did u give the padding to the inline text in the Block or the <fo:block>??

you should do :
<fo:block>
  <fo:inline padding = "2pt"> text </fo:inline>
</fo:block>


if you give padding to the block , then the block will move..



On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Florent Georges <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  I have a form in FO, which is a sequence of blocks and tables,
> each with a border.  Within blocks, I use padding="2pt" to
> prevent words to touch the border.  But doing so, the border of
> the block is moved by 2pt (to the outside of the block.)
>
>  You can see the following screenshot to see the result:
> http://www.fgeorges.org/tmp/fo-block-padding.jpg.
>
>  Of course, the borders should be aligned.  How would you do
> that?  I can think about workarounds, like using a table with
> one cell instead of a block, but I would like to do it the clean
> way...
>
>  Regards,
>
> --
> Florent Georges
> http://www.fgeorges.org/
>
>



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