[FOP-1119] Negative values for margin-top and space-before attributes of fo:block are ignored

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.91
• Component/s: renderer/pdf
• Environment: Operating System: Windows XP; Platform: PC
• External issue ID: 38054
• Assignee: fop-dev
• Reporter: Matt LeClair
• Created: 27/Dec/05 20:11
• Updated: 24/Jan/06 21:15
• Resolved: 01/Apr/12 06:43

Description

Negative values for margin-top and space-before attributes of fo:block have no
effect on the position of text as rendered in PDF format. FOP seems to ignore
negative values for these attributes. I assume the other margin-bottom, right
left, etc. are effected as well. This was tested using FOP 0.91

I tried to find out if the XSL-FO specs allow negative values here, but I didn't
discover an answer. Negative values work in XEP, however, and are pretty darn
useful. I tried to work around this by moving the fo:block with the top
coordinate property, but that didn't work with FOP or XEP.