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FOP Formatting Instructions

Updated over a month ago

Additional formatting for Coins ERP+ configurable documents is based on the FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) standard. The full standard provides for a wide range of formatting options, many of which are not relevant to Coins ERP+ configurable documents. You can read more about it at: http://xml.apache.org/fop/.

The following table shows some of the formatting instructions you are more likely to need.

color

color=<color>

background-color=<color>

<color> can be a color name, like blue, or a red/green/blue code, like #55AC9B. See About colors in HTML and FOP.

color=cyan

color=#00FFFF

background-color=gold

background-color=#FFD700

Borders

border=<style> <color> <measure>

border-left-color=<color>

border-left-style=<style>

border-left-width=<measure>

(Similarly -right-, -top-, -bottom-)

<style> the border style; only solid works

<measure> is usually in points; for example; 1.5pt

border=solid green 1.5pt

border-bottom-style=solid,border-bottom-color=red

Typeface

font-size=<measure>

font-family=<family-name>

font-variant=<variant>

<family-name> depends on the fonts installed on your system. By default, Helvetica, Times Roman, Courier, Dingbats and Symbol fonts are available. But it is possible to add any other licensed true-type font required

<variant> can be normal or small-caps

font-family=Times Roman

font-family=Helvetica, font-size=24pt

font-variant=small-caps

Bold, italic, underline

font-weight=<weight>

<weight> can be normal or bold

font-weight=bold

font-style=<style>

<style> can be normal or italic

font-style=normal

text-decoration=<decoration>

<decoration> can be none, underline, overline or line-through

text-decoration=overline

Padding (gap between border and text)

padding-left=<measure>

(Similarly -right-, -top-, -bottom-)

<measure> - see above

padding-left=2pt,padding-top=1pt

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