Anvil XSL-FO Post Design Suite

Anvil XSL-FO Post Design Suite (PDS)

The Anvil XSL-FO Post Design Suite (PDS) is a java application that format and render an XSL-FO document.

The current versions of XSL-FO supported (with many limitations) are:

• W3C XSL-FO 1.0 Specifications
• W3C XSL-FO 1.1 Specifications
• HP Proposed XSL-FO

The PDS can preview the document, allow a inspection of the page-masters, the page-sequence-masters and the flow-maps (only for 1.1) and produce a PDF version of the document.

Settings

The PDS can be configured to fetch images from a specific directory and/or use a FOP compatible configuration file with all the font metrics already available.

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Opening a document

From the Menu bar, please select: File->Open

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The formatted and rendered document appears in a new window with two areas:

left panel

illustrates the currently selected page of the rendered document

right panel

illustrates the logic tree (area tree) of the document

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To select a page, simply use the buttons in the Menu bar or click on the corresponding page in the logic tree

To select a region, simply click directly on the rendered content on the left or in the corresponding region in the logic tree.

Exploring The Layout Master Set

To see the page masters defined in the document, right click on the page element in the tree and select Page Master View Mode.

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The result is a region based view of the page.

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