How to get background image in XSL FO

[priby mathew]

Greetings to all.

I am using FOP 0.20.5 and I am trying to add a background image with the following code:

<fo:block background-image="'C://Sample.jpg'" 
          background-position="0,0" 
          background-repeat="repeat" 
          background-color="white"> 
The text to be shown on top of image 
</fo:block>

But I am not able to get the background image. I see only the text.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks in advance
priby
[ September 25, 2008: Message edited by: priby mathew ]

[priby mathew]

Or is there any way to put background image for a table-cell (when using fop 0.20.5)???
[ September 25, 2008: Message edited by: priby mathew ]

[Ulf Dittmer]

No idea, but have you tried a recent version of FOP? There have been oodles of improvements since 0.20.5 (which was released more than 5 years ago).

[priby mathew]

Actually my client application uses fop 0.20.5 and there are around hundreds of XSL FO files.

If I move to a higher version of fop, I doubt whether it would affect the already existing XSL FOs which are running on fop 0.20.5

[William Brogden]

The Apache FOP project has an active user mailing list. You can ask the question there or search the mailing list archives.

Bill

[priby mathew]

Thanks for your reply.

Actually there was some problem with the image file.

With fop 0.20.5 version and with a different image file Now I am able to get the background image with the following code snippet:

<fo:block font-weight="bold"  font-family="Arial, sans-serif" font-size="10pt" background-image="file:///C:/images/SAMPLE.jpg" background-repeat="no-repeat" background-position="center">
 
   TEXT THAT NEEDS TO BE  DISPLAYED ON TOP OF BACKGROUND IMAGE 
 
</fo:block>

[francisco zenha]

Hello,

I need to set an background-image that is set in an xml. I have an xslt file that gets information from an XML and one of that information is the path to an image. Ho

[Paul Clapham]

Francisco, that isn't a helpful addition to this thread. It doesn't address the original question in any way. If you have a question, please start a new thread to ask it.