,

Fernando T. M. Mano,

Thiago B. Silva,

Leonardo L. Meirelles,

Felipe R. Meneguzzi,

Fabio GiannettiAuthors Info & Claims

DocEng '05: Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Document engineering

Pages 64 - 73

https://doi.org/10.1145/1096601.1096622

Published: 02 November 2005 Publication History

Abstract

This paper proposes an extension of the XSL-FO standard which allows the specification of an unlimited number of arbitrarily shaped page regions. These extensions are built on top of XSL-FO 1.1 to enable flow content to be laid out into arbitrary shapes and allowing for page layouts currently available only to desktop publishing software. Such a proposal is expected to leverage XSL-FO towards usage as an enabling technology in the generation of content intended for personalized printing.

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Index Terms

Support for arbitrary regions in XSL-FO
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Personal computers and PC applications
    2. Publishing
  2. Document management and text processing
    1. Document preparation
      1. Format and notation
      2. Markup languages
2. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web data description languages
      1. Markup languages

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DOI:10.1145/1096601

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Giannetti FBorghoff UChidlovskii B(2009)XSL-FO 2.0Proceedings of the 9th ACM symposium on Document engineering10.1145/1600193.1600247(245-246)Online publication date: 16-Sep-2009
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Heroux PBarbu EAdam STrupin E(2007)Automatic Ground-truth Generation for Document Image Analysis and UnderstandingNinth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2007)10.1109/ICDAR.2007.4378755(476-480)Online publication date: Sep-2007
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2007.4378755
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